Transcript Greek and Latin Roots JEOPARDY

Directions
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 Sit in a semi circle
 Buzzer Rules
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 If you know the answer, hit the buzzer.
 If you get it wrong, your team LOSES points!
JEOPARDY!
Unit 1 FIB
Unit 1 MC
Unit 2 FIB
Unit 2 MC
Unit 3 FIB
Unit 3 MC
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Unit One FIB—100
Harry may be a good chess
player, but he’s not _____________.
petulant
evince
invincible
protracted
retract
Answer: INVINCIBLE
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Unit One FIB—200
The relationship between the main
characters __________ the main themes of
the novel.
evinced
deduced
induct
conducive
impetuous
Answer: evineced
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Unit One FIB—300
Certain kinds of soil are more ________ to
growing prize roses.
evinced
deduced
induct
conducive
impetuous
Answer: CONDUCIVE
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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
Answer: PETULANT
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Unit One FIB—500
Wasn’t it kind of _________ to volunteer for
a job you knew nothing about?
evinced
deduced
induct
conducive
impetuous
Answer: IMPETUOUS
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Unit One MC—100
The _________ argument that raged in the
office for days was not __________ to getting
work done.
A. provincial; petulant
B. impetuous; provincial
C. petulant; protracted
D. protracted; conducive
Answer: D
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Unit One MC—200
Can we __________ from the uproar in the
newspapers that the senator has refused
to _________ his controversial statement?
A. retract; induce
B. deduce; retract
C. evince; deduce
D. retract; evince
Answer: B
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Unit One MC—300
What was the __________ for the supposedly
_________ hockey team’s decision not to
play in the game?
A. conviction; induce
B. impetus; invincible
C. impetus; petulant
D. provincial; retract
Answer: ?
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Unit One MC—400
Sam became so ________ that he ran away
and climbed a tree, and nothing could
________ him to come down.
A. protracted; intractable
B. conducive; evince
C. petulant; induce
D. provincial; retract
Answer: C
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Unit One MC—500
Nothing ______ Ben’s tendency to act
without thinking more than his _______
decision to become a daredevil pilot.
A. evinces; impetuous
B. retracts; impetuous
C. induces; intractable
D. deduces; retract
Answer: A
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Unit Two FIB—100
A(n) _______ summary of the day’s events
will be enough for me.
Compunctio
n
concise
infringe
infraction
fractious
Answer: CONCISE
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Unit Two FIB—200
Only special kind of surgery can _______
the tumor from the body.
excise
epitome
punctilious
anatomy
pungent
Answer: EXCISE
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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
Answer: COMPUNCTION
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Unit Two FIB—400
The author’s exhaustive writing on
French history took up several weighty
___________.
dichotomy
infractions
Tomes
punctilious
anatomy
incisive
Answer: TOMES
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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
Answer: PUNCTILIOUS
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Unit Two MC—100
Even though Alec had committed only a
minor _________ of the company rules, he
was punished severely because he
showed no _________.
A. infraction; compunction
B. infraction; anatomy
epitome; compunction
D. epitome; anatomy
C.
Answer: A
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Unit Two MC—200
Barbara is the _______ of a well-behaved
child and would never ______ upon her
siblings’ rights.
A. dichotomy; excise
B. epitome; excise
C. epitome; infringe
D. dichotomy; infringe
Answer: C
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Unit Two MC—300
For her _____ essays and _______ attention
to detail, Victoria was named best student
of her English class.
A. fractious; pungent
B. punctilious; excise
C. fractious; concise
D. incisive; punctilious
Answer: D
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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.
A.
B.
C.
D.
dichotomy; incisive
infraction; excise
anatomy; infringe
epitome; excise
Answer: A
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Unit Two MC—500
The _________ young brothers stopped their
fighting and screaming when the
___________ aroma of dinner from the
kitchen hit their nostrils.
A.
B.
C.
D.
incisive; concise
fractious; pungent
punctilious; fractious
pungent; incisive
Answer: B
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Unit Three FIB—100
The __________ for the theft of the statue
has not yet been determined.
motive
emissary
abject
motif
expel
Answer: MOTIVE
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Unit Three FIB—200
The high winds and cold rain _________ us
to postpone the picnic.
compelled
emoted
conjecture
abject
motif
Answer: COMPELLED
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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
Answer: EMISSARY
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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
Answer: MOTIF
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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
Answer: DISMISSIVE
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Unit Three MC—100
The scientific community is usually
__________ of new theories at first, saying
they are mere __________ instead of fact.
A. emotive; conjecture
B. dismissive; conjecture
C. dejected; motive
D. dismissive; motive
Answer: B
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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.
A.
B.
C.
D.
conjecture; dismissive
motif; emotive
emissary; dejected
impulse; remiss
Answer: D
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Unit Three MC—400
The ________ look on the face of our _________ to the
opposing army told me he had failed to deliver his
message.
A. dismissive; conjecture
B. emotive; emissary
C. abject; motif
D. dejected; emissary
Answer: D
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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.
A. conjecture; abject
B. motif; remiss
C. motive; abject
D. emissary; emotive
Answer: C
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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.
A. conjecture; expelled
B. emissary; compelled
C. motif; compelled
D. emissary; expelled
Answer: C
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