Root Words
A latin word that means both tongue and language.
What is Lingu?
A trusted counselor, guide, tutor, or coach.
What is a Mentor?
Providing _________ education ensures students who are not native English speakers can keep up academically while developing language skills.
What is Multilingual?
The team put up a ________ defense.
What is Spirited?
A rotary engine with blades made to turn and generate power by a current of water, steam, or air under pressure.
What is a Turbine?
Poor planning was a major _________ in the company's failure.
What is Factor?
A latin verb meaning sing.
What is Cant?
Where is the _____ who will sing of this man's great and noble deeds?
What is Muse?
A narrow, flat pasta.
What is Linguine?
A device worn over the nose and mouth to filter out dangerous substances from the air.
What is a Respirator?
It _________ him that his son was thinking about leaving school.
What is Perturbed?
To be filled with light.
What is Luminous?
The latin word meaning truth.
What is Ver?
Having a glowing, rainbowlike play of color that seems to change as the light shifts.
What is Iridescent?
The study of human speech.
What is Linguistics?
The jury did not doubt the ________ of the witness.
What is Veracity?
A process of change from a lower, simpler, or worse state to one that is higher, more complex, or better.
What is Evolution?
A very famous or distinguished person.
What is a Luminary?
The latin word meaning breath or breathe.
What is Spir?
Some remnants might be preserved in a _________, an urn or even kept as a keepsake, close to a loved one.
What is a Mausoleum?
His love of and talent for singing came from his dad, who was a _______ in their synagogue.
What is Cantor?
No one will soon forget the historic events that __________ on that day.
What is Transpired?
__________ waters caused the boat to capsize.
What is Turbulent?
Cutting taxes may ________ economic recovery.
What is Facilitate?
The latin verb meaning to make or do.
What is Fac?
To be extremely self-centered or have fascination with oneself.
What is Narcissism?
A musical composition, particularly a religious work from the 17th or 18th century, for one or more voices accompanied by instruments.
What is a Cantata?
To cause loss of hope or enthusiasm.
What is Dispiriting?
The pond water became _______ from our swimming and splashing.
What is Turbid?
In physics, this is the standard unit for measuring the rate of the flow of light.
What is a Lumen?
The latin verb to throw into confusion or upset.
What is Turb?
She was _________ by the possibility of earning a lot of money quickly.
What is Tantalized?
Hovering over the sick child, the witch doctor muttered mysterious __________.
What is incantations?
Can you ________ whether I am scheduled to work or not?
What is Verify?
To speak readily and rapidly. To be talkative.
What is Voluble?
This problem needs more than just a _________ solution.
What is Facile?
The latin noun meaning light.
What is Lum?
An actor.
What is a Thespian?
The world-famous soprano _________ above the melody line.
What is Descanted?
The depiction of realism in art or literature.
What is Verisimilitude?
Community leaders hope that the new government will _________ more power to the community itself.
What is Devolve?
Sophie Monks Kaufman is a writer, film-industry ___________ and mixed bag of expressive impulses based in London.
What is Factotum?
The latin verbs meaning to roll, wind, turn around, or twist around.
What is Volu/Volv?
A summer _______ gently stirred her hair.
What is a Zephyr?
English is used as a ______ ______ among many airline pilots.
What is Lingua Franca?
He _______ that he was innocent.
What is Averred?
They are pictures of __________ tree trunks on an island of pink wave-smoothed stone.
What is Convoluted?
This is relating to light given off by living organisms.
What is Bioluminescent?