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A/AN |
not/without e.g: agnostic, amoral, anomaly, anonymous, apathy, atheist, atrophy, atypical |
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AB |
off, away from, apart, down e.g: abdicate, abduct, abhor, abject, abnormal, abolish, abstinence, abstract, abstruse |
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ABLE/IBLE |
capable of, worthy of e.g. changeable, combustible, inevitable, presentable |
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AC/ACR |
sharp, bitter, sour acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acumen, acute, exarcebate |
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ACT/AG |
to do, to drive, to force, to lead agile, agitate, litigate, pedagogue, prodigal, synagogue |
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ACOU |
hearing acoustic |
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A(D) |
to, toward, near accede, adapt, addict, address, adhere, adjacent, adjoin, admire, advocate, attract |
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AL/ALI/ALTER |
other, another alias, alibi, alien, allegory, alter ego, alternative, altruist |
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AM |
love amateur, amatory, amiable, amicable, amity, amorous, enamored, inamorata |
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AMBI/AMPHI |
both, on both sides, around ambidextrous, ambient, ambiguous, amphibian |
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AMBL/ABMUL |
to go, to walk ambulance, ambulatory, perambulator, preamble |
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ANIM |
of the life, mind, soul, breath animal, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, unanimous |
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ANNUI/ENNI |
year annals, anniversary, annual, annuity, perennial |
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ANT/ANTE |
before antebellum, antecedent, antedate, antediluvian, anterior |
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ANTHRO/ANDR |
man, human androgen, androgynous, android, anthropocentric, anthropology, misanthrope, philanderer |
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ANTI |
against, opposite antibody, antidote, antipathy, antipodal, antiseptic |
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APO |
away apocalypse, apocryphal, apogee, apology, apostasy, apostle |
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AQUA/AQUE |
water aqueous, aquarium, aquamarine, aquatic, subaqueous, aqueduct |
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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY |
chief, principal, ruler anarchy, archenemy, architect, monarchy, oligarchy |
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ARD |
to burn ardent, ardor, arson |
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AUTO |
self automatic, autocrat, autonomy |
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BE |
to be, to have a particular quality, to exist bemoan, belittle, belie, bewilder |
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BEL |
war antebellum, rebel, belligerent, |
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BEN/BON |
good bonus, benefit, benevolent, benediction, bona fide, benign |
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BI |
twice, double binocular, biennial, bilateral, bilingual, bipartisan |
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CAD/CID |
to fall, to happen by chance accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivist |
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CAP/CIP/CEPT |
to take, to get capture, emancipate, susceptible, anticipate, percipient, precept |
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CANT/CENT/CHANT |
to sing chant, enchant, incantation, incentive, recant, accent, |
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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT |
head, headlong capital, capitulate, precipice, precipitate, disciple, caption |
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CARD/CORD/COUR |
heart courage, cardiac, discord, concordant, concord |
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CARN |
flesh carnivore, incarnation, reincarnation, carnival, carnage, carnal |
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CAST/CHAST |
cut cast, caste, chastise, castigate, chaste |
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CED/CEED/CESS |
to go, to yield, to stop antecedent, concede, predecessor, cessation, incessant |
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CENTR |
center |
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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT |
to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide discrete, certain, certitude, discern, discreet, hypocrite, criterion |
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CHRON |
time synchronize, chonology, chronometer, chronic, anachronism |
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CIRCU/CIRCUM |
around, on all sides circumference, circumstance, circumambulate, circuit, circuitous, circumscribe, circumnavigate |
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CIS |
to cut scissors, incision, exorcise, precise, incisive, circumscise |
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CLA/CLO/CLU |
to close conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, exclusive, cloister, preclude |
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CLAIM/CLAM |
to shout, to cry out proclaim, exclaim, clamor, disclaim, reclaim
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CAUS/CAUT |
to burn caustic, cauterize, cautery, holocaust |
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CELER |
speed accelerant, accelerate, celerity, decelerate |
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CENT |
hundred, hundredth bicentennial, cent, centigrade, centimeter, centipede, century, percent |
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CHROM |
color chromatic, chrome, chromosome, monochromatic |
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CLI |
to lean toward climax, decline, disinclination, proclivity, recline |
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CO/COL/COM/CON |
with, together coerce, collaborate, collide, commensurate, compatible, conciliate, connect, cohabitate |
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COGN/CONN |
to know cognition, incognito, recognize |
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CONTRA/CONTRO/COUNTER |
against contradict, contrary, controversy, counterfeit, countermand, encounter |
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CORP/CORS |
body corporation, corps, corpse, corpulent, corset, incorporation |
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COSM |
order, universe, world cosmetic, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolitan, cosmos, microcosm |
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COUR/CUR |
running, a course concur, courier, curriculum, cursive, cursory, excursion, incursion, recur |
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CRE/CRESC/CRET |
to grow accretion, accrue, creation, excresence, increase, increment |
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CRED |
to believe, to trust credentials, credit, credo, credulity, incredible, incredulity |
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CRYPT |
hidden apocryphal, crypt, cryptography, cryptology |
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CUB/CUMB |
to lie down cubicle, incubate, incumbent, recumbent, succumb |
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CULP |
fault, blame culpable, culprit, inculpate, mea culpa |
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DAC/DOC |
to teach didactic, docile, doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate |
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DE |
away, off, down, completely, reversal decipher, defame, deferential, defile, delineate, descend |
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DELE |
to erase delete, indelible |
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DEM |
people democracy, demographics, endemic, epidemic, pandemic |
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DEXT |
right hand, right side, deft ambidextrous, dexter, dexterity |
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DI |
day dial, diary, dismal, diurnal, meridian, quotidian |
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DI/DIA |
in two, through, across diagnose, dialogue, diameter, dichotomy |
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DI/DIF/DIS |
away from, apart, reversal, not diffuse, dilate, dilatory, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade |
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DIC/DICT/DIT |
to say, to tell, to use words dictionary, interdict, predict, verdict |
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DIGN |
worth codign, deign, dignitary, dignity, disdain |
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DOG/DOX |
opinion dogma, orthodox, paradox |
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DOL |
to suffer, to pain, to grieve condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolence |
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DON/DOT/DOW |
to give anecdote, antidote, donate, endow, pardon |
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DORM |
sleep dormitory, dormant |
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DORS |
back dorsal, endorse |
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DUB |
doubt dubiety, dubious, indubitable |
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DUC/DUCT |
to lead abduct, conducive, conduct, induce, induct, produce |
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DULC |
sweet dulcet, dulcified, dulcimer |
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DUR |
hard, lasting dour, durable, duration, duress, undure, obdurate |
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DYS |
faulty, abnormal dysfunctional, dyslexia, dyspepsia, dystrophy |
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E/EX |
out, out of, from, former, completely efface, evade, exclude, exonerate, expire, extricate |
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EGO |
self ego, egocentric, egoism/egotism |
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EM/EN |
in, into embrace, enclose |
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EPI |
upon epidemic, epidermis, epigram, epilogue, epithet |
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EQU |
equal, even adequate, equation, equidistant, ininquity |
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ERR |
to wander arrant, err, erratic, error |
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ESCE |
becoming adolescent, convalescent, incandescent, obsolescent, reminiscent |
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EU |
good, well: eugenics, eulogy, euphemism, euphony, euthanasia |
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EXTRA |
outside, beyond: extract, extradite, extraordinary, extrapolate, extrasensory |
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FAB/FAM |
to speak: affable, defame, fable, famous, ineffable |
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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY |
to do, to make: configuration, counterfeit, deficient, effigy, faction, factory, prolific, ratify |
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FAL |
to err, to deceive: default, fail, fallacy, false, faux pas, infallible |
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FATU |
foolish: fatuity, fatuous, infatuated |
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FER |
to bring, to carry, to bear: confer, confer, proffer, proliferate, transfer |
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FERV |
to boil, to bubble: effervescent, fervid, fervor |
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FI/FID |
faith, trust: affidavit, confide, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel
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FIN |
end: confine, definitive, final, infinite, infinitesimal |
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FLAGR/FLAM |
to burn:
conflagration, flagrant, flambeau, inflame |
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FLECT/FLEX |
to bend, to turn:
deflect, flexible, genuflect, inflect, reflect |
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FLU/FLUX |
to flow:
confluence, effluence, fluctuation, fluid, mellifluous |
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FORE |
before:
foreshadow, foresight, forestall, forthright |
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FORT(U) |
chance:
fortuitous, fortunate, fortune |
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FORT |
strength:
forte, fortify, fortissimo |
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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING |
to break:
fractious, fracture, fragment, infringe, refractory |
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FUG |
to flee, to fly:
centrifugal, fugitive, fugue, refuge, refugee, subterfuge, fugacious
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FULG |
to shine:
effulgent, refulgant |
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FUM |
smoke:
fume, fumigate, perfume |
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FUS |
to pour:
diffuse, fusillade, infusion, profuse, suffuse |
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GEN |
birth, creation, race, kind:
carcinogenic, congenital, gender, generous, genetics, progeny |
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GN/GNO |
to know:
agnostic, diagnose, ignoramus, ignore, prognosis |
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GRAD/GRESS |
to step:
aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, progress, regress |
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GRAM/GRAPH |
to write, to draw:
diagram, epigram, grammar, graph, graphite, photograph |
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GRAT |
pleasing:
gracious, grateful, gratuity, ingratiate |
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GREG |
flock:
aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate |
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HAP |
by chance:
haphazard, hapless, happen, happily, happy, mishap, perhaps |
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HEMI |
half:
hemisphere, hemistich |
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HER/HES |
to stick:
adherent, adhesive, coherent, inherent |
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(H)ETERO |
different, other:
heterodox, heterogenous, heterosexual |
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HOL(O) |
whole:
catholic, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holistic |
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(H)OM |
same:
anomaly, homeostasis, homogenous, homonym, homosexual |
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HUM |
earth:
exhume, humble, humility |
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HYPER |
over, excessive:
hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia |
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HYPO |
under, beneath, less than:
hypochondriac, hypocritical, hypodermic, hypothesis |
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ICON |
image, idol:
icon, iconic, iconoclastic, iconology |
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IDIO |
one's own:
idiom, idiosyncrasy, idiot |
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IN/IM (drop m and double first letter after i)
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not/without:
immoral, impartial, inactive, indigent, indolence, innocuous |
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IN/IM (drop m and double first letter after i)
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in, into:
implicit, incarnate, indigenous, influx, intrinsic |
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INTER |
between, among:
interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse, interstate |
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INTRA |
inside, within:
intramural, intrastate, intravenous |
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IT/ITER |
way, journey:
ambition, circuit, itinerant, itinerary, reiterate, transit |
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JECT |
to throw, to throw down:
abject, conjecture, dejected, eject, inject |
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JOC |
joke:
jocose, jocular, jocund, joke |
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JOIN/JUG/JUNCT |
to meet, to join:
adjoin, conjugal, conjunction, injunction, junction, junta, rejoinder, subjugate |
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JOUR |
day:
adjourn, journal, journey |
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JUD |
to judge:
adjudicate, judiciary, judicious, prejudice |
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JUR |
law, to swear:
abjure, adjure, jurisprudence, perjury |
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JUV |
young:
juvenile, juvenilia, rejuvenate |
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LANG/LING |
tongue:
bilingual, language, linguistics |
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LAUD |
praise, honor:
cum laude, laudable, laudatory |
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LAV/LAU/LU |
to wash:
ablution, antediluvian, deluge, dilute, laundry, lavatory |
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LAX/LEAS/LES |
loose:
lax, laxative, lease, leash, relax, release |
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LEC(T) /LEG/LEX |
to speak, to read:
dialect, lectern, lecture, legend, legible, lesson, lexicographer, lexicon |
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LECT/LEG |
to select, to choose:
collect, eclectic, elect, predilection, select |
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LEV |
to lift, to rise, light(weight):
alleviate, levee, levitate, levity, relevant, relieve |
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LI/LIG |
to tie, to bind:
ally, league, liable, liaison, lien, ligament, ligature, oblige, rely |
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LIBER |
free:
deliver, liberal, liberality, liberate, libertine, liberty, livery |
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LITH |
stone:
acrolith, lithography, lithology, lithotomy, megalith, monolith |
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LOC/LOG/LOQU |
word, speech, thought:
colloquial, dialogue, elocution, eulogy, grandiloquent, loquacious, prologue |
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LUC/LUM/LUS |
light (brightness):
illuminate, illustrate, illustrious, lackluster, lucid, luminous, translucent |
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LUD/LUS |
to play:
allude, delude, elude, illusion, ludicrous, prelude |
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MACRO |
great, long:
macro, macrobiotics, macrocephalous, macrocosm, macroscopic |
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MAG/MAJ/MAX |
big, great:
magnanimous, magnate, magnify, magnitude, maxim, maximum |
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MAL/MALE |
bad, ill, evil, wrong:
maladroit, malady, malapropism, malediction, malfeasance, malfunction, malicious, malign |
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MAN/MANU |
hand:
emancipate, manifest, manual, manufacture |
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MAND/MEND |
to command, to order, to entrust:
command, commend, countermand, demand, mandatory, recommend, remand |
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MEDI |
middle:
immediate, intermediate, mean, mediate, medieval, mediocre, medium |
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MEGA |
large, great:
megalith, megalomania, megalopolis, megaphone, megaton |
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MICRO |
very small:
microbe, microcosm, micron, microorganism, microscope |
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MIN
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small:
diminish, diminution, miniature, minute, minutiae |
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to project, to hang over:
eminent, imminent, preeminent, prominent |
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MIS |
bad, wrong, to hate:
misadventure, misanthrope, misapply, mischance, mischief, misconstrue, misfit |
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MIS/MIT |
to send:
emissary, intermittent, remission, remit, transmit, mission |
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MISC |
mixed:
miscellaneous, promiscuous |
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MOB/MOM/MOT/MOV |
to move:
automobile, demote, immovable, locomotion, mob, mobile, mobilize, moment, momentous, momentum, motion, motive, motor, mutiny, promote, remove |
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MOLL |
soft:
emollient, mild, mollify, mollusk |
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MON/MONO |
one:
monarchy, monk, monochord, monogram, monograph, monologue, monomania, monotonous |
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MON/MONIT |
to remind, to warn:
admonish, monitor, monument, premonition, remonstrate, summon |
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MOR/MORT |
death:
immortal, morbid, moribund |
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MORPH |
shape:
amorphous, anthropomorphism, metamorphosis |
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MULT |
many:
multiple, multiplex, multiply, multitudinous |
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MUT |
to change:
commute, immutable, mutation, permutation, transmute |
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NAT/NAS/NAI/GNA |
birth:
cognate, naive, nascent, native, natural, renaissance |
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NAU/NAV |
ship, sailor:
astronaut, circumnavigate, cosmonaut, nauseous, nautical, naval, nave, navy |
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NIHIL |
nothing, none:
annihilate, nihilism |
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NOC/NOX |
harm:
innocent, innocuous, noxious, obnoxious |
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NOCT/NOX |
night:
equinox, noctambulant, nocturnal, nocturne |
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NOM |
rule, order:
astronomy, autonomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy |
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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN |
name:
acronym, anonymous, nomenclature, nominal, nominate, noun, renown, synonym, antonym |
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NON |
not:
nonconformist, nonentity, nonpareil, nonpartisan |
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NOUNC/NUNC |
to announce:
announce, pronounce, renounce |
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NOV/NEO/NOU |
new:
innovate, neologism, neophyte, neoplasm, nouveau riche, novice, renovate |
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NULL |
nothing:
annul, nullify, nullity |
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OB |
toward, to, against, over:
obese, obfuscate, oblique, obsequious, obstinate, obstreperous, obstruct, obtuse |
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OMNI |
all:
omnibus, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient |
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ONER |
burden:
exonerate, onerous, onus |
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OSS/OSTE |
bone:
ossify, ossuary, osteopathy, osteoporosis |
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PAC/PEAC |
peace:
appease, pacifier, pacify, pact |
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PALP |
to fell:
palpable, palpate, palpitate |
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PAN/PANT |
all, everyone:
pandemic, panegyric, panoply, panorama, pantheon |
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PAR |
equal:
apartheid, disparage, disparate, par, parity |
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PARA |
next to, beside:
parable, paragon, parallel, paranoid, parasite, parody |
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PAS/PAT/PATH |
feeling, suffering, disease:
compassion, dispassionate, empathy, impassive, pathogenic, sociopath, sympathy |
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PAU/PO/POV/PU |
few, little, poor:
impoverish, paucity, pauper, poverty, puerile, pusillanimous
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PEC |
money:
impecunious, peculation, pecuniary
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PED |
child, education:
encyclopedia, pedagogue, pedant, pediatrician |
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PED/POD |
foot:
antipodes, expedite, impede, pedal, pedestrian, podium |
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PEL |
to drive, to push:
compel, dispel, expel, impel, propel |
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PEN/PUN |
to pay, to compensate:
penal, penalty, penance, penitent, punitive, punishment |
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PEN/PENE |
almost:
peninsula, penultimate, penumbra |
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PEND/PENS |
to hang, to weight, to pay:
appendage, appendix, compensate, depend, indispensable, stipend
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PER |
completely:
perforate, perfunctory, perplex, persistent, perspicacious, pertinacious, peruse |
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PERI |
around:
perimeter, peripatetic, periscope |
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PET/PIT |
to go, to seek, to strive:
appetite, centripetal, compete, impetuous, petition, petulant |
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PHIL |
love:
bibliophile, philatelist, philology, philosophy |
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PHOB |
fear:
claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobia, xenophobia |
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PHON |
sound:
euphony, megaphone, phonetics, polyphony, telephone |
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PHOTO |
light:
photograph, photon, photosynthesis |
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PLAC |
to please:
complacent, complaisant, implacable, placebo, placid |
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PLE/PLEN |
to fill, full:
complete, deplete, implement, plethora, plenitude, replete, supplement |
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PLEX/PLIC/PLY |
to fold, twist, tangle or bend:
complex, duplicity, implicate, implicit, replica, supplicate |
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POLY |
many:
polyandry, polygamy, polyglot, polygon, polytheism |
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PON/POS/POUND |
to put, to place:
component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository |
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PORT |
to carry:
deportment, disport, export, import, importune, portable |
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POST |
behind, after:
post facto, posterior, posterity, posthumous |
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POT |
to drink:
potable, potation, potion |
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PRE |
before, in front:
precarious, precedent, precept, precocious, premonition, presentiment |
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PREHEND/PRISE |
to take, to get, to seize:
apprehend, comprise, enterprise, reprehensible, reprisals, surprise |
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PRI/PRIM |
first:
primary, primal, prime, primeval, pristine |
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PRO |
in front, before, much, for:
problem, proceed, profuse, prolific, propound, proselytize, provident |
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PROB |
to prove, to test:
approbation, opprobrium, probe, probity, reprobate |
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PROP/PROX |
near:
approximate, proximate, proximity |
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PROT/PROTO |
first:
protagonist, protocol, prototype, protozoan |
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PSEUD/PSEUDO |
false:
pseudonym, pseudopod, pseudoscience |
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PUG |
to fight:
impugn, pugilist, pugnacious, repugnant |
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN |
to point, to prick, to pierce:
compunction, expunge, point, punctilious, puncture, pungent |
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PYR |
fire:
pyre, pyromania, pyrosis, pyrotechnics
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QUAD/QUAR/QUAT |
four:
quadrant, quadrille, quadruple, quadruplets, quart, quartenary |
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QUE/QUIS |
to seek:
acquire, conquest, exquisite, inquisitive, perquisite, querulous, query |
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QUIE/QUIT |
quiet, rest:
acquiesce, disquiet, quiescence, quiet, tranquil |
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QUIN/QUINT |
five:
quinquennial, quintessence, quintuple |
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RACI/RADI |
root:
deracinate, eradicate, radical, radish |
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RAMI |
branch:
ramification, ramiform |
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RE |
back, again:
recline, regain, remain, reorganize, request |
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RECT |
straight, right:
correct, direct, erect, rectangle, rectitude |
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REG |
king, rule:
interregnum, realm, regal, regent, regicide, regiment, regular |
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RETRO |
backward:
retroactive, retrofit, retrograde, retrospective |
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RID/RIS |
to laugh:
derision, risible |
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ROG |
to ask:
abrogate, arrogant, arrogate, derogatory, interrogate, surrogate |
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RUB/RUD |
red:
rouge, rubella, rubicund, rubric, russet |
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RUD |
crude:
erudite, rude, rudimentary, rudiments |
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SACR/SANCT |
holy:
execrable, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege, sanctify, sanction |
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SAG/SAP/SAV |
taste, thinking, discerning:
insipid, sagacious, sage, sapient, savant, savor |
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT |
to leap, to jump:
assault, desultory, exult, insolent, insult, resilient, salient, somersault |
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SAL |
salt:
salary, saline |
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SALU |
health:
salubrious, salutary, salute |
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SALV |
to save:
salvage, salvation, savior |
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SAN |
healthy:
sane, sanitarium, sanitary |
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SANG |
blood:
consanguinity, sanguinary, sanguine |
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SAT |
enough:
assets, dissatisfied, sate, satisfy, saturate |
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SCI |
to know:
conscience, conscious, omniscient, prescient, unconscionable |
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SCRIBE/SCRIPT |
to write:
ascribe, circumscribe, conscription, describe, postscript, proscribe, scribble, script, transcript |
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SE |
apart, away:
secede, sedition, seduce, segregate, select, separate, sequester |
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SEC/SEQU/SUE/SUI |
to follow:
non sequitur, obsequious, prosecute, pursue, second, sequence, suite |
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SED/SESS/SID |
to sit, to settle:
assiduous, dissident, insidious, preside, resident, residual, sediment, session |
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SEM |
seed, to sow:
disseminate, semen, seminary |
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SEMI |
half:
semicircle, semiconscious |
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SEN |
old:
senate, senescent, senile, sire |
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SENS/SENT |
to fell, to be aware:
dissent, insensate, presentiment, resent, sense, sensory, sentiment, sentinel |
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SIN/SINU |
bend, fold, curve:
insinuate, sinuous, sinus |
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SOL
1 |
alone:
desolate, isolate, soliloquize, solipsism, solitude |
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SOL
2 |
to loosen, to free:
absolution, dissolute, dissolution, dissolve, resolution, soluble |
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SOL
3 |
sun:
parasol, solar, solarium, solstice |
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SOMN |
sleep:
insomnia, somnambulist, somniferous, somniloquist, somnolent |
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SOPH |
wisdom:
philosopher, sophism, sophisticated |
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SOURC/SURG/SURRECT |
to rise:
insurgent, insurrection, resurrection, source, surge |
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SPEC/SPIC |
to look, to see:
circumspect, conspicuous, perspective, perspicacious, retrospective, specious, spectrum, speculation |
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SPIR |
to breathe:
aspire, expire, inspire, spirit |
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STA/STI |
to stand, to be in place:
apostasy, constitute, destitute, obstinate, stasis, static |
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STRICT/STRING/STRAN |
to tighten, to bind:
astringent, constrain, restriction, strangle |
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SUA |
sweet, pleasing, to urge:
assuage, dissuade, persuade, suave |
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SUB/SUP |
below, under:
subliminal, submissive, subsidiary, subterfuge, subtle, suppose |
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SUMM |
highest, total:
consummate, sum, summary, summit |
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SUPER/SUR |
over, above:
supercilious, superfluous, superlative, supersede, surmount, surpass, surveillance |
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SYM/SYN |
together:
symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symposium, synonym, synthesis |
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TAC/TIC |
to be silent:
reticent, tacit, taciturn |
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TACT/TAG/TAM/TANG |
to touch:
contact, contagious, contaminate, contiguous, intact, intangible, tactile |
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN |
to hold:
abstention, detain, pertain, pertinacious, sustenance, tenable, tenacious, tenure |
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU |
to stretch, to thin:
attenuate, contentious, distend, extenuating, tendentious, tension, tentative |
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TEST |
to bear witness:
attest, contest, detest, protest, testament, testify, testimony
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THEO |
god:
apotheosis, atheist, theocracy, theology |
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THERM |
heat:
thermal, thermometer, thermonuclear, thermostat |
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TIM |
fear:
intimidate, timid |
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TOR/TORQ/TORT |
to twist:
contort, distort, extort, torch, torque, tort, torture |
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TORP |
stiff, numb:
torpedo, torpid, torpor |
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TOX |
poison:
antitoxin, intoxication, toxic |
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TRACT |
to drag, to pull, to draw:
abstract, attract, contract, detract, protract, tractable, tractor |
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TRANS |
across, beyond:
intransigent, transaction, transcendent, transgress, transition, transparent |
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ULT |
last, beyond:
penultimate, ulterior, ultimate, ultimatum, ultraviolet |
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UMBR |
shadow:
adumbrate, penumbra, somber, umbrage, umbrella |
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UN |
not:
unseen, unusual |
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UND |
wave:
abound, inundate, undulate |
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UNI/UN |
one:
reunion, unanimous, unicorn, uniform, universe |
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URB |
city:
suburb, urban, urbane, urbanization |
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US/UT |
to use:
abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian |
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VAIL/VAL |
strength, use, worth:
ambivalent, avail, convalescent, equivalent, evaluate, invalid, valediction, valid, value |
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VEN/VENT |
to come or to move forward:
adventitious, contravene, convene, intervene, venturesome |
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VER |
truth:
aver, veracious, verdict, verisimilitude, verity |
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VERB |
word:
proverb, verbatim, verbose, verbiage |
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VERD |
green:
verdant, verdure |
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VERS/VERT |
to turn:
aversion, avert, controversy, diverse, extrovert, inadvertent, introvert, revert |
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VI |
life:
convivial, joie de vivre, viable, vivacity, vivid |
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VID/VIS |
to see:
adviser, evident, survey, video, vista |
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VIL |
base, mean:
revile, vile, vilify |
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VIRU |
poison:
virulent, viruliferous, virus |
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VOC/VOK |
call, word:
advocate, avocation, convoke, equivocate, invoke, vocabulary, vocation, vociferous |
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VOL |
wish:
benevolent, malevolent, volition, voluntary |
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VOLU/VOLV |
to roll, to turn:
convolution, evolve, revolt, revolve, voluble, volume |
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VOR |
to eat:
carnivorous, omnivorous, voracious |
