Word Riddle

I am the furthest point or limit of something because I am called ……?

• Ethnicity

• Enormity

• Extremity

• Seething

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2E

CCSS.L.2.4C

CCSS.L.2.4B

I am a straight line, and I run from the centre of a circle to the circumference of a circle or sphere. Can you guess my name?

• perimeter

• Diameter

• Diagonal

• Radius

I take ten long years to get completed, and then people call me a ……??

• Century

• Decade

• Millennium

• Ancient

Tags

CCSS.L.8.5A

I have the quality of being made up of exactly similar parts facing each other or around an axis because I am called ……?

• Symmetry

• Circumference

• Coordinates

• Probability

To hold out against something or someone OR to withstand an action or effect is to ……?

• Reluctantly

• Slumber

• Resist

• Coarse

I have a strong desire to know or learn something because my name is ……?

• Interpreting

• Descend

• Curiosity

• Accustomed

I am a semi-circular instrument and I measure angles. Who am I?

• Quarter

• Protractor

• Obtuse

• Perpendicular

When I begin to move more quickly and speed up OR if I increase in rate, amount or extent it would mean that I have ……?

• Illuminated

• Accelerated

• Swooped

• Traversed

When I feel or show anger or annoyance at what is perceived as unfair treatment, it means that I am ……?

• Indignant

• Dismissively

• Ghastly

• Frantically

I am one of the four equal or equivalent parts into which anything is/may be divided because I am a ……?

• Radius

• Quarter

• Diameter

• Polyhedron