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    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 10: JECT, PEND, LECT Intermediate level Definition Match

    Directions:
    MATCH the Latin Roots JECT, PEND, LECT INTERMEDIATE LEVEL word list with the proper definitions. Use the pull down Select bar to choose the correct letter match.
    When you hit Submit, you will get back the correct vocabulary answers and percentage score for correct answers. This Latin word root activity aligns with Common Core Standards.
    Clue:
    The Latin word list comes from Latin Roots JECT, PEND, LECT at the INTERMEDIATE word level. In addition to this Definition Match, www.myvocabulary.com also includes a free Interactive Puzzle, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Word Search, Crossword, Synonym or Antonym, True or False and Reading Passage.
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    Word List
     
    1) DILIGENTLY
    2) PROJECTION
    3) OBJECTIVE
    4) ADJACENT
    5) INTELLIGENTSIA
    6) PERPENDICULAR
    7) APPENDAGE
    8) PENDULUM
    9) ILLEGIBLE
    10) LEGACY
    11) PENDANT
    12) CONJECTURE
    Definition List
     
    A)  Adjoining just before, after or facing; lying near, close or contiguous (adj.)
    B)  A limb or other subsidary part that diverges from the central or principle structure (noun)
    C)  Act of forming an opinion from incomplete or inconclusive evidence; guesswork (noun)
    D)  Being constant and earnest in an effort and application; being attentive and persistent in doing something (adv.)
    E)  Impossible or hard to read; incapable or being deciphered with ease as writing or printing (adj.)
    F)  Persons of superior intellect considered as a group, especially as a cultural, social or political elite (noun)
    G)  Anything handed down from the past; a gift of property in a will; a bequest (noun)
    H)  Purpose; goal; something that one's efforts are intended to accomplish
    I)  Hanging ornament, as a jewel from a necklace; something suspended (noun)
    J)  A swinging level, weighted at the lower end, for regulating the speed of a clock (noun)
    K)  Vertical; straight up and down; upright; meeting a surface at right angles (adj.)
    L)  Something that thrusts outward; act of planning, devising or scheming a course of an object (noun)