Root

Question 1

A/AN

Answer 1

: NOT / WITHOUT

• **agnostic: **one who believes the existence of God is not provable
• amoral: neither moral nor immoral; having no relation to morality
• **anomaly: **an irregularity
• **annoymous: **of unknown authorship or origin
• **apathy: **lack of interest or emotion
• **atheist: **one who does not believe in God
• **atrophy: **the wasting away of body tissue
• **atypical: **not typical

Question 2

AB

Answer 2

OFF, AWAY, FROM, APART, DOWN

• **abdicate: **to renounce or relinquish a throne
• **abduct: **to take away by force
• **abhor: **to hate, detest
• **abject: **cast down; degraded
• **abnormal: **deviating from a standard
• **abolish: ** to do away with, make void
• **abstinence: **forebearance from any indulgence of appetite
• abstract: conceived apart from concrete realities, specific objectd, or actual instances
• **abstruse: **hard to understand; secret, hidden

Question 3

ABLE / IBLE

Answer 3

: CAPABLE OF, WORTHY OF

• **changeable: **able to be changed
• **combustible: ** capable of being burned; easily inflamed
• **inevitable: **impossible to be avoided; certain to happen
• **presentable: **suitable for being presented

Question 4

AC / ACR

Answer 4

: SHARP, BITTER, SOUR

• **acerbic: **sour or astringent in taste; harsh in temper
• **acid: **something that is sharp, sour, or ill-natured
• **acrimonious: **caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature
• **acumen: **mental sharpness; quickness of wit
• **exacerbate: **to increase bitterness or violence; aggravate

Question 5

ACT / AG

Answer 5

: TO DO, TO DRIVE, TO FORCE, TO LEAD

• **agile: **quick and well-coordinated in movement; active, lively
• **agitate: **to move or force into violent, irregular actioin
• **litigate: **to make the subject of a lawsuite
• **pedagogue: **a teacher
• **prodigal: **wastefully or recklessly extravagant

Question 6

ACOU

Answer 6

: HEARING

• **acoustic: **pertaining to hearing; sound made through mechanical, not electronic, means

Question 7

AD

Answer 7

: TO, TOWARD, NEAR ( often the *d *is dropped and the first letter to which *a *is prefixed is doubled. )

• **​accede: **to yield to a demand; to enter office
• **adapt: **adjust or modify fittingly
• **addict: **to give oneself over, as to a habit or pursuit
• **address: **to direct a speech or written statement to
• **adhere: ** to stick fast; cleave; cling
• **adjacent: **near, close, or contigous; adjoining
• **adjoin: **to be close or in contact with
• **admire: **to regard with wonder, pleasure, and approval
• advocate: to plead in favor of
• **attract: **to draw either by physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses

Question 8

AL / ALI / ALTER

Answer 8

: OTHER, ANOTHER

• **alias: **an assumed name; another name
• **alibi: **the defense by an accused person that he was verifiably elsewhere at the time of the crime which he is charged
• **alien: **one born in another country; a foreigner
• **allegory: **figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another
• **alter ego: **the second self; a substitute or deputy
• **alternative: **a possible choice
• **altruist: **a person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others

Question 9

AM

Answer 9

: LOVE

• **amature: **a person who engages in an activity for pleasure rather than financial or professional gain
• **amatory: **of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking
• **amiable: **having or showing agreeable personal qualities
• **amicable: **characterized by exhibiting good wiil
• **amity: **friendship; peaceful harmony
• **amorous: **inclined to love, esp. sexual love
• **enamored: **inflamed with love; chramed; captivated
• **inamorata: **a female lover

Question 10

AMBI / AMPHI

Answer 10

: BOTH, ON BOTH SIDES, AROUND

• **ambidextrous: **able to use both hands equally well
• **ambient: **moving around freely; circulating
• **ambiguous: **open to various interpretations
• **amphibianL **any cold-blooded vertebrate, the larva of which is aquaitc and the adult of which is terrestrial; a personor thing having a twofold nature

Question 11

AMBL / AMBUL

Answer 11

: TO GO , TO WALK

• **ambulance: **a vehicle equipped for carrying sick people ( from a phrase meaning “walking hospital” )
• **ambulatory: **of, pertaining to, or capable of walking
• **perambulator: **one who makes a tour of inspection on foot
• **preamble: **an introductory statment (originally: to walk in front )

Question 12

ANIM

Answer 12

: OF THE LIFE, MIND, SOUL, BREATH

• **animal: **a living being
• **animosity: **a feeling of ill will or enmity
• **equanimity: **mental or emotional stability, especially under tension
• **magnanimous: **generous in forgiving an insult or injury
• **unanimous: **of one mind; in complete accord

Question 13

ANNUI / ENNI

Answer 13

: YEAR

• **annals: **a record of events, esp. a yearly record
• **anniversary: **the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event
• **annual: **of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly
• **annuity: **a specific income payable at stated intervals
• **perennial: **lasting for an indefinite amount of time

Question 14

ANT / ANTE

Answer 14

: BEFORE

• **antebellum: **before the war ( especially the American Civil War )
• **antecedent: **existing, being, or going before
• **antedate: **precede in time
• **antediluvian: **belonging to the period before the biblical flood; very old or old-fashioned
• **anterior: **placed before

Question 15

ANTHORD / ANDR

Answer 15

: MAN, HUMAN

• **androgen: **any substance that promotes masculine characteristics
• **androgynous: **being both male and female
• **android: **robot; mechanical human
• **anthropocentric: **regarding humanity as the central fact of the universe
• **anthropology: **the science that deals with the origins of humankind
• **misanthrope: **one who hates humans or humanity
• **philanderer: **one who carries on flirtations

Question 16

ANTI

Answer 16

: AGAINST, OPPOSITE

• **antibody: **a protein naturally existing in blood serum that reacts to overcome the toxic effects of an antigen
• **antidote: **a remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc
• **antipathy: **aversion
• **antipodal: **on the opposite side of the globe
• **antiseptic: **free from germs; particularly clean or neat

Question 17

APO

Answer 17

: AWAY

• **apocalypse: **revelation; discovery; disclosure
• **apocryphal: **of doubtful anthorship or authenticity
• **apology: **an expression of one’s regret or sorrow for having wronged another
• **apostasy: **a total desertion of one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
• **apostle: **one of the 12 disciples sent forth by Jesus to preach the Gospel

Question 18

AQUA / AQUE

Answer 18

: WATER

• **aquamarine: **a bluish-green color
• **aquarium: **a tank for keeping fish and other underwater creatures
• **aquatic: **having to do with water
• **aqueduct: **a channel for transporting water
• **subaqueous: **underwater

Question 19

ARCH / ARCHI / ARCHY

Answer 19

: CHIEF, PRINCIPAL, RULER

• **anarchy: **a state or society without government or law
• **anchenemy: **chief enemy
• **architect: **the devisor, maker, or planner of anything
• **monarchy: **a government in which the supreme power is lodged in a sovereign
• **oligarchy: **a state or society ruled by a select group

Question 20

ARD

Answer 20

: TO BURN

• **ardent: **burning; fierce; passionate
• **ardor: **flame; passion
• **arson: **the crime of setting property on fire

Question 21

AUTO

Answer 21

​: SELF

• **autocrat: **an absolute ruler
• **automatic: **self-moving or self-acting
• **autonomy: **independence or freedom

Question 22

BE

Answer 22

: ABOUT, TO MAKE, TO SURROUND, TO AFFECT (OFTEN USED TO TRANFORM WORDS INTO TRANSITIVE VERBS)

• **belie: **to misrepresent; to contradict
• **belittle: **to make small; to make something appear smaller
• **bemoan: **to moan for; to lament
• **bewilder: **to confuse completely ( that is, to make one mentally wander )

Question 23

BEL / BELL

Answer 23

: BEAUTIFUL

• belle: a beautiful woman
• **embellish: **to make beautiful; to ornament

Question 24

BELL

Answer 24

​: WAR

• **antebellum: **before the war ( especially the American Civil War )
• **belligerent: **warlike, given to waging war
• **rebel: ** a person who resists authority, control, or tradition

Question 25

BEN / BENE

Answer 25

: GOOD

• **benediction: **act of uttering a blessing
• **benefit: **anything advantageous to a person or thing
• **benevolent: **desiring to do good to others
• **benign: **having kindly disposition

Question 26

BI / BIN

Answer 26

: TWO

• **biennial: **happening every two years
• **bilateral: **pertaining to or affecting two or both sides
• **bilingual: **able to speak one’s native language and another with equal facility
• **binocular: **having two eyes
• combination**: **the joining of two or more things into a whole

Question 27

BON / BOUN

Answer 27

​: GOOD, GENEROUS

• **boan fide: **in good faith; without fraud
• **bonus: **something given over and above what is due
• **bountiful: **generous

Question 28

BREV / BRID

Answer 28

: SHORT , SMALL

• **abbreviate: **to shorten
• **abridge: **to shorten
• **brevity: ** an honorary promotion with no additoinal pay
• **breviloquent: **laconic; concise in one’s speech
• **brevity: **shortness
• **brief: **short

Question 29

BURS

Answer 29

: PURSE, MONEY

• **bursar: **treasurer
• **bursary: **treasurer
• **disburse: **to pay
• **reimburse: **to pay back

Question 30

CAD / CID

Answer 30

: TO FALL, TO HAPPEN BY CHANCE

• **accident: **happening by chance; unexpected
• **cascade: **a waterfall descending over a steep surface
• **coincidence: **a striking occurence of two or more events at one time, apparently by chance
• **decadent: **decaying; deteriorating
• **recidivist: **one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime

Question 31

CANT / CENT / CHANT

Answer 31

: TO SING

• **accent: **prominence of a syllable in terms of pronunication
• **chant: **a song; singing
• **enchant: **to subject to magical influence; bewitch
• **incantation: **the chanting of words purporting to have magical power
• **incentive: **that which incites action
• **recant: **to withdraw or disavow a statement

Question 32

CAP / CIP / CEPT

Answer 32

: TO TAKE, TO GET

• **anticipate: **to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee
• **capture: **to take by force or stratagem
• **emancipate: **to free from restraint
• **percipient: **having perception; discerning; discriminating
• **precept: **a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct
• **susceptible: **capable of receiving, admitting undergoing, or being affected by something

Question 33

CAP / CAPIT / CIPIT

Answer 33

: HEAD, HEADLONG

• **capital: **the city or town that is the official seat of government
• **capitulate: **to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
• **caption: **heading or title
• **disciple: **one who is a pupil of the doctrines of another
• **precipice: **a cliff with a vertical face
• **precipitate: **to hasten the occurrence of; to bring about prematurely

Question 34

CARD / CORD / COUR

Answer 34

: HEART

• **cardiac: ** pertaining to the heart
• **concord: **agreement; peace, amity
• **concordance: **agreement, concord, harmony
• **discord: **lack of harmony between persons ro things
• **encourage: **to inspire with spirite or confidence

Question 35

CARN

Answer 35

: FLESH

• **carnage: **the slaugther of a great number of people
• **carnival: **a traveling amusement show
• **carnival: **eating flesh
• **incarnation: **a being invested with a bodily form
• **reincarnation: **rebirth of a soul in a new body

Question 36

CAST / CHAST

Answer 36

: TO CUT

• cast**: **to throw or hurl; fling
• **caste: **a hereditary social group, limited to people of the same rank
• **castigate: **to punish in order to correct
• **chaste: **free from obscenity; decent
• **chastise: **to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment

Question 37

CAUS / CAUT

Answer 37

: TO BURN

• **caustic: **burning or corrosive
• **cauterize: **to burn or deaden
• **cautery: **an instrument used for branding; branding
• **holocaust: **a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means

Question 38

CED / CEED / CESS

Answer 38

: TO GO, TO YIELD, TO STOP

• **accede: **to yield to a demand; to enter office
• **antecedent: **existing, being, or going before
• **cessation: **a temporary or complete discontinuance
• **concede: **to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit
• **incessant: **without stop
• **predecessor: **one who comes before another in an office, position, etc.

Question 39

CELER

Answer 39

: SPEED

• **accelerant: **something used to speed up a process
• **accelerate: **to increase in speed
• **celerate: **speed; quickness
• **decelerate: **to decrease in speed

Question 40

CENT

Answer 40

: HUNDRED, HUNDREDTH

• **bicentennial: **two-hundredth anniversary
• **cent: **a hundredth of a dollar
• **centigrade: **a temperature system with one hudred degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water
• **centimeter: **one hundredth of a meter
• **centipede: ** a creature with many legs
• **century: **one hundred years
• **percent: **in every hundred

Question 41

CENTR

Answer 41

: CENTER

• **centrifuge: **an apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances of different densities using centrifugal force
• **centrist: **of or pertaining to moderate political or social ideas
• **concentrate: **to bring to a common center; to converge, to direct toward one point
• **concentric: **having a common center, as in circles or spheres
• **eccentric: **off-center

Question 42

**CERN / CERT / CRET / CRIM / CRIT **

Answer 42

: TO SEPARATE, TO DISTINGUISH, TO JUDGE, TO DECIDE

• **ascertain: **to make sure of; to determine
• **certitude: **freedom from doubt
• **criterion: **a standard of judgment or criticism
• **discreet: **judicious in one’s conduct of speech, esp. with regard to maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature
• **discrete: **detached from others, separate
• **hypocrite: **a person who pretends to have beliefs that she does not

Question 43

CHROM

Answer 43

: COLOR

• **chromatic: **having to do with color
• **chrome: **a metallic element (chromium) used to make vivid colors or something plated with chromium
• **chromosome: **genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes
• **monochromatic: **having only one color

Question 44

CHRON

Answer 44

: TIME

• **anachronism: **something that is out-of-date or belonging to the wrong time
• **chronic: **constant, habitual
• **chronology: **that sequential order in which past events occurred
• **chronometer: **a highly accurate clock or watch
• **synchronize: **to occur at the same time or agree in time

Question 45

CIRCU / CIRCUM

Answer 45

: AROUND

• **circuit: **a line around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current
• **circuitous: **roundabout, indirect
• **circumference: ** the outer boundary of a circular area
• **circumspect: **cautious; watching all sides
• **circumstances: ** the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent

Question 46

CIS

Answer 46

: TO CUT

• **exorcise: **to seek to expel an evil spirit by ceremony
• **incision: **a cut, gash, or notch
• **incisive: **penetrating, cutting
• **precise: **definitely stated or defined
• **scissors: **cutting instrument for paper

Question 47

CLA / CLO / CLU

Answer 47

: TO SHUT, TO CLOSE

• **claustrophobia: **an abnormal fear of enclosed places
• **cloister: **a courtyard bordered with covered walks, esp. in a religious insitution
• **conclude: **to bring to an end; finish; to terminate
• **disclose: **to make know, reveal, or uncover
• **exclusive: **not admitting of something else; shutting out others
• **preclude: **to prevent the presence, existence, or ocurrence of

Question 48

CLAIM / CLAM

Answer 48

**​: TO SHOUT, TO CRY OUT **

• **clamor: **a loud uproar
• **disclaim: **to deny interest in or connection with
• exclaim: to cry out or speak suddenly and vehemently
• proclaim: to announce or declare in an official way
• reclaim: to claim or demand the return of a right or possesion

Question 49

CLI

Answer 49

: TO LEAN TOWARD

• **climax: **the most intense point in the development of something
• decline: to cause to slope or incline downward
• disinclination: aversion, distate
• proclivity: inclination, bias
• recline: to lean back

Question 50

CO / COL / COM / CON

Answer 50

: WITH, TOGETHER

• **coerce: **to compel by force, intimidation, or authority
• collaborate: to work with another, cooperate
• collide: to strike one another with a forceful impact
• commensurate: suitable in measure, proportionate
• compatible: capable of existing together in harmony
• concilate: to placate, win over
• connect: to bind or fasten together

Question 51

COGN / CONN

Answer 51

: TO KNOW

• cognition: the process of knowing
• incognito: with one’s name or identity concealed
• recognize: to identify as already known

Question 52

CONTRA / CONTRO / COUNTER

Answer 52

: AGAINST

• **contradict: **to oppose; to speak against
• contrary: opposed to; opposite
• controversy: a disputation; a quarrel
• counterfeit: fake; a false imitation
• countermand: to retract an order
• encounter: a meeting, often with an opponent

Question 53

CORP / CORS

Answer 53

: BODY

• corporation: a company legally treated as an individual
• corps: a body ( an organized group ) of troops
• corpse: a dead body
• corpulent: obese; having a lot of flesh
• corset: a garment used to give shape and support to the body
• incorporation: combining into a single body

Question 54

COSM

Answer 54

: ORDER, UNIVERSE, WORLD

• **cosmetic: **improving the appearance ( making it look better ordered )
• cosmic: relating to the universe
• cosmology: a theory of the universe as a whole
• cosmonaut: an astronaut; an exploer of outer space
• cosmopolitan: worldly
• cosmos: the universe; an orderly system; order
• microcosm: a small system that reflects a larger whole

Question 55

COUR / CUR

Answer 55

: RUNNING, A COURSE

• concur: to accord in opinion; agree
• courier: a messenger traveling in haste who bears news
• curriculum: the regular course of study
• cursive: handwriting in flowing strokes with the letters joined together
• cursory: going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial
• excursion: a short journey or trip
• incursion: a hostile entrance into a place, esp. suddenly
• recur: to happen again

Question 56

CRE / CRESC / CRET

Answer 56

: TO GROW

• **accretion: **an increase by natural growth
• accure: to be added as a matter of periodic gain
• creation: the act of producing or causing to exist
• excrescence: an outgrowth
• increase: to make greater in any repect
• increment: something added or gained; an addition or increase

Question 57

CRED

Answer 57

: TO BELIEVE, TO TRUST

• **credentials: **anything that provides the basis for belief
• credit: trustworthiness
• credo: any formula of belief
• credulity: willingness to believe or trust too readily
• incredible: unbelievable

Question 58

CRYPT

Answer 58

: HIDDEN

• **apocryphal: **of doubtful authorship or authenticity
• crypt: a subterranean chamber or vault
• cryptohgraphy: procedures of making and using secret writing
• crytology: the science of interpreting secret wirting, codes, ciphers, and the like

Question 59

CUB / CUMB

Answer 59

: TO LIE DOWN

• cubicle: any small space or compartment that is partitioned off
• incubate: to sit upon for the purpose of hatching
• incumbent: holding an indicated position
• recumbent: lying down; reclining; leaning
• succumb: to give away to superior force; yield

Question 60

CULP

Answer 60

: FAULT, BLAME

• **culpable: **deserving blame or censure
• culprit: a person guilty of an offense
• inculpate: to charge with fault
• mea culpa: through my fault; my fault

Question 61

DAC / DOC

Answer 61

**: TO TEACH **

• didactic: intended for instruction
• docile: easily managed or handled; tractable
• doctor: someone licensed to practice medicine; learned person
• doctrine: a particular principle advocated, as of a government of religion
• indoctrinate: a imbue a person with learning

Question 62

DE

Answer 62

: AWAY, OFF, DOWN, COMPLETELY, REVERSAL

• **decipher: **to make out the meaning; to interpret
• defame: to attack the good name or reputation of
• deferential: respectful; to yield to judgment
• defile: to make foul, dirty, or unclean
• delineate: to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline
• descend: to move from a higher to a lower place

Question 63

DELE

Answer 63

: TO ERASE

• **delete: **erase; blot out; remove
• indelible: impossible to erase; lasting

Question 64

DEM

Answer 64

: PEOPLE

• **democracy: **government by the people
• demographics: vital and social statistics of populations
• endemic: peculiar to a particular people or locality
• epidemic: affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person
• pandimic: general, universal

Question 65

DEXT

Answer 65

: RIGHT HAND, RIGHT SIDE, DEFT

• **ambidextrous: **equally able to use both hands
• dexter: on the right
• dexterity: deftness; adroitness

Question 66

DI

Answer 66

: DAY

• dial: a device for seeing the hour of the day; a clock face; rotatable discs or knobs used as a control input
• diary: a record of one’s days
• dismal: gloomy (from “bad days”)
• diurnal: daily
• meridian: a direct line from the North Pole to the South Pole; the highest point reached by the sun; noon
• quotidian: every day; ordinary

Question 67

DI / DIA

Answer 67

: IN TWO, THROUGH, ACROSS

• **diagnose: **to identify disease or fault from symptoms
• dialogue: conversation between two or more persons
• diameters: a line going through a circle, dividing it in two
• dichotomy: division into two parts, kinds, etc.

Question 68

DI / DIF / DIS

Answer 68

**: AWAY FROM, APART, REVERSAL, NOT **

• **diffuse: **to pour out and spread, as in a fluid
• **dilate: **to make wider or larger; to cause tp expand
• dilatory: inclined to delay or procrastinate
• disperse: to drive or send off in various directions
• disseminate: to scatter or spread widely; promulgate
• dissipate: to scatter wastefully
• dissuade: to deter by advice or persuasion

Question 69

DIC / DICT / DIT

Answer 69

: TO SAY, TO TELL, TO USE WORDS

• **dictionary: **a book containing a selection of the words of a language
• interdict: to forbid; prohibit
• predict: to tell in advance
• verdict: a judgment or decision

Question 70

DIGN

Answer 70

: WORTH

• **condign: **well deserved; fitting; adequate
• deigh: to think fit or in accordance with one’s dignity
• dignitary: a person who holds a high rank or office
• dignity: nobility or elevation of character; worthiness
• disdain: to look upon or treat with contempt

Question 71

DOG / DOX

Answer 71

**: OPINION **

• dogma: a system of tenets, as of a church
• orthodox: sound or correct in opinion or doctrine
• paradox: an opinion or statment contrary to accepted opinion

Question 72

DOL

Answer 72

: TO SUFFER, TO PAIN, TO GRIEVE

• **condolence: **expression of sympathy with one who is suffering
• doleful: sorrowful, mournful
• dolorous: full of pain or sorrow, grievous
• indolence: a state of being lazy or slothful

Question 73

DON / DOT / DOW

Answer 73

**: TO GIVE **

• **anecdote: **a short narrative about an interesting event
• antidote: something that prevents or counteracts ill effects
• donate: to present as a gift or contribution
• endow: to provide with a permanent fund
• pardon: kind indulgence, forgiveness

Question 74

EX / E

Answer 74

: OUT, OUT OF, FROM, FORMER, COMPLETELY

• efface: to rub or wipe out; surpass, eclipse
• evade: to escape from, avoid
• exclude: to shut out; to leave out
• exonerate: to free or declare free from blame
• expire: to breathe out; to breathe one’s last; to end
• extricate: to disentangle, release

Question 75

DORM

Answer 75

: SLEEP

• **dormant: **sleeping; inactive
• dormitory: a place for sleeping; a residence hall

Question 76

DORS

Answer 76

: BACK

• dorsal: having to do with back
• endorse: to sign on the back; to vouch for

Question 77

DUB

Answer 77

: DOUBT

• **dubiety: **doubtfulness
• dubious: doubthful
• indubialble: unquestionable

Question 78

DUC / DUCT

Answer 78

: TO LEAD

• **abduct: **to carry off or lead away
• conducive: contributive, helpful
• conduct: personal behavior, way of acting
• induce: to lead or move by influence
• induct: to install in a position with formal ceremoies

Question 79

DULC

Answer 79

: SWEET

• **dulcet: **sweet; pleasing
• dulcified: sweetened; softened
• dulcimer: a musical instrument

Question 80

DUR

Answer 80

: HARD, LASTING

• **dour: **sullen, gloomy (originally: hard, obsitnate)
• durable: able to resist decay
• duration: the length of time something exists
• duress: compulsion by threat, coercion
• endure: to hold out against; to sustain without yielding
• obdurate: stubborn, resistant to persuasion

Question 81

DYS

Answer 81

: FAULTY, ABNORMAL

• **dysfunctional: **poorly functioning
• dyslexia: an impairment of the ability to read due to a brain defect
• dyspepsia: imparied digestion
• dystrophy: faulty or inadequate nutrition or development

Question 82

EGO

Answer 82

: SELF

• **ego: **oneself; the part of oneself that is self-aware
• egocnetric: focused on oneself
• egoism/egotism: selfishness; self-absorption

Question 83

**EM / EN **

Answer 83

: IN, INTO

• **embrace: ** to clasp in the arms; to include or contain
• **enclose: **to close in on all sides

Question 84

EPI

Answer 84

: UPON

• **epidemic: **affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person
• epidermis: the outer layer of the skin
• epigram: a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed
• epilogue: a concluding part added to a literary work
• epithet: a word or phrase, used invectively as a term of abuse

Question 85

EQU

Answer 85

: EQUAL, EVEN

• **adquate: **equal to the requirement or occasion
• equation: the act of maing equal
• equidistant: equally distant
• iniquity: gross injustice; wickedness

Question 86

ERR

Answer 86

: TO WANDER

• **arrant: **notorious; downright (originally: wandering)
• err: to go astray in thought or belief, to be mistaken
• erractic: deviating from the proper or usual course in conduct
• error: a deviation from accuracy or correctness

Question 87

ESCE

Answer 87

: BECOMING

• **adolescent: **between childhood and adulthood
• convalescent: recovering from illness
• incandescent: glowing with heat; shining
• obsolescent: becoming obsolete
• reminiscent: reminding or suggestive of

Question 88

EU

Answer 88

: GOOD, WELL

• eugenic: improvment of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics
• eulogy: speech or writing in praise or commendation
• euphemism: pleasant-sounding term for somthing unpleasant
• euphony: pleasaness of sound
• euthasia: killing a person painlessly, usually one who has an incurable, painful disease

Question 89

EXTRA

Answer 89

: OUTSIDE, BEYOND

• **extract: **to take out, obtain against a person’s will
• extradite: to hand over ( person accused of crime) to state where crime was committed
• extraordinary: beyond the ordinary
• extrasensory: derived by means other than known senses

Question 90

FAB / FAM

Answer 90

: TO SPEAK

• **affable: ** friendly, courteous
• defame: to attack the good name of
• fable: fictional tale, esp. legendary
• famous: well known, celebrated
• ineffable: too great for description in words; that which must not be uttered

Question 91

FAC / FIC / FIG / FAIT / FEIT / FY

Answer 91

: TO DO, TO MAKE

• **configuration: **manner of arrangment, shape
• counterfeit: imitation, forgery
• deficient: incomplete or insufficient
• effigy: sculpture or model of person
• faction: small dissenting group within larger one, esp. in politics
• factory: building for manufacture of goods
• prolific: producing many offspring or much output
• ratify: to confirm or accept by formal consent

Question 92

FAL

Answer 92

: TO ERR, TO DECEIVE

• **default: ** to fail
• fail: to be insufficient; to be unsuccessful; to die out
• fallacy: a flawed argument
• false: not true; erroneous; lying
• faux pas: a false step; a social gaffe
• infallible: incapable of being wrong or being deceived

Question 93

FATU

Answer 93

: FOOLISH

• fatuity: foolishness; stupidity
• fatuous: foolish; stupid
• infatuated: swept up in a fit of passion, impairing one’s reason

Question 94

FER

Answer 94

: TO BRING, TO CARRY, TO BEAR

• confer: to grant, bestow
• offer: to present for acceptance, refusal, or consideration
• proffer: to offer
• proliferate: to reproduce; produce rapidly
• referendum: to vote on political question open to the entire electorate

Question 95

FERV

Answer 95

: TO BOIL TO BUBBLE

• effervescent: with the quality of giving off bubbles of gas
• fervid: ardent, intense
• fervor: passion, zeal

Question 96

FI / FID

Answer 96

: FAITH, TRUST

• affidavit: written statement on oath
• confide: to entrust with a secret
• fidelity: faithfulness, loyalty
• fiduciary: of a trust; held or given in trust
• infidel: disbeliever in the supposed true religion

Question 97

FIN

Answer 97

: END

• confine: to keep or restrict within certain limits; imprison
• definitive: decisive, unconditional, final
• final: at the end; coming last
• infinite: boundles; endless
• infinitesimal: infinitely or very small

Question 98

FLAGR / FLAM

Answer 98

: TO BURN

• conflagration: a large, destructive fire
• flagrant: blatant, scandalous
• flambeau: a lighted torch
• inflame: to set on fire

Question 99

**FLECT / FLEX **

Answer 99

**: TO FLOW **

• deflect: to bend or turn aside from a purpose
• flexible: able to blend without breaking
• genuflect: to bend knee, esp. in worship
• inflect: to change or vary pitch of
• reflect: to throw back

Question 100

FORE

Answer 100

: BEFORE

• foreshadow: be warning or indication of (future event)
• foresight: care or provision for future
• forestall: to prevent to advance action
• forthright: straightforward, outspoken, decisive

Question 101

FORT

Answer 101

: CHANCE

• fortuitous: happening by luck
• fortunate: lucky, auspicious
• fortune: chance or luck in human affairs

Question 102

FORT

Answer 102

**: STRENGTH **

• forte: strong point; something a person does well
• fortify: to provide with fortifications; strengthen
• fortissimo: very loud

Question 103

FRA / FRAC / FRAG / FRING

Answer 103

: TO BREAK

• fractious: irritable, peevish
• fracture: breakage, esp. of a bone
• fragment: a part broken off
• infringe: to break or violate (a law, etc.)
• refractory: stubborn, unmanageable, rebellious

Question 104

FUG

Answer 104

: TO FLEE, TO FLY

• centrifugal: flying off from the center
• fugitive: on the run; someone who flees
• fugue: a musical composition in which subsequent parts imitate or pursue the first part; a psychological state in which one flies from one’s own identity
• refuge: a haven for those fleeing
• refugee: a fleeing person who seeks refuge
• subterfuge: a deception used to avoid a confrontation

Question 105

FULG

Answer 105

: TO SHINE

• effulgent: shining forth
• refulgent: radiant; shining

Question 106

FUM

Answer 106

: SMOKE

• fume: smoke; scented vapor; to emit smoke or vapors
• fumigate: to treat with smoke or vapors
• perfume: scents, from burning incense or other sources of fragrance

Question 107

FUS

Answer 107

: TO POUR

• diffuse: to spread widely or thinly
• fusillade: continuous discharge of firearm or outburst of cirticism
• infusion: the act of permeating or steeping; liquid extract so obtained
• profuse: lavish, extravagant, copious
• suffuse: to spread throughout or over from within

Question 108

GEN

Answer 108

: BIRTH, CREATION, RACE, KIND

• carcinogenic: producing cancer
• congenital: existing or as such from birth
• gender: classification roughly corresponding to the two sexes and sexlessness
• generous: giving or given freely
• genertics: study of heredity and variation among animals and plants
• progeny: offspring, descendants

Question 109

GN / GNO

Answer 109

: TO KNOW

• agnostic: one who believes that existence of God is not provable
• diagnose: to identify disease or fault from symptons
• ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uniformed
• ignore: to refuse to take notice of
• prognosis: to forecast, especially of disease

Question 110

GRAD / GRESS

Answer 110

: TO STEP

• aggresive: given to hostile act or feeling
• degrade: to humiliate, dishonor, reduce to lower rank
• digress: to depart from main subject
• egress: going out; way out
• progress: forward movement
• regress: to move backward, revert to an earlier state

Question 111

GRAM / GRAPH

Answer 111

: TO WRITE, TO DRAW

• diagram: a figure made by drawing lines; an illustration
• epigram: a short poem; a pointed statement
• grammar: a system of language and its rules
• graph: a diagram used to convey mathmatical information
• photograph: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light

Question 112

GRAT

Answer 112

: PLEASING

• gracious: kindly, esp. to inferiors; merciful
• grateful: thankful
• gratuity: money given for good service
• ingratiate: to bring oneself into favor

Question 113

GREG

Answer 113

: FLOCK

• aggregate: a number of things considered as a collective whole
• congregate: to come together in a group
• egregious: remarkably bad; standing out from the crowd
• gregarious: sociable; enjoying spending time with others
• segregate: to separate fromthe crowd

Question 114

HAP

Answer 114

: BY CHANCE

• haphazard: at random
• hapless: without luck
• happen: occur (originally: to occur by chance)
• happily: through good fortune
• happy: pleased, as by good fortune
• mishap: an unlucky acciddent
• perhaps: a qualifier suggesting something might (or might not) take place

Question 115

HEMI

Answer 115

: HALF

• hemisphere: half a sphere; half of the Earth
• hemistich: half a line of poetry

Question 116

HER / HES

Answer 116

: TO STICK

• adherent: able to adhere; believer or advocate of a particular thing
• adhesive: tending to remain in memory; sticky; an adhesive substance
• coherent: logically consistent; having waves in phase and of one wavelength
• inherent: involved in the constitution or essential character of something

Question 117

(H)ETERO

Answer 117

: DIFFERENT, OTHER

• heterodox: different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines
• heterogeneous: of other origin; not originating in the body
• heterosexual: of or pertaining to sexual orientation toward members of the opposite sex; relating to different sexes

Question 118

HOL

Answer 118

: WHOLE

• catholic: universal
• holocaust: a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means
• hologram: a sort of three-dimensional image
• holograph: a document written entirely by the person whose name it’s in
• holistic: considering something as a unified whole

Question 119

(H)OM

Answer 119

: SAME

• anomaly: deviation from the common rule
• homeostasis: a relatively stable state of equilibrium
• homogeneous: of the same or similar kind of nature; of uniform structure of composition throughout
• homonym: one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning
• homosexual: of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire toward a member of one’s own sex

Question 120

HUM

Answer 120

: EARTH

• exhume: unearth
• humble: down-to-earth
• humility: the state of being humble

Question 121

HYPER

Answer 121

: OVER, EXCESSIVE

• hyperactive: excessively active
• hyperbole: purposeful exaggeration for effect
• hyperglycemia: an abnormally high concentration of sugar in the blood

Question 122

HYPO

Answer 122

: UNDER, BENEATH, LESS THAN

• hypochodriac: one affected by extreme depression of mind or spirits, often centered on imaginary physical ailments
• hypocritical: pretending to have beliefs one does not
• hypodermic: relating to the parts beneath the skin
• hypothesis: assumption subject to proof

Question 123

ICON

Answer 123

: IMAGE, IDOL

• icon: a symbolic pictiure; a statue; something seen as representative of a culture or movement
• iconic: being representative of a culture or movment
• iconoclast: one who attacks established beliefs; one who tears down images
• iconology: symbolism

Question 124

IDIO

Answer 124

: ONE’S OWN

• idiom: a language, dialect, or style of speaking particular to a people
• idosyncrasy: perculiarity of temperament; eccentricity
• idiot: an utterly stupid person

Question 125

IN / IM

Answer 125

: NOT, WITHOUT

• (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.)
• immoral: not moral; evil
• impartial: not partial or biased; just
• inactive: not active
• indigent: deficient in what is required
• indolence: showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful
• innocuous: not harmful or injurious

Question 126

IN / IM

Answer 126

: IN, INTO

• (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.)
• implicit: not expressly stated; implied
• incarnate: a given a bodily, esp. a human, form
• indigenous: native; innate, natural
• influx: the act of flowing in; inflow
• intrisic: belonging to a thing by its very nature

Question 127

INTER

Answer 127

: BETWEEN, AMONG

• interim: a temporary or provisional arrangement; meantime
• interloper: one who intrudes in the domain of others
• intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time
• intersperse: to scatter here and there
• interstate: connecting or jointly involving states

Question 128

INTRA

Answer 128

: INSIDE, WITHIN

• intramural: within a school; inside a city
• intrastate: within a state
• intravenous: inside the veins

Question 129

IT / ITER

Answer 129

: WAY, JOURNEY

• ambition: strong desire to achieve (from “going around” for votes)
• circuit: a lline around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current
• itinerant: traveling
• itinerary: travel plans
• reiterate: to repeat
• transit: traveling; means of transportation

Question 130

JECT

Answer 130

: TO THROW, TO THROW DOWN

• abject: utterly hopeless, humiliating, or wretched
• conjecture: formation of opinion on incomplete information
• dejected: sad; depressed
• eject: to throw out; expel
• inject: to place (quality, etc.) where needed in something

Question 131

JOC

Answer 131

: JOKE

• jocose: given to joking; playful
• jocular: in a joking manner; funny
• jocund: merry; cheerful
• joke: a witticism; a humorous ancedote; something funny

Question 132

JOIN / JUG / JUNCT

Answer 132

: TO MEET, TO JOIN

• adjoin: to be next to and joined with
• conjugal: related to marriage
• conjunction: joining; occuring together; a connecting word
• injunction: a command; an act of joining; combining; a place where multiple paths join
• junta: a group of military officers who join together to run a country; a council
• rejoinder: to reply, retort
• subjugate: to make subservient; to place under a yoke

Question 133

JOUR

Answer 133

: DAY

• adjourn: to close a meeting; to put off further proceeding for another day
• journal: a record of one’s day
• journey: a trip (originally: a day’s travel)

Question 134

JUD

Answer 134

: TO JUDGE

• adjudicate: to act as judge
• judiciary: a system of courts; members of a court system
• judicious: having good judgment
• prejudice: a previous or premature judgment; bias

Question 135

JUR

Answer 135

: LAW, TO SWEAR

• abjure: to renounce on oath
• adjure: to beg or command
• jurisprudence: a system of law; knowledge of law
• perjury: willful lying while on oath

Question 136

JUV

Answer 136

: YOUNG

• juvenile: young; immature
• juvenilia: writing or art produced in one’s youth
• rejuvenate: refresh; to make young again

Question 137

LANG / LING

Answer 137

: TONGUE

• bilingual: speaking two languages
• language: a system of (usually spoken) communication
• linguistic: the study of language

Question 138

LAUD

Answer 138

: PRAISE, HONOR

• cum laude: with honor
• laudable: praiseworthy
• laudatory: expressing praise

Question 139

LAV / LAU / LU

Answer 139

: TO WASH

• ablution: act of cleaning
• antediluvian: before the biblical flood; extremely old
• deluge: a great flood of water
• dilute: to make thinner or weaker by the addition of water
• laundry: items to be, or that have been, washed
• lavatory: a room with equipment for washing hands and face

Question 140

LAX / LEAS / LES

Answer 140

: LOOSE

• lax: loose; undisciplined
• laxative: medicine or food that loosens the bowels
• lease: to rent out (that is, to let something loose for other’s use)
• leash: a cord used to hold an animal while giving it some freedom to run loose
• relax: loosen; to less strict; clam down
• release: let go; set free

Question 141

**LEC / LEG / LEX **

Answer 141

: TO READ, TO SPEAK

• dialect: a manner of speaking; a regional variety of a language
• lectern: a reading desk
• lecture: an instrucional speech
• legend: a story; a written explanation of a map or illustration
• legible: readble
• lesson: instruction ( originally: part of a book or oral instruction to be studied and repeated to a teacher )
• lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries
• lexicon: dictionary

Question 142

LECT / LEG

Answer 142

: TO SELECT, TO CHOOSE

• collect: to gather together or assemble
• ecletic: selecting ideas, etc. from various sources
• elect: to choose; to to decide
• predilection: preference, liking
• select: to choose with care

Question 143

LEV

Answer 143

: TO LIFT, TO RISE, LIGHT (WEIGHT)

• alleviate: to make easier to endure, lessen
• levee: embankment against river flooding
• leviate: to rise in the air or cause to rise
• levity: humor, frivolity, gaiety
• relevant: bearing on or pertinent to information at hand
• relieve: to mitigate; to free from a burden

Question 144

LI / LIG

Answer 144

: TO TIE, TO BIND

• ally: to unite: one in an alliance
• league: an association; a group of nations, teams etc. that have agreed to work for a common cause
• liable: legally responsible; bound by law
• liaison: a connection; one who serves to connect
• lien: the right to hold a property due to an outstanding debt
• ligament: a band holding bones together; a bond
• ligature: a connection between two letters; a bond
• oblige: to obligate; to make indebted or form personal bonds by doing favor
• rely: to depend upon ( orginally: to come together; to rally

Question 145

LIBER

Answer 145

: FREE

• deliver: to set free; to save; to hand over
• liberal: generous; giving away freely
• liberality: generosity
• liberate: set free
• libertine: one who follows one’s own path, without regard for morals or other restrictions
• liberty: freedom
• livery: a uniform; an emblem indicating an owner of manufacturer ( originally: an allowance of food or other provisions given to servants )

Question 146

LITH

Answer 146

: STONE

• **acrolith: **a statue with a stone head and limbs (but a wooden body)
• lithography: a printing process that originally involved writing on a flat stone
• lithology: the study of rocks and stones
• lithotomy: an operation to remove stones from the body
• megalith: a very big stone
• monolith: a single block of stone, often shaped into a monument

Question 147

LOC / LOG / LOQU

Answer 147

: WORD, SPEECH, THOUGHT

• colloquial: of ordinary or familiar conversation
• dialogue: conversation, esp. in a literary work
• elocution: art of clear and expressive speaking
• eulogy: speech or writing in praise of someone
• grandiloquent: pompous or inflated in language
• loquacious: talkative
• prologue: introduce to poem, play, etc.

Question 148

LUC / LUM / LUS

Answer 148

: LIGHT (BRIGHTNESS)

• illuminate: to supply or brigthen with light
• illustrate: to make intelligible with example or analogies
• illustrious: highly distinguished
• lackluster: lacking brilliance or radiance
• lucid: easily understood, intelligible
• luminous: bright, brilliant, glowing
• translucent: permitting light to pass through

Question 149

LUD / LUS

Answer 149

: TO PLAY

• allude: to refer casually or indirectly
• delude: to mislead the mind or judgment of, deceive
• elude: to avoid capture or escape or escape defection by
• illustion: something that deceives by producing a false impression of reality
• ludicrous: ridiculous, laughable
• prelude: a preliminary to an action, event, etc.

Question 150

MACRO

Answer 150

: GREAT, LONG

• macro: broad; large; a single computer command that executed a longer set of commands
• macrobiotics: a system intended to prolong life
• macrocephalous: having a large head
• macrocosm: the universe; a large system that is reflected in at least one of its subsets
• macroscopic: large enough to be visible to the naked eye

Question 151

MAG / MAJ / MAX

Answer 151

: BIG, GREAT

• magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury
• magnate: a powerful or influential person
• magnify: to increase the apparent size of
• magitude: greatness of size, extent, or dimensions
• maxim: an expression of general truth or principle
• maximum: the highest amount, value, or degree attained

Question 152

MAL / MALE

Answer 152

: BAD, ILL, EVIL, WRONG

• maladroit: clumsy, tactless
• malady: a disorder or disease of the body
• malapropism: humorous miuse of a word
• malediction: a curse
• malfeasance: misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official
• malfunction: failure to function properlu
• malicious; full of or showing malice
• maligh: to speak harmful untruths about, to slander

Question 153

MAN / MANU

Answer 153

: HAND

• emancipate: to free from bondage
• manifest: readily perceived by the eye or the understanding
• manual: operated by hand
• manufacture: to make by hand or machinery

Question 154

MAND / MEND

Answer 154

: TO COMMAND, TO ORDER, TO ENTRUST

• command: to order; an order; control
• commend: to give something over to the care of anoter; to praise
• countermand: to retract an order
• demand: to strongly ask for; to claim; to require
• mandatory; commanded; required
• recommend; to praise and suggest the use of; to advise
• remand: to send back

Question 155

MEDI

Answer 155

: MIDDLE

• immediate: nearest; having nothing in between
• intermediate: in the middle
• mean: average; in the middle
• mediate: to serve as a go-between; to try to settle an argument
• medieval: related to the Middle Ages
• mediocre: neither good nor bad; so-so
• medium: size between small and large; a substance or agency that things travel through (as, for example, light travels through airm and news is conveyed by television and newspapers)

Question 156

MEGA

Answer 156

: LARGE, GREAT

• **megalith: **a very big stone
• megalomania: a mental condition involving delusion of greatness; an obsession with doing great things
• megalopolis: a very large city
• megaphone: a device for magnifying the sound of one’s voice
• megaton: explosive power equal to 1,000 tons of T.N.T

Question 157

MICRO

Answer 157

: VERY SMALL

• microbe: a very small organism
• microcosm: a small system that reflects a larger whole
• micron: a millionth of a metwr
• microorganism: a very small organism
• microscope: a device that magnifies very small things for viewing

Question 158

MIN

Answer 158

**: SMALL **

• diminish: to lessen
• diminution: the act or process of diminishing
• miniature: a copy or model that represents something in greatly reduced size
• minute: a unit of time equal to one-sixtieth of an hour
• minutiae: small or trivial details

Question 159

MIN

Answer 159

: TO PROJECT, TO HANG OVER

• eminent: towering above other: projecting
• imminent: about to occur; impending
• preeminent: superior to notable above all others
• prominent: projecting outward

Question 160

MIS

Answer 160

: BAD, WRONG, TO HATE

• misadventure: bad luck; an unlucky accident
• misanthrope: one who hates people or humanity
• missapply: to use something incorrectly
• mischance: bad luck; an unlucky accident
• mischief; bad or annoying behavior
• misconstrue: to take something in a way that was not intended; to understand something incorrectly
• misfit: somebody or something that does not fit in

Question 161

MIS / MIT

Answer 161

: TO SEND

• emissary: a message or agent sent to represent the interests of another
• intermittent: stopping and starting at intervals
• remission: a lessening of intensity of degree
• remit: to send money
• transmit: to send from one person, thing, or place to another

Question 162

MISC

Answer 162

: MIXED

• miscellaneous: made up of a variety of parts or ingredients
• promiscuous: consisting of diverse and unrelated parts or individuals; indiscriminate

Question 163

MOB / MOM / MOT / MOV

Answer 163

: TO MOVE

• **automobile: **a vehecle that moves under its own power; a motorized car
• demote: to move downward in an organization
• immovable: incapable of being moved; unyielding
• locomotion: moving from place to place; the ability to do so
• mob: the rabble; a disorderly group of people ( from the Latin mobile vulgus, meaning “the fickle crowd”)
• mobile: movable
• mobilize: to make ready for movment; to assemble
• moment: an instant; importance
• momentous: of great importance (originally: having the power to move)
• momentum: the force driving a moving object to keep moving; a growing force
• motion: movement
• motive: a reason for action; what moves a person to do something
• motor: a device that makes something move
• mutiny: rebellion against authority, esp. by sailors
• promote: to move to a higher rank in an organization
• remove: to take away; to move away

Question 164

MOLL

Answer 164

: SOFT

• emollient: something that softens or soothes (e.g., a lotion)
• mild: gentle; kind
• mollify: soothe; soften; calm
• mollusk: a phylum of invertebrate animals - including octopuses, squids, oysters, clams, and slugs -with soft bodies

Question 165

MON / MONO

Answer 165

: ONE

• monarchy: rule by a single person
• monk: a man in a religious order living apart from society (originally: a religious hermit)
• monochord: a musical instrument with a single string
• monogram: a design combining multiple letters into one
• monograph: a scholarly study of a single subject
• monologue: a speech or other dramatic composition recited by one person
• monomania: an obsession with a single subject
• monotonous: boring; spoken using only one tone

Question 166

MON / MONIT

Answer 166

: TO REMIND, TO WARN

• admonish: to counsel against something; caution
• monitor: one that admonishes, cautions, or reminds
• monument: a structure, such as a building, tower, or sculpture, erected as a memorial
• premonition: forewarning, presentment
• remonstrate: to say or plead in protect, objection, or reproof
• summon: to call together; convene

Question 167

MOR / MORT

Answer 167

: DEATH

• immortal: not subject to death
• morbid: susceptible to preoccupation with unwholesome matters
• moribund: dying, decaying

Question 168

MORPH

Answer 168

: SHAPE

• **amorphous: **without definite form; lacking a specific shape
• anthropomorphism: attributionof human characteristic to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena
• metamorphosis: a transformation, as by magic or sorcery

Question 169

MULT

Answer 169

: MANY

• multiple: many, having parts; a number containing some quantity of a small number without remainder
• multiplex: having many parts; a movie theater or other building with many separate unite
• multiply: to increase; to become many
• multiudinous: very many; containing very many; having very many forms

Question 170

MUT

Answer 170

: TO CHANGE

• commute: to substitute; exchange; interchange
• immutable: unchangable, invariable
• mutation: the process of being changed
• permutation: a complete change; transformation
• transmute: to change from one form into another

Question 171

NAT / NAS / NAI / GNA

Answer 171

: BIRTH

• cognate: related by blood; having a common ancestor
• naive: lacking worldiness and sophistication; artless
• nascent: starting to develop
• native: belonging to one by nature; inborn; innate
• natural: present due to nature, not artificial or man-made means
• renaissnace: rebirth,esp. referring to culture

Question 172

NAU / NAV

Answer 172

: SHIP, SAILOR

• astronaut: one who travels in outer space
• circumnavigate: to sail all the way around
• cosmonaut: one who travels in outer space
• nauseous: causing a squeamish feeling (originally: seasickness)
• nautical: related to sailing or sailors
• naval: related to the navy
• nave: the central portion of a church (which resembles the shape of a ship)
• navy: a military force consisting of ships and sailors

Question 173

NIHIL

Answer 173

: NOTHING, NONE

• annilate: wipe out; reduce to nothing
• nihilism: denial of all moral beliefs; denial that existance has any meaning

Question 174

NOC / NOX

Answer 174

: HARM

• innocent: uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing
• innocuous: not harmful or injurious
• noxious: injurious or harmful to health or morals
• obnoxious: highly disagreeable or offensive

Question 175

NOCT / NOX

Answer 175

: NIGHT

• equinox: one of two times in a year when day and night are equal in length
• noctambulant: walkingat night; sleepwalking
• nocturnal: related to the night; active at night
• noctune: a dreamlike piece of music; a painting set at night

Question 176

NOM

Answer 176

: RULE, ORDER

• astronomy: the scientific study of the universe beyond the Earth
• autonomy: independence, self-governance
• economy: the careful of thrifty use of resources, as of income, materials, or labor
• gastronomy: the art or science of good eating
• taxonomy: the science, laws, or principles of classification

Question 177

NOM / NYM / NOUN / NOWN

Answer 177

: NAME

• acronym: a word formed from the initial letters of a name
• annoymous: having an unknown or unacknowledged name
• nomenclature: a system of name; systematic naming
• nominal: existing in name only; negligible
• nominate: to propse by name as a candidate
• noun: a word that names a person, place, or thing
• renown: fame; reputation
• synonym: a word having a meaning similar to that of another word of the same language
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Question 178

NON

Answer 178

: NOT

• nonconformist: one who does not conform to a church or other societal insitution
• nonentity: something that does not exist; something that is unimportant
• nonpareil: something with no equal
• nonpartisan: not affiliated with a political party

Question 179

NOV / NEO / NOU

Answer 179

: NEW

• innovate: to begin or introduce something new
• neologism: a newly coined word; phrase, or expression
• neophyte: a beginner; a new convert; a new worker
• neoplasm: a new growth in the body; a tumor
• nouveau riche: one who had lately become rich
• novice: a person new to any field or activity
• renovate: to restore to an earlier condition

Question 180

NULL

Answer 180

: NOTHING

• annul: to cancel; to make into nothing
• nullify: to cancel; to make into nothing
• nullity: the condition of being nothing

Question 181

OB

Answer 181

: TOWARD, TO, AGAINST, OVER

• obses: extremely fat; corpulent
• obfuscate: to render indistinct or dim; darken
• oblique: having a slanting or sloping direction
• obsequious: overly submissive
• obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an idea, inflexible
• obtuse: not sharp, pointed, acute in any form

Question 182

OMNI

Answer 182

: ALL

• omnibus: an anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects
• omnipotent: all powerful
• omnipresent: everywhere at one time
• omniscient: having infinite knowledge

Question 183

ONER

Answer 183

: BURDEN

• **exonerate: **to free from blame (orginally: to relieve of a burden)
• onerous: burdensome; difficult
• onus: a burden; a responsibility

Question 184

OSS / OSTE

Answer 184

: BONE

• ossify: to become; to harden; to become callous
• ossuary: a place where bones are kept; a charnel house
• osteopathy: a medical system based on the belief that many illness can be traced to issues in the skeletal system

Question 185

PAC / PEAC

Answer 185

: PEACE

• appease: to bring peace to
• pacifier: something or someone that eases the anger or agitation of
• pacify: to ease the anger or agitation of
• pact: a formal agreement, as between nations

Question 186

PALP

Answer 186

: TO FEEL

• palpable: capable of being felt; tangible
• palpate: to feel; to examine by feeling
• palpitate: to beat quickly as the heart; to throb

Question 187

PAN / PANT

Answer 187

: ALL, EVERYONE

• pandemic: widespreadm general, universal
• penegyric: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly
• panoply: a wide-ranging and impressive array or display
• panorama: an unobstruced and wide view of an extensive area
• pantheon: a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustratious dead of a nation

Question 188

PAR

Answer 188

: EQUAL

• **apartheid: ** any system or caste that separates
• disparage: to belittle, speak disrespectfully about
• disparate: essentially different
• par: an equality in value or standing
• parity: equally, as in amount, status, or character

Question 189

PARA

Answer 189

: NEXT TO, BESIDE

• parable: a short, allegorical story designed to illustrate a moral lesson or religious principle
• paragon: a model of excellence
• parallel: extending in the same direction
• paranoid: suffering from a baseless distrust of others
• parasite: an organism that lives on or within a plant or animal of another species, from which it obtains nutrients
• parody: to imitate for purposes of satire

Question 190

PAS / PAT / PATH

Answer 190

: FEELING, SUFFERING, DISEASE

• compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy for someone struck by misfortune, accompanied by a desire to alleviate suffering
• dispassionate: devoid of personal feeling or bias
• empathy: the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others
• impassive: showing or feeling no emotion
• pathogenic: causing disease
• sociopath: a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility
• sympathy: harmony ro agreement in feeling

Question 191

PAU / PO / POV / PU

Answer 191

: FEW, LITTLE, POOR

• impoverish: to deplete
• paucity: smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
• pauper: a person without any personal means of support
• poverty: the condition of being poor
• puerille: childish, immature
• pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution

Question 192

PEC

Answer 192

: MONEY

• **impecunious: **having no money; penniless
• peculation: embezzlement
• pecuniary: relating to money

Question 193

PED

Answer 193

: CHILD, EDUCATION

• encyclopedia: book or set of book containing article on various topics, covering all branches of knowledge or of one particular subject
• pedagogue: a teacher
• pedant: one who displays learning ostentatiously
• pediatrician: a doctor who primarily has children as patients

Question 194

PED / POD

Answer 194

: FOOT

• antipodes: a places that are diametrically opposite each other on the globe
• expedite: to speed up the progress of
• impede: to retard progress by means of obstacles or hindrances
• pedals: a foot-operated lever or part used to control
• pedestrian: a person who travels on foot
• podium: a small platform for an orchestra conductor, speaker, etc.

Question 195

PEL

Answer 195

: TO DRIVE, TO PUSH

• compel: to force; to command
• dispel: to drive away; to disperse
• expel: to drive out; to banish; to eject
• impel: to force; to drive forward
• propel: to drive forward

Question 196

PUN

Answer 196

: TO PAY, TO COMPENSATE

• **penal: **of or pertaining to punishment, as for crimes
• penalty: a punishment imposed for a violation of law or rule
• penance: a punishment undergone to express regret for a sin
• penitent: contrite
• punitive: serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment

Question 197

PEN / PENE

Answer 197

: ALMOST

• peninsula: a landmass that is mostly surrounded by water, making it almost an island
• penultimate: second-to-last
• penumbra: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light

Question 198

PEND / PENS

Answer 198

: TO HANG, TO WEIGHT, TO PAY

• appendage: a limb or other subsidiary part that diverge from the central structure
• appendix: supplementary material at the end of a text
• compensate: to counterbalance, offset
• depend: to rely; to place trust in
• indispensable: absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite
• stipend: a periodic payment; fixed or regular pay

Question 199

PER

Answer 199

: COMPLETELY

• perforate: to make a way through or into something
• perfunctory: performed merely as routine duty
• perplex: to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood
• persistent: lasting or enduring tenaciously
• perspicacious: shrewed, astute
• pertinacious: resolute, persistent
• persue: to read with thoroughness or care

Question 200

PERI

Answer 200

: AROUND

• perimeter: the border or outer boundary of two-dimensional figure
• peripatetic: walking or traveling about; itinerant
• periscope: an optical instrument for seeing objects in an obstructed field of vision

Question 201

**PET / PIT **

Answer 201

: TO GO, TO SEEK, TO STRIVE

• appetite: a desire for food or drink
• centripetal: moving toward the center
• compete: to strive to outdo another
• impetuous: characterized by sudden or rash action or emotion
• petition: a formally a drawn request soliciting some benefit
• petulant: showing sudden irritation, esp. over some annoyance

Question 202

PHIL

Answer 202

: LOVE

• bibliophile: one who loves or collects books
• philatelist: one who loves or collects postage stampes
• philology: the study of literary texts to establish their authenticity and determine their meaning
• philosophy: the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct

Question 203

PHOB

Answer 203

: FEAR

• claustrophobia: fear of enclosed places
• hydrophobia: fear of water, which is a symptom of rabies; rabies
• phobia: fear; an irrational fear
• xenophobia: fear of foreigners; hatred of foreigners

Question 204

PHON

Answer 204

: SOUND

• euphony: the quality of sounding good
• megaphone: a device for magnifying the sound of one’s voice
• phonetics: the study of the sounds used in speech
• polyphony: the use of the simulateous melodic lines to produce harmonies in musical compositions
• telephone: a device for transmitting sound at a distance

Question 205

PHOTO

Answer 205

: LIGHT

• photograph: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light
• photon: a packet of light or other electromagnetic radiation
• photosynthesis: the process by which plants create carbohydrate when under light

Question 206

PLAC

Answer 206

: TO PLEASE

• complacent: self-satisfied, unconcerned
• complaisant: inclined or disposed to please
• implacable: unable to be pleased
• placebo: a substance with no pharmacological effect that acts to placate a patient who believes it to be a medicine
• placid: pleasantly clam or peaceful

Question 207

PLE / PLEN

Answer 207

: TO FILL, FULL

• complete: having all parts or elements
• deplete: to decrease seriously or exhaust the supply of
• implement: an instrument, tool, or utensil for accomplishing work
• plethora: excess, overabundance
• plenitude: fullness
• replete: abundantly supplied
• supplement: something added to supply a deficiency

Question 208

PLEX / PLIC / PLY

Answer 208

: TO FOLD, TWIST, TANGLE, OR BEND

• complex: composed of many interconnected parts
• duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, double-dealing
• implicate: to show to be involved, usually in an incriminating manner
• replica: any close copy or reproduction
• supplicate: to make humble and earnest entreaty

Question 209

POLY

Answer 209

: MANY

• **polyandry: ** the practice of having multiple husbands
• polygamy: the practice of having multiple wives
• polyglot: someone who speaks many languages
• polygon: a figure with many sides
• polythesim: belief in many gods

Question 210

PON / POS / POUND

Answer 210

: TO PUT, TO PLACE

• component: a constituent part, elemental ingredient
• expose: to lay open to danger, attack, or harm
• expound: to set forth in detail
• juxtapose: to place close together or side by side
• repository: a receptacle or place where things are deposited

Question 211

PORT

Answer 211

: TO CARRY

• deportment: conduct, behavior
• disport: to divert or amuse oneself
• export: to transmit aboard
• import: to bring in from a foreign country
• importune: to urge or press with excessive persistence
• portable: easily carried

Question 212

POST

Answer 212

: BEHIND, AFTER

• post facto: after the fact
• posterior: situated at the rear
• posterity: future generations
• posthumous: after death

Question 213

POT

Answer 213

: TO DRINK

• potable: drinkable; safe to drink; a drink
• potation: drinking; a drink
• potion: a drinkable medicine, poison, or other concoction

Question 214

PRE

Answer 214

: BEFORE, IN FRONT OF

• precarious: dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control
• precedent: an act that serves as an example for subsequent situations
• precept: a commandment given as a rule of action or conduct
• precocious: unusually advanced ro mature in mental development or talent
• premonition: a feeling of anticipation over a future event
• presentiment: foreboding

Question 215

PREHEND / PRISE

Answer 215

: TO TAKE, TO GET, TO SEIZE

• apprehend: to take into custody
• comprise: to include or contain
• enterprise: a project undertaken
• reprehensible: deserving rebuke or censure
• reprisals: retaliation against an enemy
• surprise: to strike with an unexpected feeling of wonder or astonishment

Question 216

PRI / PRIM

Answer 216

: FIRST

• primary: first; most important
• primal: original; most important
• prime: first in quality; best
• primeval: ancient; going back to the first age of the world
• pristine: original; like new; unspoiled; pure

Question 217

PRO

Answer 217

: IN FRONT, BEFORE, MUCH, FOR

• problem: a difficult question (orginally: one put before another solution)
• proceed: to go forward
• profuse: spending or giving freely
• prolific: highly fruitful
• propound: to set forth for consideration
• proselytize: to convert or attempt to recruit
• provident: having or showing foresight

Question 218

PROB

Answer 218

: TO PROVE, TO TEST

• approbation: praise, consideration
• opprobrium: the disgrace incurred by shamful conduct
• probe: to search or examine thoroughly
• probity: honesty: high-mindedness
• reprobate: a depraved or wicked person

Question 219

PROP / PROX

Answer 219

: NEAR

• approximate: very near; close to being accurate
• proximate: nearby; coming just before or just after
• proximity: nearness; distance

Question 220

PROT / PROTO

Answer 220

: FIRST

• protagonist: the main character in a play or story
• protocol: diplomatic etiqutte; a system of proper conduct; the original record of a treaty ot other negotiation
• prototype: the first version of an invention, on which later models are based
• protozoan: belonging to a group of single-celled animals, which came before more complex animals

Question 221

PSEUD / PSEUDO

Answer 221

: FALSE

• pseudonym: a false name; a pen name
• pseudopod: part of a single-celled organism that can be stuck out (like a foot) and used to move around
• pseudoscience: false science; something believed to be based on the scientific method but that actually is not

Question 222

PUG

Answer 222

: TO FIGHT

• impugn: to challenge as false
• pugilist: a fighter or boxer
• pugnacious: to quarrel or fight readily
• repungnant: objectionable or offensive

Question 223

PUNC / PUNG / POIGN

Answer 223

: TO POINT, TO PRICK, TO PIERCE

• compunction: a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong
• expunge: to erase, eliminate completely
• point: a sharp or tapering end
• punctilious: strict or exact in the observance of formalities
• puncture: the act of piercing
• pungent: caustic or sharply expensive

Question 224

PYR

Answer 224

: FIRE

• pyre: a bonfire, usually for burning a dead body
• pyromania: an urge to start fires
• pyrosis: heartburn
• pyrotechnics: fireworks

Question 225

QUE / QUAR / QUAT

Answer 225

: FOUR

• quadrant: a quarter of a circle; a 90-degree arc
• quadrille: a square dance involving four couples
• quadruple: four times as many
• quardruplets; four children born in one birth
• quart: one fourth of a gallon
• quaternary: the number four; the fourth in a series

Question 226

QUE / QUIS

Answer 226

: TO SEEK

• acquire: to come into possession of
• conquest: the act gaining control by force
• exquisite: of special beauty or charm
• inquisitive: given to research, eager for knowledge
• perquiste: a gratuity, tip
• querulous: full of complaints
• query: a question, inquiry

Question 227

QUIE / QUIT

Answer 227

: QUIET, REST

• acquiesce: to comply, give in
• disquiet: lack of calm or peace
• quiescence: the condition of being at rest, still, inactive
• quiet: making little or no sound
• tranquill: free from commotion or tumult

Question 228

QUIN / QUINT

Answer 228

: FIVE

• quinquennial: a five-year period; a fifth anniversary
• quintessence: the essential part of something (originally: the “fifth essence,” which was believed to permeate everything and be what stars and planets were made of )
• quintuple: five times as many

Question 229

RACI / RADI

Answer 229

: ROOT

• deracinate: to uproot
• eradicate: to uproot; to wipout
• radical: pertaining to roots; questioning everything, even basic belief; going to root causes; through
• radish: a root vegetable

Question 230

RAMI

Answer 230

: BRANCH

• ramification: a branch; an offshoot; a collection of branches; a consequence
• ramiform: branchlike

Question 231

RE

Answer 231

: BACK, AGIAN

• recline: to lean back; to lie down
• regain: to gain again; to take back
• remain: to stay behind; to be left; to continue to be
• reorganize: to organize again
• request: to ask (originally: to seek again)

Question 232

RECT

Answer 232

: STRAIGHT, RIGHT

• correct: to set right
• direct: to guide; to put straight
• erect: upright; starting up straight
• rectangle: a four-sided figure in which every angle is a right angle
• rectitude: moral uprightness; moral straightness

Question 233

REG

Answer 233

: KING, RULE

• interregnum: a period between kings
• realm: a kingdom; a domain
• regal: kingly; royal
• regent: one who serves on behalf of a king; one who rules
• regicide: killing a king; one who kills a king
• regiment: a body of troops in army; to form into such a body; to subject to strict rule
• regular: having a structure following some rule; orderly; normally used; average

Question 234

RETRO

Answer 234

: BACKWARD

• retroactive: extending to things that happened in the past
• retrofit: to install newer parts into an older device or structure
• retrograde: moving backward; appearing to move backward
• retrospective: looking back at the past

Question 235

RID / RIS

Answer 235

: TO LAUGH

• derision: the act of mockery
• risible: causing laughter

Question 236

ROG

Answer 236

: TO ASK

• abrogate: to abolish by formal means
• arrogant: making claims to superior importance or rights
• arrogate: to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously
• derogatory: belittling, disparaging
• interrogate: to ask questions of, esp. formally
• surrogate: a person appointed to act for another

Question 237

RUB / RUD

Answer 237

: RED

• rouge: a red powder used as makeup
• rubella: German measles; a diease marked by red spots
• rubicund: reddish; rosy-cheeked
• rubric: a rule; a guide for scoring tests; a heading in a book set in red letters
• russet: reddish-brown; a coarse cloth, usually reddish-brown; a type of apple or pear, typically reddish-brown

Question 238

RUD

Answer 238

: CRUDE

• erudite: scholarly; learned (that is, trained out of crudeness)
• rude: uncivilized; impolite
• rudimentary: underdeveloped; related to rudiments
• rudiments: first principles; imperfect first step fo one’s training

Question 239

SACR / SANCT

Answer 239

: HOLY

• execrable: abominable
• sacrament: something regarded as possessing sacred character
• sacred: devoted or dedicated to a deity or religious purpose
• sacrifice: the offering of some living or inanimate thing to a deity in homage
• sacrilege: the violation of anything sacred
• sanctify: to make holy
• sanction: authoritative permission or approval

Question 240

SAG / SAP / SAV

Answer 240

: TASTE, THINKING, DISCERNING

• insipid: tasteless
• sagacious: perceptive; discerning; insightful
• sage: wise
• sapient: wise
• savant: a learned person
• savor: taste; to enjoy flavors

Question 241

SAL / SIL / SAULT / SULT

Answer 241

: TO LEAP, TO JUMP

• assault: a sudden or violent attack
• desultory: at random, ummethodical
• exult: to show or feel triumphant joy
• insolent: boldly rude or disrespectful
• insult: to treat with contemptuous rudeness
• resilient: able to spring back to an original from after compression
• salient: prominent or conspicuous
• somerault: to roll the body end over end, making a complete revolution

Question 242

SAL

Answer 242

: SALT

• salary: payment for services (originally: money for Roman soldiers to buy salt)
• saline: containing salt; salty

Question 243

SALU

Answer 243

: HEALTH

• salubrious: healthful
• salutary: healthful
• salute: to greet; a gesture of greeting (originally: to wish good health)

Question 244

SALV

Answer 244

: TO SAVE

• salvage: to save; something saved or recovered
• salvation: being saved
• savior: one who saves

Question 245

SAN

Answer 245

: HEALTHY

• sane: mentally healthy
• sanitarium: a place of healing
• sanitary: promoting health; related to conditions that affect health, such as cleanliness

Question 246

SANG

Answer 246

: BLOOD

• consanguinity: being related by blood
• sanguinary: bloody; bloodthirsty
• sanguine: hopful; confident ( from the “sanguine humor.” which was believed to be associated with those traits)

Question 247

SAT

Answer 247

: ENOUGH

• assets: property; possesions (originally: enough property to cover one’s debts)
• dissatisfied: feeling that one does not have enough
• state: to fill
• satify: to meet one’s desires; to meet an obligation; to provide with enough
• saturate: to fill completely; to entirely satisfy

Question 248

SCI

Answer 248

: TO KNOW

• conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong; impelling one toward right action
• conscious: aware of one’s own existence
• omniscient: knowing everything
• prescient: having knowledge of thing before they happen
• unconscionable: unscupuslous

Question 249

SCRIBE / SCRIPT

Answer 249

: TO WRITE

• ascribe: to credit or assign, as to a cause or course
• circumscribe: to draw a line around
• conscription: draft
• describe: to tell or depict in words
• postcript: any addition or supplement
• proscribe: to condemn as harmful or odious
• scribble: to write hastily or carelessly
• script: handwriting
• transcript: a written or typed copy

Question 250

SE

Answer 250

: APART, AWAY

• secede: to withdraw formally from an association
• sedition: incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government
• seduce: to lead astray
• segregate: to separate or set apart from others
• select: to choose in preference to another
• separate: to keep apart; divide
• sequester: to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement

Question 251

SEC / SEQU / SUE / SUI

Answer 251

: TO FOLLOW

• non sequitur: an inference or a conclsion that does not follow from the premises
• obsequious: fawning
• prosecute: to seek to enforce by legal process
• pursue: to chase after
• second: next after the first
• sequence: the following of one thing after another
• suite: a series; a set (originally: a train of followesrs)

Question 252

SED / SESS / SID

Answer 252

: TO SIT, TO SETTLE

• assiduous: diligent, persistent, hardworking (literally, “sitting down” to business)
• dissident: disagreeing, as in opinion or attitude (literally, “sitting apart”)
• insidious: intended to entrap or beguile; lying in wait to entrap
• preside: to exercise management or control; to sit in the leader’s chair
• resident: a person who lives in a place
• residual: remaining, leftover
• sediment: the matter at which settle to the bottom of liquid
• session: a meeting at which people sit together in dicussion

Question 253

SEM

Answer 253

: SEED, TO SOW

• disseminate: to spread; to scatter around
• semen: seed ( of male animals)
• seminary: a school, esp. for religious training (originally: a place for raising plants)

Question 254

SEMI

Answer 254

: HALF

• semicircle: half a circle
• semiconscious: only partly conscious; half awake

Question 255

SEN

Answer 255

**: OLD **

• senate: the highest legislative body (from “ council of elders”)
• senescent: getting old
• senile: relating to old afe: experiencing memory loss or other age-related mental impairments
• sire: a title for a king; a father (originally: an important person, an old man)

Question 256

SENS / SENT

Answer 256

: TO FEEL, TO BE AWARE

• dissent: to differ in opinion, esp. from the majority
• insensate: without feeling or sensitivity
• presentiment: a feeling that something is about to happen
• resent: to feel or show displeasure
• sense: any of the faculties by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating outside the body
• sensory: of or pertaining to the senses or sensation

Question 257

SIN / SINU

Answer 257

: BEND, FOLD, CURVE

• insinuate: to introduce in sneaky or winding ways
• sinuous: moving in a bending or wavy manner
• sinus: a curved or irregularly shaped cavity in the body, such as those related to the nostrils

Question 258

SOL

Answer 258

: ALONE

• desolate: deserted; laid waste; left alone
• isolate: to set apart from others
• soliloquize: talk to oneself; talk onstage as if oneself
• solipism: the belief that the only thing that really exists, or can really be known, is oneself
• solitude: that state of being alone

Question 259

SOL

Answer 259

: TO LOOSEN, TO FREE

• absolution: forgiveness for wrongdoing
• dissolute: indifferent to moral restraints
• dissolution: the act or process of dissolving into parts or elements
• dissolve: to make a solution of as by mixing in a liquid
• resolution: a formal expreesion of opinion or intention made
• soluble: capable of being dissolved or liquefied

Question 260

SOL

Answer 260

: SUN

• parasol: an umbella that protects from the sun
• solar: related to the sun
• solarium: a sumroom; a room with windows for taking in the sun
• solistice: one of two days when the sun reaches its highest point at noon and seems to stand still

Question 261

SOMN

Answer 261

: SLEEP

• insomnia: inability to sleep
• somnambulist: a sleepwalker
• somniferous: sleep-inducing
• somniloquist: one who talks while asleep
• somnolent: sleep-inducing; sleepy; drowsy

Question 262

SOPH

Answer 262

: WISDOM

• philosopher: one who studies logic, beauty, truth, etc. one who seeks wisdom
• sophism: a superficially appealing but fallacious argument
• sophisticated: complex; worldly; experienced

Question 263

SOURC / SURG / SURRECT

Answer 263

: TO RISE

• insurgent: rising up in revolution; rushing in
• insurrection: risingj up in armed rebellion
• resurrection: coming back to life; rising again
• source: where something comes from (such as spring water rising out of the ground)
• surge: to rise up forcefully, as ocean waves

Question 264

SPEC / SPIC

Answer 264

: TO LOOK, TO SEE

• circumspect: watchful and discreet, cautious
• conspicuous: easily seen or noticed; readily observable
• persepctive: one’s mental view of facts, ideas, and their interrelationships
• perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding
• retrospective: contemplative of past situations
• specious: deceptively attractive
• spectrum: a broad range of related things that form a continuous series
• speculation: the contemplation or consideraton of some subject

Question 265

SPIR

Answer 265

: BREATH

• aspire: to desire; to pant for (originally: to breath on)
• expire: to breath out; to breath one’s last; to come to an end
• spirit: the breath of life; the soul; an incorporeal supernatural being; an outlook; a lively quality

Question 266

STA / STI

Answer 266

: TO STAND, TO BE IN PLACE

• apostasy: renunciation of an object of one’s previous loyalty
• constitute: to make up
• destitute: without means of subsistence
• obstinate: stubbornly adhering to a purpose, opinion, or course of action
• stasis: the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces
• static: of bodies or forces at rest or in equilibrium

Question 267

STRICT / STRING / STRAN

Answer 267

: TO TIGHTEN, TO BIND

• ​astringent: causing to tighten
• constrain: to confine; to bind within certain limits
• restriction: a limitation
• strangle: to kill by suffocation, usally by tightening a cord or one’s hand around the throat

Question 268

SUA

Answer 268

: SWEET, PLEASING, TO URGE

• **assuage: **to make less severe, ease, relieve
• dissuade: to deter; to advise against
• persuade: to encourage; to convince
• suave: smoothly agreeable or polite; sweet

Question 269

SUB / SUP

Answer 269

: BELOW, UNDER

• subliminal: existing or operating below the threshold of confidence
• submissive: inclined or ready to submit
• subsidiary: serving to assist or supplement
• subterfuge: an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule
• subtle: thin, tenuous, or rarefied
• suppose: to put down as hypothesis; to use as the underlying basis of an argument; to assume

Question 270

SUMM

Answer 270

: HIGHEST, TOTAL

• consummate: highly qualified; complete; perfect
• sum: total; amount of money
• summary: concise statement of the total findings on a subject; comprehensive
• summit: hightest point

Question 271

SUPER / SUR

Answer 271

: OVER, ABOVE

• supercilious: arrogant, haughty, condescending
• superfluous: extra, more than necessary
• superlative: the highest kind or order
• supersede: to replace in power, as by another person or thing
• surmount: to get over or across, to prevail
• surpass: to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree
• surveillance: a watch kept over someone or something

Question 272

SYM / SYN

Answer 272

: TOGETHER

• symbiosis: living together in a mutually beneficial relationship
• symmetry: balanced proportions; having opposite parts that mirror one another
• sympathy: affinity; feeling affected by what happens to another
• symposium: a meeting at which ideas are discussed ( originally: a party at which people drink together)
• synonym: a word that means the same thing as another
• synthesis: combining things to create a new whole

Question 273

TAC / TIC

Answer 273

: TO BE SILENT

• reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely
• tacit: unspoken understanding
• tacitum: uncommunicative

Question 274

**TACT / TAG / TAM / TANG **

Answer 274

: TO TOUCH

• **contact: **to touch; to get in touch
• contagious: able to spread by contact, as disease
• contaminate: to corrupt, taint, or otherwise damage the integrity of something by contact or mixture
• contiguous: directly touching; sharing a boundary
• intact: untouched; whole
• intangible: unable to be tounched
• tactile: pertaining to tounch; tounchable

Question 275

TAIN / TEN / TENT / TIN

Answer 275

: TO HOLD

• abstention: the act of refraning voluntarily
• detain: to keep from proceeding
• pertain: to have reference or relation
• pertinacious: persistent, stubborn
• sustenance: nourishment, means of livelihood
• tenable: capable of being held, maintained, or defended
• tenacious: holding fast
• tenure: the holding or possessing of anything

Question 276

TEND / TENS / TENT / TENU

Answer 276

: TO STRETCH , TO THIN

• attenuate: to weaken or reduce in force
• contentious: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
• distend: to expand by strecting
• extenuating: making less serious by offering excuses
• tendentious: having a predisposition toward a point of view
• tension: the act of stretching or straining
• tentative: of the nature of, or done as a trial, attempt

Question 277

TEST

Answer 277

: TO BEAR WITNESS

• attest: bear witness
• contest: to dispute (from brining a lawsuit by calling witnesses)
• detest: to despise; to hate ( originally: to curse something by calling upon God to witness it)
• protest: a dissent; a declaration, esp. of disagreement
• testament: a statment of a person’s wishes for the disposal of his or her property after death; a will
• testify: bear witness

Question 278

THO

Answer 278

: GOD

• apotheosis: glorification, glorified ideal
• atheist: one who does not believe in deity ro divine system
• theocracy: a form of government in which a deity is recogized as the supreme ruler
• theology: the study of divine things and divine faith

Question 279

THERM

Answer 279

: HEAT

• thermal: relating to heat; retaining heat
• thermometer: a device for measuring heat
• thermonuclear: relating to a nuclear reaction that takes place at high temperatures
• thermostat: device for regulating heat

Question 280

TIM

Answer 280

: FEAR

• **intimidate: **to strike fear into; to make fearful
• timid: fearful; shy

Question 281

TOR / TORQ / TORT

Answer 281

: TO TWIST

• contort: to twist; to distort
• distort: to pull out of shape, often by twisting; to twist or misrepresent facts
• extort: to wring money, property, or services out of somebody using threats or force
• torch: a portable flame used for light ( perhaps derived from hemp twisted around sticks, then dipped in pitch)
• torque: twisting force; a force that creats rotation
• tort: a wrongful act (other than breach of contract) that legally entitles one to damages
• torture: to inflict pain ( including by twisting instrument like the rack or wheel)

Question 282

TORP

Answer 282

: STIFF, NUMB

• **torpedo: **a explosive weapon used to sink ships (originally: a fish-the electric ray-that could shock vitims to numbness)
• torpid: numbed; sluggish
• torpor: numbness; listlessness; apathy

Question 283

TOX

Answer 283

: POISON

• **antioxin: **antibody that counteracts a given poison
• intoxication: being poisoned; drunknness
• toxic: poisonous

Question 284

TRACT

Answer 284

: TO DRAG, TO PULL, TO DRAW

• abstract: to draw ot pull away, remove
• attract: to draw either by physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses
• contract: a legally binding document
• detract: to take away from, esp. a positive thing
• protract: to prolong, draw out, extend
• tractable: easily managed or controlled
• tractor: a powerful vehicle used to pull farm machinery

Question 285

TRANS

Answer 285

: ACROSS, BEYOND

• intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise
• transaction: the act of carrying on or conduct to a conclusion or settlement
• transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits
• transgress: to violate a law, command, or moral code
• transition: a change from one way of being to another
• transparent: easily seen through, recognized, or detected

Question 286

ULT

Answer 286

: LAST, BEYOND

• penultimate: second-to-last
• ulterior: beyond what is immediately present; future; beyond what is stated; hidden
• ultimate: last; final
• ultimatum: final offer; final term
• ultraviolet: beyond the violet end of the spectrum

Question 287

UMBR

Answer 287

: SHADOW

• adumbrate: to foreshadow; to sketch; to overshadow
• penumbra: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light
• somber: gloomy; darkened
• umbrage: shade; shadow; displeasure; resentment
• umbrella: a device providing shade from the sun or protection from rain

Question 288

UN

Answer 288

: NOT

• **unseen: **not seen
• unusual: not usual; exceptional; strange

Question 289

UND

Answer 289

: WAVE

• **abound: **to be plentiful; to overflow (from water flowing in waves)
• inundate: to flood
• undulate: to move in a wavelike way

Question 290

UNI / UN

Answer 290

: ONE

• **reunion: **a meeting that brings people back together
• unanimous: of one mind; in complete accord
• uniform: of one kind; consistent
• universe: all things considered as one whole

Question 291

URB

Answer 291

: CITY

• suburb: a rediential area just outside a city; an outlying area of a city
• urban: relating to a city
• urbane: polite; refined; polished ( considered characteristic of those in cities)
• urbanization: the process of an area becoming more like a city

Question 292

US / UT

Answer 292

: TO USE

• abuse: to use wrongly or improperly
• usage: a customary way of doing something
• usurp: to seize and hold
• utilitarian: efficient, functional, useful

Question 293

VAIL / VAL

Answer 293

: STENGTH, USE, WORTH

• ambivalent: being caught between contradictory feeling of equal power or worth
• avail: to have force; to be useful; to be of value
• convalescent: recovering strength; healing
• equivalent: of equal worth, strength, or use
• evaluate: to determine the worth of
• invalid: having no force or strength; void
• valediction: a farewell (from wishing that someone be well; i.e. that someone have strength)
• valid: having force; legally binding; effective; useful
• value: worth

Question 294

VEN / VENT

Answer 294

: TO COME OR TO MOVE TOWARD

• adventitous: accidental
• contravene: to come into conflict with
• convene: to assemble for some public purpose
• intervene: to come between disputing factions, mediate
• venturesome: showing a disposition to undertake risks

Question 295

VER

Answer 295

: TRUTH

• aver: to affirm, to declare to be true
• veracious: habitually truthful
• verdict: a judgment or decision
• verisimilitude: the apperance or semblance of truth
• verity: truthfulness

Question 296

VERB

Answer 296

: WORD

• proverb: an adage; a byword; a short, commonly known saying
• verbatim: exactly as stated; word-for word
• verbose: wordy
• verbiage: excessive use of words; diction

Question 297

VERD

Answer 297

: GREEN

• verdant: green with vegetation; inexperienced
• verdure: fresh, rich vegetation

Question 298

VERS / VERT

Answer 298

: TO TURN

• aversion: dislike
• avert: to turn away from
• controversy: a public dispute involving a matter of opinion
• diverse: of a different kind, form, character
• extrovert: an outgoing person
• inadvertent: unintentional
• introvert: a person concerned primarily with inner thoughts and feeling
• revert: to return to a former habit

Question 299

VI

Answer 299

: LIFE

• convivial: sociable
• joie de vivre: joy of life (French expression)
• viable: capable of living
• vivacity: the quality of being lively, animated, spirited
• vivid: strinking bright or intense

Question 300

**VID / VIS **

Answer 300

: TO SEE

• adviser: one who gives counsel
• evident: plain or clear to the sight or understanding
• survey: to view in a general or comprehensive way
• video: element pertaining to the transimission or reception of an image
• vista: a view or prospect

Question 301

VIL

Answer 301

: BASE, MEAN

• revile: to criticize with harsh language
• vile: loathsome, unpleasant
• vilify: to slander, to defame

Question 302

VIRU

Answer 302

: POISON

• virulent: acrimonious; very bitter; very poisonous
• viruliferous: containing a virus
• virus: a submicroscopic agent that infects an organism and causes disease

Question 303

VOC / VOK

Answer 303

: CALL, WORD

• advocate: to support or urge by argument
• avocation: something one does in addition to a principle occupation
• convoke: to call together
• equivocate: to use ambiguous or unclear exprssions
• invoke: to call together
• vocabulary: the stock of words used by or known to a particular person or group
• vocation: a particular occupation
• vociferous: crying out noisily

Question 304

VOL

Answer 304

: WISH

• benevolent: characterized by or expressing goodwill
• malevolent: characterized by or expressing bad will
• volition: free choice, free will; act of choosing
• voluntary: undertaken of one’s own accord or by free choice

Question 305

VOLU / VOLV

Answer 305

: TO ROLL, TO TURN

• convolution: a twisting or folding
• evolve: to develop naturally; literally, to unfold or unroll
• revolt: to rebel; to turn against those in authority
• revolve: to rotate; to turn around
• voluable: easily turning; fluent; changable
• volume: a book ( origianally: a scroll ); size or dimensions (originally: of a book)

Question 306

VOR

Answer 306

: TO EAT

• carnivorous: meat-eating
• omnivorous: eating or absoring everything
• voracious: having a great appetite