BUILDING BLOCKS
The Latin root meaning "to build"
What is struct?
The Latin root meaning "to draw or pull"
What is tract?
The prefix meaning "back" or "again"
What is re-?
The root meaning "to conquer"
What is vinc/vince?
This common phrase means to "seize the day"
What is carpe diem?
This word describes the underlying framework of a system
What is infrastructure?
The process of withdrawing or pulling something out
What is extraction?
The prefix meaning "with" or "together"
What is con-?
To block or fill with obstacles
What is obstruct?
A term for a "genuine" or "in good faith" agreement
What is bona fide?
The act of putting something back together?
What is reconstruction?
To draw or pull back
What is retract?
The suffix meaning "able to be"
What is -ible?
A perosn or thing that is unbeatable or impossible to overcome
What is invincible?
A legal defense stating that one was "elsewhere" during a crime
What is alibi?
A work meaning "that which is built in a particular way"
What is structure?
The act of drawing together or shrinking
What is contraction?
The prefix meaning "beneath"
What is infra-?
To persuade someone by argument or evidence
What is convince?
This phrase means "to the point of disgust" or "sea sickness"
What is ad nauseam?
The act of deliberately destroying an object
What is destruct?
A term for something that is able to be pulled or drawn out from
What is extractible?
This suffix indicates an action, process, state or quality
What is -ion?
An obstacle put up against something else
What is obstruction?
A phrase meaning "from beginning to end"; literally "from eggs to apples"
What is ab ovo usque ad mala?