Short, but clearly understandableTo brief, vote for me; I’m great!

Succinct (adj)Succinctly (adv)

Bi-

Two

Claiming beliefs

that one does not

really possess or follow; falseness

Stop smoking; it’s bad.

Hypocrisy (noun)Hypocritical (adj)Hypocritically (adv)Hypocrite (noun)

The direct opposite of what a character, audience or person

expects.

Irony (noun)Ironic (adj)Ironically (adv)

opposite

Dis-

To feel a deep, brewing anger

Seethe (verb)

Someone blamed for the faults of others

Scapegoat (noun)

Stubbornly unyielding; won’t surrender to begging.

Standing firm. Determined.

Adamant (adj)Adamantly (adv)

Di-

Two

Occurring at just the right time

Opportune (adj)Opportunely (adv)Opportunity (noun)

Guilt and regret

Remorse (noun) Remorseful (adj) Remorsefully (adv)

Unable to be fixed

Irreparable (adj)

Irreparably (adv)

To banish or exclude someone from a group

Ostracize (verb)Ostracism (noun)ostracizing (adj)

Doubting, distrustful, pessimistic

Cynical (adj)• Cynically (adv)

Someone or something that takes and takes without giving in return

Parasite (noun)

Parasitic (adj)Parasitically (adv)

Directly stated, spelled

out clear

Clean your room by five, son!

Explicit (adj)Explicitly (adv)

Understood, but not clearly

stated or written

Implicit (adj)Implicitly

Easily tricked

Gullible (adj)Gullibly (adv)

-DOM-ILE-ISM-OUS-TION

= quality or state

-AL-IC

-ULAR

= relating to

Ambi-

“Both”

Ante-

“Before”

Un- and In-

Not

Centi-

hundred

Recklessly ignoring what is right; immoral, cruel or excessive

liars

Wanton (adj.)Wantonly (adverb)Wantonness (noun)

• To agree with

Concur (verb)

Auto-

self

-arium

Place of

Anti-

against

Deliberate, on purpose,

without hiding, obvious

Blatant (adj)Blatantly (adv)

Omni-Pan-

“all”

two

Di-

bi-

around

Circum-

ten

Deci-

From or

down

De-

The one working against the protagonist; the one

we want to fail

Antagonist (noun)Antagonistic (adj)Antagonistically(adv)

Foreshadows something bad is going to happen

Ominous (adj)ominously (adv)

Firmly sticking to moral beliefs

or values

Integrity (noun)

What matters to a person regardless of consequences or what others think

Prerogative (noun)

Who the story is about;

the one we want to win

Protagonist (noun)

Super freaked out; upset

Distraught (adj)Distraughtly(adv)

opposite

Dis-

same

homo

OUT

Ex-

DIFFERENT

hetero

• To understand, to comprehend

Fathom (verb)