Gre Word List

Front 1

Greek: chronos

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TIME
English: chronic, chronicle, chronograph, chronology, and sychronize

Front 2

Greek: pathos

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SUFFERING
English: apathy, empathy, pathetic, pathos, and sympathy

Front 3

Latin: arbiter

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JUDGE
English: arbiter, arbitrage, and arbitrate

Front 4

Latin: articulus

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JOINT, DIVISION
English: arthritis, article, and inarticulate

Front 5

Latin: bene

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WELL
English: benediction, benefactor, beneficent, beneficial, benefit, and benign

Front 6

Greek: kaustikos

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BURNING
English: holocaust

Front 7

Latin: circus

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CIRCLE
English: circumference, circumnavigate, circumscribe, and circumvent

Front 8

Latin: mensura

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TO MEASURE
English: immeasurable, immense, and mensuration

Front 9

Latin: jungere

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TO JOIN
English: injunction, junction, and juncture

Front 10

Latin: vivere

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TO LIVE
English: revive, vital, vivid, and vivisection

Front 11

Latin: volvere

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TO ROLL
English: devolve, involve, revolution, revolve, and voluble

Front 12

Latin: celer

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SWIFT
English: accelerate and celerity

Front 13

Greek: demos

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PEOPLE
English: democracy, demographic, and endemic

Front 14

Latin: credere

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TO BELIEVE
English: credential, credible, credit, credo, credulous, and incredible

Front 15

Latin: simulare

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TO RESEMBLE
English: semblance, similarity, simulacrum, simultaneous, and verisimilitude

Front 16

Latin: dormire

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TO SLEEP
English: dormitory

Front 17

Latin: facere

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TO DO
English: facility, factor, facsimile, and faculty

Front 18

Latin: aequus

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EQUAL
English: equality, equanimity, and equation

Front 19

Latin: radix

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ROOT
English: radical

Front 20

Latin: acer

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SHARP
English: acerbity, acrid, and acrimonious

Front 21

Latin: tenere

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TO HOLD
English: retain, tenable, tenant, tenet, and tenure

Front 22

Greek: homos

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SAME
English: homologous, homonym, and homosexual

Front 23

Latin: mutare

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TO CHANGE
English: immutable, mutant, and mutation

Front 24

Latin: placare

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TO PLEASE
English: complacent, placate, and placid

Front 25

Latin: caedere

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TO CUT
English: concise, decide, excise, incision, and precise

Front 26

Latin: unda

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WAVE
English: undulate

Front 27

Latin: laus

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PRAISE
English: applaud, laud, laudatory, and plaudit

Front 28

Latin: lux

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LIGHT
English: elucidate, pellucid, and translucent

Front 29

Latin: mandare

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ENTRUST, ORDER
English: command, demand, and remand

Front 30

Latin: medius

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MIDDLE
English: intermediate, media, and medium

Front 31

Greek: anthropos

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HUMAN
English: anthropology, anthropoid, anthropomorphic, and philanthropy

Front 32

Latin: durus

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HARD
English: durable and endure

Front 33

Latin: claudere

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TO CLOSE
English: conclude, include, recluse, and seclude

Front 34

Latin: poena

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PAIN
English: impunity, penal, penalty, and punishment

Front 35

Latin: frangere

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TO BREAK
English: fraction, fractious, fracture, frangible, infraction, and refract

Front 36

Latin: salus

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HEALTH
English: salubrious, salutation, and salute

Front 37

Latin: sequi

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TO FOLLOW
English: consequence, sequel, and subsequent

Front 38

Latin: tangere

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TO TOUCH
English: contact, contiguous, tactile, tangent, and tangible

Front 39

Latin: tractare

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TO HANDLE
English: intractable, tractate, and traction

Front 40

Latin: trepidus

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ALARMED
English: intrepid

Front 41

Latin: urbs

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CITY
English: suburb and urban

Front 42

Latin: validus

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STRONG
English: invalid, invaluable, prevail, and value

Front 43

Latin: verus

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TRUE
English: verisimilitude, veritable, and verity

Front 44

Latin: vorare

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TO EAT
English: carnivorous, devour, and omnivorous