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In this session we will study these roots/cells: PED/POD, CHRON/TEMP and SCRIB/GRAF. Do you know what each one means? If not, make time to learn them! Then, after you have memorized each one, complete the three puzzles below. Finally, you can go to a link on suggestions for using Vocabulary.com!

Type in and submit the 12 answers to the Rooty*Hoot*Hoot® brand puzzles in the boxes INSIDE the puzzle. You will get immediate feedback in the form of the correct answers and the use of the words in context. Other helpful hints (synonyms & antonyms and a word bank menu) will assist in your personal vocabulary acquisition. When you create your own personal "vocabulary-word" story using these Level 3 words, please allow us to POST-IT! See details at the bottom of this puzzle level page."

Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #1 "text" where the master root is PED-PIED:

• Answer 1: PED--foot--Keyword is 6 letter verb--To retard in movement or progress by means of obstacles or hindrances; to obstruct.
• Answer 2: PED--foot--Keyword is 8 letter verb--To speed up the progress of; tp perform promptly; to issue or dispatch.
• Answer 3: PED--foot--Keyword is 8 letter noun--A table or chart recording a line of ancestors (persons, animals); genealogical account, esp. of a purebred animal.
• Answer 4: PIED--foot--Keyword is 8 letter adjective--Lying along or near the foot of a mountain range.

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Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #2 "text" where the master root is CHRON-TEMP:

• Answer 5: CHRON--time--Keyword is 11 letter noun meaning: A thing or person belonging to another time, esp. an earlier time; an error in chronology.
• Answer 6: TEMP--time--Keyword is 9 letter verb meaning: To be indecisive or evasive to gain time or delay acting; to comply with the time or occasion.
• Answer 7: CHRON--time--Keyword is 11 letter adjective meaning: Coinciding in time; simultaneous; going on at the same rate.
• Answer 8: CHRON--time--Keyword is 13 letter adjective meaning: Arranged in the order in which the events happened.

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Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #3 "text" where the master root is SCRIB/P-GRAPH/GRAM:

• Answer 9: GRAPH--write--Keyword is 10 letter noun--A print produced by a printing technique where the image is fixed on a stone or metal plate.
• Answer 10: GRAM--write--Keyword is 7 letter noun--Witty, ingenious or pointed saying tersely expressed; a short, concise poem, often satirical.
• Answer 11: SCRIB--write--Keyword is 12 letter verb--To draw a line around; to encircle; to mark off; to enclose within bounds, esp. narrow ones; to restrict.
• Answer 12: SCRIP--write--Keyword is 12 letter noun--Compulsory enrollment of persons for military or naval service; draft.

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