Ancient Greek Word Formation:
Practice Drills

From the links on this page you can review what you have learned on this site and practice what you know.
Some of the drills are harder, some easier. But they're all fun to do and all of them will help you to build your Greek vocabulary and sharpen your new-word acquisitions skills!
NB: All drills require SPIonic; download here for Mac; here for Windows. Some drills will not load in IE Explorer Mac; on a Mac use Netscape instead.
All drills are built on memorized vocabulary words from JACT Reading Greek Sections 1A-6H.

Drill Name

Description

Suffixes Added to Nouns

Write out the meaning of the 19 noun suffixes described on pages 3-4 and check your answers.

Suffix Drill

Identify the type, meaning, and inflection of all 36 suffixes described on pages 3-10 and check your answers.

Compound Word Formation

Match definitions with 20 compound words whose principles of formation are described on pages 11-13 and check your answers.

The good

Match definitions with blank compound words one of whose elements is kalo- and check your answers.

The bad and the ugly

Match definitions with blank compound words one of whose elements is kako- and check your answers.

Dare to be different

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem *tla- and check your answers.

Stepping out

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem ba- and check your answers.

Just desserts (sic)

Match definitions with blank words built on the dik- and check your answers.

Fighting words

Match definitions with blank words built on the makh- and check your answers.

Do it!

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem poie- and check your answers.

Write

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem graph- and check your answers.

Just kidding

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem pai- and check your answers.

Watch

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem thea- and check your answers.

Teach

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem didak- and check your answers.

Learn

Match definitions with blank words built on the stem math- and check your answers.