Word Roots: "Re"

What does the word "regress" mean?

• To go forward and improve

• To go backwards or get worse instead of better

• To build something new

• To make something cold

What does it mean to "refrigerate" something?

• To heat it up

• To make something cold again

• To break it apart

• To make it louder

If you "reconstruct" something, what are you doing?

• Destroying it

• Building it again after it was broken

• Making it smaller

• Throwing it away

What does "reminisce" mean?

• To forget about the past

• To think back or talk about happy times from the past

• To make something new

• To take something back

If you "retract" something, what are you doing?

• Saying it louder

• Taking back something you’ve said

• Making it colder

• Building it again

What does it mean to "restart" something?

• To stop it forever

• To start something over again

• To make it smaller

• To break it

What does "renounce" mean?

• To say you don’t want something anymore

• To make up after a fight

• To echo a sound

• To build something again

If a sound "reverberates," what does it do?

• It disappears quickly

• It echoes again or bounces around

• It gets colder

• It gets smaller

What does it mean to "reconcile" with someone?

• To fight with them again

• To make up again after a fight

• To forget about them

• To take back your words

What is "retrospect"?

• Thinking about the future

• Thinking back on something that already happened

• Making something cold

• Building something new