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Prefix COM: Definition Match — myVocabulary.com

  • These Definition Match vocabulary activities include vocabulary games and word puzzles with a vocabulary list. They are 1 of 8 free online word games.
  • The word puzzles contain Latin word roots or affixes, definitions and parts of speech. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • Common Core alignment to a Definition Match puzzle is to the key phrase "Precise Meaning". 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
Directions:

For this PREFIX activity, MATCH a vocabulary word with a number in the left hand column with the proper definition of the 8 words in letters “A to H” 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 answers as well as the percentage score for how many questions you answered correctly.
Clue:

These vocabulary words come from 14 PREFIX activities. In addition to this Definition Match exercise, myvocabulary.objectsdev.com also has a free Interactive Puzzle and Fill-in-the-Blanks. We will have a Word Find, Crossword, True/False exercise and a Concentration activity with these same 8 words.

You have permission to make a hard copy for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.

Word List

1) committee
2) coherence
3) complication
4) comparative
5) communication
6) compensation
7) compulsion
8) compassion

Definition List

A) The act or state of sticking together or holding fast as parts of the same mass; logical interconnection (noun)
B) Body of persons delegated or elected to consider a matter; a self-constituted organization to promote a common goal (noun)
C) Information transmitted or exchanged; an interchange of ideas/opinions (noun)
D) Measured by likeness or difference; relating to the degree of grammatical change to show levels of quality, quantity or relation (adjective)
E) Sorrow or pity aroused by the suffering or misfortune of another; sympathy (noun)
F) The art or state of making amends for loss or injury; payment to an unemployed or injured worker or his/her dependents; salary (noun)
G) An intricate or involved situation; something that makes a circumstance difficult (noun)
H) An irresistible impulse to do something; the state of occurring by overwhelming pressure (noun)
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