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ACT Test #5 Definition Match — myvocabulary

  • 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 ACT test prep vocabulary list with proper definitions. Use the pull down “Select” bar to select the letter match.
When you hit “Submit,” you will get back the correct ACT test prep answers, the percentage score for the correct answers and a sentence.
Clue:

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You have permission to print ACT test prep word puzzles for more vocabulary word study at home or in classes.

Word List

1) GENEALOGY
2) ASPIRATION
3) IMPELLED
4) COMPULSIVE
5) REPELLENT
6) HOMOGENEOUS
7) SPRIGHTLY
8) EXPULSION
9) TRANSPIRED
10) PROGENY
11) GENESIS
12) ESPRIT

Definition List

A) To drive or urge forward; to impart motion to; to compel through moral pressure (past tense) (verb)
B) Composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; essentially alike (adjective)
C) An origin, creation or beginning; the first book of the Bible (noun)
D) The study of family lines; a record of ancestry or descent (noun)
E) State of driving or forcing out or away; act of ejecting or discharging (noun)
F) Liveliness of expression, mind, spirit or wit; dynamic intelligence (noun)
G) Characterized by perfectionism, rigidity, conscientiousness or an obsessive concern for order and detail (adjective)
H) A strong desire, longing or hope; ambition; a goal or objective desired (noun)
I) Tending to drive away or ward off; resistant or impervious; causing distaste or aversion (adjective)
J) Full of energy and spirit; acting like an elf, fairy or goblin (adjective)
K) Children; offspring collectively; something that originates from something else (noun)
L) To occur, happen or take place; to emit or give off through the surface, as of leaves or the body (past tense) (verb)
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