The Sports Gene Vocabulary

Match the following

• prowess

• to move in a lively, playful way

• gambol

• the process of pressing or flattening something to make it smaller

• Achilles tendon

• exceptional skill or ability

• compression

• to ask for something with emotion or sincerity, to entreat

• beseech

• the tough tissue that connects the muscles in the calf to the heel bone

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

The tough tissue that connects the muscles in the calf to the heel bone.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

To ask for something with emotion or sincerity, to entreat.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

The process of pressing or flattening something to make it smaller.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

To move in a lively, playful way.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

Exceptional skill of ability.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.4

What is the form (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...etc.) of the following word?

Achillies tendon: The athlete couldn't run because he hurt his Achilles tendon.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1.b

What is the form (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...etc.) of the following word?

beseech: She traveled to the royal palace to beseech the duke to spare her father's life and her speech was so eloquent that the duke agreed.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1.b

What is the form (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...etc.) of the following word?

compression: The doctor applied compression to try to reduce the swelling in the patient’s leg.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1.b

What is the form (noun, verb, adjective, adverb...etc.) of the following word?

gambol: The playful foal likes gamboling through the field.

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CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.9-10.1.b