Tuesday, July 12, 2011

Day 126: Wordy Wednesday—root TEN


I missed Wordy Wednesday, and it’s nearly time for another one! Keeping with our root word theme, today we are going to look at TEN and variations of it.

TEN, TENS, TEND, TENU

Definition: STRETCH or THIN

What words do we already know with this root? What can we know about each word—even if we do not know it before?

  1. tension
  2. extend
  3. tendency
  4. tendon
  5. tent
  6. distend
  7. intent
  8. tenable
  9. attention
  10. detention
  11. extent
  12. retention
  13. ostentatious
  14. malcontent
  15. potent




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