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list & word games.
The word puzzles contain Latin word roots or word parts, definitions and parts of speech.
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1) ACT Test #2 Word Puzzle -- myvocabulary.com
Directions:
To solve the ACT test word puzzle, use the vocabulary word list and Latin or Greek word root. Put your
answers INSIDE the word puzzle.
At the bottom of the last interactive word puzzle, click "SUBMIT" for the correct answers and the use of
each vocabulary word in a sentence. Learn the vocabulary word list below the ACT word puzzle.
Clue:
To solve the ACT test vocabulary word, use the definition, part of speech and Latin or Greek word root.
All 12 words come from these three Latin roots: CEPT, CED and CUR. The correct answers are in the
ACT vocabulary word list.
WordBank:
ACT vocabulary list: antecedent, secede, precursor, precedent, perceptive, incursion, incessant,
inception, concur, cursory, emancipate, susceptible
ACT Test #2 Word Puzzle -- myvocabulary.com
1) To withdraw formally from membership in, or association with, a
group, organization etc. especially a political group (verb)
Root CED = go, yield
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2) The beginning of something: the origin: a start (noun)
Root CEPT = take, hold, seize
3) A person or thing that goes before; a forerunner; a harbinger
(noun)
Root CUR = run
4) Able to grasp mentally quickly and easily; with keen insight or
intuition (adjective)
Root CEPT = take, hold, seize
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5) To happen at the same time or together; coincide; to agree (with);
to be in accord (verb)
Root CUR = run
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6) An act, statement, legal decision, case etc. that may serve as an
example, reason or justification for a later one (adjective)
Root CED - go, yield
C E D
7) Hastily, often superficially done; performed rapidly with little
attention to detail (adjective)
Root CURS = run
8) Any happening or thing coming before in time, order or logic
(noun)
Root CED = go, yield
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9) Easily affected emotionally; having a sensitive nature or feelings
(adjective)
Root CEPT = take, hold, seize
C E P T
10) A running in or coming in especially when undesired; a
sudden, brief invasion or raid (noun)
Root CUR =run
C U R S
11) Continued or repeated without stopping or in a way that seems
endless; constant (adjective)
Root CESS = go, yield
12) To set free; to release from bondage, servitude or serfdom; to
free from restraint or control (verb)
Root CIP-CEPT = take, hold, seize
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