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Word Roots 10: Beginner-roots JECT,PEND,LECT, all 12 words — myVocabulary.com

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Directions:

This lesson plan features the Latin roots JECT = throw, cast; PEND = hang, weigh; and LECT-LEG = choose, gather.
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-reading passage 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:

Latin roots JECT = throw, cast; PEND = hang, weigh; LECT-LEG = choose, gather.

Beginner: ADJECTIVE, DEJECTEDLY, DEPENDABLE, INDEPENDENT, INTELLECTUAL, LEGENDARY, NEGLIGENCE, PENTHOUSE, RECOLLECT, REJECT, SUBJECTIVE, SUSPEND

Intermediate: ADJACENT, APPENDAGE, CONJECTURE, DILIGENTLY, ILLEGIBLE, INTELLIGENTSIA, LEGACY, OBJECTIVE, PENDANT, PENDULUM, PERPENDICULAR, PROJECTION

Advanced: ABJECT, APPENDICITIS, ECLECTIC, ELECTORATE, IMPENDING, INTERJECTION, PENDULOUS, PREDILECTION, PROJECTILE, PROPENSITY, SACRILEGE, TRAJECTORY

1) Appealing to or engaging the mind for thinking or acquiring knowledge; placing high value on brain power (adjective)

2) Existing in an individual’s mind such as to be unaffected by the external world (adjective)

3) To hang by attachment to something above, especially so as to allow free movement (verb)

4) The quality, fact, or result of being careless and indifferent, or being remiss in the care or treatment of (noun)

5) Thinking or acting for oneself; not contingent upon something else; free from party commitments (adjective)

6) Pertaining to a non-historical or unverifiable story handed down by tradition from the past (adjective)

7) Member of a class of words used to modify a noun by limiting, describing or qualifying (noun)

8) Worthy of trust; reliable; capable of being relied upon for support or help (adjective)

9) To refuse to use, accept, grant or consider; to discard as useless (verb)

10) Apartment or dwelling on the roof or top of a building (noun)

11) Being very depressed, discouraged, or disheartened in spirit (adverb)

12) To remember; to recall a mental impression; to gather or assemble again (verb)

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