Roots Practice (weeks 5+6)

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"I had to pay a dictorator to come with me to Australia because I don't understand the slang down there."

• a really big dictionary

• a phone app that can translate any language

• someone who speaks slang fluently

• a person who has been all over the world

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"The monochrid spun a small web in the corner of my living room."

• a spider that only has one leg

• a spinning top

• a game in which each player tries to make the best web

• a creature that makes webs

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"It is important to centribolate the eggs when making this particular breakfast dish."

• to eat an especially large breakfast

• to boil an egg in the direct center of a pot

• to throw eggs at one person

• an egg that needs to be cracked in a specific way

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"My family flabologist diagnosed me with a severe lack of rizz."

• a flabby pancake

• a member of the extended family

• a person who is an expert in the art of rizz

• someone who is against the family

YOUR TURN!

Invent a word using the root ANTI-.

Use your new word in a sentence!

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"Stop chromoglobing my painting! It's supposed to be black and white only!"

• to put color on something unnecessarily

• to annoy someone

• to ruin something that someone else has created

• to break someone else's property

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"You're handwriting is cytospantic!"

• sloppy and difficult to understand

• poorly written

• smaller than a loaf of bread

• so small as to resemble a cell

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"Looks like we'll have to sectify the last pumpkin pie pie this year."

• to eat something whole in one sitting

• to cut food evenly between people

• to create a delicious pumpkin pie

• to celebrate Thanksgiving among a group of people

What is the most likely meaning of the underlined word?

"The Dallas Cowboys consistently gentificate their pathetic fanbase."

• to be a blue team

• to continually produce sadness through repeated failure

• to be worse than the Philadelphia Eagles

• to be far away from a Super Bowl

YOUR TURN!

Invent a word using the root TELE or TELO-.

Use your new word in a sentence!