Using what you know about roots, provide a definition for unicycle.
What is a one-wheeled device or vehicle?
100
Hanging from a clock.
What is a pendulum?
100
Bursting in between two speakers.
What is an interruption?
100
Prefix meaning back or again.
What is re-?
200
A root meaning to break or burst.
What is rupt?
200
Provide a word that has the root tri in it. You may not use tricycle.
What is triplets, triathlon, triceratops, trilingual, trilogy, tripod, trisect, trio, triangle?
200
To come between.
What is interfere?
200
A break, crack or split.
What is a fracture?
200
The two prefixes that mean together or with?
Hint: Think Spanish
What is con-/com-?
300
Two examples of roots meaning water.
What are hydro(a) and aqua?
300
The number of years in a decade, millennium and a century.
What are 10 years, 1000 years, and 100 years.
300
Courteous behavior.
What is civility?
300
Having deep low tones (usually in sound or music).
What is bass?
300
A group of people who work together on some project.
What is a committee?
400
Two noun suffixes you frequently find added to roots or whole words.
What are -ity and -ment.
400
How many meters are in a kilometer?
What is one thousand?
400
A device for regulating heat.
What is a thermostat?
400
The lowest floor.
What is basement?
400
A joining word; a part of speech that joins other words or groups of words.
What is a conjunction?
500
Five prefixes that mean not.
What are dis-, non-, in-, im-, il-, a-, un-?
500
The temperature scale where zero is freezing and 100 is boiling.
Hint: It is sometimes known as Celsius, but that is the name of the astronomer this temperature scale is also named after.
What is centigrade?
500
To build again, to make over.
What is reconstruct?
500
The root meaning to put or place.
What is pos?
500
Provide a word that combines three roots (you can include prefixes and suffixes) that we have studied. You need to be able to identify each one.