1. This week’s vocabulary Words for 6th Grade
Word Roots: -bio- and -mort-
Week of Jan. 17, 2011
The word root -bio- means “life.” The word root -mort- means “death.”
# Word POS Definition
1 autobiography noun an account of a personʼs life written by that person
2 mortal noun a human being subject to death, often contrasted with a divine
being
3 mortician noun an undertaker; a person whose business is preparing dead bodies
for burial or cremation and making arrangements for funerals
4 antibiotic noun a medicine that inhibits the growth of or destroys microorganisms
5 biopsy noun an examination of tissue removed from a living body to discover the
presence, cause, or extent of a disease
6 immortality noun unending life
7 biography noun an account of a personʼs life written by another
8 mortify verb cause (someone) to feel embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated
9 mortgage noun the charging of real or personal property by a debtor to a creditor as security for
a debt, on the condition that it shall be returned on payment of the debt within a
certain period
10 biology noun the study of living organisms, divided into many specialized fields
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