Parts & Pieces: Etymology, Roots, Prefixes, and Parts of Speech
"Say What?": Definitions
"Fill in the Blank": Sentence Completion
"In Other Words": Synonyms/Antonyms
Miscellany
100

Words ending with the suffix -ion are most commonly this part of speech.

What is a noun?

100

Define palpitate.

What is "to beat rapidly, strongly, or irregularly"?

100

The ___ (salubrious / perdition / lassitude) mountain air revived Victor’s health

What is salubrious?

100

An antonym for salubrious?

What is unhealthy or toxic?

100
Edgar Allan Poe's famous short story "The Purloined Letter" is a detective story where a letter is _____ from some royal apartments and the police struggle to find it before it's too late.

What is "stolen"?

200

The etymology of the word "verdure" comes from the French word for this color.

What is green?

200

Define "chimerical."

What is "imaginary" or "fantastical"?

200

Clerval’s ___ (indolent / effusive / immutable) enthusiasm overflowed whenever he greeted Victor.

What is effusive?

200

A synonym for sublime.

What is majestic, awe-inspiring, exalted?

200

John Keats, a contemporary of Mary Shelley, was often called the father of Metaphysical Poetry. Given this title, what might be a theme of this school of literature?

What is intellectual complexity or philosophical themes? 
300

Which word, borrowed into English from French, describes a suitcase that opens into two parts?

What is a portmanteau?
300
Define "prognosticate".

What is "to prophesize" or "foretell a future event"?

300

Victor’s father reproached him for his ___ (timorous / sedulous / inexorable) avoidance of Elizabeth’s letters.

What is timorous?

300

A synonym for mien.

What is appearance or demeanor?

300

What machination does Victor engage in to create his creature?

What is he digs up bodies from graveyards and charnel houses?
400

This word comes from the Latin verb "mutare" which means to change. But this word suggests the opposite is true.

What is immutable?

400

Define "abstruse".

What is "difficult to understand"?

400

The creature’s murder of the young child seemed to doom Victor to eternal ___ (progeny / perdition / approbation).

What is perdition?

400

An antonym for sedulous.

What is lazy or negligent or indolent?

400

These types of poets often recommended perambulations in nature to access the sublime.

What are the Romantic poets?

500

This word comes from the fencing world, describing a deceptive maneuver or false move to deceive an opponent. It comes from the French verb feindre which means to pretend or deceive.

What is feint?

500

Define "encomium."

What is a "speech of praise"?

500

Even in his ___ (abstruse / verdure / insuperable) studies, Victor pursued knowledge relentlessly.

What is abstruse?

500

An antonym for lassitude.

What is energy or vitality?

500

Write a one sentence panegyric about Halloween.

Praising pumpkins, spooky stuff, etc.

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