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  • 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
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    Prefix PRE: Definition Match -- myVocabulary.com

    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 vocabulary 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, www.myvocabulary.com also features 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) prejudice
    2) predict
    3) presume
    4) preoccupation
    5) predominant
    6) prevail
    7) premature
    8) precaution
    Definition List
     
    A)  Care taken in advance; foresight; measure taken beforehand to prevent harm or secure good; safeguard (adjective)
    B)  To declare in advance; foretell on the basis of observation, experience or scientific reasoning (verb)
    C)  Having superior strength, influence or authority (adjective)
    D)  Judgment from an unfair opinion; preconceived idea, usually unfavorable; unreasonable bias, intolerance or irrational hostility towards a group, race or person (noun)
    E)  Happening, arriving, existing or performed before the proper or usual time (adjective)
    F)  The engagement or absorption of one’s attention beforehand (noun)
    G)  To expect with confidence; to suppose to be true without proof (verb)
    H)  To gain ascendancy through strength or superiority; to triumph; to become effective; to urge successful; to persist (verb)