New Stems
I Feel
I Heard That
I Think
Miscellaneous
100
This stem means before.
What is pre?
100
Depressed from loss of hope or confidence; utterly discouraged.
What is despondent?
100
To ask earnestly; to beg.
What is entreat?
100
In a wrong way or imperfect.
What is amiss?
100
Having wisdom and good judgement.
What is sage?
200
This stem means after.
What is post?
200
Marked by trembling or shaking.
What is tremulous?
200
A long angry speech.
What is a tirade?
200
To stay in one's mind continually.
What is haunt?
200
A person who lives apart from society.
What is a recluse?
300
This stem means over.
What is super?
300
To shrink from in disgust; to detest.
What is abhor?
300
To be repeated as in a series of echos or vibrations.
What is reverberate?
300
Endless; seeming to to be without end.
What is interminable?
300
To make you think something is going to happen in the future.
What is foreshadowing?
400
This stem means not.
What is non?
400
Quick-tempered; irritable.
What is irascible?
400
To say the opposite of what you mean.
What is sarcasm?
400
Intense, deeply felt.
What is profound?
400
The highest point of the story where everything comes together.
What is the climax?
500
This stem means sub.
What is semi?
500
Pleasant; approachable; gracious.
What is affable?
500
Using something everyone knows to help them understand how something else looks or feels.
What is allusion?
500
To drive or to propel.
What is impel?
500
The beginning of the story, including the setting and characters.
What is exposition?