J is for Jellyfish

These moon jellyfish create an eerie display in the Australasia Pavilion at the Toronto Zoo.

Prefixes

Judeo— refers to Jews or something Jewish, or something in addition to Judaism

Judeo-Christian

junct— stands for join

junction, conjunction, disjunction 

jur— stands for law or justice

juror

jurisdiction

juxta— near or alongside

juxtaposition

 

Suffixes

—ject creates verbs meaning to throw something

eject

interject

project

—jud refers to law

judgment (or judgement)

judicial

judiciary

—jugal refers to a yoke

conjugal

—junct refers to a joining

junction, conjunction, disjunction

juncture

—juven refers to young

juvenile

rejuvenate

Exercises

1. Look in a dictionary and count the number of pages devoted to the letters J, Z, Q, and X.
2. Why are there so few prefixes and suffixes starting with the letter J?
3. Look on the Internet for a description of the juvenile stage of jellyfish.

Special reading assignment

1. “Jumping Jehoshephat” is an oath taken from the story of a great king in the Bible.         — from 2 Chronicles 20
2.  The jackal is a species of wild dog found in Africa and is rather similar to the North American coyote.
3.  The moon jellyfish, pictured, is the adult or medusa stage of Aurelia aurita.