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equal :  to be the same in value or amount as something else                                                                                       

      A     +       B         =          C             

⇒  A    plus    B    equals       C

equ- :  balance,  half

    equality the state of being equal, especially in having the same rights, status,

                       and opportunities

     equator : an imaginary line that goes round the Earth and divides it into the

                       northern and southern hemispheres

-eum ; -ium :  surrounded range

   museum

   auditorium

   colosseum

   aquarium

   stadium

   millennium : a period of 1,000 years


Hershey chocolate

 

               ⇑   Hershey, Pennsylvania

★  Hershey is popularly called "Chocolatetown, USA". Hershey is also referred to as "The Sweetest Place on Earth". Hershey's chocolates are made in Hershey, which was founded by candy magnate Milton S. Hershey.


ad- : go forward

   adore : to love someone very much

  advocate  : to publicly support a particular policy or way of doing things

ten- : to hold

   tentative : not definite, or not certain

   tenant : someone who rents a flat, house, office, piece of land etc from the person

                  who owns it



  tem-  :  related to time  

     temporary  : existing, done, or used for only a limited period of time

           ⇑     temporary parking permit    


     contemporary : (adj.) modern, or relating to the present time ;

                                  (n.) someone alive at the same time as a particular event or person

     temporal relating to time; relating to ordinary practical life rather than

                       religious matters 

★ pri- ; pre- major, beginning

 primary

✦ A primary school or elementary school is a school in which children receive primary or elementary education from the ages of about five to eleven, coming before secondary school and after preschool.

 preschool(also nursery school, kindergarten outside the US and UK) 

✦ graduate school :A graduate school (sometimes shortened as grad school) is a school that awards advanced academic degrees (i.e. master's and doctoral degrees) with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate (bachelor's) degree with a high grade point average. 

 

 principle

 primitive

 president

 premium : an amount of money that you pay regularly for an insurance policy


Fables

       A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson or conveys a moral. Sometimes, the characters are animals that act and talk like animals.

Example :  The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing - The wolf covered himself with a sheep skin. A lamb followed him and was eaten. The moral is, "Appearances often are deceiving."

 Aesop's Fables

      Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and storyteller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. 


 auto-  :  self

   autobiography :   a biography of yourself

    autonomous : An autonomous person makes her own decisions without being influenced by anyone

                                else; an autonomous country or organization is independent and has the

                                power  to govern itself.

 


-n,  -m : related to names

     nomineesomeone who has been ​nominated for something    

    astronomy  the ​scientific ​study of the ​universe and of ​objects that ​exist ​naturally in ​space, such as

                           the  ​moon, the ​sun, ​planets, and ​stars

astrology the ​study of the ​movements and ​positions of the ​sun, ​moon, ​planets, and ​stars in the

                         ​belief  that they ​affect the ​character and ​lives of ​people






 

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