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"Foreign" Languages
You know six languages! Be a polyglot with morphemic keys. -ity is a suffix meaning "state, quality, or degree of."
The root is identical in all six languages for these six words (and more). Fill in the rest of the grid, you
polyglot!
English -ity
Latin -itas
French -ité
Italian -ità
Spanish -idad
Portugese -idade
dexterity
dexteritas
dexterité
dexterità
dexteridad
dexteridade
humidity
agility
velocity
identity
The morphological meaning of the word polyglot is "many tongues." Get it?
Morpheme of the week:The prefix OUT
Enjoy this brief student video from WordBuild Foundations Level 1.
The prefix OUT
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