Stems List 16 Words

Question 1

a person who greatly admires or favors England and things English

Answer 1

Anglophile

Question 2

a person who studies the science of human beings; especially: a person who studies human beings and their ancestors through time and space and in relation to physical character, environmental and social relations, and culture

Answer 2

anthropologist

Question 3

any of a group of reptiles including the lizards and in older classifications the crocodiles and various extinct forms (as the dinosaurs) that look like lizards

Answer 3

saurian

Question 4

a fossil bipedal (walks on two feet) primate with both apelike and human characteristics, found in Pliocene and lower Pleistocene deposits ( circa 4 million to 1 million years old) in Africa.

Answer 4

australopithecus

Question 5

a keyboard musical instrument consisting of a set of whistles sounded usually by steam

Answer 5

calliope

Question 6

an underground place of burial

Answer 6

catacombs

Question 7

the crime of telling a lie in a court of law after promising to tell the truth (you perjure yourself OR you commit perjury)

Answer 7

perjure

Question 8

beyond what is needed; not necessary

Answer 8

superfluous

Question 9

difficult to understand

Answer 9

incoherent

Question 10

to change the position or order of things

Answer 10

transpose

Question 11

dull and ordinary (relating to things of the ordinary world)

Answer 11

mundane

Question 12

a country that is ruled by a person with complete and total power

Answer 12

autocracy

Question 13

a condition or mental illness that causes people to think they have great or unlimited power or importance (a person with megalomania is a megalomaniac)

Answer 13

megalomania

Question 14

to change (a book, play, movie, etc.) by removing parts that could offend people

Answer 14

bowdlerize

Question 15

a published collection of literary pieces

Answer 15

anthology

Question 16

extreme fear of pain

Answer 16

algophobia

Question 17

a person who is paralyzed in both the arms and legs
(That person is a quadriplegic because….. OR The quadriplegic man used a wheelchair because…..)

Answer 17

quadriplegic

Question 18

sleep-inducing

Answer 18

somniferous

Question 19

lack of consistency, regularity or uniformity

Answer 19

erratic

Question 20

a job or position in which someone is paid to do little or no work (My first job as a secretary was a sinecure because all I did was play solitaire on my computer and paint my nails.)

Answer 20

sinecure

Question 21

relating to the South or southern regions of the globe

Answer 21

austral

Question 22

a mollusk with tentacles attached to its head, squid/octopus

Answer 22

cephalopod

Question 23

the art or practice of telling fortunes and interpreting character from the lines and configurations of the palm of a person’s hand.

Answer 23

chiromancy

Question 24

any mass slaughter or reckless destruction of life

Answer 24

holocaust

Question 25

existing, situated or operating below the surface of the earth; underground.

Answer 25

subterranean