A root word is a portion of a base that do not stand alone and have no meaning for themselves.... but,a base word is a word that does not have any other words added either at the beginning or its ending....
A bunch of old white guys that gossip, they provide no new light to any situation. Tom Robinson's is it. they are described as busybodies
I would say descriptive but what we the options
The leader of Communist Russia, Joseph Stalin, was paranoid of opposition. It was this paranoia that led to the Great Purge where millions of people were executed or sent to labor camps in Siberia.