oid
This ROOT-WORD is the Suffix OID which means LIKE & RESEMBLING. It comes from the Latin oides, and Greek eides, with the same meanings. It is a very easy root to use. Use OID to show resemblance. Anyone can do it. Does anything resemble a key? Then it’s ROOT-OID. If you like that you can even use a compound Suffix and say KEY-OID-AL. You can do that to every word on the list. Store up the compound suffixes. They help to strengthen your vocabulary.
1. Gynecoid : gynec OID (jin’ e koid) adj.
Resembling a female in function
2. Asteroid : aster OID (as’ te roid) adj.
Like a star
3. Dentoid : dent OID (den’ toid) adj.
Like a tooth
4. Helioid : heli OID (he’ li oid) adj.
Like the sun
5. Hypnotoid : hypnot OID (hip’ no toid) adj.
Resembling hypnotism
6. Geoid : ge OID (jee’ oid) n.
The figure of the earth
7. Geoidal : ge OID al (jee oi’ dal) adj.
Having the quality of the figure of the earth
8. Anthropoid : anthrop OID (an’ thro poid) adj.
Resembling man
9. Lipoid : lip OID (lip’ oid) adj.
Like fat
10. Neuroid : neur OID (nue’ roid) adj.
Resembling a nerve
11. Negroid : Negr OID (nee; groid) adj.
Resembling the Negro race in traits
12. Osteoid : Oste OID (os’ te oid) adj.
Resembling bone
13. Ostreoid : ostre OID (os’ tree oid) adj.
Oyster like
14. Spheroid : sphere OID (sfer’ oid) adj.
Like a sphere
15. Thyroid : thyr OID (thire’ oid) n.
A large gland below the pharynx in the neck, shaped like a shield
16. Typhoid : typh OID (tie’ foid) n.
A disease resembling typhus
17. Cycloid : cycl OID (sie’ kloid) adj.
Arranged in circles
18. Fibroid : fibr OID (fie’ broid) adj.
Composed of fibrous tissue
19. Tabloid : tabl OID (tab’ loid) n.
A newspaper with a small format
Etymology
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