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1. MONO- is a word element meaning 'alone', 'single', or 'one'.
What word - starting with mono - means an eyeglass for one eye?
2. BI- is a word element meaning two. Can you tell me what a two-footed animal is called?
3. TRI- is a word element meaning three, as if you didn't guess. Can you tell me what a type of pumpkin with three deep lobes is called?
4. QUAD is a word, as well as a word element - can you tell me what a square dance for four couples is called?
5. Can you tell me what one of five children born at one birth is called?
6. The word SEXTET comes to us as meaning any group or set of six. Can you tell me the name for the position of two heavenly bodies, that is planets or stars, when they are at sixty degrees distant from each other?
7. SEPT- comes to us from Latin - it is a prefix meaning 'seven'. Can you tell me what is the seventh of eight defensive positions in the sport of fencing is called?
8. OCTA- is a word element meaning eight and it comes to us from the Greek language. Can you tell me what a polygon having eight angles and eight sides is called?
9. What is the word for nine babies born at the one time?
10. What system relates to tenths or to the number ten?
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