Word Root Icon/Icono

Definition & Meaning: Word Root Icon/Icono
The word root icon/icono- comes from Greek eikon ‘likeness’ and, therefore, usually refers to an image or likeness. Interestingly, it can often be found before a vowel.
Learning the word ‘icon’ will enable you to understand any unknown words with the word root -icon.
It has three meanings: someone or something that acts as a symbol; a picture of Christ or any other saints; visual symbols on a computer screen.

Words based on the root Icon

Words based on the root Icon/Icono
1. Aniconia: The absence of images/icons of a God or other saints in a religion
2. Aniconism: A hostility to images and idols
3. Icomaniac: Someone who is abnormally interested in images or even mad about them
4. Iconify: Make a smaller symbol or an image to make room on the screen
5. Iconize: Treat someone or something as an icon
6. Iconoclast: Someone who destroys religious images
7. Iconodule: Someone who upholds the religious images
8. Iconogenitor: Someone who created the images
9. Iconography: The visual images and symbols that represent someone or something
10. Iconolatry: To revere icons
11. Iconologist: An expert in analyzing and interpreting icons
12. Iconology: The study of visual images and their symbolic meanings
13. Iconomachy: Rejection or negative treatment of religious images
14. Iconomania: Someone who is infatuated with collecting images (icons in particular)
15. Iconomical: Hostile to images/icons and to the reverence to them
16. Iconophile: Someone who is obsessed with images, icons or illustrations
17. Iconophilia: Madness for images or icons
18. Iconophobe: Someone who is scared of images and might even despise them
19. Iconoplast: Someone who creates images or icons
20. Iconostasis: A screen that displays icons

Word Root- Geno

Definition & Meaning: Word Root Geno
‘Geno’ is one of the most common word roots and is frequently used in several words.
The word root ‘GENO’/ ‘GEN’ means race, kind, family or birth.

A common word based on this root is ‘Genocide’. The root ‘cide’ refers to ‘killing’,
Combining the roots ‘geno’ and ‘cide’, we arrived at the meaning of the word genocide:
Geno + cide = Killing of a race

Words based on the root GENO/GEN
1. Genarch: A head of family
2. Gender: Belonging to one or another sex
3. Gene: A part of cell passed from a parent/family to a child
4. Genealogy: The study of families
5. Genealogist: One who studies families
6. General: Concerning all kinds
7. Generation: Belonging to the same kind of age
8. Generic: Relating to a group/kind of things
9. Genesis: The origin or birth of something
10. Genetics: The study of how characteristics passed from one generation to another
11. Genocline: A change of character/kind across a geographical area as a result from the gene flow
12. Genotype: The inherited characteristics from one’s ancestors or families
13. Genre: A particular kind in literature, music or art
14. Genus: A general kind of something
15. Degeneration: the process of decline or of getting from a higher to a lower kind
16. Homogeneous: Belonging to the same kind
17. Heterogeneous: Belonging to different kinds
18. Progeny: The offspring of a person, animal or plant

Word Root: Hyper

Definition & Meaning: Word Root Hyper

Hyper- means ‘too, over, excessive, beyond’. ‘Hyperactive’ is a word that start with the prefix hyper. You say ‘hyperactive’ about someone, who is too active and cannot relax. The prefix hyper- is a morpheme, thus, it cannot be divided. It is important to remember – prefixes begin words.

Example sentence:

Hyperactive kids sometimes experience hyper-wakefulness that turns their parents’ life into a nightmare.

Words based on Root Hyper

Words based on the root Hyper

1. Hyper-fit: Relating to someone who is fit beyond normal

2. Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally.

3. Hyperborean: Relating to inhabitants of the overly North

4. Hypercritical : Inclined to judge too severely

5. Hyperdontogency: Having beyond normal number of teeth

6. Hyperextend: Extend a limp or joint beyond normal limits

7. Hypergamy: Marrying someone whose class is beyond yours

8. Hyperirritability: A state of being too irritable

9. Hypermarket: A market that is too large that is usually located outside a town

10. Hyperpyrexia: The state when a body temperature is too high

11. Hyperreactive: Too reactive

12. Hyperreal: Too exaggerated rather than real

13. Hypersensitive: Too sensitive

14. Hypersimple: Too simple

15. Hypersonic: Relating to sound frequencies, which are over a thousand million hertz

16. Hyperspace: A space that has more/over three dimensions

17. Hypertension: A disorder in which blood pressure is too high

18. Hyperthermia: A condition when a body temperature is beyond normal

19. Hypertoxicity: Relating to excessively high toxicity

20. Hyperwakefulness: Staying awake too long and being unable to fall asleep

Word Root -Cracy

Definition & Meaning: Word Root Cracy
The word root -cracy comes from Greek –kratia ‘power, rule’ that usually refers to a form of government or rule. For instance, the word plutocracy means government run by the wealthy because:

Pluto/Plut: Wealth
Cracy: Rule
Pluto + Cracy= Government/rule of the wealthy
It is fair to say that words with the word root –cracy is mostly used in political science referring to various forms of governments.
Example sentence:
In the past, the country lived through years of political instability that started with neocracy and ended with kleptocracy.
Words based on the root Cracy
1. Anocracy: A government regime that is instable and inept
2. Arifmocracy: A form of government run by a group that gets the numerical majority
3. Aristocracy: A form of government run by the most privileged people
4. Autocracy: A government run by a single individual
5. Bureaucracy: A government with non-elected officials
6. Democracy: A government where people are eligible to choose their rulers
7. Despotocracy: A government run by a despot
8. Diabolocracy: A government run by a devil
9. Gerontocracy: A government consisting of/run by old people
10. Kakistocracy: A government run by the worst
11. Kleptocracy: A government run by thieves
12. Mediocracy: A government run by the mediocre
13. Mobocracy: A government run by the mob
14. Neocracy: A government run by inexperienced or fledgling officials
15. Ochlocracy: A government run by the mob or crowd
16. Pantisocracy: A utopian form of government with an egalitarian community
17. Particracy: A form of government, where parties rather than individuals rule
18. Stratocracy: A government run by the military chiefs
19. Timocracy: A form of government, where only property owners can participate in government
20. Theocracy: A form of government, where God is the ruler

Root WORD- Chron

Words based on the root WORD- Chron
1. Achronism: Timelessness
2. Anachronism: Existing out of its time in history
3. Chronicle: A record of historical events in order of time
4. Chronobiology: The study of the impact of time on animals
5. Chronograph: An instrument for recording time
6. Chronognosis: Perception of the passage of time
7. Chronology: The study of the time divisions
8. Chronometer: An instrument for measuring time
9. Chronometry: The study of accurate time measurement
10. Chronophobia: A fear of the time
11. Diachronic: Relating to something that has changed over time
12. Heterochronous: Appearing at different times
13. Isochronous: Taking equal time
14. Synchronise: To make something happen at the same time
15. Synchronist: Someone who lives at the same time with another
16. Synchrony: Something happening or moving at the same time

Word Root - Circum

Definition & Meaning: Word Root Circum
Circus is a prefix that comes from Latin circum ‘round’ and means about or around.
Let’s look at the word ‘circumscribe’ that refers to drawing a circle around an object or to limiting something or someone. While circum means around or about, scribe – to write, so in other words:
Circum: Around, about
Scribe: To write
Circum + Scribe=To draw a line around/limit

Words based on the root Circum
1. Circumduction: An act of swirling around
2. Circumference: Distance around an object’s edge
3. Circumfluent: Flowing around
4. Circumfuse: To pour liquid so that it is around something
5. Circumgenital: Around genital
6. Circumgyration: Swirling around itself
7. Circumjacent: Surrounding, being around something
8. Circumlocution: A roundabout; indirect way of speaking
9. Circumlunar: Around the Moon
10. Circummigration: moving around from place to place
11. Circummure: To build a wall around something
12. Circumnavigate: To go around
13. Circumplanetary: Around a planet
14. Circumspect: Cautious about everything
15. Circumstance: A fact that influences on an event or action
16. Circumterrestrial: Moving around the Earth
17. Circumvent: To find a way around, avoid obeying the law
18. Circumvolution: A movement of winding of something around another
19. Circumvolve: To wind about

Measures to Promote Small Scale Industries in India

Measures to Promote Small Scale Industries in India

Small Scale Industries have contributed a lot for the development of the economy of India. Still SSI face problems due to the nature and size of their business. Some of the measures that can be taken by government and NGOs to boost the performance are as follows:

1.Government should ensure that adequate financial assistance is provided to SSls through banks and financial institutions. The rate of interest on loans should be low. Financial assistance must be provided to SSI through unsecured loans or after obtaining minimum security.

2. Insurance coverage must be extended to new and existing small scale industries.

3. The gap that exists between consumers and small business must be bridged through effective marketing. Lot of industrial fairs, exhibitions must be organized by the government to encourage the sale of SSI products.

4. The infrastructural facilities must be improved and measures must be taken to enhance the supply of water, electricity to backward and rural areas.

5. Technological support must be provided to SSI to import machinery at lower cost.
6. Many industrial estates must be established by the government.

7. The informal money market should be regulated to avoid exploitation by money lenders on small scale industrialists.

8. Training must be provided to entrepreneurs in technological, managerial, financial and marketing areas.

9. Awareness campaigns must be carried out in full swing to encourage youngsters to become first generation entrepreneurs.

10. The sick industries must be rejuvenated instead of liquidation.

11. The licensing procedure must be simple and at ease.

12. Fair Incentives and subsides must be given to SSI units and an awareness must be made about the incentives available to new entrepreneurs

13. Export promotion schemes must be devised in such a way that encourages SSI to export their goods.