Word Roots
Personal Identity
Absolutely True Diary
Hero's Journey
SAT Vocabulary
100
The meaning of the root mar-/mer-
What is... Sea or Ocean?
100
The number and roles of the people within a family unit or household.
What is... family composition?
100
This is the full "name name" of the protagonist in the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI).
What is... Arnold Spirit, Jr.?
100
The Hero's Journey has this many stages.
What is... twelve?
100
To mix up or distort
What is...garble?
200
The meaning of the root phon-
What is... Sound?
200
The state of being romantically or legally attached to another person(s).
What is... marital or relationship status?
200
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr. is born with a condition that causes many problems for him.
What is... hydrocephaly or "water on the brain"?
200
In this stage of the Hero's Journey the hero sometimes suffers a loss of confidence and ponders the reasons they should not embark on the jorney.
What is... the Refusal?
200
To waste time
What is... dawdle?
300
The root of the word "memorable"
What is...mem-?
300
The social and cultural expression of being male or female.
What is...gender?
300
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr learns that his sister Mary has a secret dream to do this.
What is...to write romance novels?
300
This archetype is a "Person or event (from the special world) who brings the Call to Adventure".
What is... (a/the) Herald?
300
An associate; a partner
What is... (an) affiliate?
400
The root of the word "vista"
What is... "vis-"?
400
A group of humans with shared physical and behavioral qualities based on common ancestry.
What is...race?
400
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr. and Roger start to become friends after this incident.
What is... Roger loans him money and drives him home after the Winter Formal?
400
At this stage in the Hero's Journey the hero and others accompanying them prepare for the final struggle, like in the Lion King when Simba is visited by a ghostly apparition of his father, who urges him to return home and remember his place.
What is... the Approach?
400
To lie
What is... prevaricate?
500
List 5 words that use the root "sci-"
WHat is... conscious, subconscious, unconscious, self-conscious, unconscionable, conscience, conscientious, omniscient, prescient, science(s), scientist(s), (un-/non)scientific, or pseudoscience?
500
The social standing or “class” of an individual or group, measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation, and revealed in access to resources, privilege, and power.
What is... socio-economic status?
500
In the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (ATDPTI), Jr. has these two very different reactions to beating Rowdy in basketball.
What is... first being happy and excited, and then being ashamed and crying?
500
In the movie Coco, both Mama Imelda and Abuelita are examples of this archetype b/c they have much in common with the Hero, but often oppose him.
What is... (a/the) Shadow?
500
A false and malicious accusation
What is... calumny?