All About Nouns
Suffix Extravaganza
Mitt/Miss Words
Words By Their Parts
Potpourri
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This is the person in charge of Major League Baseball or the NYPD.
What is a commissioner
100
This suffix indicates that the word is a noun, specifically a person who does a job or performs an action.
What is er
100
This word means "to send."
What is transmit
100
This is the part of the word "commissioner" that tells you it's a noun and a person.
What is er
100
This word is used today to describe Internet content that has been seen by millions of people.
What is viral
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This is a type of entertainment popular in the early 1900s that featured small acts of dancers, singers, acrobats, comedians, and magicians.
What is vaudeville
200
This suffix indicates a word can be a noun or an adjective.
What is ive
200
This word could be used to describe evidence that is allowed to be used in a court trial.
What is admissible
200
This root in the word "benevolent" means good
What is ben
200
How you might be described if you showed up to a party with soiled clothes and unbrushed hair.
What is bedraggled
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If your car breaks down, or if your toaster stops working, you can blame these little guys.
What are gremlins
300
This nominated curious word that means "full of revenge" has the suffix -ive, which means the word is this part of speech.
What is an adjective
300
An antonym for this word is "disobedient."
What is submissive
300
This word comes from Old English and means "to wrap up."
What is swathe
300
A word to describe behavior that is reckless and performed without regard to others
What is wanton
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These people are sent, usually by a church, to help those in need.
What are missionaries
400
This word has the suffix -er, which tells you that it's a person, and it's a person in charge of making decisions for a department or organization.
What is a commissioner
400
These are churches established by missionaries to help complete their charitable work for those in need; the word also contains the root "miss."
What is a mission
400
The second part of this word comes from the French word for "town."
What is vaudeville
400
"Selfish" and "greedy" are two antonyms for this word.
What is benevolent
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This adjective that means "done without preparation" contains a root that is also a noun that means "ready" or "prepared."
What is impromptu
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This word's suffix tells you it's an adjective, and the word means "able to be submitted and used as evidence."
What is admissible
500
This word that is very similar to the word "commissioner" and is in the mitt/miss family means "an official assignment given to a person in charge."
What is a commission
500
This word's prefix means "together," the word comes from the Latin word for "roll together."
What is conglomerate
500
An antonym for this word is "planned."
What is impromptu
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