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RE,A.DING FOR
MEANING
-JECTto throw
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your jet pilot opeakinq. From the
jetoam beneath ua, I conjecture
that
someone down there io in bi1
trouble, Unless you objeat, I am
goin6 down for a cloaer look,
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Rootster skims over the sea, and soon we spot a dejected-looking group of sailors huddled on a rock
ietty. The retnains of their boat and the cargo they hadjettisoned bob around in the rough waves.
Our courageous captain prepares to launch aprojectile of emergency supplies. "Wait!" inlerjects
one of the passengers, a doctor. He holds a medical bag full of pain-kill ing injections. "Emergency
treatment is one area I know very well. Send me down there!"
Rootster reiects this idea due to the danger. He proceeds to drop the rescue package. We anxiously
watch its traiectory. Will the package hit its target? Will the supplies help the sailors until a ship can
pick them up?
ROOTING FOR MEANING
-JECTWrite definitions for the boldfaced words. Refer to a dictionary. Include the root meaning (throw) in
each definition.
Example: projectile-an object thrown through the air.
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Schaffer Publications, lnc.
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FS-10204 Vocabulary Development Using Roots and Biddles