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100

This Latin prefix means "between".

What is inter?

100

You can change energy, history, or academy to an adjective by adding this suffix.

What is ic?


100

Very small.

What is micro?

100

A big change in form

What is a transformation?

100

The Boston Tea Party, The Moon Landing, The Election of Barak Obama

What are historic things?

200

A prefix for across, change, or through.

What is trans?

200

Full of mystery.

What is mysterious?

200

To carry.

What is port?

200

To cause great fear or terror. 

What is terrorize?

200

Agatha Christie books, unexplained sounds in the night, far away galaxies, the deep ocean.

What are things that are mysterious?

300

This Latin prefix can be added to fine, human, or sonic to boost the meaning.

What is super?

300

To cause to become a fossil.

What is fossilize?

300

_________corn, ________ cycle, _______form

What is uni?

300

Something you are not able to do.

What is inability?

300

Weather forecasts, bad guesses, fake news .

What are things that are inaccurate?

400

This Greek prefix means "outside", as in "outside skeleton".

What is exo?

400

Characterized by being polite.

What is courteous?

400

The doctor will __________ a drug with a 

___________________. 

What are prescribe and prescription?

400

Things you bring in or send out of a country.

What are imports and exports?

400

An explorer, a skydiver, a mountain climber.

What are people that are adventurous?

500

Three Latin ways to indicate "not". 

What are im, ir and in?

500

Sticking with it.

What is persistent?

500

Synonyms for this Latin root "must see" include disply, show, performance, ehibition, pageant and parade!

What is a spectacle?

500

An empty space.

What is a vacuum?

500

Manuscripts, scribbles, and inscriptions.

What  are things that are written?

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