Acerb/Acri
Give a single-word definition for the root Acerb/Acri
What is bitter, sharp?
Give a one-phrase definition for the root Anim
What is life? (or spirit or mind)
Give definitions for Bene/Bon and Mal in one short line.
What is bene/bon mean good/well and mal means bad?
Give a one-word definition for Chron/Temp
What is time?
Give a one-word definition for the root Fid
What is faith or trust?
Word meaning "sharp in tone or taste" that uses this root.
What is acerbic?
Name a word meaning "lively or spirited" that uses this root
What is animated?
Provide a common English antonym pair using these roots (one good, one bad)
What is benevolent/malevolent?
Which root appears in the word meaning "a record of events in time" (___logy/___graph)?
What is Chronology or Chronicle?
Identify a common English word meaning "trust" or "faith" that uses this root
What is fidelity / confidant?
Define "acerbic" in a sentence appropriate for an 11th grade literature analysis
What is "Acerbic" means sharply critical, sarcastic, or biting in tone?
Explain how the root anim contributes to the meaning of "inanimate" and use that word in a sentence
What is inanimate means not alive. A desk in an inanimate object.
Explain the difference between "benefactor" and "malefactor"
What is a benefactor is one who gives help and malefactor is one who does evil?
Distinguish between "chronological" and contemporary" with definitions.
Define "fiduciary" and explain a real-world context (legal/financial) where the term applies.
What is relating to trust often used in legal or financial situations like choosing a fiduciary to handle a trust for a beneficiary?
identify and explain the meaning of the root in the word "acridness."
Identify a medical or psychological term containing anim
What is animality (condition of being an animal) or animus (hostile feeling)?
What is bene + volent (wishing) = benevolent or wishing someone well?
Identify the root's role in the words "anachronism" and "temporary"
What is anachronism means something out of its proper time, and temporary means lasting for a limited time?
Compare "confidence" and "confide"
What is confidence is trust in oneself and confide is to entrust someone with information?
Provide two advanced English words derived from these roots
What are acerbate and acrid?
Analyze how the root anim shapes meaning in both "animation" and "animus" highlighting the different senses of "spirit" or "feeling."
What is "Animation" equals liveliness in film vs. "Animus" equals a hostile feeling?
Provide two advanced words (one from bene/bon, one from mal) that are often used in literary analysis.
What is benign, maligned?
Provide and example of a scholarly sentence that uses "chronology" and temporal" correctly in the same sentence
What is The historian established a clear chronology to show the temporal sequence of events?
Provide three examples of words that contain the root fid