Word Families for Root Words 1

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

• going and seeing

• evidence

• causing disagreement or division

• visible

• proof, facts, confirmation

• divisive

• plan or invent by careful thought

• visit

• able to be seen

• devise

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• word choice

• dictionary

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• predict

• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• contradict

• provides definitions

• verdict

• decision or judgment

• diction

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• ruler with absolute power

• dictate

• show, point out

• vindicate

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• valedictorian

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• indicate

• clear of suspicion

• dictator

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• producing strong emotion

• movement

• fixed

• remove

• take away,

  get rid of

• unmoved

• campaign,

  a push for change

• moving

• unaffected,

  untouched

• immovable

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• record keeper

• prescribe

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• manuscript

• recommend as beneficial

• scribe

• give details

• inscription

• document by hand, unpublished text

• describe

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• future forecast

• horoscope

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• scope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• microscopic

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• periscope

• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• telescope

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• clear, powerful

• graffiti

• writing on walls

• choreography

• written list of books used

• bibliography

• writes dances

• graphic

• writes scenes in film

• cinematographer

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• stay away from

• unavoidable

• be without

• devoid

• inevitable

• avoidable

• possible to avoid

• void

• large hole or empty space

• avoid

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• break or burst suddenly

• disrupt

• interrupt

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• rupture

• dishonest

• corrupt

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• abrupt

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• computer instructions

• program

• projected image

• grammar

• first letters of someone's name

• monogram

• drawing to show how something works

• hologram

• rules of writing

• diagram

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