rupt (to break, burst)
(verb) When a volcano's surface breaks and lava comes out
What is to erupt?
(verb) to work badly or in a way that was not intended
What is to malfunction?
(adjective) able to be carried
Nowadays, most phones are ____________.
What is portable?
(verb) to look closely at something
What is to inspect?
(verb) to say what you think will happen next
What is to predict?
(verb) When something breaks the flow of something you're saying or doing
Doing this is considered impolite!
What is to interrupt?
(noun) This disease was thought to originate from bad air--however, it is actually spread by mosquitoes!
(verb) to bring something to another location
What is transport?
(noun) Either a pair of glasses you look through or something exciting you look at, like a circus!
What are spectacles?
(verb) to say something against what somebody else has said. When two sources say opposite things, they are __________ing each other.
What is to contradict?
(verb/adjective) to cause a break in something's integrity or purity, leading to a loss of its original, proper, or ethical state
You might use this word to describe a bad government or a damaged computer file.
What is to corrupt?
(noun) any serious or bad illness
What is a malady?
(noun/verb) to carry information back to something or somebody
What is to report?
(noun/verb) you might see this person as suspicious, like they might have done something wrong... (and "suspicious" also comes from a similar root word!)
What is suspect?
(noun) a final decision or opinion. A jury will say this at the end of a court case.
What is verdict?
(noun) to break the bank, a state of having run out of money
Michael Scott famously declared this on one episode of the TV show The Office.
What is bankruptcy?
(adjective) having bad intentions, intending to do harm
What is malicious?
(I'll also accept malevolent)
(verb/noun) to send goods that are for sale out of a place
A main __________ of Washington State is apples.
What is export?
(noun) the way in which you see the world--one's point of view. It's an essential skill to see others' _________!
What is perspective?
(noun) Whatever they say, goes! AKA, they can do whatever they want. Most people do not want a government with this kind of ruler.
What is a dictator?
(verb) to burst open, like perhaps something that contains air or fluid
What is to rupture?
(adjective) bad in a way that is gloomy and hopeless
What is dismal?
(noun) A case or folder to carry papers in
What is a portfolio?
(verb) to wonder about something, or to see something in a way that might not be true
What is to speculate?
(noun) You might be in quite the pickle--or this word that also starts with p--a situation where you're not sure what to do or say.
What is a predicament?