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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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    Word Roots 3: CERN-CERT, JUR, LEG Advanced-Definition-Match 3 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions:
    MATCH the vocabulary words numbered in the left hand column with their proper definitions in letters "A to P" 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 the Session #3-Level 3. In addition to this Match exercise, www.myvocabulary.com also has a free Interactive Puzzle, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Find, Crossword, Synonym/Antonym Encounter, True/False exercise and will have a Concentration activity with these same 12 words.
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    Word List
     
    1) secrecy
    2) legacy
    3) certify
    4) jurisdiction
    5) discriminate
    6) relegate
    7) perjury
    8) abjure
    9) illegitimate
    10) secrete
    11) recrimination
    12) allegation
    13) secretion
    14) discreet
    15) unjustly
    16) indiscretion
    Definition List
     
    A)  To repudiate or retract especially with formal solemnity; to recant; to forswear (v)
    B)  An affirmation or assertion with little or no proof (n)
    C)  To attest to formally or authoritatively; to confirm; to testify or vouch for; to guarantee (v)
    D)  To distinguish or note as different; to show partiality; to differentiate against (v)
    E)  Not in accordance with established rules, principles or standards; incorrect by law (adj)
    F)  Right, power or authority to interpret and apply the law; the limits or territory where authority may be exercised (n)
    G)  Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor (n)
    H)  The willful giving of false testimony under oath, especially in a legal inquiry (n)
    I)  A bitter counter-charge or counter-accusation against an accuser (n)
    J)  To confine or send to an inferior or lower position, condition or place (v)
    K)  To discharge, generate or release; to separate out a substance from cells (v)
    L)  Without or lacking fairness (adj)
    M)  Having or showing good judgment in conduct and speech; prudent (adj)
    N)  Lack or prudence or individual choice or judgment; without power of free decision (n)
    O)  Habit or practice of concealing or hiding; a keeping from knowledge or view (n)
    P)  A product of glandular activity; a concealing or hiding of something (n)