Word Families for Root Words 1

Use your knowledge of word parts to match the following words with their correct definitions.

• able to be seen

• divisive

• proof, facts, confirmation

• visit

• causing disagreement or division

• devise

• going and seeing

• evidence

• plan or invent by careful thought

• visible

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• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• dictionary

• decision or judgment

• diction

• provides definitions

• verdict

• word choice

• predict

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• contradict

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• clear of suspicion

• indicate

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• dictate

• ruler with absolute power

• vindicate

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• valedictorian

• show, point out

• dictator

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• campaign,

  a push for change

• remove

• unaffected,

  untouched

• unmoved

• take away,

  get rid of

• moving

• producing strong emotion

• movement

• fixed

• immovable

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• record keeper

• scribe

• recommend as beneficial

• manuscript

• document by hand, unpublished text

• describe

• give details

• inscription

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• prescribe

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• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• periscope

• future forecast

• telescope

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• scope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• microscopic

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• horoscope

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• clear, powerful

• bibliography

• written list of books used

• graffiti

• writing on walls

• cinematographer

• writes scenes in film

• choreography

• writes dances

• graphic

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• be without

• devoid

• stay away from

• void

• possible to avoid

• unavoidable

• inevitable

• avoid

• large hole or empty space

• avoidable

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• break or burst suddenly

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• rupture

• dishonest

• disrupt

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• abrupt

• interrupt

• corrupt

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• projected image

• hologram

• computer instructions

• monogram

• drawing to show how something works

• diagram

• first letters of someone's name

• program

• rules of writing

• grammar

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