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Hear, Here!
Phobias Everywhere
In the Beginning
The End
Math with Roots and Affixes
100
Able to be heard.
What is audible?
100
It's a fear of water - or the disease rabies.
What is hydrophobia?
100
You put these before a word to change the word's meaning.
What are prefixes?
100
These word endings can change the part of speech of a word, such as making BOY into BOYISH or KIND into KINDLY.
What are suffixes?
100
It's the root that means "measure" - and also the root of the metric system.
What is meter?
200
What would you use to listen to a story instead of reading it?
What is audiobook?
200
If you are acrophobic, you're not going to want to visit the top of the Empire State Building because you're afraid of this.
What is heights?
200

To pay before you receive the merchandise.

What is prepay?

200
It can be done! These suffixes turn a verb into an adjective.
What are -ible and -able?
200
One hundred of these that make up one meter.
What is centimeter?
300
If you want to try out for a play or musical, you go here to have people listen to what you can do.
What is audition?
300
Claustrophobics, come out of the closet - you're not alone in being afraid of these.
What is small, closed spaces?
300

Coming attractions tell you about movies before they are released using these.

What are previews?

300
This suffix means "the state or condition of being ___" - often added to words like punish, judge, or amuse.
What is -ment?
300
"Circum" means "around" - and this is the distance around a circle.
What is circumference?
400
Using the root that means "measure," this word means a tool used to measure sound.
What is audiometer?
400
The itsy bitsy one might have scared Miss Muffett if she had this phobia.
What is arachnophobia?
400
This prefix means "not" or "opposite" in words like disease and discover.
What is dis?
400
This ending makes verbs into the past tense.
What is -ed?
400
"Kilo" means a thousand, so a thousand meters is about one mile - or one of these.
What is a kilometer?
500
You go to this place to listen to a concert or view a play.
What is auditorium?
500
Triskaidekaphobics only need to worry about certain Fridays in months that begin on a Sunday because of their fear of this number.
What is thirteen?
500
This prefix would have you doing things over and over and over again.
What is re-?
500
Add this suffix to a word to change an adjective like cheerful into an adverb.
What is -ly?
500
Use this word's prefix meaning "equal" to find two fractions that measure the same amount.
What is equivalent?