Improving Vocabulary with Word Parts and Context Clues

Question 1

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

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✔ having a large body; Corpulent:: having a large body; Dormancy:: state of rest; Regenerate:: to grow again

Question 2

✔ state of reststate of growthstate of confusion

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✔ state of rest

Question 3

to seek revengeto provide electricity✔ to grow again

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✔ to grow again

Question 4

Use the drop-down menus and your knowledge of suffixes to choose the correct word for each sentence.

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✔ archaeologist; The searched for artifacts in a field.: archaeologist; During the civil war, the country found itself in a state of near .: anarchy; He was when he learned that the director had given the role to another actor.: furious

Question 5

anarchic✔ anarchy

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✔ anarchy

Question 6

✔ furiousfury

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✔ furious

Question 7

Use your knowledge of context clues, word roots, and affixes to determine the meaning of the italicized words in this passage.

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✔ government of a few people; Oligarchy most likely means “a .”: government of a few people; Edicts most likely means “.”: laws; Extirpated most likely means “.”: destroyed

Question 8

requests✔ lawstaxes

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✔ laws

Question 9

✔ destroyedrevisedaccepted

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✔ destroyed

Question 10

Use word roots and context clues to determine which word best completes each sentence.

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✔ verbatim; Plagiarism is the act of copying a writer’s words and claiming them as one’s own.: verbatim; I had a sense of when I saw the girl who looked just like her mother used to.: déjà vu; I trust you completely. You have complete to arrange the party.: carte blanche

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