This word - containing the root word for "life" - is a food supplement you take to be healthy.
What is a vitamin?
100
This word describes the type of government the U.S. and many other Western countries; it contains the root word meaning "people."
What is a democracy?
100
This branch of science studies the stars and contains the root word for "star" in it. Fitting...
What is astronomy?
100
This is what a fortune teller is supposed to have and contains the root word meaning "know" in Latin.
What is precognition?
100
This type of characterization would say that cops eat doughnuts all the time, blondes aren't smart, and women can't drive. The root word for this means "solid."
What is a stereotype?
200
This two-word name of an insect contains a root word meaning "moon" because of the shape on its wings.
What is a luna moth?
200
This two-word phrase - meaning "other" in Latin - describes Superman's and Iron Man's real identities of Clark Kent and Tony Stark.
What is an alter ego?
200
This is where Ultimate Fighters fight or the kind of shape you might encounter in geometry; either way, the Greeks gave you it to us for eight times the enjoyment.
What is an octagon?
200
When everyone thinks you'll get an "F" and you get an "A" in my class, this is what you're doing; it contains the Latin root for "over" in it.
What is surpassing?
200
BOOM! goes this word, which one of its root words means "power."
What is dynamite?
300
This sandwich (from the Greek meaning "turn") derives its name from the root word because of the rotations its meat makes while cooking and turning on a rotisserie.
What is a gyro?
300
It will take you 10 years to realize this word has passed (containing the root word for "ten" from the Greek).
What is a decade?
300
"Rocks for Jocks" is what this class is called in high school and college; either way, it's the study of the earth and contains the Greek word for "earth" in it.
What is geology?
300
Your friend tells one side of the story, but your side goes completely against what she said. You do this (using the Latin root for "against" in the word) when you throw her under the bus.
What is contradict?
300
This word is used when something happens all the time (like a recurring disease, showing up late, etc.), utilizing its root word meaning "time."
What is chronic?
400
You might use this word (using a root word for "look") to look at stars in the sky or into your neighbors' windows.
What is a telescope?
400
A belief based on the Communist Manifesto produced by Vladimir Lenin, this belief system contains the root for "doctrine" or "belief."
What is Communism?
400
This beverage holder keeps my coffee hot in the morning, thereby keeping all of you from getting an "F" on a daily basis. Oh, yeah, the root word means "heat."
What is a thermos?
400
This is the speed at which the X-Men's plane - the SR71 Blackbird - travels, which means it travels faster than the speed of one of the Latin roots ("sound").
What is supersonic?
400
The Greek sun god Apollo was called this before getting his more common name.
What is Helios?
500
These might be athletes k-12, in college, and sometimes the Olympics who do it for the love of the game ("love" being at the root of this word).
What is an amateur?
500
This often mispronounced word (most people pronounce the last syllable as "bowl") contains the root word for "over" and is a literary term using extreme exaggeration to make a point.
What is hyperbole?
500
TOSS UP!!
This suffix means "measure" and is used in all sorts of metric units.
Name the smallest unit of measurement you can name
What is (insert smallest measurement) here?
500
This is a group of stars that, when seen from Earth, form a pattern, which can be animals, mythological figures, or objects. The root word for "star" is in this word.
What is a constellation?
500
This four-sided shape gets its name from the OTHER root word meaning "four."