Gen- means "birth, beginning, or origin"
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DIRECTIONS: Choose the word which best completes the sentence.
A. Mom says that buying a store’s (1)
brand is cheaper than buying the name brand of the same product.
B. Saguaro cactus are (2)
to the southwestern United States where they grow in the Sonora Desert.
C. What (3)
is your new puppy, a boy or a girl?
D. The patriarchs of Islam and Judaism, Ishmael and Isaac, were (4)
of Abraham.
E. Albert Einstein is considered a scientific (5)
because of his theory of relativity.
F. This piece of historical fiction tells about a (6)
woman from the upper class of Great Britain who fell on hard times and became a governess or nanny.
G. The first book of the Bible, (7)
, tells the beginning of the Earth and all its inhabitants.
H. Is that huge diamond in her engagement ring an actual, (8)
1 carat diamond?
I. My grandmother and her great uncle are from the same (9)
and attended school together in the 1960’s.
J. Grandpa is always (10)
to his grandchildren and gives each a gift of money at Christmas.