Hard Words
Easy Roots
Words to Confuse You
Words You Need To Know
Ancillary Roots
100
This word means to rub or wipe out; erase.
What is efface?
100
This root word means birth, race, kind.
What is Gen?
100
This word means not equal; unlike. Example: The reporter wrote on subjects as __________ as ice hockey and women's fashions.
What is disparate?
100
This word means to take the burden out; to free from charge or from guilt.
What is exonerate?
100
nomy
What is "law"?
200
This word means to remove the face of; to wipe out.
What is efface?
200
This root word means Faith.
What is Fid?
200
This word means deceiving through a pretense of faith; treacherous. I hope this adjective is never used to describe you or your actions.
What is perfidious?
200
Do your progeny come before you or after you?
What is after?
200
her
What is "to stick"?
300
This word means to use equal voices; to make statements with two possible meanings in order to mislead.
What is equivocate?
300
This root word means _________.
What is eu?
300
This word means measured together; equal i nmeasure or size; proportionate.
What is commensurate?
300
This is when an author or storyteller exaggerates in order to evoke strong feelings.
What is hyperbole?
300
cid
What is "to kill"?
400
This is a synonym for "to censor."
What is expurgate?
400
This root word means to speak.
What is dict?
400
This word means to strip the skin off; to denounce harshly.
What is excoriate?
400
This word means bubbling out; overflowing with enthusiasm.
What is ebullient?
400
This root means "to play."
What is allude?
500
This word means not the same as others; a rare exception; something that is not normal. It is not a negative connotation.
What is anomaly?
500
This root word means to believe.
What is cred?
500
Does your progenitor come before you or after you?
What is comes before?
500
This word is used for a person who has left one's country or renounced allegiance to it.
What is expatriate?
500
This root means "home."
What is "eco"?