Definitions-Part 1
Definitions-Part 2
Definitions-Part 3
Words in a Sentence
Word Roots
100

A sculpture or model of a person. 

What is effigy? 

100

The main ideas of a class, group, or movement. 

What is ideology? 

100

The outer boundary of a circle; the perimeter. 

What is circumference? 

100

Metaphors, Similes, and Personification are all examples of ____________ language

What is figurative? 

100

Cavernous, concave, and excavate share this Latin root which means "a hollow." 

What is cavea? 

200

Path of one body as it revolves around another body/ a sphere of influence; a range of action or experience. 

What is orbit? 

200

Roundabout; indirect. 

What is circuitous? 

200

Like a large cave in size or darkness/ filled with caves or cavities. 

What is cavernous? 

200

The dwarves is "Snow White" ___________ mines for beautiful jewels. 

What is excavate? 

200

This Latin Root means "wheel" or "round." 


*Double Jeopardy: This is the Greek variant to this root. 

What is rota/rotundus? 


*What is kuklos? 

300

By memory without thought of the meaning/mechanical routine. 

What is rote? 

300

Plump; rounded. 

What is rotund? 

300

Possessing information about many subjects or intensively about one subject. 

What is encyclopedic? 

300

When on a stakeout, the undercover police officers had to be very ____________ while watching the suspects. 

What is circumspect? 

300
This Latin root means "around." 

What is "circum?"

400

Curved like the inner surface of a ball. 

What is concave? 

400

A misleading movement or pretended attack/ a pretense; a scheme to mislead/ to make a misleading movement or pretended attack. 

What is feint? 

400

A sphere; anything spherical in shape/ a globe carried by a monarch as a symbol of office. 

What is orb? 

400

A picnic in the springtime, sitting next to a lake would be an example of a(n) _________

What is idyl/idyll?

400

Ideology and Idyll/Idyl shares this Greek root which means...

What is eidos which means to shape or form?
500

A shape or outline; a method of arrangement. 

What is configuration? 

500

A circular domed building or hall. 

What is rotunda? 

500

Occurring or moving in cycles.

What is cyclic? 

500

My mother gets very perturbed with me when I try to ________ sickness to avoid going to school. 

What is feign? 

500

This is the Latin Root which means "to shape." 

What is fingo/fingere?

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