Question

Context clues can be definitions, examples, synonyms, or antonyms. The word root can give you an idea of the word’s meaning. Affixes can help you determine the word’s form and meaning. Use the drop-down menus to identify the root in each difficult word. Automatic: Gratify: Untenable:

Answer 1

Answer:

Context clues can be definitions, examples, synonyms, or antonyms.

The word root can give you an idea of the word’s meaning.

Affixes can help you determine the word’s form and meaning.

Use the drop-down menus to identify the root in each difficult word.

Automatic:

✔ auto

Gratify:

✔ grat

Untenable:

✔ ten

Answer 2

The Greek prefix auto means "self". good examples using the prefix auto- includes automotive and autopilot.

Gratify: the word comes from the Latin gratificari, meaning "give or do as a favor" and a deeper root is gratus, which means "pleasing, thankful".

Untenable: derived Formsuntenability or untenableness, noununtenably, adverb. Word origin and story for untenable. From 1640´s "incapable of being held against attack. Figurative sense is recorded from 1690´s.