Word Families for Root Words 1

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

• able to be seen

• visible

• causing disagreement or division

• devise

• plan or invent by careful thought

• evidence

• proof, facts, confirmation

• visit

• going and seeing

• divisive

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• word choice

• diction

• foretell, guess what will happen next

• predict

• go against, oppose, assert the opposite

• dictionary

• provides definitions

• verdict

• decision or judgment

• contradict

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• show, point out

• dictate

• ruler with absolute power

• vindicate

• clear of suspicion

• dictator

• say aloud,

  lay down as law

• valedictorian

• highest ranking student, delivers speech

• indicate

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• fixed

• immovable

• producing strong emotion

• unmoved

• campaign,

  a push for change

• movement

• take away,

  get rid of

• remove

• unaffected,

  untouched

• moving

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• recommend as beneficial

• describe

• record keeper

• inscription

• marked or carved,

  dedication

• scribe

• document by hand, unpublished text

• manuscript

• give details

• prescribe

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• used in a submarine to see the unseen

• telescope

• look at carefully, assess, investigate

• horoscope

• instrument, makes objects appear nearer

• periscope

• future forecast

• microscopic

• tiny, only visible through a microscope

• scope

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• written list of books used

• choreography

• clear, powerful

• bibliography

• writes dances

• graffiti

• writing on walls

• graphic

• writes scenes in film

• cinematographer

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• inevitable

• void

• stay away from

• unavoidable

• possible to avoid

• devoid

• be without

• avoid

• large hole or empty space

• avoidable

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• dishonest

• corrupt

• sudden, unexpected, curt

• disrupt

• explode, or eject

• abrupt

• interrupt

• erupt

• break or burst suddenly

• rupture

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• rules of writing

• program

• computer instructions

• hologram

• first letters of someone's name

• diagram

• drawing to show how something works

• monogram

• projected image

• grammar

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