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Word Roots 4: Beginner-roots GRAD, MOT, CAS/CID, all 12 words — 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.
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Directions:

The Latin roots are: GRAD = step, walk, degree; MOT = move; CAS/CID/CAD = fall, sink.

To solve the puzzle, use the definition clues given in the word boxes to determine the key words. Put your answers INSIDE the 12 word boxes. Click ” SUBMIT” to get all the correct answers, the use of each word in a sentence, a comment and your score.
Clue:

Study the vocabulary word story below the puzzle to see the words in context. Having trouble with unfamiliar words? Click the submit button for answers. Redo the puzzle as often as needed.
Vocabulary Word List:

The Latin roots: GRAD = step, walk, degree; MOT = move; CAS/CID/CAD = fall, sink

Beginner words: cascade, casualty, centigrade, commotion, emotional, gradually, graduation, incidence, ingredient, momentarily, occasional, remote

Intermediate words: accidentally, aggression, cadaver, cadence, coincidence, congressman, digress, momentous, motivate, mutiny, progressive, promotion

Advanced words: decadent, deciduous, degradation, demotion, gradient, mobilization, momentum, motif, occidental, recidivism, regressive, transgression

1) Occurring or appearing at irregular or infrequent intervals; intended for supplementary use when needed (adjective)

2) Involving the feelings of joy, sorrow, fear, love, etc. (adjective)

3) Taking place or changing by small steps or degrees; little by little; slowly (adverb)

4) Far apart; secluded; out-of-the-way; distant in time or relationship (adjective)

5) The way in which something falls or distributes itself; rate or range of occurrence or influence (noun)

6) Violent or tumultuous action or activity; noisy disturbance; agitation; social upheaval (noun)

7) Ceremony of conferring degrees; award or acceptance of an academic degree or study (noun)

8) Divided into 100 degrees as a scale; abbreviation is cent.; symbol is C (adjective)

9) One who is harmed, injured, lost or killed in a serious accident (noun)

10) Something that enters as an element or component part into a mixture (noun)

11) For a short period of time; briefly; imminently (adverb)

12) A waterfall descending over a steep, rocky surface; a torrent (noun)

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