ERR
CED/CESS
Vocabulary Terms
VID/VIS
SPIC/SPEC
100
An adjective that means having no fixed course; lacking in consistency.
What is erratic?
100
A noun that means a preceding event, state, or cause; one's ancestor or parent.
What is an antecedent?
100
A word that means lazily sluggish; indifferent or apathetic (Gr: River Lethe means Forgetfulness, so anyone drinking from it would forget former life)
What is lethargic?
100
A noun that means a visit or short stay, often for some definite, official purpose, such as an inspection; a parent's privilege to have temporary access to or care of a child
What is a visitation?
100
A Latin root that means to look or behold.
What is SPIC/SPEC?
200
An adjective that means wandering or moving about aimlessly; straying outside proper bounds, or away from an accepted pattern or standard.
What is errant?
200
An adjective that means something done or said that may an example or rule to guide later acts of a similar kind.
What is a precedent?
200
FREE
What is FREE?
200
A noun that means a person with foresight and imagination; a dreamer whose ideas are often impractical.
What is a visionary?
200
An adjective that means obvious or noticeable; striking and attracting attention.
What is conspicuous?
300
A adjective that means mistaken, incorrect.
What is erroneous?
300
A Latin root meaning to go or to proceed.
What is CED/CESS?
300
A term for a victory won at exessive cost; King of Epirus in Gr. defeated the Romans , but lost all his best officers/sodiers
What is a Pyrrhic victory?
300
An adjective that means in relation to or compare with.
What is vis-a-vis?
300
An adjective that means having acute or shrewd mental vision or judgment.
What is perspicacious?
400
The Latin root meaning to wander.
What is ERR?
400
A verb that means to give in to a request or demand; to give approval or consent.
What is accede?
400
A term for the talent for making money in every venture; (in mythology, this King asked Dionysus for the power to turn everything he touched into gold)
What is the Midas touch?
400
A noun that means the face or appearance of a person.
What is a visage?
400
A noun that means a looking within to examine one's thoughts and feelings.
What is introspection?
500
An adjective that means straying or differing from the right, normal, or natural type.
What is aberrant?
500
What is a noun that means the yielding of a point or privilege, often unwillingly; an acknowledgement or admission.
What is a concession?
500
The name for the underground home of the dead in Greek mythology.
What is Hades?
500
A Latin root meaning sight.
What is VID/VIS?
500
An adjective that means promising success; favorable; fortunate, prosperous.
What is auspicious?
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