Greek and Latin Roots JEOPARDY

Greek and Latin RootsJEOPARDY

Directions • Get into TWO TEAMS • Sit in a semi circle • Buzzer Rules • There is a buzzer on the iPad in front of you—BE GENTLE. (Don’t break our iPads—we have to turn them back in!) • If you know the answer, hit the buzzer. • If you get it wrong, your team LOSES points!

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Unit One FIB—100 Harry may be a good chess player, but he’s not _____________. petulant evince invincible protracted retract Back to Queue Answer: INVINCIBLE

Unit One FIB—200 The relationship between the main characters __________ the main themes of the novel. evinced deduced induct conducive impetuous Back to Queue Answer: evineced

Unit One FIB—300 Certain kinds of soil are more ________ to growing prize roses. evinced deduced induct conducive impetuous Back to Queue Answer: CONDUCIVE

Unit One FIB—400 I hardly expected a grown man to become so ____________ when I awakened him at three in the morning. Petulant evince invincible protracted retract Back to Queue Answer: PETULANT

Unit One FIB—500 Wasn’t it kind of _________ to volunteer for a job you knew nothing about? evinced deduced induct conducive impetuous Back to Queue Answer: IMPETUOUS

Unit One MC—100 The _________ argument that raged in the office for days was not __________ to getting work done. • provincial; petulant • impetuous; provincial • petulant; protracted • protracted; conducive Back to Queue Answer: D

Unit One MC—200 Can we __________ from the uproar in the newspapers that the senator has refused to _________ his controversial statement? • retract; induce • deduce; retract • evince; deduce • retract; evince Back to Queue Answer: B

Unit One MC—300 What was the __________ for the supposedly _________ hockey team’s decision not to play in the game? • conviction; induce • impetus; invincible • impetus; petulant • provincial; retract Back to Queue Answer: ?

Unit One MC—400 Sam became so ________ that he ran away and climbed a tree, and nothing could ________ him to come down. • protracted; intractable • conducive; evince • petulant; induce • provincial; retract Back to Queue Answer: C

Unit One MC—500 Nothing ______ Ben’s tendency to act without thinking more than his _______ decision to become a daredevil pilot. • evinces; impetuous • retracts; impetuous • induces; intractable • deduces; retract Back to Queue Answer: A

Unit Two FIB—100 A(n) _______ summary of the day’s events will be enough for me. Compunction concise infringe infraction fractious Back to Queue Answer: CONCISE

Unit Two FIB—200 Only special kind of surgery can _______ the tumor from the body. excise epitome punctilious anatomy pungent Back to Queue Answer: EXCISE

Unit Two FIB—300 If Danielle feels any ___________ at all for lying about her homework, she should go to her teacher and apologize. compunction concise infringe infraction fractious Back to Queue Answer: COMPUNCTION

Unit Two FIB—400 The author’s exhaustive writing on French history took up several weighty ___________. dichotomy infractions Tomes punctilious anatomy incisive Back to Queue Answer: TOMES

Unit Two FIB—500 Your ___________ wit seems to cut through all the necessary information and get right to the heart of the matter. dichotomy Infractions tomes punctilious anatomy incisive Back to Queue Answer: PUNCTILIOUS

Unit Two MC—100 Even though Alec had committed only a minor _________ of the company rules, he was punished severely because he showed no _________. • infraction; compunction • infraction; anatomy • epitome; compunction • epitome; anatomy Back to Queue Answer: A

Unit Two MC—200 Barbara is the _______ of a well-behaved child and would never ______ upon her siblings’ rights. • dichotomy; excise • epitome; excise • epitome; infringe • dichotomy; infringe Back to Queue Answer: C

Unit Two MC—300 For her _____ essays and _______ attention to detail, Victoria was named best student of her English class. • fractious; pungent • punctilious; excise • fractious; concise • incisive; punctilious Back to Queue Answer: D

Unit Two MC—400 There was a definite _________ in her personality; on the one hand, she had a(n)_________ intelligence, but on the other hand, she seemed to have an understanding of other people. • dichotomy; incisive • infraction; excise • anatomy; infringe • epitome; excise Back to Queue Answer: A

Unit Two MC—500 The _________ young brothers stopped their fighting and screaming when the ___________ aroma of dinner from the kitchen hit their nostrils. • incisive; concise • fractious; pungent • punctilious; fractious • pungent; incisive Back to Queue Answer: B

Unit Three FIB—100 The __________ for the theft of the statue has not yet been determined. motive emissary abject motif expel Back to Queue Answer: MOTIVE

Unit Three FIB—200 The high winds and cold rain _________ us to postpone the picnic. compelled emoted conjecture abject motif Back to Queue Answer: COMPELLED

Unit Three FIB—300 During the negotiations, the vice president of one company was sent as a(n) __________ to the other company. motive emissary abject motif expel Back to Queue Answer: EMISSARY

Unit Three FIB—400 The central ___________ of despair over lost love in the opera is introduced when the heroine takes the stage. compelled emoted conjecture abject motif Back to Queue Answer: MOTIF

Unit Three FIB—500 There was a heated debate over whether the cabinet official had been _____________ in his duties when he did not report the accounting error. dismissive motive dejected remiss impulse Back to Queue Answer: DISMISSIVE

Unit Three MC—100 The scientific community is usually __________ of new theories at first, saying they are mere __________ instead of fact. • emotive; conjecture • dismissive; conjecture • dejected; motive • dismissive; motive Back to Queue Answer: B

Unit Three MC—200 The sea captain was almost overwhelmed by the ________ to abandon his ship, but he knew he would be _________ in his duties to the passengers if he id not help them. • conjecture; dismissive • motif; emotive • emissary; dejected • impulse; remiss Back to Queue Answer: D

Unit Three MC—400 The ________ look on the face of our _________ to the opposing army told me he had failed to deliver his message. • dismissive; conjecture • emotive; emissary • abject; motif • dejected; emissary Back to Queue Answer: D

Unit Three MC—300 While no ______ for the theft of the money has been established, we know that the thief was living in _______ poverty and could not even afford food for his family. • conjecture; abject • motif; remiss • motive; abject • emissary; emotive Back to Queue Answer: C

Unit Three MC—500 I wanted to finish my paper on the recurring ________ I had found in the novel, but other factors _______ me to give it up. • conjecture; expelled • emissary; compelled • motif; compelled • emissary; expelled Back to Queue Answer: C

Greek and Latin Roots JEOPARDY