Stem to Meaning
The stem 'ism' means this
What is "doctrine" or "belief"?
This is the stem meaning "eat"
What is "phag"?
Someone who commits an ignominious act has committed this kind of act
What is "disgraceful" or "shameful"?
This word, made from stems meaning "up" and "gather", is almost always a plural word referring to a specific person's body of writings
What is "analects"?
The person with the highest GPA is chosen to give this type of speech
What is a "valediction"?
"Mort" almost always means this
What is "death"?
A word indicating the "first" something might begin with this stem
What is "proto"?
The "analects" of Confucius can also be called the ____ of Confucius
What is "selected writings"?
A person's greatest achievement is usually called their
What is "magnum opus"?
Your word choice is very important in an essay that is trying to clearly present information on a topic. So you should have good __________ in a __________ essay:
What is "diction" and "expository"?
"Lect" is a stem that means this
What is "gather"?
A Latin stem meaning "death", to which you can add the endings "uary" and "ician" to make words.
What is "mort"?
The protagonist of a book is its this
What is "leading person"?
A book which has a lot of strange, fantastic images and a hard-to-follow plot with random occurrences might be this kind of book
What is "surreal" or "surrealistic"?
Certain synonyms for "to leave," "to praise," and "a trip somewhere" all include this stem
What is "ex"? (exit, exalt, excursion)
Lots of words have "dict" in them, a stem which has this meaning
What is "say"?
If you see a bad actor on TV, you might be in agony, but you shouldn't forget this stem meaning "actor"
What is "agnon"?
An old, washed-up actor whose reviews are getting worse and worse has a dying, or __________, career
What is "moribund"?
The main character of that book endured pain so well, we may as well call him a __________ __________.
What is a "stoic protagonist"?
If you see "mal" at the start of a word then it almost certainly has this connotation
What is "bad"?
A word referring to something which is great or getting greater might have this stem in it
What is "magn"?
A person who is indifferent to sensations and doesn't act on their feelings is a person who is good at this
What is "stoicism"?
When you're asked to write a paper analyzing a book you've read, you are probably being asked to produce this
What is "exegesis"?
The student's explanatory essay was his greatest work. He liked to call it by this three-word phrase (using two vocab words):
What is an "expository magnum opus"
Any word with the stem "phag" probably has to do with this
What is "eating"?
When you have too much of something, you might add this stem to a word to mean "over"
A supercilious person probably has trouble making friends because their tone of voice is usually this
What is "scornful"?
The boy wasn't brave enough to ask the girl out, so he sent his friend to do it for him. The friend was the boy's ______________
What is "emissary"?
If a book's main character is clumsy, you might refer to them with this two-word phrase
What is "maladroit protagonist"?
"Pos" most often relates to words that have something to do with this
This is one of the stems meaning "send"
What is "miss"?
The maladroit emissary had an ignominious dismissal from his job. Translated into more common English, this probably means this
What is "an exegesis on the protagonist's valediction"?
The dying messenger couldn't help but express his scorn for his murderer. He was this three-word phrase:
What is a "supercilious moribund emissary"?