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In this session we will study these roots/cells: JUR-JUS, CRE-CERT-CRIM and LEG. Do you know what each one means? The following story will help clarify their meanings.

In the JURISDICTION XIX, ALLEGATIONS and RECRIMINATIONS occur often. One man was convicted of PERJURY and police will RELEGATE him to prison. Another man was UNJUSTLY declared ILLEGITIMATE. Someone else did ABJURE his heritage and alter allegiances. Noxious gases do SECRETE into the ATMOSPHERE. The mayor will CERTIFY that these are facts. Few citizens can DISCRIMINATE good acts from bad. What a terrible LEGACY to have in a town!

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Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #1 "text" where the master root is JUS/JUR:

• Answer 1: JUR--law, right, swear--Keyword is 6 letter verb--To repudiate or retract especially with formal solemnity; to recant; to forswear
• Answer 2: JUR-- law, right, swear--Keyword is 6 letter verb--Right, power or authority to hear, to determine and to administer justice in a case
• Answer 3: JUS--law, right, swear--Keyword is 8 letter adverb--Without or lacking justice or fairness
• Answer 4: JUR--law, right, swear--Keyword is 7 letter noun--The willful giving of false testimony under oath, especially in a legal inquiry

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Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #2 "text" where the master root is CRE-CERT-CRIM:

• Answer 5: CRE--separate, distinguish--Keyword is 7 letter verb that means: "To discharge, generate or release; to separate out (a substance) from cells"
• Answer 6: CERT--separate, distinguish, sure--Keyword is 7 letter verb that means: "To attest to as certain; to confirm; to testify or vouch for; to guarantee"
• Answer 7: CRI--separate, distinguish--Keyword is 12 letter verb that means: "To distinguish or note as different; to show partiality; to differentiate against"
• Answer 8: CRI--separate, distinguish--Keyword is 13 letter noun that means: "A bitter countercharge (or counteraccusation) against an accuser"

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Rooty*Hoot*Hoot - Puzzle #3 "text" where the master root is LEG:

• Answer 9: LEG--law--Keyword is 8 letter verb--To confine or send to an inferior or lower position, condition or place
• Answer 10: LEG--law--Keyword is 6 letter noun--Anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor
• Answer 11: LEG--law--Keyword is 10 letter noun--An affirmation or assertion with little or no proof
• Answer 12: LEG--law--Keyword is 12 letter adjective--Not correct by law; not in accordance with established rules, principles or standards

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