FROM THE LATIN "ACERBUS" MEANING "SHARP or BITTER," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "BITING" and "BITTER IN TONE OR TASTE."
What is ACERBIC?
100
FROM THE LATIN "MAGNUS" MEANING "GREAT" AND "LARGE," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "NOBLE" AND "GENEROUS."
What is MAGNANIMOUS?
100
FROM THE LATIN "SAGAX" MEANING "WISE," THIS NOUN MEANS "SHREWDNESS" AND "SOUNDNESS OF PERSPECTIVE."
What is SAGACITY?
100
FROM THE LATIN "SOMNUS" MEANING "SLEEP," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "SLEEPY" AND "DROWSY."
What is SOMNOLENT?
100
FROM THE LATIN "TRANS" MEANING "ACROSS," THIS VERB MEANS "TO CHANGE OR ALTER IN FORM."
What is TRANSMUTE?
200
FROM THE LATIN "CULPA," MEANING "BLAME or FAULT," THIS VERB MEANS "TO FREE FROM GUILT OR BLAME; EXONERATE."
What is EXCULPATE?
200
FROM THE LATIN "JUXTA" MEANING "BESIDE" OR "NEAR," THIS NOUN MEANS "THE ACT OF PLACING TWO THINGS NEXT TO EACH OTHER FOR IMPLICIT COMPARISON."
What is JUXTAPOSITION?
200
FROM THE LATIN "NASCERE" MEANING "TO BE BORN," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "IN THE PROCESS OF BEING BORN OR COMING INTO EXISTENCE."
What is NASCENT?
200
FROM THE LATIN "TACERE" MEANING "TO BE SILENT," THESE TWO ADJECTIVES MEAN, RESPECTIVELY, "EXPRESSED WITHOUT WORDS" AND "NOT INCLINED TO TALK."
(Must get at least one word correct to get the points.)
What is TACIT and TACITURN?
200
FROM THE LATIN "UMBRA" MEANING "SHADE" OR "SHADOW," THIS NOUN MEANS "OFFENSE" OR "RESENTMENT."
What is UMBRAGE?
300
FROM THE LATIN "SICCUS" MEANING "DRY," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "DRIED UP" AND "DEHYDRATED."
What is DESICCATED?
300
FROM THE LATIN "TRANSIGERE" MEANING "TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "REFUSING TO COMPROMISE, OFTEN ON AN EXTREME OPINION."
What is INTRANSIGENT?
300
FROM THE LATIN "PAUCUS" MEANING "FEW," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "SMALL IN QUANTITY."
What is PAUCITY?
300
FROM THE LATIN "TENUIS" MEANING "SLENDER or THIN," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "HAVING LITTLE SUBSTANCE OR STRENGTH."
What is TENUOUS?
300
FROM THE LATIN "VERUS" MEANING "TRUE," THIS NOUN MEANS "TRUTHFULNESS" OR "ACCURACY."
What is VERACITY?
400
FROM THE LATIN "FULGERE," MEANING "TO SHINE," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "RADIANT" AND "SPLENDOROUS."
What is EFFULGENT?
400
FROM THE LATIN "GREGIS" MEANING "FLOCK," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "DRAWN TO THE COMPANY OF OTHERS" AND "SOCIABLE." (YOU MIGHT SAY THAT PEOPLE "FLOCK" TO THIS TYPE OF PERSON.)
What is GREGARIOUS?
400
FROM THE LATIN "SACER" MEANING "SACRED," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "HOLY" AND "SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NOT BE CRITICIZED."
What is SACROSANCT?
400
FROM THE LATIN "SALIRE" MEANING "TO JUMP OR LEAP," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "SIGNIFICANT" or "CONSPICUOUS."
What is SALIENT?
400
FROM THE LATIN "VISCUM" MEANING "THICK," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "NOT FREE FLOWING" AND "SYRUPY."
What is VISCOUS?
500
FROM THE LATIN "BULLA," MEANING "BUBBLE," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "EXTREMELY LIVELY AND ENTHUSIASTIC." (YOU MIGHT EVEN SAY "BUBBLY.")
What is EBULLIENT?
500
FROM THE LATIN "INIMICUS" MEANING "ENEMY," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "HOSTILE."
What is INIMICAL?
500
FROM THE LATIN "PULCHER" MEANING "BEAUTIFUL," THIS NOUN MEANS "PHYSICAL BEAUTY."
What is PULCHRITUDE?
500
FROM THE LATIN "SANGUIS" MEANING "BLOOD," THIS ADJECTIVE MEANS "OPTIMISTIC AND CHEERY."
What is SANGUINE?
500
FROM THE LATIN "VILIS" MEANING "CHEAP," THIS VERB MEANS "TO LOWER IN IMPORTANCE" AND "DEFAME." (YOU MIGHT SAY THAT IT MEANS TO "CHEAPEN" SOMEONE.)