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Word Roots 8: Beginner-roots SENT, GRAT, PON, all 12 words — myVocabulary.com

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Directions:

This lesson plan features the Latin roots SENT-SENS = feel, perceive, think; GRAT-GRAC-GREE = thankful, pleasing; PON-POS = place, put
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Clue:

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Vocabulary Word List:

Latin roots SENT-SENS = feel, be aware, think; GRAT-GRAC-GREE = thankful, pleasing; PON-POS = place, put.
Beginner words: agreement, composition, congratulate, consent, grateful, gratitude, insensitive, nonsense, opponent, postpone, sensation, suppose
Intermediate words: compost, congratulatory, disagreeable, disgraceful, exposure, gratify, postal, resentment, sensor, sentimental, sentinel, supposition
Advanced words: assent, consensus, dissension, exposition, extrasensory, gratification, gratis, gratuitous, impound, ingratiate, proponent, repose

1) An adversary; a person who is against you in a game or controversy (noun)

2) To consider (something) as a possibility or plan; to assume for the sake of an argument (verb)

3) To put off to a later time; to delay; to defer; to place after or subordinate (verb)

4) To express one’s pleasure and joy to another person at that person’s success (verb)

5) Feeling or expressing appreciation or thankfulness; obliged (adjective)

6) Quality or feeling of being thankful, warmly appreciative of kindness or of benefits received (noun)

7) The act of coming to a mutual arrangement; the state of being in accord (noun)

8) Something without meaning or substance; words conveying absurd ideas (noun)

9) Cause of a feeling or interest; perception or awareness of stimuli through the senses (noun)

10) Not readily or excessively affected by external influences; unheeding; not having feelings through the senses (adjective)

11) To agree to an expressed wish or proposed action; to permit or approve (verb)

12) The arrangement of elements or parts; a short essay written as a school exercise (noun)