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4. consummation kon′-sƏ-MAY′-shƏn
5. incorrigibility in-kawr′-Ə-jƏ-BIL′-Ə-tee
6. inveteracy in-VET′-Ə-rƏ-see
7. veteran VET′-Ə-rƏn
8. genetics jƏ-NET′-iks
9. geneticist jƏ-NET′-Ə-sist
10. genetic jƏ-NET′-ik
11. gene JEEN
12. genealogy jee′-nee-AL′-Ə-jee
13. genealogist jee′-nee-AL′-Ə-jist
14. genealogical jee′-nee-Ə-LOJ′-Ə-kƏl
15. genital JEN′-Ə-tƏl
16. genesis JEN′-Ə-sis
17. hereditary hƏ-RED′-Ə-tair′-ee
Can you work with the words?
1. notoriety a. state of artistic height
2. to consummate (v.) b. state of being long established in a habit
3. consummacy c. beginning, origin
4. incorrigibility d. science of heredity
5. inveteracy e. bring to completion; top off
6. genetics f. study of ancestry
g. referring to characteristics passed on to
7. genealogy
offspring by parents
h. referring to reproduction, or to the
8. genital
reproductive or sexual organs
9. genesis i. ill fame
j. particle that transmits hereditary
10. hereditary
characteristics