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Word Roots 12: Beginner-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) Not severe, rough or violent; kind or amiable; refined (adjective)

2) True to all of a particular class, group or body; common to most; widespread (adjective)

3) Person trained or skilled in the practical application of science or math (noun)

4) A spirit, often appearing in human form, that carries out the wishes of the person summoning (noun)

5) Regular throbbing of the arteries caused by the successive contractions of the heart (noun)

6) State of driving or causing to move forward or onward as well as sustain in motion (noun)

7) To cause to vanish; to drive off in various directions; to disperse. (verb)

8) Having a powerful and irresistible effect; tending to force or drive a course of action (adjective)

9) To sweat; to secrete a salty, watery fluid from the sweat glands (verb)

10) Stimulation of the mind or emotions to a high level of feeling or activity; divine guidance (noun)

11) Apparatus to produce artificial inhalation; filtering device to prevent breathing noxious gas (noun)

12) Without ardor, vigor or zeal; without the animating principle of life. (adjective)

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