Word Families for Root Words 1

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

• going and seeing

• evidence

• causing disagreement or division

• visit

• plan or invent by careful thought

• devise

• proof, facts, confirmation

• divisive

• able to be seen

• visible

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• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• contradict

• word choice

• verdict

• provides definitions

• dictionary

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• diction

• decision or judgment

• predict

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• show, point out

• vindicate

• clear of suspicion

• indicate

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• dictate

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• valedictorian

• ruler with absolute power

• dictator

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• fixed

• movement

• producing strong emotion

• immovable

• campaign,

  a push for change

• moving

• unaffected,

  untouched

• unmoved

• take away,

  get rid of

• remove

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• document by hand, unpublished text

• manuscript

• record keeper

• prescribe

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• describe

• recommend as beneficial

• inscription

• give details

• scribe

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• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• horoscope

• future forecast

• microscopic

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• scope

• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• periscope

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• telescope

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• writes scenes in film

• graphic

• writes dances

• bibliography

• written list of books used

• choreography

• clear, powerful

• cinematographer

• writing on walls

• graffiti

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• inevitable

• avoidable

• stay away from

• void

• possible to avoid

• devoid

• be without

• unavoidable

• large hole or empty space

• avoid

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• sudden, unexpected, curt

• erupt

• explode, or eject

• abrupt

• dishonest

• disrupt

• interrupt

• rupture

• break or burst suddenly

• corrupt

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• rules of writing

• grammar

• first letters of someone's name

• monogram

• computer instructions

• hologram

• projected image

• diagram

• drawing to show how something works

• program

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