Definitions
Definitions
Word Origins: Identify the word
Word Origins: Identify the word
Name the part of speech
100
This word means hypocritically moralistic language.
What is CANT?
100
This word means real, genuine or actual.
What is VERITABLE?
100
This word is from Latin: bonus means good and fides means faith.
What is BONA FIDE?
100
This word is from Latin. rectus means straight.
What is RECTITUDE?
100
We were tired of hearing the corrupt senator's CANT about honest government.
What is a NOUN?
200
This word means a person who falsely claims to have special knowledge or ability.
What is CHARLATAN?
200
This word means moral uprightness.
What is RECTITUDE?
200
This word is from Latin: cantare means to sing.
What is CANT?
200
This word is from Latin: fingere means to shape or form.
What is FEIGN?
200
Uncle Ted FEIGNED sleep so the children would leave him alone.
What is a VERB?
300
This word means done in good faith.
What is BONA FIDE?
300
This word means working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy way.
What is INSIDIOUS?
300
This is from Old French: chicaner means to quibble.
What is CHICANERY?
300
This word is from Italian: ciarlateno is a combination of cialare-to prattle and cerratano-an inhabitant of Cerreto, Italy.
What is CHARLATAN?
300
My hosts treated me so well that I felt like a VERITABLE king.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
400
This word means trickery or deception.
What is CHICANERY?
400
This word means honesty, frankness or openness.
What is CANDOR?
400
This is from Latin: in means in and sedere means to sit.
What is INSIDIOUS?
400
This word is from Latin: candere means to shine.
What is CANDOR?
400
Jane regretted her mistake and wanted to RECTIFY it as soon as possible.
What is a VERB?
500
This word means doubtful or of questionable origin.
What is APOCRYPHAL?
500
This word means to pretend.
What is FEIGN?
500
This word is from Latin: verus means truth.
What is VERITABLE?
500
This word is from Greek: apo means away and kruph means to hide.
What is APOCRYPHAL?
500
The APOCRYPHAL manuscript was full of expressions that were not in use at the time it was supposedly written.
What is an ADJECTIVE?
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