If you "p"repare for the final, I know you will do very well.
Roots #1
Potpourri #1
Potpourri #2
100
occurring every day; happening in the daytime (rather than at night)
What is diurnal?
100
Preference, tendency, or favorability towards
What is predilection?
100
Latin root meaning equal
What is par?
100
disgusting, filthy, foul, extremely neglected
What is squalid?
100
juvenile, immature
What is puerile?
200
to describe (someone or something) as unimportant, weak, bad, etc.
What is disparage?
200
a controversial argument often published as an essay or pamphlet attacking a specific opinion or doctrine
What is polemic?
200
Latin root meaning feeling
What is pathos?
200
free from germs; lacking vitality, warmth, or emotion
What is aseptic?
200
capable of abundantly producing offspring, vegetation, or creative or intellectual work
What is fecund?
300
a person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and close minded way (n); merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting one’s ideas (adj)
What is doctrinaire?
300
Disparaging, derogatory, belittling (adj); a name or word that is disparaging (n)
What is pejorative?
300
Latin root meaning quiet
What is quiescere?
300
very harmful or destructive, deadly
What is pernicious?
300
lacking freshness and originality
What is banal?
400
a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different
What is dichotomy?
400
giving good signs for the future, likely to work out; kind or forgiving
What is propitious
400
Latin root meaning powerful
What is poten?
400
professed or pretended; outwardly appearing in a certain way
What is ostensible?
400
to permeate or tinge
What is imbue?
500
inclined to waste time and be habitually late; prone to tardiness
What is dilatory?
500
having foreknowledge or foresight, seeing the future
What is prescient?
500
to see or observe
What is spec and spic?
500
not easily understood, hidden, dealing with an obscure topic