MyVocabulary.com

  • The Subject and Calendar-related puzzles are supplementary curriculum resources featuring vocabulary activities and word puzzles. Also included are over 660 additional subject-related word lists.
  • Use the provided Greek and Latin word roots in the over 90 subject word puzzles to decode word meaning and select the correct answer. Email your answers to friends, family and teachers.
  • Common Core alignment to a Themed Puzzles is to 3 key phrases: "Grade Level", "Particular Topic" and "Grade-Relevant Text or Subject Area". CCSS Alignment Strand for Specific Grades:
    CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
    Greek & Latin Roots: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4b+c, 3.4b+c, 4.4b, 5.b, 6.4b, 7.4b, 8.4b, 9-10.4b, 11-12.4b
    Grade Level: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 2.4, 3.4, 4.4, 5.4, 6.4, 7.4, 8.4, 9-10.4, 11-12.4
    Particular Topic: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers: 4.6. 5.6, 6.6, 7.6, 8.6, 9-10.6, 11-12.6
    Grade & Subject-Relevant Text: "CCSS.ELA-Literacy." precedes these numbers:
    (Reading: Informational Text) RI.2.4, RI.3.4, RI.4.4. RI.5.4, RI.6.4, RI.7.4, RI.8.4, RI.9-10.4, RI.11-12.4
    (Reading: Literature) RL.2.4, RL.3.4, RL.4.4. RL.5.4, RL.6.4, RL.7.4, RL.8.4, RL.9-10.4, RL.11-12.4


  • There are word lists here for EACH Subject and Calendar-related puzzle below.
    • Get a Print Out

    1) Biology-Insects vocabulary puzzle #1 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions: When you use the Latin/Greek roots or word parts, definition and part of speech, you can type in 18 answers (6 in each puzzle) on the Biology and Insect vocabulary puzzle worksheet boxes INSIDE the colored images. If you click on the submit button at the bottom of this page at www.myvocabulary.com, you will get immediate feedback with both the correct answers, the use of these Biology; Insect vocabulary words in context and your percentage of correct answers.
    Among a Vocabulary Word List of 370 subjects including many referring to Science, you will find a list of Biology: Insects-related words for writing assignments and additional vocabulary study that is available from the pull down menu called "Vocabulary Word List" in the header above.
    Clue: The following STORY clarifies meanings of Biology and Insect vocabulary terms in the puzzle worksheet:

    Ellen keeps learning incredible facts about insects while exploring with James, Nancy and another scientist, Rachael. Their ENTOMOLOGIST is an INDEFATIGABLE worker and feels no TREPIDATION about being around huge insects. He has an INSATIABLE curiosity about how bees POLLINATE and the unique PROBOSCIS of the butterfly.
    The other INDUSTRIOUS scientist with us, concerned about safety, suggested QUARANTINE for the group of observers who were bitten. The idea of confinement indoors is the NEMESIS of every outdoor researcher. Upon leaving a SUBTERRANEAN cave with our geologist, James and Ellen sprayed a pungent INSECTICIDE that created an UBIQUITOUS odor.
    One day Greg joined a zoologist who, while on a NOCTURNAL foray, examined the EMBRYONIC LARVAE that were INDIGENOUS to the tropical landscape. In a few weeks they hoped to witness their METAMORPHOSIS and anticipated seeing many different IRIDESCENT hues on the nascent insects.

    The word bank for each Biology; Insect vocabulary puzzle has all the correct answers on the worksheet. In addition to this interactive vocabulary puzzle exercise for the 18 Insect vocabulary words, www.myvocabulary.com also offers a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Find, Crossword, Definition Match, True/False exercise, Synonym/Antonym Encounter and will have a Concentration puzzle activity.
    You have permission from www.myvocabulary.com to make a hard copy of the Biology and Insect vocabulary word puzzle worksheet and word list for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
    Vocabulary Word List: Biology vocabulary puzzle #1 -BEES- adroit, affliction, appetite, deft, diurnal, elusive, entomologist, exoskeleton, harbinger, indefatigable, innocuous, insatiable, mandible, perennial, persist, plethora, pollinate, proboscis, skittish, sting, swarm, trepidation
    Biology Puzzle #2 -ANTS- aggressive, exterminator, extinguish, indestructible, industrious, ineradicable, insecticide, minuscule, nemesis, omnipresent, oust, quarantine, rampant, repellent, rife, subterranean, ubiquitous, undesirable, voluminous
    Biology Puzzle #3 -BUTTERFLY- antenna, culprit, devour, embryonic, epidemic, indigenous, intervene, iridescent, larvae, luminous, metamorphosis, microscopic, nocturnal, nymph, parasite, perennial, primeval, prolific, swamp

    Biology-Insects vocabulary puzzle #1 -- myVocabulary.com

    1)  Someone specializing in the branch of zoology dealing with insects (noun)
    Root ENTOM = insects

    2)  Elongated, protrusion on the head of certain insects used for feeding (noun)
    Root BOSC = feed

    3)  Tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; trembling or quivering movement (noun)
    Root TREPID = trembling, agitated

    4)  Incapable of being tired out; tireless (adjective)
    Root FATIG = to weary, to tire

    5)  Hard or incapable of being satisfied; greedy; avaricious (adjective)
    Root SAT = enough

    6)  To fertilize or convey the fine grains or spores to the stigma of flowering plants (verb)
    Root POLL = fine flour, mill dust

    Click the SUBMIT BUTTON at the bottom of the page for answers

    2) Biology-Insects Vocabulary puzzle #2 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions: By using the Latin/Greek roots/cells or word parts, definition and part of speech, you will feel more confident in typing in 18 answers (6 in each puzzle) in the Biology and Insects vocabulary puzzle worksheet boxes INSIDE the colored images. When you click on the submit button at the bottom of this puzzle page, you will get immediate feedback with both the correct answers, the use of these vocabulary words for Biology and Insects in context and your percentage of correct answers.
    A list of 148 Insects vocabulary words AND 222 Biology vocabulary words (for writing assignments and additional vocabulary study) are available from the pull down menu called "Vocabulary Word List" in the header above at www.myvocabulary.com. Please also refer to the 370 Vocabulary Word Lists also available on the homepage in multiple subjects.
    Clue: The word bank for each Biology and Insects vocabulary puzzle has all the correct answers on the worksheet. In addition to this interactive vocabulary puzzle exercise for the 18 Insect words, www.myvocabulary.com also offers a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Find, Crossword, Definition Match, True/False exercise, Synonym/Antonym Encounter and will have a Concentration activity.> You have permission from www.myvocabulary.com to make a hard copy of Biology and Insects vocabulary words for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
    Vocabulary Word List: Biology and Insects vocabulary puzzle #1 -BEES- adroit, affliction, appetite, deft, diurnal, elusive, entomologist, exoskeleton, harbinger, indefatigable, innocuous, insatiable, mandible, perennial, persist, plethora, pollinate, proboscis, skittish, sting, swarm, trepidation
    Biology/Insects vocabulary puzzle #2 -ANTS- aggressive, exterminator, extinguish, indestructible, industrious, ineradicable, insecticide, minuscule, nemesis, omnipresent, oust, quarantine, rampant, repellent, rife, subterranean, ubiquitous, undesirable, voluminous
    Biology and Insects vocabulary puzzle #3 -BUTTERFLY- antenna, culprit, devour, embryonic, epidemic, indigenous, intervene, iridescent, larvae, luminous, metamorphosis, microscopic, nocturnal, nymph, parasite, perennial, primeval, prolific, swamp

    Biology-Insects Vocabulary puzzle #2 -- myVocabulary.com

    1)  Strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of a disease (a period of 40 days) (noun)
    Root QUART = group of 40

    2)  Existing, situated, or operating below the earth's surface, out of sight or secretly (adjective)
    Root TERRA = earth, land

    3)  A substance or preparation used in killing insects (noun)
    Root is CID = kill

    4)  Working energetically and devotedly; diligent; full of energy and zeal toward work (adjective)
    Root STRU = build, arrange

    5)  Existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent; pervasive (adjective)
    Root UBIQU = everywhere

    6)  Anyone or anything which seems to be the inevitable cause of someone's downfall or defeat; an unconquerable opponent or rival (noun)
    root NEMEIN = dispense, deal out

    Click the SUBMIT BUTTON at the bottom of the page for answers

    3) Biology-Insects Vocabulary Puzzle #3 -- myVocabulary.com

    Directions: By using the Latin/Greek roots or word parts, vocabulary definition, part of speech and word bank you will feel more confident in solving the Biology:Insects worksheet puzzle. Type in 18 Biology and Insects vocabulary answers (6 in each vocabulary puzzle) in the boxes INSIDE the colored images of the worksheet. When you click on the submit button at the bottom of the Biology and Insect puzzle page at www.myvocabulary.com, you will get immediate feedback with both the correct vocabulary answers, the use of these Biology: Insects words in context and your percentage of correct answers.
    Word lists of 148 Insects vocabulary words AND 222 Biology vocabulary words are available from the pull down menu called "Vocabulary Word List" in the header above. For a 370 Vocabulary Word List relating to Biology and Science and in a variety of other subjects please use the Vocabulary Word list selection above.
    Clue: The Biology: Insects vocabulary puzzle word bank for each puzzle has all the correct answers in the worksheet. In addition to this interactive vocabulary puzzle worksheet for the 18 Insect words, www.myvocabulary.com also offers a Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Find, Crossword, Definition Match, True/False exercise, Synonym/Antonym Encounter and will have a Concentration activity.

    You have permission from www.myvocabulary.com to make a hard copy of Biology: Insects vocabulary words for further vocabulary study at home or in the classroom.
    Vocabulary Word List: Biology:Insects vocabulary puzzle #1 -BEES- adroit, affliction, appetite, deft, diurnal, elusive, entomologist, exoskeleton, harbinger, indefatigable, innocuous, insatiable, mandible, perennial, persist, plethora, pollinate, proboscis, skittish, sting, swarm, trepidation
    Biology:Insects vocabulary puzzle #2 -ANTS- aggressive, exterminator, extinguish, indestructible, industrious, ineradicable, insecticide, minuscule, nemesis, omnipresent, oust, quarantine, rampant, repellent, rife, subterranean, ubiquitous, undesirable, voluminous
    Biology:Insects vocabulary puzzle #3 -BUTTERFLY- antenna, culprit, devour, embryonic, epidemic, indigenous, intervene, iridescent, larvae, luminous, metamorphosis, microscopic, nocturnal, nymph, parasite, perennial, primeval, prolific, swamp

    Biology-Insects Vocabulary Puzzle #3 -- myVocabulary.com

    1)  Change of form in either appearance, condition, or function; a transformation (noun)
    Root MORPH = shape, form

    2)  Displaying an array of lustrous, changing colors like those of the rainbow (adjective)
    Root ESCE = becoming

    3)  Originating in or characteristic of a particular region; native; natural (adjective)
    Root GEN = kind, race, born

    4)  Pertaining to the night; done, occurring or coming at night (adjective)
    Root NOCT = night

    5)  In an early or beginning stage of anything; undeveloped; rudimentary (adjective)
    Root BRYEIN = swell, be full

    6)  Immature, wingless, feeding stage of an insect that undergoes transformation (noun)
    Root LAR = ghost, mask, spirit

    Click the SUBMIT BUTTON at the bottom of the page for answers