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Exercise Seven
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Sometimes you will encounter symptomatic terms such as lipoid and fibroid. According to your dictionary, the suffix -oid means:

  A cell
  B in the form of
  C mouth
  D circle
   

 

Answer:

B: in the form of.

The wood suffix -oid means like, resembling, in the form of. Thus, lipoid means fatty or fat-like (lip = fat).

 
 

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