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Word Wealth 4.1: Latin Roots
cessgo, move (process)
flexbend, turn (flexible)
fusepour, combine (infuse)
graph- write, writing (graphics)
halebreathe (inhale)
herestick, cling (adhere)
ludeplay; run, lead, perform (prelude)
mutechange, transform (mutate)
ruptbreak, breaking (interrupt)
spirebreathe (inspire)
WRITE A SENTENCE OR DRAW A PICTURE ILLUSTRATING A WORD THAT USES THE ROOT INDICATED.
1. cess-
2. flex-
3. fuse-
4. graph-
5. hale-
6. here-
7. lude-
8. mute-
9. rupt-
10. spire-
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RELATED ROOTS
Insert each root into the proper sentence. (Hint: Do the obvious ones first—each is used only once!
spiratgressludefusegrediscript-
fract-
here-
flex-
graph-
scribe-
flect-
hale-
lus-
cede-
spire-
mute-
gram-
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_______________ 1. The story contained many literary al- ____ -ions.
_______________ 2. The re- ____ -or helped the patient recover from lung surgery.
_______________ 3. Try not to in- ____ the smoke during the experiment.
_______________ 4. I worked hard trying to remove the ad- ____ -ive tape on the cabinet.
_______________ 5. She in- ____ -d her name in his yearbook.
_______________ 6. The mirror re- ____ -ed the image of her face.
_______________ 7. Boris would not let foolish fears de- ____ him.
_______________ 8. Ad- ____ -ence to the rules is necessary in school.
_______________ 9. A hot school building makes us all per- ____.
_______________ 10. I made a Venn dia- ____ to illustrate the relationship.
_______________ 11. Jamie's ag- ____ -iveness concerned the preschool teachers.
_______________ 12. The teacher would always try to inter- ____ praise with her criticism.
_______________ 13. The administrator was in- ____ -ible about the cell phone policy.
_______________ 14. Beth was told that future in- ____ -ions of the rules would lead to suspension.
_______________ 15. The governor com- ____ -d the death sentence to live imprisonment.
_______________ 16. This medicine is sold only by pre- ____ -ion.
_______________ 17. ____ -ic organizers often help me plan my compositions.
_______________ 18. The bride pre- ____ -d the groom down the aisle.
_______________ 19. She stirred the in- ____ -ents into the saucepan.
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BONUS
PUZZLE:
Answer correctly
and receive FIVE
bonus points on
your vocabulary
quiz!
Match the animals
with the adjective
describing them:
ANIMALS:
bear
fox
frog
or
toad
lion
pig
wolf
ADJECTIVES:
leonine
lupine
porcine
ranine
ursine
vulpine
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