This document provides definitions for various Greek word parts and words derived from Greek. It defines suffixes like -ology meaning "study of" and -phobia meaning "fear of". It then defines words that incorporate these Greek word parts, including biology, hydrophobia, tourism, geology, cartoonist, technology, journalism, violinist, ecology, patriotism, vocalist, meteorology, zoology, claustrophobia, capitalism, novelist, technophobia, agoraphobia, anthropology, absenteeism, paleontology, and alarmist.

1. Greek Word Parts
List # 23
5th Grade

2. Greek Word Parts
• Many words are formed from Greek part-
• -ology, meaning “study of”
• -phobia, meaning “fear of”
• -ism, meaning “condition of being”
• -ist, meaning “person who”
• Ex. biology , hydrophobia, patriotism, and
cartoonist.

3. artist
• a person who is skilled at drawing, painting,
etc.

4. tourism
• the activity of traveling to a place for pleasure

5. biology
• a science that deals with things that are alive
(such as plants and animals)

6. phobia
• an extremely strong dislike or fear of someone
or something

7. heroism
• great courage

8. geology
• a science that studies rocks, layers of soil

9. cartoonist
• a person who draws cartoons

10. technology
• the use of science in industry, engineering,
etc.

11. journalism
• the activity or job of collecting, writing, and
editing news stories for newspapers,
magazines, television, or radio

12. hydrophobia
• a morbid dread of water

13. violinist
• a person who plays the violin

14. ecology
• a science that deals with the relationships
between groups of living things and their
environments

15. patriotism
• love that people feel for their country

16. vocalist
• a person who sings

17. meteorology
• a science that deals with the atmosphere and
with weather

18. zoology
• the branch of science that involves the study
of animals and animal behavior

19. claustrophobia
• a fear of being in closed or small spaces

20. capitalism
• a system under which the ownership of land
and wealth is for the most part in the hands of
private individuals

21. novelist
• a person who writes novels

22. technophobia
• fear or dislike of advanced technology or
complex devices and especially computers

23. agoraphobia
• a fear of being in open or public places

24. anthropology
• the study of human races, origins, societies,
and cultures

25. absenteeism
• a tendency to be away from work or school
without a good reason

26. paleontology
• the science that deals with the fossils of
animals and plants that lived very long ago
especially in the time of dinosaurs

27. alarmist
• the often unwarranted exciting of fears or
warning of danger