# 8 Word List

Root Word

graph = writing

Prefix

quad = four

Writing about a person’s life written by the person

Autobiography (n)

The written list of all the books used in a report or book.

Bibliography (n)

The writing of one’s own name.

Autograph (n)

A book written about a person’s life.

Biography (n)

Mapmaking- the writing involved in making maps or charts

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Cartography (n)

A word written the same way as another but having a different meaning

Homograph (n)

Paragraph (n)

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A section of writing that has a topic and a concluding sentence.

Phonograph (n)

Record player, a device that turns the writing on records into sound.

The use of light to record an image using a camera.

Photography (n) Smile!

Polygraph test?

Hmm, maybe Calvin should look this word up?

Seismograph (n)

The device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth.

Now for some math,

One out of 4 equal parts of a circle or a section of a coordinate grid.

To cut or divide into 4 equal parts.

Do you see the 4 sections of house?

Quadrant (n) Quadrisect (v)

A figure in geometry that has 4 sides. Including square, rectangle, rhombus, parallelogram, and trapezoid.

Quadrilateral (n)

A four-sided enclosure, usually surrounded by buildings

Quadrangle (n)

..so that’s why we call it the ……….“Quad”

Look ‘em up.

The quadrennial (adj) Olympics will really test your quadriceps (n)!

Vas? Que? Quoi? Was?

Look it up!

Quadrilingual (adj)

The furry quadruped (n) hurried back to the den with the quadruplet (n) that had wandered away.

Mmmmm!This is so much fun, I wish we had quadruple (v) the Vocabulary words