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  • The DAILY WORD ROOT PUZZLE is 1 of 8 vocabulary activities and word puzzles using Greek and Latin word roots.
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  • Common Core alignment to Daily Word Root Puzzle is to the key phrase:
    "GREEK & LATIN AFFIXES and ROOTS". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
    "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b

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    Of the nature of books and writing; well-read (adjective)
    Root LITER=letter

    Self-satisfied; feeling or showing an inclination to please; contented to a fault (adjective)
    Root PLAC=please

    Substance counteracting a poison; a serum (noun)
    Root TOX=poison

    A totalitarian state where all economic and social activities are controlled (noun)
    Root MUNI=official duties, functions

    Person fleeing from justice, arrest or pursuit; a runaway (noun)
    Root FUG=flee