Interactive Puzzles

SAT Word Puzzle #6C– 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.
  • Common Core alignment to a Interactive Puzzle is to 4 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Greek and Latin Roots", "Precise Meaning" and "Context". CCSS Alignment Strand numbers for Specific Grades: Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4 Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b 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 Context: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4a, 3.4a, 4.4a, 5.4a, 6.4a, 7.4a, 8.4a, 9-10.4a, 11-12.4a
Directions:

To solve the SAT test prep word puzzle, use the vocabulary word list and Latin or Greek word roots. Put your answers INSIDE the word puzzle. Move down to the next SAT test prep puzzle.
At the bottom of the last interactive word puzzle, click SUBMIT for correct answers and the use of each vocabulary word in a sentence. Learn the vocabulary word list below the SAT word puzzle.

Clue:

To solve the SAT test prep vocabulary word, use the definition, part of speech and Latin or Greek word root. The correct answers are in the SAT vocabulary word list.

Vocabulary Word List:

SAT vocabulary word list:
acumen, chicanery, deleterious, epiphany, facetious, homogeneous, incognito, kinetic, loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism, obsequious, paradigm, precipitous, sanguine, unctuous, vacuous, xenophobe

1) A person who fears or hates foreigners, strange customs, etc. (noun) Root XENO = foreign, strange

2) Empty; lacking in or showing a lack of ideas, content, substance or intelligence; purposeless (adjective) Root VACU = empty

3) Characteristic of a salve or ointment; oily; greasy; excessively suave or smug (adjective) Root UNCT = anoint

4) Extremely steep; of the nature of a situation of great peril (adjective) Root CIPIT = head

5) Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident; reddish; ruddy (adjective) Root SANGUI = blood

6) An example serving as a model; pattern (noun) Root (pfx) PARA = side by side