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1. Greek and Latin Roots

For each highlighted root below, decide whether it originally comes from Greek or from Latin. Indicate which letter in the root provides the clue. (Try to do this using only the information in Chapter 6 and previous class materials.)

chrysalis	renovate	telegraph	psychic
equal	homonym	visual	chaos
kilometer	homonym	ferrous	helicopter

2. Allomorphy Rules

Each word below contains one morpheme that was affected by a rule or rules. Give the original form of the altered morpheme. Then tell which rule(s) has(have) affected it.

a. selection	e. empathy	i. astrology
b. offer	f. pantheism	j. expect
c. repulsion	g. jury	k. telautoscope
d. antonym	h. auricular (aur 'ear' )	l. actor

3. Word Analysis

Parse and gloss the following words. Give a literal definition. Then give the original form of any morpheme changed by an allomorphy rule and identify the rule which affected it.

a. compensation

b. eparchy

c. acrocephalic

d. appendix

e. neanthropic

f. abiogenesis

g. monolith

h. corrective

j. quadruplicature