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

• divisive

• proof, facts, confirmation

• visit

• causing disagreement or division

• visible

• going and seeing

• evidence

• able to be seen

• devise

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• foretell, guess what will happen next

• dictionary

• decision or judgment

• contradict

• word choice

• verdict

• provides definitions

• predict

• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• diction

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• show, point out

• dictate

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• indicate

• clear of suspicion

• valedictorian

• ruler with absolute power

• vindicate

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• dictator

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• unaffected,

  untouched

• moving

• campaign,

  a push for change

• remove

• producing strong emotion

• unmoved

• fixed

• movement

• take away,

  get rid of

• immovable

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• document by hand, unpublished text

• inscription

• give details

• manuscript

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• describe

• recommend as beneficial

• scribe

• record keeper

• prescribe

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• future forecast

• microscopic

• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• periscope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• horoscope

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• telescope

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• scope

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• clear, powerful

• bibliography

• written list of books used

• cinematographer

• writing on walls

• graphic

• writes scenes in film

• choreography

• writes dances

• graffiti

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• inevitable

• void

• stay away from

• avoidable

• be without

• avoid

• large hole or empty space

• unavoidable

• possible to avoid

• devoid

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• break or burst suddenly

• abrupt

• dishonest

• disrupt

• interrupt

• corrupt

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• rupture

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• first letters of someone's name

• hologram

• computer instructions

• diagram

• projected image

• monogram

• drawing to show how something works

• grammar

• rules of writing

• program

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