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    CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
    Precise Meaning: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4e, 3.4d, 4.4c, 5.4c, 6.4c, 7.4c, 8.4c, 9-10.4c, 11-12.4c
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    Root-a-Week CEPT-CIP-CAP Definition Match -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    MATCH the Latin roots CEPT-CIP-CAP numbered in the left hand column with their definitions in letters A to L in the right hand column. Use the pull down Select bar to choose the correct letter match.
    When you hit Submit, you will get back the correct vocabulary answers as well as the percentage score for correct answers.
    Clue:
    These Latin roots CEPT-CIP-CAP come from Root-a-Week word puzzles. In addition to this Latin root Definition Match activity, www.myvocabulary.com also includes a free Interactive Puzzle and Fill-in-the-Blanks with these 12 words.
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    Word List
     
    1) CAPTIVATE
    2) CONCEIT
    3) CONCEPT
    4) CAPTIVE
    5) PERCEPTIVE
    6) CAPTION
    7) CONCEPTION
    8) EXCEPTION
    9) INTERCEPT
    10) PRECEPT
    11) RECEIPT
    12) INCONCEIVABLE
    13) RECEPTACLE
    14) CAPABLE
    15) DECEIVE
    16) ACCEPTABLE
    Definition List
     
    A)  Meeting minimum requirements; pleasing to the receiver; welcome; agreeable; tolerable (adjective)
    B)  Having the ability, capacity or power to do something; of such a nature as to permit (adjective)
    C)  The heading, esp. of an article or document; explanation accompanying a pictorial illustration (noun)
    D)  To attract and win over; to charm; to fascinate (verb)
    E)  Taken or help prisoner especially in war; held or confined so as to prevent escape (noun)\r\n
    F)  An excessively favorable opinion of one\\\'s own ability or importance; vanity; too much pride in oneself (noun)
    G)  General notion or idea; an object of a thought; a theme or image (noun)
    H)  Fertilization; something that is held as an opinion, idea or design; a notion (noun)
    I)  To mislead by a false statement or appearance; to trick or to impose a false idea (verb)
    J)  An instance or case not conforming to the general rule; act of excluding or leaving out (noun)
    K)  Incapable of being comprehended or fully grasped; so unlikely as to have been thought unimaginable (adjective)
    L)  To stop or interrupt the course or progress of; to take, seize or halt (verb)
    M)  Having keenness of insight, understanding or intuition; showing the power or faculty of awareness (adjective)
    N)  A maxim; a principle or rule by which one acts or conducts one's life (noun)
    O)  A written acknowledgment of goods or money; something that is accepted or taken (noun)
    P)  A container, device, etc., that receives or holds something (noun)