Word Knowledge - Word Families

Guided Practice

As discussed in this module, the following word roots can combine with prefixes and suffixes to form new words:

DICT (to speak or proclaim)
ANN (year)
ONYM (name)
PATH (feeling)
THE (god)

In each item below, the incomplete words require the same word root to form a family of words that differ according to their part of speech (noun, verb, adjective, adverb). For each family of words, choose the one root from the pull-down window that completes all of the words in that family.

  1. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    sym.....y  sym.....ize  sym.....etic  sym.....etically

    DICT: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: CORRECT! symPATHy symPATHize symPATHetic symPATHetically

    THE: INCORRECT. Try again.

  2. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    ....uity  ....ualize  ....ual  ....ually

    DICT: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ANN: CORRECT! ANNuity ANNualize ANNual ANNually

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: INCORRECT. Try again.

  3. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    pre.....ion  pre.....  pre.....able  pre.....ably

    DICT: CORRECT! preDICTion preDICT preDICTable preDICTably

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: INCORRECT. Try again.

  4. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    ....ology  .....ologize  ......ological  ......ologically

    DICT: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: CORRECT! THEology THEologize THEological THEologically

  5. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    .....ator  .....ate   .....atorial  .....atorially

    DICT: CORRECT! DICTator DICTate DICTatorial DICTatorially

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: INCORRECT. Try again.

  6. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    an.....ity  -----  an.....ous  an.....ously

    DICT: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: CORRECT! anONYMity ----- anONYMous anONYMously

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: INCORRECT. Try again.

  7. Noun   Verb   Adjective   Adverb
    a.....ist  -----  a.....istic  a.....istically

    DICT: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ANN: INCORRECT. Try again.

    ONYM: INCORRECT. Try again.

    PATH: INCORRECT. Try again.

    THE: CORRECT! aTHEist ----- aTHEistic aTHEistically

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