Or: Fun with Linguistics!

In this game, we list words that share common roots, one at a time. The easiest way to explain this is to give an example:

Chloroform
Chloroplast
Amyloplast
Amylase
DNA helicase
Helicopter
Ornithopter
Ornithology
Psychology
Psychopath
Telepath
Telephone
Xylophone
Xylophage
Anthropophage
...And so forth.

If you say a word that does not have a common root, but only sounds like it (example: dinosaur -> dinoflagellate: "dino-" comes from the Greek "deinos", meaning terrifying for dinosaur, and "dino" meaning rotation for dinoflagellate), you will receive a strike. All strikes are listed on this first post for all to see and laugh at.

We all got that? Alright! I'll start where that last one left off:

Anthropophage

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Strikes:
yehoshua
Tattorack
Seth
Seth
Seth

Anthropometry
if I understand correctly

Anthropomorhism.

Polymorphism

Are we meant to volley between beginning and ending roots (probably are better words for these but I'm not a linguist) as per the example, or is that not necessarily a rule?

polygon

Pentagon

Pentagram
(I like that we mods are the only ones playing this game so far.)

Come on guys don't you like etymology
We should get Ebly here for this

Is Telegram the same sense of gram?

not sure.
Telephone

Telegraph. (non mod combo-breaker!)

photograph

Photoelectric

Yes it is.It's more fun that way, but it's not required. For some instances, it's pretty much impossible to do it that way. Like with my next word.

Piezoelectric

but it is possible: Piezometer.

Sphygmochronograph. Google is my friend.

Mimeograph.

Mimeoscope

Endoscope

Endocrinology

Mammalogy.

Astrology

Astrophysicist.

Astronaut

Cosmonaut

Cosmological

physiological

Aromatherapy

Aromaticity

Aromatic

Romantic (I think that works... -tic)

Romance

Romanticism

Cynicism

cyclical

cycle

unicorn