A device used to call someone who is located far away from you.
What is a telephone?
100
Running to the fire *BLANK*, the firefighters tried to subdue the raging flames.
What is hydrant?
100
The development of a *BLANK* in ancient Greece set it apart from many other civilizations of the time. This was their form of government and became the foundation for ours in the U.S.
What is democracy?
100
A figure with eight sides and angles.
What is an octagon?
200
A Latin root that means "write."
What is "scrib" or "script"?
200
The study of the relationship between sounds and letters.
What is phonics?
200
My *BLANK* in my car showed that I was driving 5 miles over the speed limit.
What is speedometer?
200
Advances in *BLANK* in the early 20th century allowed information, goods, and people to travel quickly and efficiently over long distances.
What is transportation?
200
Examples of this type of ruler are King Henry VIII, Queen Elizabeth I, and King George III. They were single rulers. Only one ruler.
What is a monarch?
300
A Greek root that means "rule."
What is "crat"?
300
A political term that means the absence of a leader, ruler, or chief.
What is anarchy?
300
Over the speakers the students heard the principal say: "Everyone gather in the *BLANK* to hear the speaker!"
What is auditorium?
300
The first known *BLANK* was created and used in the Netherlands in the 17th century in order to view the skies.
What is telescope?
300
A Greek root meaning "place".
What is orium or arium.
400
A Latin root that means "carry."
What is "port"?
400
The skillful study and application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes.
What is technology?
400
Please *BLANK* or speak to me out loud, the figures to me so that I can record them in the account books.
What is dictate?
400
*BLANK* is the study of the origin of words and the ways in which their meanings have changed throughout history.
This is what I have turned you into if you add the suffix ist.
What is etymology?
400
*BLANK* is the fear of water.
What is hydrophobia?
500
A Latin root that means "see" or "look."
What is "spect"?
500
The mathematical process of taking or pulling one number or amount away from another.
What is subtraction?
500
A square has 4 *BLANK* that are formed when 2 sides meet each other. The root in this word means turn.
What are vertices?
500
The *BLANK* of the Alexandrian Library by Julius Caesar led to tragic loss of the greatest collection of writings in the ancient world.