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Challenge Words
Root Words
100

A list of important words and their meanings, usually found at the back of a book. 

What is glossary?

100
Words that describe an action (run) or state of being (is) and are essential to form a complete sentence. 

What is a verb?

100

A word that names a person, place, thing, or idea, and is essential to form a complete sentence.

What is a noun?

100

A speech given by a character in a play when they are alone on stage, expressing their thoughts and feelings out loud. 

What is a soliloquy?

100

The definition of the root "scribe, spript, scrib."

What is to write?

200

When someone tells about an event they did not experience themselves.

What is secondhand account?
200

What someone tells about something they saw, heard, or experienced themselves.

What is firsthand account?

200

A word that takes the place of the noun.

What is a pronoun?

200

To describe, outline, or explain something in detail. 

What is delineate?

200

The definition of the root "spec."

What is to see or look?

300

To examine something carefully in order to understand it better or figure out its parts.

What is analyze?

300

A word that describes a verb, it adds information to the action.

What is an adverb?

300

A word that describes a noun.

What is an adjective?

300

To shorten by cutting off. 

What is truncate?

300

I used a telescope to look at the stars last night. 

What is scope? 

What is to look at, view, or examine?

400

To hint at or refer to something without directly saying it.

What is allude?

400

The way people use words to make their ideas clear, convincing, and powerful. 

What is rhetoric?

400

A main idea or statement that serves as the foundation for a work or theory.

What is premise?

400

An extremely large number, countless. 

What is myriad?

400

What is the root and definition for the sentence, "Sam disrupted the class by talking while the teacher is talking."

What is rupt? What is burst or break?

500

A comparison between two things that are alike in some way, follows a similar pattern.

What is analogy?

500

A very small difference in meaning, expression, or sound. 

What is nuance?

500

An excessive or overabundant amount of something.

What is plethora?

500

Using exactly the same words, word for word. 

What is verbatim?

500

What is the root and definition for the sentence, "They plan to construct a barn behind the house."

What is struct? What is to build, to put together, to arrange?