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Review: rupt

•What is the root that means to break?

•the root rupt

•What is the word that describes what you do when you break in on someone’s conversation?

•interrupt

•What is the word that names what the volcano does as lava bursts out of it?

•erupts

•What is the word that names what a person who makes silly noises in class creates?

•disruption

•What is the word that names what you will be if you lose all of the money you have saved?

•bankrupt

•What is the word that describes a person who could easily be talked into doing something agains the law?

•corruptible

•What is the word that describes what happens to an organ or a tissue in the body when it suddenly bursts open and you must have surgery?

•rupture

•What is the word that describes what a bad person tries to do to a good person to make him or her misbehave?

•corrupt

•What is the word that describes a noise or comment that breaks up your “train of thought” or takes you away from what you are doing?

•interruption

•What is the word that describes what a class clown does to the rest of the class while they are trying to learn which explains why he or she is often punished?

•disrupts

•What is the word that describes a sudden change?

•abrupt