Word Parts - bio

One of the fastest ways to increase your vocabulary is by learning word parts, i.e., roots, prefixes, suffixes or forms.

The TRiO SSS Scoop will give you a new word part every so often so that you can begin to work on increasing your college vocabulary. Here's your word part for today...

bio - life

biology - study of life; biography - story of someone's life; biosphere - layer of earth that has living things; biohazard - something that could harm living things; bioluminescence - light made by living thing (some fish or lightening bug); symbiosis - when two different kinds of living things have a close relationship.

And what do these mean?

autobiography, antibiotic, biodegradable, biopsy