Roots Week 8

Question 1

-ist

Answer 1

a person who / one who specializes in

Question 2

tort- / tor- / troque

Answer 2

twist

Question 3

-gen / -gene / gener-

Answer 3

origin / birth / produce / kind

Question 4

anarchist

Answer 4

a person who believes that it is better to be without a government

Question 5

antagonist

Answer 5

a person who struggles against or competes with another; adversary

Question 6

atheist

Answer 6

a person who is without a belief in God or gods

Question 7

philanthropist

Answer 7

a person who loves mankind by supporting charitable causes through donations

Question 8

populist

Answer 8

a person who appeals to the interests or prejudices of the ordinary people

Question 9

contortionist

Answer 9

a person who performs the action of twisting together their bodies

Question 10

extort

Answer 10

to twist out by force, threat, or intimidation

Question 11

torment

Answer 11

the state of being twisted; distress; to afflict with a suffering

Question 12

torque

Answer 12

to twist; a force that produces a twisting movement

Question 13

tort

Answer 13

a twisted or wrongful act; wrong; injury

Question 14

tortuous

Answer 14

characterized by having many twists and turns; winding, crooked, evasive

Question 15

gene

Answer 15

the functional unit of heredity which produces and transmits one or more traits

Question 16

generation

Answer 16

the group of individuals that is the result of being born in the same period, usually 30 years; the act or process of producing

Question 17

genetics

Answer 17

the science of hereditary, origins, and variations of organisms

Question 18

indigenous

Answer 18

characterized by being born in a particular country or region; native

Question 19

oxygen

Answer 19

an odorless gas that was thought to be essential in producing acids