This document provides definitions for word roots and vocabulary terms. It defines prefixes like "gnos/sci", "mis", and suffixes like "ist", "y". Example words and definitions are given for terms like conscience, omniscience, conscientious, diagnosis, prognosis, agnostic, misandry, misanthrope, misogyny, and misdirection. The document aims to build 9th grade students' word study skills through analyzing Latin and Greek word parts and understanding vocabulary in context.

1. 9th Grade Word Study
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2. Word Roots
• Gno/Sci –
– to know; have skill in
• MIS –
– Hate
– wrong, bad

3. conscience
• (n) the inner sense of what is right or
wrong in one’s conduct or motives
• Instead of pocketing the $300 she found, the
young girl followed her conscience, did the
right thing, and returned it to the lost and
found.

5. omniscience
• (n) the quality or state of having
complete or unlimited knowledge,
awareness, or understanding
• A narrator’s omniscience allows the reader to
be aware of the actions, feelings, and
thoughts of all characters.

6. conscientious
• (adj) meticulous; careful; painstaking;
thorough and careful
• Most students are very conscientious when
deciding upon which college to attend; they
research carefully, apply to several schools,
and thoroughly examine the pros and cons of
those who accept them.

8. diagnosis
• (n) identification, especially of a disease,
by examination and analysis
• The doctor’s diagnosis was based upon many
tests and collaboration among several
specialists.

10. Prognosis
• (n) prediction or forecast, often but not
always relating to a disease
• The forecaster’s prognosis for the weekend
weather was hot, humid, and sticky, with
thunderstorms likely.

12. agnostic
• (n) one who is doubtful or noncommittal
about something; a person who believes that
nothing is known or can be known about the
existence of God
• As an agnostic, the professor felt
uncomfortable working in a private school
where she was responsible for teaching
religion classes twice a week.

14. misandry
• (n) hatred of males
• Because she had many bad experiences with
boyfriends, she has developed a strong
misandry.

16. misanthrope
• (n) hater of humanity
• Ebenezer Scrooge was quite a misanthrope
prior to the visit of the ghosts; he showed his
hatred of people by refusing to share any of
his wealth as a philanthropist would do.

18. misogyny
• (n) demonstrating a hatred of women
• He has so much misogyny that I don’t think
hell ever like a woman enough to get married.

19. misdirection
• Inaccurate aim; Incorrect instructions or
directions. The act of distracting; drawing
someone's attention away from something.
• The magician was so good at misdirection that
I always followed his left hand even when I
knew my card was in his right hand and I
never learned how he did the trick.