Character & Personality
Government & Power
Challenges & Struggles
Thinking & Communication
Science & Nature
100

A student keeps practicing free throws every day even after missing most of them during basketball practice.

Word Box: tenacious, novice, placid, obliging, egotistical, judicious, cordial, fanatical, vile, conscientious

Tenacious 

100

A ruler has complete control and allows no one to question their decisions.

Word Box: tyranny, regime, sovereign, consensus, moderation, ration, contract, premise, morale, prosperity

Tyranny

100

A family has very little money and struggles to buy groceries.

Word Box: impoverished, lavish, prosperous, generic, substantial, meager, thriving, viable, monumental, expansive

impoverished

100

A scientist makes an educated guess about why plants are dying.

Word Box:  premise, rationale, concept, revelation, fidelity, morale, conversion, conjecture, capacity, consensus

conjecture

100

The moon and stars belong to this type of heavenly category.

Word Box:  terrestrial, kinetic, luminous, cavernous, concentric, vivid, contemporary, celestial, expansive, subtle

Celestial

200

A new employee asks many questions because it is their first week on the job.

Word Box: novice, aptitude, legendary, subtle, bleak, senile, arbitrary, cynical, adverse, rigorous

Novice

200

A country’s king or queen holds supreme power over the nation.

Word Box: predecessor, statutory, communal, arbitrary, premise, deficit, generic,  sovereign, chronology, constraint

 sovereign

200

A hiker becomes trapped between two cliffs with no easy way out.

Word Box: predicament, utopia, consensus, compromise, aptitude, potency, chronological, arbitrary, morale, flourish

Predicament

200

A lawyer explains the logical reason behind her argument in court.

Word Box:  premise, generic, concise, substantial, vivid, potential, variant, sector, rationale, interim

rationale

200

A desert receives little rain and supports very little plant life.

Word Box:  teeming, spacious, luminous, dynamic, fertile, versatile, arid, cordial, contemporary, viable

arid

300

A classmate constantly brags about being smarter and better than everyone else.

Word Box:  cordial, placid, obliging, versatile, egotistical, concise, dynamic, faithful, rational, impartial

egotistical

300

The government officially approves a new law allowing students to carry water bottles in class.

Word Box:  suppress, exploit, comply, purge, sanction, constrain, override, implement, cultivate, incorporate

sanction

300

After a hurricane, the town faces serious danger and hardship.

Word Box:  predicament, plight, perilous, ravage, deficit, morale, arbitrary, mediocre, rationale, adversity

adversity

300

A student summarizes a 10-page article into three clear sentences.

Word Box: concise, animated, chronological, luminous, expansive, substantial, versatile, generic, arbitrary, immersive

Concise

300

A glowing jellyfish lights up the dark ocean water.

Word Box: luminous, bleak, subtle, vile, placid, kinetic, arbitrary, generic, sedentary, senile

Luminous

400

A nurse carefully checks every medicine label twice before giving it to a patient.

Word Box: erratic, naive, bleak, malicious, arbitrary, impulsive, sedentary, hostile, generic, conscientious

conscientious

400

A group of leaders temporarily controls a country after an election crisis.

Word Box: regime, interim, consensus, predecessor, dominion, compromise, rationale, morale, viable, adversity

regime

400

A dangerous storm makes traveling across the ocean extremely risky.

Word Box: perilous, placid, kinetic, vivid, cordial, concise, rational, viable, aesthetic, expansive

Perilous 
400

A rumor twists the truth and changes what actually happened.

Word Box: fidelity, revelation, chronicle, premise, formulation, rationale, prejudice, distortion, contract, disposition

distortion

400

The inside of the cave was so huge and hollow that voices echoed everywhere.

Word Box:  concentric, cavernous, concise, chronological, conventional, sedentary, substantial, contemporary, cordial, dynamic

cavernous

500

During a heated debate, one student stays calm and peaceful while everyone else argues loudly.

Word Box:  belligerent, malicious, placid, ravenous, tyrannical, animated, erratic, devious, bleak, notorious

placid

500

Citizens all come to the same agreement after hours of discussion at a town meeting.

Word Box:  dissension, prejudice, plight, premise, contract, consensus, magnitude, variant, prejudice, conjecture

consensus

500

The wildfire completely destroys hundreds of acres of forest.

Word Box: dispel, enhance, ravage, cultivate, nurture, rectify, merge, traverse, cite, perceive

Ravage 

500

A reporter records historical events in the exact order they happened.

Word Box: chronological, interim, generic, arbitrary, kinetic, formulate, traverse, contemporary, subtle, placid

chronological

500

The circles spread outward sharing the same center point.

Word Box: concentric, expansive, arbitrary, terrestrial, contemporary, viable, kinetic, substantial, chronological, vivid

concentric