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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 VERT-VERS Definition Match -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    MATCH the Latin roots VERT-VERS 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 VERT-VERS 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.
    You have permission to make a printable copy of Root-a-Week word puzzles for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
    Word List
     
    1) EXTROVERT
    2) VERSATILITY
    3) INVERT
    4) REVERT
    5) VERTEBRATE
    6) ADVERSARY
    7) INADVERTENTLY
    8) CONTROVERSY
    9) UNIVERSAL
    10) CONVERSATION
    11) ADVERTISEMENT
    12) ANNIVERSARY
    13) DIVERSIFY
    14) VERTICAL
    15) TRAVERSE
    16) VERTIGO
    Definition List
     
    A)  An opponent; person who fights determinedly, continuously and relentlessly (noun)
    B)  A paid announcement in newspapers or magazines; a public notice or a broadcast (noun)
    C)  Yearly recurrence of the date of a past event; celebration of a date (noun)
    D)  An unusually prolonged public dispute concerning a matter of opinion; strife or argument (noun)
    E)  Oral communication between people; an informal interchange of thoughts or information (noun)
    F)  To give variety to; to make completely unlike; to expand by making different products (verb)
    G)  An outgoing person; someone concerned with the social environment, not one\\\'s self (noun)
    H)  Unintentional lack of care; accidentally; heedlessly; inattentively (adverb)
    I)  To turn inside out or upside down; to reverse in position, direction or relationship (verb)
    J)  A return to a former habit, practice or belief; to come or go back (verb)
    K)  To pass or move over, along or through (verb)
    L)  Applicable everywhere or in all cases; characteristic of all or the whole (adjective)
    M)  An animal that has a backbone (an internal skeleton of bone or cartilage) (noun)
    N)  Capability of adapting or turning easily from one to another of various tasks; changeability (noun)
    O)  Upright; being perpendicular to the plane of the horizon; plumb (adjective)
    P)  Dizzying sensation; disordered condition where surroundings whirl about (noun)