EngQuizzitive - 20 (vocab:roots) : Answers

This quiz was based on roots related to the cosmos.The following roots were covered in the quiz:

• sol : one [solace,solitude,solittaire,soliloquy];the root sol also refers to sun [solar,parasol] {there is one more root for the sun : helio]
• loqu : speak [loquacious,grandiloquent,magniloquent,eloquent,obloquy]
• logue : speak [monologue,dialogue,prologue,epilogue]
• geo : the earth [geology,geometry,geography,apogee,perigee]
• apo (prefix) : apogee,apostate
• melan : black bile [melanin,melodrama,melancholy]
• lun : the moon [lunar,lunatic]
• astro : star [astrology,astronaut,astronomy,asterisk]
• naut : travel [nautical,nausea,ad nauseam]

Answers

1. The root sol means sun as in the word solar,umbrasol,parasol.So can you guess the meaning of the word soliloquy? [ the root 'sol' has two meanings : sun/one ; in this sentence the clue was the root 'loqu' meaning speak]
2. Geo the root for our planet comes from the greek goddess Gaea.Can you guess the meaning of the word apogee? Hint" the prefix apo means away. [the farthest point from the earth {plz note there is a difference between the earth and earth,the former means planet while the latter means soil}]
3. The word saturnine comes from the planet Saturn.In astrology Saturn stands for a gloomy mode.From this guess the meaning of the word saturnine? [both 1 and 2;maudlin is alteration of (Mary) Magdalene, who was frequently depicted as a tearful penitent]
4. The root for the moon in Latin is lun from which the word lunar is derived.Can you guess the meaning of the word lunatic? [both 3 and 4 ;doolaly is an toponym ,from the place Deolali in Maharashtra]
5. Astral,astronaut,astrology,asterisk are words having the common element aster?Can you guess the root and the meaning of the same? [astro-star]

Hope you guys managed most of them !!!!!