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Word Roots 12: Advanced-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) The study of family lines; record of ancestry or descent. (noun)

2) Composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; essentially alike. (adjective)

3) Children; offspring collectively; something that originates from something else. (noun)

4) An origin, creation or beginning; the first book of the Bible. (noun)

5) State of driving or forcing out or away; act of ejecting or discharging. (noun)

6) To drive or urge forward; to impart motion to; to compel through moral pressure. (verb)

7) Characterized by perfectionism, rigidity, conscientiousness or an obsessive concern for order and detail. (adjective)

8) Tending to drive away or ward off; resistant or impervious; causing distaste or aversion. (adjective)

9) To occur, happen or take place; to emit or give off through the surface, as of leaves or the body. (verb)

10) Acting like an elf, fairy or goblin. (adjective)

11) Liveliness of expression, mind, spirit or wit; dynamic intelligence. (noun)

12) A strong desire, longing or hope; ambition; a goal or objective desired. (noun)

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