Root words VAC

When meteorologists predicted a tsunami for the region, the coastal people were forced to _______ their homes.

• evacuate

• vacuum

• vacant

An apartment complex was torn down, leaving a _______ lot on which the neighborhood children played ball.

• vacate

• vacant

• vacation

My family got a new _______ to clean up all the hair our cat sheds.

• vacancy

• evacuate

• vacant

• vacuum

The young girl tried to sleep on a cot in the noisy gym where she had been taken as an _____ after the hurricane warning.

• vacant

• vacuum

• evacuee

• evacuate

Thunder and lightning forced all the swimmers to _______ the pool.

• evacuee

• vacant

• vacation

• vacate

Creating a _____ is a very difficult thing to do because it is nearly impossible to make a space without any air or other gases.

• vacuum

• vacancy

• evacuation

• vacate

Farmers must _____ their grazing animals to protect them from flooding fields.

• vacate

• evacuate

• vacancy

• vacant

When Juan moved away, he left a _______ in the fifth grade class.

• evacuee

• vacate

• vacancy

• vacuum

The town was like a ghost town after the mass _________.

• evacuation

• vacancy

• evacuee

• vacation