Directions & Guidelines
• You may not use your book or notes during the
game.
• Each team must select a speaker—the only person
who can tell me the answers.
• If a team gets their question wrong, the next team
will have a chance to steal the points. Despite
which team answers the question correctly, the
next team in line to choose a question will go.
• The winning team will receive 5 points to be
added to their unit test grade.
Definitions Synonyms Antonyms
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Words
Mystery
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A preliminary statement.
What is preamble?
Someone who participates in a conversation.
Relating to laughter.
What are interlocutor, risible?
Transparent; clear.
A difficult and embarrassing situation.
Boorish or vulgar.
What are pellucid, imbroglio, churlish?
A suspension of an activity.
Carefree and lighthearted.
Impossible to defend or justify.
Likely.
What are moratorium, blithe, untenable, wont?
Of the same time period.
Childish; juvenile.
Feeling of offense; resentment.
Harmless.
Mutually destructive.
Who are coeval, puerile, umbrage, innocuous,
internecine?
Shrunken; gnarled.
What is wizened?
Organizer; proprietor.
Harmonic; melodic.
What are impresario, dulcet?
Delicate; breakable.
Subservient; ignoble.
Provoking; exciting.
What are frangible, servile, provocative?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Concoct; design; engineer.
Discursiveness; indirectness; evasion.
Berate; condemn; remonstrate.
Fluctuate; swing; waffle.
What are contrive, circumlocution, inveigh,
vacillate?
Luxurious; ostentatious; grandiose.
Insular; dogmatic.
Sycophant; flatterer.
Disaffect; antagonize.
Obsolete; outmoded.
Where is sybaritic, sectarian, toady, estrange,
archaic?
Stinginess.
What is largesse?
Disruption; gap.
Exclude; lack.
What are nexus; comprise?
Stasis.
Genuine; authentic.
Lengthen; increase.
What are metamorphosis, apocryphal, truncate?
Nonexistent.
Barren; infertile.
Bright; illuminated.
Abdicate; relinquish.
What are ubiquitous, arable, stygian, usurp?
Gluttonous; greedy.
Disapproval; rejection.
Aromatic; fragrant.
Vague.
Enlighten; comfort; encourage.
What are abstemious, kudos, putrid, eidetic,
disconcert?
Two words that mean “universal truth.”
What are axiom and maxim?
Two words that mean “ancient; extremely old;
outmoded.”
What are archaic and antediluvian?
Two words that mean “persistent.”
What are dogged, assiduous?
Three words that mean “arrogant/arrogance or
excessively proud/pride.”
What is haughty, contemptuous, hubris?
Three words meaning “abundance/an
abundance.”
What are rife, plethora, replete?
A ___________________ is not cosmopolitan.
What is a bumpkin?
Definitions:
Every day language.
To remove vulgar or objectionable material.
What are vernacular, expurgate?
Historically, penecillin was seen as a
________________ to relieve the
symptoms associated with
_____________________.
What are panacea and malaise?
Two deliberately misleading
stories/arguments.
Two deliberately misleading
stories/arguments.
Who are canard and sophistry?
The word that means the opposite of flippancy.
What is revere?
Final Jeopardy
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and the Answer:
Final Jeopardy
Write three context-rich
sentences for the following
words:
Solecism, Etymology, &
Accoutrement.