Where and When

Grade 8 · Vocabulary · Page 1 of 3

Name Date
DIRECTIONS: Each answer is a prefix plus a root. It must fill the squares exactly.
Root from the action, prefix from the direction: carry from underneath is support.
The prefix does the work: sub under · trans across · inter between · pre before · anti against · mis wrongly.
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Across

  1. 1 Crossing the ocean between Europe and America (13)
  2. 5 To put something down wrongly and lose it (8)
  3. 8 A look at something before everybody else gets one (7)

Down

  1. 2 A liquid that stops an engine icing up (10)
  2. 3 A boat that travels under the sea (9)
  3. 4 Happening between countries (13)
  4. 6 An underground railway (6)
  5. 7 To hold something up from underneath (7)

Turning and Leading

Grade 8 · Vocabulary · Page 2 of 3

DIRECTIONS: Same again.
Every answer is built from vert, vers (turn) or duc, duct (lead).
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Across

  1. 3 To bring something forward and make it (7)
  2. 5 An argument where opinions turn against each other (11)
  3. 6 Somebody turned inward, who finds a crowd tiring (9)
  4. 7 To lead one person up to meet another (9)

Down

  1. 1 Being led out of not knowing (9)
  2. 2 To turn back the other way (7)
  3. 4 To turn attention towards something you want to sell (9)
  4. 5 To lead an orchestra (7)

Breaking, Building, Believing

Grade 8 · Vocabulary · Page 3 of 3

DIRECTIONS: Same again.
Every answer is built from rupt (break), struct (build) or cred (believe).
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Across

  1. 3 Refusing to believe what you have just heard (11)
  2. 5 The roads and pipes a country is built on (14)
  3. 7 To teach, by building knowledge into somebody (8)
  4. 8 Papers that prove who you are (11)

Down

  1. 1 Money lent because you are trusted to pay it back (6)
  2. 2 To break up the smooth running of something (7)
  3. 4 Broken by dishonesty, taking bribes (7)
  4. 6 To break out suddenly, the way a volcano does (5)