Stems
This stem is SUPER.
What is OVER?
This word means to get rid of something by driving it away.
What is dispel?
What is melancholy?
The study of life.
What is biology?
This Latin stem means the opposite of good.
What is mal?
This stem is BENE.
What is GOOD?
This word means tricky and dishonest.
What is duplicitous?
hateful, detestable, repugnant, disgusting, atrocious
What is odious?
A book about one's own life.
What is an autobiography?
Romans built these to bring water to their cities.
What are aquaducts?
This stem is DIS.
What is AWAY?
This word describes a state of being ordinary or average.
What is mediocrity?
quivery, shivering, shaky, edgy, anxious
What is tremulous?
A creature who walks on two legs
What is a biped?
re means again, and this word means "to bring to life again."
What is revive?
This stem is CRED.
What is BELIEVE?
This word means kind and caring.
What is benevolent?
common, crude, in bad taste, unrefined, indecent
What is vulgar?
This is the action of drawing someone's attention away.
What is distract?
This word comes from the Old French abbatre which means "to beat down."
What is abate?
This stem is CHRONO.
What is time?
These are TWO opposites that mean "to like something and to dislike something."
What are aversion and affinity?
ideal, perfect, heavenly, above everything
What is sublime?
This word means warlike, wanting to fight.
What is bellicose?
This is the noun form of the verb allude.
What is an allusion?
This stem is DEC .
What is ten?
This verb means to be happy about another’s failure or boasts about own success.
What is gloat?
bare, strict, grim, plain, severe
What is austere?
A beginner
What is a novice?
These are two words that mean touchable.
What are tangible and palpable?