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Word Roots 7: Beginner-roots SPECT, STA, VERT, all 12 words — myVocabulary.com

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Directions:

The Latin roots are: SPECT/SPEC = watch, see, look, appear; STA/SIST = stand, place; and VERT/VERS = turn
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Clue:

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Vocabulary Word List:

Latin word roots: SPECT/SPEC = watch, see, look, appear; STA/SIST = stand, place; VERT/VERS = turn.

  • Beginner: advertisement, circumstance, constant, conversation, distant, inspection, prospect, revert, spectacle, standard, suspect, vertical
  • Intermediate: anniversary, conspicuous, disrespect, diversify, establish, speculate, stamina, statistics, superstitious, suspicion, universal, versatility
  • Advanced: auspicious, aversion, circumspect, constituents, despicable, destitute, ecstasy, extrovert, obstinate, perverse, specious, vertigo

1) Official examination or review; the act of examining carefully and critically, esp. for flaws (noun)

2) Something expected; possibility; a potential customer or purchaser (noun)

3) To have doubts about; to distrust; to surmise to be true or probable (verb)

4) A public performance or display; something seen or capable of being seen (noun)

5) Informal spoken interchange of thoughts or information; oral communication between people (noun)

6) Being perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; upright (adjective)

7) A paid announcement; a public notice esp. in print in newspapers or magazines (noun)

8) To turn to a former habit, practice or belief; to go back in thought (verb)

9) Remote in time, place or connection; far off or apart in space (adjective)

10) An acknowledged measure of comparison for quantitative or qualitative value; criterion (noun)

11) Unchangeable; continual; faithful (adjective)

12) A fact or event, especially in relation to others; a detail (noun)

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