Prefixes (The Headliners)
If an athlete makes it halfway to the final championship match, they are playing in this round.
This root means "to break or burst." If a volcano suddenly blows its top, it undergoes an eruption.
This prefix means "one" or "single." If someone speaks in a boring, single-toned voice without changing pitch, they are speaking in a ______.
What is a monotone? (Accept: mono)
This root means "life." The study of living organisms and their environments is known as this science class.
What is biology? (Accept: bio)
This root means "to believe or trust." If a story sounds so wild that you absolutely cannot believe it, the story is this.
What is incredible? (Accept: cred)
This prefix means "between" or "among," and you'll find it in words describing a highway crossing states or a system connecting computers globally.
What is inter-?
Meaning "to build," you use this root when discussing a city's underlying infrastructure or when giving someone constructive criticism.
What is struct?
Meaning "equal," this root is found in the imaginary line cutting the Earth into two equal halves.
What is the Equator? (Accept: equi)
Meaning "water," you need to watch out for this root if you skip drinking water on a hot summer day and become completely dried out.
What is dehydrated? (Accept: hydr)
This prefix means "under" or "below." It's the boat that travels completely under the ocean's surface.
What is a submarine? (Accept: sub)
If you take an antidote to fight against a poison, or act completely opposite to social norms, you are using this prefix.
What is anti?
This root means "to carry." A briefcase used to carry documents is a portfolio, and a device that is easy to carry around is called this.
What is portable?
A continuous, lengthy speech delivered by a single actor on a stage is known as this literary term.
What is a monologue?
This prefix means "distant" or "far." It allows you to look at distant stars through a glass lens.
What is a telescope? (Accept: tele)
If a student gives a document or a paper under the authority of a teacher for review, they ______ it.
What is submit?
Meaning "with" or "together," this prefix is found in words where people gather together (converge) or agree with one another (concur).
What is con?
This root means "to pull or drag." If a dentist pulls a tooth out of your mouth, they perform an extraction.
What is tract?
If your mind is in a state of total mental balance and calmness—where your emotions feel perfectly equal and steady—you possess this 10-letter "E" word.
What is equanimity? (Accept: equilibrium)
This 11-letter word uses a prefix meaning "distant" and a root meaning "life" to describe the automated tracking and transmission of biological data from a distance (like a smartwatch tracking your heart rate).
What is telemetry?
Someone who is "incredulous" is a person who is feeling this way.
What is skeptical / unable to believe something?
This prefix means "across" or "beyond." If glass lets light pass all the way across it, we say the glass is this.
What is trans-? (Example: transparent)
Combine a prefix meaning "under" with a root meaning "to build" to create a word that means "to block or build a barrier against something."
What is obstruct? (Note: This challenges them to link 'struct' with an outside prefix, or you can accept structural layout combos!)
A business that has exclusive, single-handed control over an entire market or supply chain has achieved this.
What is a monopoly?
This scientific word combines the root for "water" with a root meaning "power/work" to describe a system operated by the movement of pressurized liquids.
What is hydraulics?
This high-level vocabulary word combines a prefix meaning "under/below" with a root meaning "to turn or overturn" to describe an undercover attempt to overthrow or undermine an established government or system.
What is subversive? (Accept: subversion)