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Word Roots 3: CERN-CERT, JUR, LEG Advanced-Definition-Match 3 — myVocabulary.com

  • These Definition Match vocabulary activities include vocabulary games and word puzzles with a vocabulary list. They are 1 of 8 free online word games.
  • The word puzzles contain Latin word roots or affixes, definitions and parts of speech. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • Common Core alignment to a Definition Match puzzle is to the key phrase "Precise Meaning". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades: 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
Directions:

MATCH the vocabulary words numbered in the left hand column with their proper definitions in letters “A to P” in the right hand column. Use the pull down “Select” bar to choose the correct letter match.
When you hit “Submit”, you will get back the correct answers as well as the percentage score for how many questions you answered correctly.
Clue:

These vocabulary words come from the Session #3-Level 3. In addition to this Match exercise, myvocabulary.objectsdev.com also has a free Interactive Puzzle, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Find, Crossword, Synonym/Antonym Encounter, True/False exercise and will have a Concentration activity with these same 12 words.

You have permission to make a printable copy for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.

Word List

1) certify
2) discreet
3) relegate
4) secrecy
5) illegitimate
6) allegation
7) recrimination
8) secretion
9) indiscretion
10) jurisdiction
11) secrete
12) abjure
13) legacy
14) discriminate
15) unjustly
16) perjury

Definition List

A) Without or lacking fairness (adj)
B) To discharge, generate or release; to separate out a substance from cells (v)
C) To confine or send to an inferior or lower position, condition or place (v)
D) The willful giving of false testimony under oath, especially in a legal inquiry (n)
E) A bitter counter-charge or counter-accusation against an accuser (n)
F) Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor (n)
G) Not in accordance with established rules, principles or standards; incorrect by law (adj)
H) Right, power or authority to interpret and apply the law; the limits or territory where authority may be exercised (n)
I) To distinguish or note as different; to show partiality; to differentiate against (v)
J) To attest to formally or authoritatively; to confirm; to testify or vouch for; to guarantee (v)
K) An affirmation or assertion with little or no proof (n)
L) To repudiate or retract especially with formal solemnity; to recant; to forswear (v)
M) Having or showing good judgment in conduct and speech; prudent (adj)
N) Lack or prudence or individual choice or judgment; without power of free decision (n)
O) Habit or practice of concealing or hiding; a keeping from knowledge or view (n)
P) A product of glandular activity; a concealing or hiding of something (n)
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