Adjective
seeming reasonable or logical, but actually false
What is specious?
1. a bit of blood or tissue taken for diagnostic purposes
2. an example regarded as typical of its class
What is specimen?
to guess, especially on uncertain grounds
What is speculate?
The few birds seen anywhere were ________; they trembled violently and could not fly.
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
What is moribund?
(-spec-)
n. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding
What is species?
living forever; never dying or decaying
What is immortal?
someone employed to make written copies of documents; term for journalists
What is scribe?
to give credit to
What is ascribe?
_______ is the prefix that means around
What is circum?
(-scrib-)
noun. a document ‘written’ beforehand by a physician
What is a prescription?
A careful consideration of all circumstances and a desire to avoid mistakes and bad consequences.
What is circumspect?
1. The state of being subject to death.
2. Death, especially on a large scale.
What is mortality?
to cause to feel shame
What is mortify?
In return, I __________lyrics when I should be studying and slip them into the album covers so we can sing the songs together.
You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins
What is transcribe?
(-scrib-)
(verb) to ‘write’ carelessly and aimlessly
What is scribble?
causing or liable to cause death; fatal
What is mortal?
the combination of ideas into a complex whole
What is synthesis?
to combine ideas to form a complex whole
What is synthesize?
Then I reminded myself that it was pointless to _______, that in just a few more hours I would know.
Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel by Harlan Coben
What is speculate?
-mort-
(noun) a funeral director who directly deals with the “death” of people
What is mortician?
Concerned with or related to the past.
What is retrospect?
the exact opposite
What is antithesis?
to restrict or confine; to set limits.
circumscribe
I wasn’t sure how a person even begins to go about testing a ___________like the one I’d formed, and I knew I didn’t have any time to waste.The high brightness of Europa is consist
The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin
What is hypothesis?
-thes-
a pair of round brackets used to mark off a word or phrase
What is parenthesis?