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100
This sea creature's name is based on the Latin root meaning "eight."
What is octopus?
100
The words "submarine" and "marine" are based on the Latin root mar-, which means this.
What is ocean?
100
This Latin root gives us a word that means "100 years."
What is cent-?
100
It's another word besides "literary" that's based on the Latin root for "letter."
What is literature?
200
This month was named after the Latin root meaning "ten," because it was originally the tenth month of the year.
What is December?
200
The words "vine" and "vineyard" are based on the Latin root vin-, which means this.
What is wine?
200
This Latin root, meaning "water," gives us the name of a fish tank.
What is aqua-?
200
This Latin root for "mind" gives us "mentality" and this other word.
What is mental?
300
These false teeth are based on the Latin root meaning "tooth."
What are dentures?
300
The words "portable" and "port-a-potty" are based on the Latin root port-, which means this.
What is carry?
300
This Latin root meaning "many" gives us the name of a mathematical function.
What is multi-?
300
"Audible" is one word based on the Latin root for "sound." Another word is this.
What are auditorium, audiovisual or audio?
400
This word, meaning an impolite way of breaking into a conversation, is based on the Latin root for “break.”
What is interrupt?
400
The words "memory" and "memorial" are based on the Latin root mem-, which means this.
What is remember?
400
This Latin root, meaning "word," gives us the name of a part of speech that's an action word.
What is verb-?
400
This word, along with the word "manipulate," is based on the Latin root for "hand."
What is manual?
500
The name of a person in a robe, who decides a legal case, comes from the Latin root meaning “law.”
What is a judge?
500
The word "medium," which means neither highest nor lowest, comes from the Latin root medi-, which means this.
What is middle?
500
We call cities like Sacramento and Washington DC, where the heads of government meet, a word based on this Latin root that means "head."
What is cap-?
500
The word "inspection" is based on the Latin root meaning "look at." Another word is this.
What are spectator, and inspect?
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