Word Families for Root Words 1

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

• plan or invent by careful thought

• visible

• causing disagreement or division

• visit

• proof, facts, confirmation

• evidence

• able to be seen

• divisive

• going and seeing

• devise

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• decision or judgment

• verdict

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• dictionary

• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• predict

• word choice

• contradict

• provides definitions

• diction

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• show, point out

• valedictorian

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• dictator

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• indicate

• ruler with absolute power

• dictate

• clear of suspicion

• vindicate

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• take away,

  get rid of

• movement

• fixed

• unmoved

• campaign,

  a push for change

• remove

• producing strong emotion

• immovable

• unaffected,

  untouched

• moving

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• give details

• prescribe

• recommend as beneficial

• inscription

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• manuscript

• record keeper

• scribe

• document by hand, unpublished text

• describe

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• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• microscopic

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• periscope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• horoscope

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• telescope

• future forecast

• scope

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• writes scenes in film

• graffiti

• clear, powerful

• graphic

• writing on walls

• cinematographer

• written list of books used

• choreography

• writes dances

• bibliography

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• inevitable

• avoid

• large hole or empty space

• unavoidable

• possible to avoid

• avoidable

• stay away from

• void

• be without

• devoid

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• dishonest

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• rupture

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• corrupt

• break or burst suddenly

• abrupt

• interrupt

• disrupt

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• drawing to show how something works

• grammar

• projected image

• diagram

• first letters of someone's name

• hologram

• rules of writing

• program

• computer instructions

• monogram

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