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Ender:
So I will be posting pretty regularly (err, I take liberty with the word "regularly") cool and useful Greek and Latin and examples of them and perhaps quizzes for which we will trust you not to consult a dictionary or the like. This is one of the things that I plan to do regularly over the summer (yet haven't thus far), and I think posting here will help motivate me.

Of course, there are a myriad of sites for this, but the rewriting and rereading will help (as I browse these forums much more than I google Greek and Latin roots =p), and also I will plan to use many examples and update them and also make quizzes.

I'm thinking about separating the informational thread and the discussion thread (which so pretentiously and unrealistically assumes there will be a discussion), but I'll wait and maybe do that later if it's convenient.

d&q:
Oh please no....I have had two years of this already! Why would anyone want to learn during summer vacation?  :)

iago:
Allow me to start the ball rolling with my favorite latin-based word............... Masturbatorium.

But seriously, one of the most useful ones is "polis", which loosely means "city". The reason I like it is that I always get the state "Minnesota" and the city "Minneapolis" mixed up. The only reason that I can tell them apart is by thinking of the suffix.

Joe:
Hm, there doesn't seem to be too much Latin or Greek on this, but there may be a few. The list of false friends is pretty interesting.

For example, blesser (French) doesn't mean to bless, but to injure.

Ender:
Quiz:

Match the letters to the corresponding numbers (e.g., an answer would be 1A 2B 3C 4D 5E 6F 7G). Remember, you're not supposed to look them up, lol.

1. anima (Latin)
2. zo (Greek)
3. caco (Latin)
4. phil (Latin)
5. pod (Greek)
6. ped (Greek)
7. ped (Latin)

A. child
B. foot
C. foot
D. animal
E. life, mind
F. love
G. bad

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