Word Families

6. a feeling of worry or anxiety; an interest or involvement in something important.
7. relating or heredity; involving the origin or development of something.
9. the act of creating something new; a product or process created for the first time through innovative thinking.
10. to create or design something that has not existed before; to make up or devise.
11. having been granted a government authority or license for a design

1. to find an answer to or explanation for a problem or question.
2. a means of solving a problem or dealing with a difficult situation.
3. a person who creates new devices, processes, or methods, often through innovative thinking.
4. a government authority or license conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
5. worried, troubled, or anxious; having an interest or involvement in something.
7. a unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and determines some characteristic of the offspring.
8. having the ability to create or design new things or to think originally.