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Latin root: "pen"
100

brood

What is a family of young birds or ducks?

100

goad

What does it mean to drive or urge someone to do something?

100

literate

What does it mean if someone is able to read and write or well educated?

100

clean as a whistle

What does it mean to be polished and spotless?

100

relying on other people for help

What is dependent?

200

luster

What is the quality of being shiny or glittery?

200

drone

What does it mean to talk on and on in a boring voice?

200

upright

What does it mean to be a good, honest, honorable person?

200

let the cat out of the bag?

What does it mean to reveal a secret or ruin a surprise?

200

Two vertical lines that intersect with right angles

What is perpendicular?
300

hazard

What is something that is a danger?

300

lubricate

What does it mean to grease something?

300

customary

What does it mean to be normal or usual?

300

get carried away

What does it mean to overdo it?

300

money that is spent

What is an expenditure?

400

dynasty

What is a family that has been in power for a long time?

400

insinuate

What does it mean to suggest or hint that someone is guilty?

400

interminable

What does it mean to be never-ending?

400
by the seat of my pants

What does it mean to do something with little or no preparation or forethought?

400

to give out or distribute

What is dispense?

500

foretaste

What does preview or sample mean?

500

alight

What does it mean to get down from something?

500

sullen

What does it mean to be sad and brooding?

500

Put your foot in your mouth

What does it mean to say something offensive on accident?

500

The state of being held in anxiety, worry, or uncertainty?

What is suspense?