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The Latin expression whose literal meaning is "nourishing mother" but now is used for the school from which one graduates.
What is "alma mater"?
100
The word "skeleton" comes from the Greek word "skelos" which means this.
What is "leg"?
100
The meaning of "polydactyl"
What is "having more than 10 fingers or toes"?
100
The meaning of the Latin root "Later-" as seen in the word "equilateral"
What is "side"?
100
The meaning of the word "loquacious"?
What is "talkative"?
200
The difference between "de jure" and "de facto".
What is "de jure" refers to the written law of the land whereas "de facto" refers to actual practice, or how things really are...?
200
The meaning of the word "dentalgia"
What is "tooth pain" or "tooth ache"?
200
The meaning of gymnogynomania?
What is "a male voyeur who gets his pleasure from watching the private acts of women without being seen by them"?
200
The word in this list that does not mean "acting like your better than other people": sanctimonious, supercilious, capillose, imperious.
What is "capillose" (which means hairy or pilose or shaggy ir hirsute)
200
The Latin root in the word "abundant" and its meaning.
What is "UND- = wave"?
300
The definition and an example of a "chimera".
What is "A foolish or idle fancy"? What is Don Quixote attacking windmills, trying to catch the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow, trying to make a time machine, etc....
300
This is the time of you should take your medicine if a prescription tells you to take it "h.s."
What is bed-time or, literally, at "the hour of sleep" (hora somni)?
300
The meaning of the word "procrustean"?
What is "enforcing rigid conformity"?
300
The meaning of the word "attenuate"
What is "to reduce the force, strength, physical thickness"?
300
What is the literal / etymological meaning of 'digress'?
What is What is "step (-gress) in different direction (dis-)?
400
The word in this list (paean, hector, aegis, adonis) that can be used as a verb and its meaning.
What is "hector", to bully / harass?
400
The three things an otorhinolaryngologist treats.
What are the ear (oto-) nose (rhin-) and throat (laryn-)?
400
The meaning of the word "ichthyodont"?
What is a fossilized fish tooth?
400
The action from this list (turning a door handle, doing push ups, driving a car, or petting a dog) that acts out the meaning of the Latin root "TRUD-"
What is "doing push ups"?
400
The word in this list that has closest to the same meaning as impervious: imperturbable, irresolute, implicit, innocuous
What is imperturbable?
500
A sentence using all three expressions: modus vivendi, persona non grata, ipso facto. (In other words, make up a sentence that successfully uses all three Latin expressions)
Geoffrey the Giraffe had agreed upon a modus vivendi with his sworn enemy Larry the lion and - ipso facto - could no longer treat him as persona non grata.
500
The three things a patient has if he suffers from bradycardia, encephaloma and gastritis.
What is 1) a slow heart beat 2) a brain tumor and 3) inflammation of the stomach?
500
The meaning of a "cacohydrophobia"?
What is the fear of drinking bad or contaminated water?
500
The meaning of the word "retromingent" and one example of something that is retromingent.
What is "urinating backwards" and some examples include ungulates like cows, horses, camels, etc.
500
The THREE English meanings of the Latin root PEND- / PENS- as seen in the words "pendulum" or "expensive"
What are "to hang, pay, weigh"?