Word Within The Word: Review Lists 85-90

Stems 1

100

intra

What is within?

200

com

What is together?

300

ad

What is to?

400

Three words using the stem per

What are permission, permit, perspire, perish, permanent, perambulate?

500

Turbid : Pellucid ::

a. tangible : tactile

b. muddled : perspicuous

c. expedite : impedimenta

d. manifest : subtle

b. muddled : perspicuous 

Stems 2

100

alter

What is other?

200

contra

What is against?

300

vid

What is look?

400

renascent, lachrymose, and protégé?

What is a showing new life, tearful, and one helped by a protector?

500

Casuistry : Specious ::

a. illuminati : vacuous

b. obsequies : lachrymose

c. hedonist : ascetic

d. Sybarite : stoic

b. obsequies : lachrymose

Words 1

100

placate

What is to appease?

200

prostrate

What is lying flat with your face down?

300

imperious

What is domineering?

400

bon, strat, and sense

What is good, layer, and feel?

500

Predicate : Substratum ::

a. predict : future

b. precede : ensue

c. build : foundation

d. immure : prisoner

c. build : foundation

Words 2

100

doleful

What is mournful?

200

inexorable

What is unstoppable?

300

oblique

What is indirect or slanting?

400

idiosyncrasy, anathema, platitude

What are peculiarity, a curse, and a flat, trite remark?

500

Sagacity : Sapient ::

a. syncophant : obsequious

b. inconspicuous : salient

c. mollusk : osseous

d. loquacity : garrulous

d. loquacity : garrulous

Words 3

100

peremptory

What is dictatorial?

200

ignominy

What is humiliation and disgrace?

300

obsequious

What is cringing, submissive?

400

sub, ad, and grav

What is under, to, and heavy?

500

Which two words from this list are often used to discuss literature and literary forms?

denouement and in media res

Words 4

100

profane

What is irreverent?

200

orthodox

What is traditional?

300

tumult

What is commotion?

400

Three words using the stem ate

What is abbreviate, consecrate, educate, dedicate, advocate?

500

Stringent : Latitude ::

a. ascetic : hedonism

b. indolent : lassitude

c. querulous : acerbity

d. eloquent : concurrence 

a. ascetic : hedonism

The Mysterious Category of Doom

100

A complex declarative sentence with a verbal phrase, using a word from List 90.

When he was happy, the homunculus loved to dance a little jig.

200

A simple imperative sentence with a participial phrase, using a word from List 89.

Struggling to focus for long periods of time, the pickle preferred succinct explanations to verbose ones.

300

A compound sentence with an appositive phrase, using a word from List 88.

The pickle, a garrulous fellow, chatted with the other condiments, but the ketchup studiously ignored him.

400

A compound-complex sentence with a prepositional phrase, using two words from List 87,

After the introvert returned home, she got into her soft bed, and she contemplated the convoluted nature of her day.

500

A compound-complex sentence with three different kinds of phrases, using three words from List 86.

The irascible pickle loved to debate, and at the party, gesticulating wildly, he ranted about the failings of the Democratic Pickle Party.