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The DAILY WORD ROOT PUZZLE is 1 of 8 vocabulary activities and word puzzles using Greek and Latin word roots.

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Common Core alignment to Daily Word Root Puzzle is to the key phrase:
"GREEK & LATIN AFFIXES and ROOTS". CCSS Alignment Strand Numbers for Specific Grades:
"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

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To cause to experience shame, wounded pride or humiliation (verb)
Root MORT=death

To cut or chop into very small pieces; to moderate or soften, esp. for the sake of courtesy (verb)
Root MINUT=make small, lessen, diminish

To change in form or appearance; to metamorphose; to alter in condition, nature or character (verb)
Root FORM=shape, form

Astrological grouping often named after mythological figures (noun)
Root STELL=star

State of being empty; unoccupied place esp. one for rent; an opening (noun)
Root VAC=empty, at leisure