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Word Roots 12: Intermediate-roots GEN, PUL, SPIR

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Directions:

This lesson plan features the Latin roots GEN = birth, race, kind of; PUL-PEL = drive, pull; SPIR = breathe
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 GEN = birth, race, kind of; PUL-PEL = drive, pull; SPIR = breathe.

Beginner words: compelling, dispel, engineer, general, genie, gentle, inspiration, perspire, propulsion, pulse, respirator, spiritless

Intermediate words: compulsory, conspiracy, expire, genetics, genocide, impulsive, ingenuity, pulsate, regeneration, repulsive, respiration, spirituality

Advanced words: aspiration, compulsive, esprit, expulsion, genealogy, genesis, homogeneous, impelled, progeny, repellent, sprightly, transpired

1) Renewel or restoration of a body or body part after injury or as a normal process.(noun)

2) Quality of being cleverly inventive, resourceful or skilled in design or execution.(noun)

3) Branch of biology dealing with the principles and mechanisms of heredity. (noun)

4) Deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, racial or cultural group. (noun)

5) To come to an end; to terminate; to emit the last breath. (verb)

6) Act of agreeing together, especially secretly, to do something wrong, illegal or evil. (noun)

7) Quality of the soul or spirit; being religious; incorporeal or immaterial. (noun)

8) Inhalation and exhalation of air for the purpose of maintaining life; breathing. (noun)

9) Required; mandatory; something employing or exerting force or constraint. (adjective)

10) Causing repugnance or aversion; tending to drive away or keep at a distance. (adjective)

11) To beat or throb; to vibrate; to expand or contract rhythmically. (verb)

12) Actuated or swayed by a sudden, involuntary inclination; impetuous. (adjective)

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