Near/Far
Having both the "ap" prefix meaning far and "proxim" prefix meaning near, this word means estimated, nearly accurate but just off the mark.
What is approximate?
A funeral speech where a speaker says only good things of the dead person.
What is a eulogy?
Spanish painter Pablo Picasso had a blue period in which he painted monochromatic paintings all in different shades of blue. Paintings like his "Girl before a Mirror" would be describes with this word.
What is polychrome?
To immigrate is to move into a new country, but this word means to leave your old country.
What is emigrate?
It comes from the prefix “pro-” and the root “aio” meaning “to speak.” Omens or portents were foretellings of the future and monsters, too, were spoken forth by the gods as warnings. As time passed and things became more secular (not rooted in religious or supernatural ideas), the word evolved to mean unnatural or remarkable or extraordinary in size, extent, or degree.
What is prodigious?
Beginning with the "para" prefix meaning near, beside, or next to this, this word is used to describe those moments where another reality seems to be near or beside our normal reality, producing strange results.
What is paranormal?
The Italian song "Ti Voglio Tanto Bene" means "I wish you much good." This word describes a person who is kind and wishes good for others.
What is benevolent?
Precede and succeed mean to go before and to follow, respectively. This word means to go between.
What is intercede?
This word relates to the economic principle of supply and demand. If there’s a short supply of something, you can increase the price on it because that short supply increases the demand for it, and you can get people to pay more for it. So when something is expensive (dear), chances are it’s because there’s a lack (death) of supply.
What is dearth?
The telephone allowed for sound to travel across far distances. Something that would allow you to move objects across far distances would give you this power.
This word is seems to be formed by two roots meaning bad, but the first root is actually from the Latin word dies meaning days, so that it literally means bad days. If the weather is gloomy, depressing, and miserable, you could describe it with this word.
What is dismal?
Beginning with the prefix "multi-" this word is a synonym for crowd.
What is multitude?
Someone who would never go on a hot-air balloon or take in the view from the observation deck on the Top of the Rock has this.
What is acrophobia?
Meaning "spread out, lavish, or extravagant," this word literally translates to "pour forth." The root sense is that of liquid being poured out in large quantities. By the 17th century, it began to be used to describe an abundance or large quantity. It shares roots with words like "effuse" and "confuse."
What is profuse?
Aphelion is the farthest point from the Sun, but this is farthest point from Earth.
What is apogee?
This word describes something gentle, harmless, or not dangerous, such as a tumor that is not malgnant, or cancerous.
What is benign?
This word comes from Latin roots meaning "horn of plenty."
What is cornucopia?
Fear of snakes.
Coined in 1910 by Swiss psychologist Eugen Bleuler on the model of German Equivalenz "equivalence," this word literally means having "strength in both ways" or "both strengths" for conflicting feelings, being pulled in two strong directions simultaneously or simultaneous conflicting feelings.
What is ambivalence?
Positioning two things next to each other or side by side.
What is juxtapose?
This word means a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or unhappiness that is difficult to explain.
What is malaise?
This word that describes an inflated sense of self-love begins with a prefix that means empty.
What is vanity?
What is achluophobia?
This word referred to wines that were so dry they left a harsh feeling in the mouth, and then it came to be used for harsh people and harsh conditions that leave the mouth dry and thirsty, unsatisfied.
What is austere?