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

• able to be seen

• visible

• going and seeing

• evidence

• proof, facts, confirmation

• visit

• plan or invent by careful thought

• divisive

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• provides definitions

• contradict

• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• verdict

• decision or judgment

• diction

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• dictionary

• word choice

• predict

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• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• dictate

• ruler with absolute power

• dictator

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• indicate

• show, point out

• valedictorian

• clear of suspicion

• vindicate

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• campaign,

  a push for change

• remove

• fixed

• movement

• unaffected,

  untouched

• moving

• producing strong emotion

• immovable

• take away,

  get rid of

• unmoved

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• marked or carved,

  dedication

• describe

• document by hand, unpublished text

• prescribe

• recommend as beneficial

• inscription

• give details

• scribe

• record keeper

• manuscript

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• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• horoscope

• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• microscopic

• future forecast

• periscope

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• telescope

• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• scope

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• written list of books used

• graphic

• clear, powerful

• choreography

• writes dances

• graffiti

• writes scenes in film

• cinematographer

• writing on walls

• bibliography

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• inevitable

• void

• possible to avoid

• avoid

• stay away from

• unavoidable

• large hole or empty space

• devoid

• be without

• avoidable

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• explode, or eject

• abrupt

• break or burst suddenly

• erupt

• interrupt

• rupture

• dishonest

• corrupt

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• disrupt

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• first letters of someone's name

• diagram

• computer instructions

• grammar

• projected image

• hologram

• drawing to show how something works

• program

• rules of writing

• monogram

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