Roots Week 21

Question 1

-gon

Answer 1

angle

Question 2

carn- / carni-

Answer 2

flesh / meat

Question 3

dec- / deca- / decim-

Answer 3

ten / tenth

Question 4

decagon

Answer 4

a shape with ten angles and sides

Question 5

heptagon

Answer 5

a shape with seven angles and sides

Question 6

isogon

Answer 6

a shape whose angles are all equal to each other

Question 7

nonagon

Answer 7

a shape with nine angles and sides

Question 8

orthogonal

Answer 8

pertaining to or involving perpendicular or right angles

Question 9

polygon

Answer 9

a shape with many angles and sides

Question 10

tetragon

Answer 10

a shape with four angles and sides

Question 11

carnation

Answer 11

the condition of having a flesh - like or pink color; a variety of flower having a flesh-like color

Question 12

carnival

Answer 12

a saying farewell to me at; a period of celebration prior to Lent (during which meat is not consumed on Ash Wednesday and Fridays); a festival; a traveling amusement show

Question 13

incarnation

Answer 13

the condition of being in the flesh; assumption of human form or nature

Question 14

reincarnate

Answer 14

to act by turning back into flesh; the act of a person coming back to life after death in another body or form

Question 15

reincarnation

Answer 15

the condition of turning back into flesh; the act of a person coming back to life after death in another body or form

Question 16

carnophobia

Answer 16

the fear of meat

Question 17

decagram

Answer 17

a metric unit of mass equal to ten grams; same as dekagram

Question 18

Decalogue

Answer 18

the words of the Ten Commandments; a fundamental set of rules

Question 19

decameter

Answer 19

a metric unit of length equal to ten meters; same as a dekameter

Question 20

decathlon

Answer 20

an athlete contest consisting of ten different track-and-field events

Question 21

decennial

Answer 21

pertaining to once every ten years