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A
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Without
Ex: amoral, atypical |
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Ab/Abs
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off, away from, apart, down
Ex: abduct, abstract |
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Ac/Acr
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sharp, bitter
Ex: acute, acrid, exacerbate |
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Act/Ag
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to do, to drive, to force, to lead
Ex: agile, agitate, prodigal, synagogue |
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Ad/Al
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to, toward, near
Ex: adapt, advocate, adict |
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Al/Ali/Alter
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other, another
Ex: alias, allegory, alien, alternative |
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Am
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love
Ex: amateur, amenity, inamoata, amiable |
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Amb
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to go, to work
Ex; ambient, ambulatory, preambulator |
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Ambi/Amph
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both, more than one, around
Ex: ambiguous, amphibian, ambidexterous |
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Anim
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of the life, mind, soul, spirit
Ex: unanimous, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous |
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Annui/Enni
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year
Ex: annual, annals, anniversary, perennial |
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Ante
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before
Ex: anterior, antedate, antediluvian |
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Anthro/Andr
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man, human
Ex: anthropology, android, misanthrope, philanderer |
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Anti
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against
Ex: antibody, antidote, antipathy, antipodal |
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Apo
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away
Ex: apology, apocalypse, apostle, apostasy |
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Arch/Archi/Archy
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chief, principal, ruler
Ex: architech, anarchy, archenemy |
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Auto
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self
Ex: automatic, autocrat, autonomy |
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Be
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to be; to have particular quality; to exist
Ex: belittle, bemoan, bewilder, belie |
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Bel/Bell
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war
Ex: antebellum, rebel, belligerent |
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Ben/Bon
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good
Ex: benefit, bonafide, benign, benevolent |
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Bi
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twice, double
Ex: binoculars, bilingual, bipartisan, bilateral |
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Cad/Cid
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to fall; to happen by chance
Ex: accident, cascade, decadent, recidivist |
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Cant/Cent/Chant
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to sing
Ex: accent, chant, enchant, recant, incantation, incentive |
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Cap/Cip/Cept
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to take; to get
Ex: capture, anticipate, susceptible |
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Cap/Capit/Cipit
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head, heading
Ex: capital, disciple, precipitate, caption |
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Card/Cord/Cour
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heart
Ex: cardiac, encourage, concord |
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Carn
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flesh
Ex: carnivorous, carnage, incarnation |
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Cast/Chast
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cut
Ex: cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste |
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Ced/Ceed/Cess
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to go; to yield, to stop
Ex: antecedent, condede, predecessor, cessation |
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Centr
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center
Ex: concentrate, eccentric, concentric, centrist, centrifuge |
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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crit
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to seperate; to judge; to distinguish; to decide
Ex: discrete, ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion |
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Chron
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time
Ex: synchronize, chronic, chronology |
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Cricu
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around; on all sides
Ex: circumference, circut, circumstance, circutous |
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Cis
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to cut
Ex: scissors, precise, exorcise, incision, incisive |
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Cla/Clo/Clu
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shut; close
Ex: conclude, disclose, claustrophobia, exclusive, cloister, preclude |
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Claim/Clam
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to shout; to cry out
Ex: exclaim, proclaim, clamor, disclaim |
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Cli
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to lean toward
Ex: decline, recline, climax, proclivity, disinclination |
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Co/Col/Com/Con
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with, together
Ex: connect, coerce, compatible, collide, collaborate, conciliate |
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Cour/Cur
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running; a course
Ex: recur, cirribulum, courier, excursion, cursive, concur |
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Cre/Cresc/Cret
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to grow
Ex: accrue, areation, increase, increment, accretion |
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Card/Cord/Cour
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heart
Ex: cardiac, encourage, concord |
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Carn
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flesh
Ex: carnivorous, carnage, incarnation |
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Cast/Chast
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cut
Ex: cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste |
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Ced/Ceed/Cess
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to go; to yield, to stop
Ex: antecedent, condede, predecessor, cessation |
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Centr
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center
Ex: concentrate, eccentric, concentric, centrist, centrifuge |
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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crit
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to seperate; to judge; to distinguish; to decide
Ex: discrete, ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion |
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Chron
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time
Ex: synchronize, chronic, chronology |
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Cricu
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around; on all sides
Ex: circumference, circut, circumstance, circutous |
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Cis
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to cut
Ex: scissors, precise, exorcise, incision, incisive |
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Cla/Clo/Clu
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shut; close
Ex: conclude, disclose, claustrophobia, exclusive, cloister, preclude |
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Claim/Clam
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to shout; to cry out
Ex: exclaim, proclaim, clamor, disclaim |
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Cli
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to lean toward
Ex: decline, recline, climax, proclivity, disinclination |
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Co/Col/Com/Con
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with, together
Ex: connect, coerce, compatible, collide, collaborate, conciliate |
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Cour/Cur
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running; a course
Ex: recur, cirribulum, courier, excursion, cursive, concur |
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Cre/Cresc/Cret
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to grow
Ex: accrue, areation, increase, increment, accretion |
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Cred
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to believe; to trust
Ex: incredible, credentials, credo, credulity, credit |
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Cryp
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hidden
Ex: crypt, aprocryphal, cryptology, cryptography |
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Cub/Cumb
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to lie down
Ex: cubicle, succumb, incubate, recumbent |
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Culp
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blame
Ex: culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa |
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Dac/Doc
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to teach
Ex: doctor, didactic, doctrine, docile |
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De
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away, off, down, completely, reversal
Ex: descend, decipher, defile, defame, deliniate, deferential |
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Dem
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people
Ex: democracy, epidemic, endemic, pandemic, demographs |
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Di/Dia
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apart, through
Ex: dialoge, diagnose, dialate, dilatory, dichotomy |
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Dic/Dict/Dit
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to say; to tell; to use words
Ex: dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict |
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Dign
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worth
Ex: dignity, dignitary, deign, condign, disdain |
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Dis/Dif
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away from, apart, reversal, not
Ex: disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, diffuse |
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Dog/Dox
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opinion
Ex: orthodox, paradox, dogma |
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Dol
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suffer, pain
Ex: condolence, indolence, doleful, dolorus |
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Don/Dot/Dow
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to give
Ex: donate, pardon, antidote, anecdote, endow |
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Dub
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doubt
Ex: dubious, dubiety, indubitable |
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Duc/Duct
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to lead
Ex: abduct, conduct, induce, conducive, induct, produce |
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Dur
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hard
Ex: endure, durable, dour, duress, duration |
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Dys
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faulty, abnormal
Ex: dystrophy, dyspepsia, dyslexia, dysfunctional |
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E/Ef/Ex
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out, out of, from, former, completely
Ex: evade, exclude, expire, extricate, exonerate, efface |
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Epi
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upon
Ex: epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epigram, epithet |
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Equ
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equal, even
Ex: equation, adequate, equidistant, iniquity |
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Err
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to wander
Ex: err, error, erratic, arrant |
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Esce
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becoming
Ex: adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent, convalescent, reminiscent |
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Eu
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good, well
Ex: euphism, euology, eugenics, euthanasia, eophony |
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Extra
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outside, beyond
Ex: extraordinary, extract, extradite, extrasensory, extrapolate |
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Fam/Fam
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speak
Ex: fable, affable, ineffable, famous, defame |
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Fac/Fic/Fig/Fait/Feit/Fy
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to do; to make
Ex: factory, faction, ratify, deficient, prolific, configuration, effigy, counterfeit |
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Fer
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to bring; to carry; to bear
Ex: offer, confer, proffer, referendum, proliferate |
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Ferv
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to boil; to bubble
Ex: fervor, fervid, effervescent |
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Fid
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faith, trust
Ex: confide, affidavit, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel |
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Fin
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end
Ex: final, confine, definitive, infinite, infinitesimal |
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Flag/Flam
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to burn
Ex: flammable, flambeau, flagrant, conflagration |
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Flect/Flex
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to bend
Ex: deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect |
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Flu/Flux
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to flow
Ex: fluid, fluctuation, effluence, confluence, mellifulous |
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Fore
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before
Ex: foresight, foreshadow, forestall, forthright |
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Fort
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chance
Ex: fortune, fortunate, fortuitous |
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Fort
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strength
Ex: fortify, fortissimo, forte |
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Fra/Frac/Frag/Fring
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to break
Ex: fracture, fragment, fractious, refractory, infringe |
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Fus
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to pour
Ex: profuse, fusillade, suffuse, diffuse, infusion |
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Gen
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birth, creation, race, kind
Ex: generous, genetics, gender, carcinogenic, congenital, progeny, miscegenation |
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Gn/Gno
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know
Ex: agnostic, ignore, ignoramus, recognize, incognito, prognosis, diagnose |
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Grad/Gress
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to step
Ex: progress, aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, regress |
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Grat
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pleasing
Ex: grateful, ingratiate, gratuity, gracious |
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Her/Hes
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to stick
Ex: coherent, adhesive, inherent, adherent, heredity |
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(H)etero
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different
Ex: heterosexual, heterogeneous, heterodox |
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(H)om
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same
Ex: homogeneous, homonym, homosexual, anomaly, homeostasis |
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Hyper
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over, excessive
Ex: hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia |
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Hypo
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under, beneth, less than
Ex: hypodermic, hypocritical, hypochondriac, hypothesis |
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Idio
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one's own
Ex: idiot, idiom, idosyncrasy |
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Im/In/Em/Em
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in, into
Ex: embrace, enclose, intrinsic, influx, implicit, incarnate, indigenous |
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Im/In
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not, without
Ex: inactive, innocuous, indolence, impartial, indigent |
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Inter
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between, among
Ex: interstate, interim, interloper, intermittent, interspace |
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Ject
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to throw, to throw down
Ex: inject, dejected, eject, conjecture, abject |
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Join/Junct
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to meet; to join
Ex: junction, adjoin, junta, subjudgate, rejoinder |
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Jur
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to swear
Ex: perjury, abjure, adjure |
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Lav/Lut/Luv
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to wash
Ex: lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge, antediluvian, ablution |
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Lect/Leg
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to select, to choose
Ex: collect, elect, select, electic, predilection |
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Lev
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lift, light, raise
Ex: relieve, alleviate, relevant, levee, leviate, levity |
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Loc/Log/Loqu
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word, speech
Ex: dialogue, elocution, eulogy, colloquial |
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Luc/Lum/Lus
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light
Ex: illustrate, illuminate, translucent, lucid |
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Lud/Lus
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to play
Ex: allude, illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude, prelude |
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Mag/Maj/Max
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big
Ex: magnify, magnitude, maxim |
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Mal/Male
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bad, ill, evil, wrong
Ex: malfunction, malicious, malign, malady, maladroit, malapropism, malfeasance, malediction |
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Man
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hand
Ex: manual, manfacture, emancipate, manifest, mandate |
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Min
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small
Ex: minute, minutiae, minature, diminish, diminution |
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Min
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to project, to hang over
Ex: eminent, imminent, prominent, preeminent, minatory |
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Mis/Mit
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to send
Ex: transmit, emissary, remit, intermittent, remission |
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Misc
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mixed
Ex: miscellaneous, miscegenation, promiscuous |
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Mon/Monit
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to remind; to warn
Ex: monument, monitor, summon, admonish, remonstrate, premonition |
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Morph
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shape
Ex: amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphism |
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Mort
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death
Ex: immortal, morbid, moribund |
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Mut
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change
Ex: commute, mutation, transmutation, premutation, immutable |
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Nom/Nym/Noun/Nown
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name
Ex: synonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym |
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Nounc/Nunc
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to announce
Ex: announce, pronounce, renounce |
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Nov/Neo/Nou
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new
Ex: novice, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, nouveau riche |
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Ob/Oc/Of/Op
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toward, to, against, over
Ex: obese, obstinate, obstruct, obstreperous, obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious |
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Omni
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all
Ex: omibus, omnipresent, onmipotent, omniscient |
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Pac/Peac
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peace
Ex: appease, pacify, pacifer, pact |
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Pan
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all, everyone
Ex: panorama, panegyric, panoply, pantheon, pandemic |
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Par
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equal
Ex: par, parity, apartheid, disparage, disparate |
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Para
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next to, beside
Ex: parallel, parasite, parody, parabel, paragon, paranoid |
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Pas/Pat/Path
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feeling, suffering, disease
Ex: sympathy, compassion, pathogenic |
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Pau/Po/Pov/Pu
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few, little, poor
Ex: poverty, paucity, puerile, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous |
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Ped
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child, education
Ex: pedagogue, pediatrician, pedant, encyclopedia |
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Ped/Pod
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foot
Ex: pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes |
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Pen/Pun
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to pay; to compensate
Ex: penal, penalty, punitive, penance, penitent |
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Pend/Pens
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to hang; to weight; to pay
Ex: depend, stipend, appendix, compensate, indespensable, appendage |
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Per
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completely
Ex: persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, prefunctory, pertinacious, perspicacious |
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Peri
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around
Ex: perimeter, periscope, peripatetic |
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Pet/Pit
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to go; to seek; to strive
Ex: appetite, compete, petition, centripetal, impetuous, petulant |
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Phil
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love
Ex: philosophy, philatelist, philology, bibliophile |
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Plac
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to please
Ex: placid, placebo, implacable, complacent |
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Ple
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to fill
Ex: complete, deplete, replete, supplement, implement, plethora |
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Plex/Plic/Ply
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to fold, twist, tangle or bend
Ex: complex, replica, implicit, implicate, duplicity, supplicate |
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Pon/Pos/Pound
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to put; to place
Ex: component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository |
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Port
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to carry
Ex: import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune |
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Post
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after
Ex: posthumous, posterior, posterity, post facto |
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Pre
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before
Ex: precarious, crecocious, premonition, precedent, presentiment, precept |
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Prehend/Prise
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to take; to get; to seize
Ex: surprise, enterprise, reprehensible, comprise, reprisals, apprehend |
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Pro
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much, for, a lot
Ex: prolific, profuse, prodigal, prodigious, proseltize, propound, provident |
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Prob
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to prove; to test
Ex: probe, approbation, probity, approbrium, reprobate, problematic |
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Pug
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to fight
Ex: pugnacious, impugn, repugnant, pugilist |
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Punc/Pung/Poign
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to point; to prick
Ex: point, puncture, pungent, compunction, punctilious, expunge |
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Que/Quis
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to seek
Ex: acquire, exquisite, query, conquest, inquisitive, querulous, perquisite |
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Qui
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quiet
Ex: quiet, disquiet, tranquil, acquire, quiescence |
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Rid/Ris
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to laugh
Ex: riddle, derision, risible |
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Rog
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to ask
Ex: interrogate, arrogant, abrogate, surrogate, derogatory, arrogate |
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Sacr/Sanct/Secr
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sacred
Ex: sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable, sacrament, sacrilege |
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Sal/Sil/Sault/Sult
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to leap, to jump
Ex: insult, assault, somersault, salient, resilient, exult, insolent, desultory |
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Sci
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to know
Ex: conscious, conscience, omniscient, prescient |
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Scribe/Scrip
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to write
Ex: scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe, ascribe, conscription, transcript |
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Se
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apart
Ex: select, separate, seduce, segregate, secded, sequester, sedition |
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Sec/Sequ
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to follow
Ex: second, prosecute, sequence, obsequious, non ssequitur |
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Sed/Sess/Sid
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to sit; to be still; to plan; to plot
Ex: preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual |
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Sens/Sent
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to feel; to be aware
Ex: sense, sensory, sentiment, resent, sentinel, dissent, presentiment |
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Sol
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to loosen; to free
Ex: dissolve, soluable, resolution, dissolution, dissolute, absolution |
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Spec/Spic/Spit
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to look; to see
Ex: perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum |
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Sta/Sti
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to stand; to be in place
Ex: static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostasy |
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Sua
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smooth
Ex: suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage |
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Sub/Sup
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below
Ex: submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition |
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Super/Sur
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above
Ex: surpass, superlative, supersede, surmount, superfluous |
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Tac/Tic
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to be silent
Ex: reticent, tacit, taciturn |
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Tain/Ten/Tent/Tin
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to hold
Ex: detain, pertain, tenacious, abstention, tenure, tenable, sustenance, pertinocious |
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Tend/Tens/Tent/Tenu
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to stretch; to thin
Ex: tension, tentative, distend, tendentious, attenuate, extenuating, contentious |
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Theo
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god
Ex: athesist, theocracy, theology, apothesis |
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Tract
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to drag; to pull; to draw
Ex: tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract |
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Trans
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across
Ex: transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent |
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Us/Ut
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to use
Ex: abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian |
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Ven/Vent
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to come or to move toward
Ex: convene, venturesome, intervene, contravene, adventitious |
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Ver
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truth
Ex: verdict, veracious, verity, verisimilitude, aver |
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Verd
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greed
Ex: verdant, verdure |
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Vers/Vert
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to turn
Ex: controversy, revert, diverse, aversion, introvert, extrovert, inadvertant, covert, avert |
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Vi
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life
Ex: vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, convivial |
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Vid/Vis
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to see
Ex: evident, video, adviser, survey, vista |
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Vil
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base, mean
Ex: vilify, revile, vile |
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Voc/Vok
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to call
Ex: vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vocation, avocation, vociferous, convoke, invoke |
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Vol
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to wish
Ex: voluntary, malevolent, benevolent, volition |
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Vor
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to eat
voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous |
