Roots
suffix/prefix
Words with positive connotations
Words with negative connotations
Words
100

petr

stone

100

ous

full of

100

excessively fashionable man

fop

100

a sad or mournful poem


elegy

100

something that does not logically follow


non sequitur

200

sist

to stand

200

sub

under

200

dashingly stylish and confident


rakish

200

imprecation

a curse

200

deference

respect

300

sist

to set

300

id

tending to

300

sanguine

cheerful

300

to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.


bowdlerize

300

relating to physical appetite, especially sexual

carnal

400

glyp

to carve

400

al

pertaining to

400

an expression of praise; tribute


panegyric

400

to weaken; to cause to become worse


impair

400

hazy; vague; uncertain

nebulous

500

viv

to live

500

com

together

500

ebullient

enthusiastic

500

a problem; a dilemma; a puzzling situation


quandary

500

tending to show off one's learning

pedantic

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