Question: A gray whale performs a pole dance.

Answer: -poli/o (word root)

-Gray and pole to remind you of word part

Question: King Arthur and his knights sit at the round table eating elbow macaroni.

Answer: -arthr (word root)

-King Arthur is the most famous “arthr” we know and elbow is to help you remember joints

Question: Abby Normal’s arrow missed. Her injured brother cried, “Oh, sis!”

Answer: -osis (suffix)

-Abby Normal reminds you of the definition, while the brother’s exclamation recalls the term

Question: A fish in a tank eats algae from the glass- with each bite, the algae screams in pain.

Answer: -algia (suffix)

-The word “algae” stands in for “algia” and the screaming of the algae reminds you that pain is involved

Question: A coal miner suffers from constipation.

Answer: -col (word root)

-The word “coal” to help you recall “col” while the coal miner’s problem is to signify the colon

Question: A caffeinated child is increasingly wild.

Answer: -hyper (prefix)

-Hyperactive child to go with “hyper” prefix and increasing is used to recall the definition of “hyper”

Question: You lift a pirate’s eyepatch. “Your eye is swollen,” you tell him. He nods. “Aye, ‘tis.”

Answer: -itis (suffix)

-The swollen eye reminds you of inflammation and the pun helps you recall the suffix “itis”

Question: A rhinoceros has a human nose.

Answer: -rhin/o (word root)

-Rhino helps you remember this root and nose is mentioned to help you remember the meaning of the root word

Question: A salamander sings opera into a mushroom microphone.

Answer: -myc (word root)

-Mushroom microphone has 2 purposes because “mic” helps you remember the word root “myc” and mushroom helps you remember it deals with fungus

Question: A teary-eyed artist is painting a huge red heart fed by purple arteries.

Answer: -arteri/o (word root)

-Using the syllable “art” and tears to signify the syllable “ter” and he is painting a giant heart so it makes you think of arteries