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Thanksgiving Day vocabulary word puzzle #2 — myvocabulary.com

  • The Interactive Lesson Plan puzzle is 1 of 8 vocabulary activities and word puzzles.
  • Use the Greek and Latin word root word list to select the correct answer. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • The AUDIO word story is available in all Root Words Lesson Plans #1 through #6.
  • Common Core alignment to a Interactive Puzzle is to 4 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Greek and Latin Roots", "Precise Meaning" and "Context". CCSS Alignment Strand numbers for Specific Grades: Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4 Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Directions:

To solve the Thanksgiving Day vocabulary puzzle use the Latin root or word part, the word definition, part of speech and the Thanksgiving vocabulary word list. Put your answers INSIDE the word boxes and move down to the next Thanksgiving Day vocabulary puzzle. When you hit Submit, you will get back the correct answers, the use of the Thanksgiving Day vocabulary word list in a sentence and the percentage score for correct answers.

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Clue:

In addition to this interactive puzzle for Thanksgiving vocabulary, myvocabulary.objectsdev.com also offers a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Search, Crossword, Definition Match, True or False, Synonym or Antonym and a Concentration activity. A Thanksgiving vocabulary list of 232 words is included on the homepage on the menu bar.
Click on the 425 Word Lists also located in the top menu bar on the home page.

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Mythology story surrounding the vocabulary word CORNUCOPIA used in the Thanksgiving Day vocabulary puzzles:
When Zeus was an infant he was nursed by an nymph named Amalthea. She fed him with milk from a goat and honey from the bees. Later, to show his gratitude, he took a goat’s horn, filled it with food, fruit and herbs and gave it to Amalthea. The horn would always be full of food whenever the nymph desired. It was truly a horn of plenty.
Vocabulary Word List:

Thanksgiving Day vocabulary word list:
blessing, celebration, colony, cornucopia, cranberry, dressing, feast, giblet, gobble, grandmother, harvest, Indian, maize, Mayflower, November, observation, pilgrim, pilgrimage, Plymouth, pumpkin, stuffing, Thanksgiving, turkey, Wampanoag

1) The heart, liver, gizzard or the like of a fowl Root (French) gibelet = a stew of game

2) Stuffing for a fowl; a sauce, especially for salad or cold foods Root (French) dresser = to prepare

3) Seasoned bread crumbs or other filling used inside poultry, vegetables, etc. before cooking Root (French) estoffer = to stuff

4) A firm, sour, dark-red berry that grows in marshes or bogs and belongs to the heath family Root (German) bere = berry

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