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a/n |
not, without |
abyss - without bottom; achromatic - without color; anhydrous - without water |
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a |
on |
afire - on fire; ashore - on the shore; aside - on the side |
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caust, caut |
to burn |
cauterize - to burn with a hot instrument; caustic - capable of burning or eating away; holocaust - total devastation, especially by fire |
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celer |
fast |
accelerate - to increase the speed of; decelerate - to reduce the speed of |
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chron/o |
time |
chronic - lasting for a long time; chronological - arranging events in time order; synchronize - happening at the same time |
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circum, circle |
around, about |
circumnavigate - to sail around; circumscribe - to draw around; circumspect - looking around |
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co |
with, together, joint |
coauthor - writer who collaborates with another author; coeducation - educating males and females together; cohousing - planning your neighborhood in an intentional |
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cogn/i |
know |
cognition - process of acquiring knowledge; incognito - disguised so no one knows you; recognize - to discover that one knows |
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con |
with, jointly |
concur - to agree with someone; contemporary - of the same time period as others; convention - a gathering of people with a common interest |
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cred |
believe |
credence - belief that something is true or valid; credulous - believing things too easily, gullible; incredible - unbelievable |
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de |
reduce, away, down, remove |
decelerate - to slow down, reduce speed; dethrone - to remove from power; debug - to remove bugs |
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di/s |
apart, away, not, to the opposite |
digression - a departure from the main issue, subject; disappear - to move out of sight; dissect - to cut apart piece by piece |
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en/in |
inside, inwards |
envision - to picture in the mind; enclose - lock inside; inwards - towards the inside |
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extra, extro |
outside, beyond |
extraordinary - beyond ordinary; extraterrestrial - outside the Earth; extrovert - an outgoing person |
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fac/t |
make, do |
artifact - an object made by a person; factory - a place where things are made; malefact - a person who does wrong |
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funct |
perform, work |
defunct - no longer working or alive; function - to work or perform a role normally; malfunction - to fail to work correctly |
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gyn/o/e |
woman, female |
gynecology - the science of female reproductive health/ gynephobia - fear of women; gynecoid - resembling a woman |
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heli/o |
sun |
heliotropism - movement or growth in relating to the sun; heliograph - apparatus used to send message with the help of sunlight; helianthus - genus of plants including sunflowers |
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hetero |
different, other |
heterogeneous - made up of unrelated parts; heteronyms - words with the same spelling but different meanings; heterodox - not conforming to traditional beliefs |
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homo, homeo |
like, alike, same |
homogeneous - of the same nature or kind; homonym - sounding alike; homeopath - a therapy that is based on treating "same with same" |
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ject |
trhow |
eject - to throw someone/something out; interject - to throw a remark into a discussion; project - to cast or throw something |
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mal/e |
bad, ill, wrong |
malcontent - wrong content; malaria - "bad air", infectious disease thought to originate from the "bad air" of the swamps, but caused by the bite of an infected mosquito |
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mar/i |
sea |
marina - a harbor for pleasure boats; maritime - relating to the sea; submarine - an undersea boat; aquamarine - color of sea water |
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meso |
middle |
Mesoamerica - Middle America; meson - elementary particle with a mass between an electron and a proton |
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non |
no, not, without |
nondescript - with no special characteristics; nonfiction - true, real, not made-up; nonsense - without sense |
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pan |
all, any, everyone |
panacea - a cure for all diseases or problems; panorama - an all- around view,; pantheism - the worship of all gods; pandemic - affecting all |
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post |
after, behind |
posthumous - after someone's death; postpone - to delay something; postscript - an addition to an already completed document |
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pugn/a, pung |
to fight |
pugnacious - having a quarrelsome or aggressive nature; repugnant - distasteful, offensive or revolting; pungent - piercing |
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retro |
backward, back |
retroactive - relating to something in the past; retrogress - to go back to an earlier condition; retrospect - the remembering of past events |
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spec/t, spic |
see, look |
circumspect - cautious, looking all around; retrospective - a looking back at past things; spectator - a person who sees an event |
