Rootin' Tootin' Roots
This root has to do with lightness.
What is lev?
This word means the same as include.
What is accept?
This word means the opposite of a giver.
What is a recipient?
This is the new setting in the novel, The Bridge Home.
What is the graveyard?
This is the country now located at the Fertile Crescent.
What is Iraq?
This root has to do with being up high.
What is alt?
This word means the same as lift.
What is elevate?
This word means the opposite of sadness.
What is levity?
This word refers to how a piece of literature makes one feel.
What is mood?
This is the other name for the Fertile Crescent.
What is Mesopotamia?
This root can be found in the word captive.
What is capt?
This word means the same as height.
What is altitude?
This word is the opposite of burden.
What is relieve?
This word refers to the way an author use their words to convey events in the story.
What is tone?
These two rivers are located on either side of the fertile crescent.
What are the Tigris and Euphrates?
These roots mean to take.
What is cip/cept/capt?
This word means the same as expect.
What is anticipate?
This word means the opposite of boring.
What is captivating?
This is the word used when explaining the figurative meaning of a word.
What is connotative?
This temple was a place of worship with a platform at the top to be near the gods.
What is a ziggurat?
This root is found in the word recipient.
What is cip?
This word means the same thing as receiver.
What is a recipient?
This word means the opposite of surprise.
What is anticipate?
This is the word used when defining a word literally.
What is denotative?
These were the people who helped write down a city-state's events for the king.
What are scribes?