Context Clues, Roots, and Affixes

Question 1

X sea monsters✔ big sea animalsImaginary creatures

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✔ big sea animals

Question 2

X dangerousyoung✔ starving

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✔ starving

Question 3

Use the drop-down menus to answer these questions.

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From these clues, you can figure out that emancipated means .: freed; Which word in this sentence is an antonym of emancipated?: controlled

Question 4

Use the drop-down menus to identify the roots in these English words.

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Retainer:: tain; Inductive:: duc; Convivial:: viv; Typography:: graph

Question 5

Use the drop-down menus and your knowledge of word roots to guess the meaning of each word.

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Autograph:: very valuable; Automobile:: being rude to another

Question 6

Use the drop-down menus and your knowledge of word roots to guess the meaning of each word.

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✔ very alive; Autograph:: very valuable; Vivacious:: moving by itself; Automobile:: being rude to another; Tenacious:: holding on tightly

Question 7

✔ holding on tightlybeing rude to another

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✔ holding on tightly

Question 8

Which two languages does the word “vocabulary” come from?

Revolt · Accepted Answer

Latin and French

Question 9

Read this sentence from The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and choose the meaning of the word revived.

Revolt · Accepted Answer

brought back to life

Context Clues, Roots, and Affixes Answers