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Riddles
Know the Root
100

This is the art of writing using beautiful letters. 

What is calligraphy? 

100

This means located in the center of a thing or place. 

What is central?

100

The word to lose water or moisture comes from the Greek language. 

What is dehydrate?

100

I am used to tell time. 

I could be a stop watch. 

What is chronograph?

100

Coming from Greek, the roots CENTR and CENTER mean this. 

What is middle?

200

An extremely large, powerful, and destructive storm with high winds that spin around. 

What is a cyclone?

200

This words means able to be heard.

What is audible?

200

This words means that you say the opposite of something that another person claims. 

What is contradict?

200

I am a store nearby, 

I am something close to you. 

What is local?

200

Coming from Latin, and used in the word VISual, the root VIS means this... 

What is to see or look

300

This is a condition that surrounds an event or causes an event to happen. 

What is circumstance?

300

We use this word to describe when 2 or more objects share the same center point. 

What is concentric?

300

This word means something is said and then written down. 

What is dictate?

300

If I am written in order of how I happened, I am... 

What is chronilogical?

300

Used in the word PHONOgraph, the Greek root PHONE means this. 

What is sound?

400

This is a place or position. 

What is location?

400

Happening or beginning now or in the recent past.  

What is contemporary?
400

The word allocate means...

What is to divide and give out something special

400

I am an adverb. I happen repeatedly, over and over, I am a habit. 

What is chronically?
400

Used in the word, conTEMPorary, the Latin root word TEMP means this.  

What is time?

500

A description of events in the order that they happened. 

What is chronicle.

500

This word means something is not permanent. 

What is temporary?

500

To force someone or something to move from a position or place.

What is dislocate?

500

I have the same meaning as "very noisy"

What is cacophony?

500

These roots, while coming from different sources, have the same meaning: HYDR and AQUA.  

What is water?