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Vocab Test of Important Words

This document provides directions for a vocabulary test, asking the test-taker to identify and define prefixes, suffixes, and roots within 15 words. It gives an example of analyzing the word "serendipity" by identifying its suffix "-ity" meaning state of, the root "serendip" meaning fortuitous, and defining the full word as the state of fortuitous events. The test-taker is then to perform the same analysis on 14 additional words.

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Vocab Test of Important Words

This document provides directions for a vocabulary test, asking the test-taker to identify and define prefixes, suffixes, and roots within 15 words. It gives an example of analyzing the word "serendipity" by identifying its suffix "-ity" meaning state of, the root "serendip" meaning fortuitous, and defining the full word as the state of fortuitous events. The test-taker is then to perform the same analysis on 14 additional words.

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VOCAB TEST 8/20/2013 GRUBER IMPORTANT WORDS Directions: 1. circle and define root 2.

. underline and define prefix 3. Squiggly underline and define suffix 4. Define word Example: serendipity

(-ity = means state of) ; serendip is fortuitous; serendipity is state of fortuitous events
1. convivial 2. copious 3. capricious 4. venturesome 5. somber 6. clemency 7. parsimony 8. jettison 9. hackneyed 10. guile 11. saccharine 12. whet 13. stymie 14. burgeon 15. daunt

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