Word Families for Root Words 1

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

• causing disagreement or division

• devise

• plan or invent by careful thought

• visit

• proof, facts, confirmation

• evidence

• going and seeing

• visible

• able to be seen

• divisive

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• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• predict

• word choice

• diction

• provides definitions

• contradict

• decision or judgment

• verdict

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• dictionary

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• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• vindicate

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• dictate

• clear of suspicion

• valedictorian

• show, point out

• indicate

• ruler with absolute power

• dictator

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• take away,

  get rid of

• movement

• producing strong emotion

• remove

• unaffected,

  untouched

• moving

• fixed

• unmoved

• campaign,

  a push for change

• immovable

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• marked or carved,

  dedication

• scribe

• document by hand, unpublished text

• describe

• give details

• prescribe

• recommend as beneficial

• inscription

• record keeper

• manuscript

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• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• horoscope

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• periscope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• telescope

• future forecast

• microscopic

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• scope

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• clear, powerful

• choreography

• written list of books used

• cinematographer

• writing on walls

• graffiti

• writes scenes in film

• graphic

• writes dances

• bibliography

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• possible to avoid

• unavoidable

• large hole or empty space

• void

• inevitable

• avoid

• stay away from

• avoidable

• be without

• devoid

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• sudden, unexpected, curt

• rupture

• dishonest

• abrupt

• interrupt

• disrupt

• break or burst suddenly

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• corrupt

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• projected image

• grammar

• computer instructions

• program

• first letters of someone's name

• monogram

• rules of writing

• diagram

• drawing to show how something works

• hologram

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