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CRED

To believe, to trust




accredit, credentials, credible, credit, creditable, credo, credulity, creed, incredible, incredulous

CRYPT

Hidden




apocryphal, crypt, cryptic, cryptography, cryptology

CUB / CUMB

To lie down




concubine, cubicle, incubate, incubus, incumbent, recumbent, succubus, succumb

CULP



Fault, blame




culpable, culprit, exculpate, inculpate,


mea culpa





DE

Away, off, down, completely, reversal




decipher, defame, deferential, defile, delineate, descend

DEXT

Right hand, right side, deft




ambidextrous, dexter, dexterity, dexterous

DI

Day




dial, diary, dismal, diurnal, meridian, quotidian

DI / DIA

In two, though, across




diagnose, diagonal, diagram, dialect, dialogue, diameter, diaphanous, diaphragm, diarrhea, diatribe, dichotomy

DI / DIF / DIS

Away from, apart, reversal, not


diffuse, dilate, dilatory, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, distant, diverge

DIC / DICT / DIT

To say, to tell, to use words


abdicate, benediction, contradict, dedicate, dictate, dictator, diction, dictionary, dictum, edict, indicate, indict, interdict, malediction, predicate, predict, valedictorian, verdict

DOL

To suffer, to pain, to grieve


condole, condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolence

DORM

Sleep


dormant, dormitory

DORS

Back


dorsal, endorse

DUC / DUCT

To lead


abduct, conducive, conduct, conduit, induce, induct, produce

DULC

Sweet


dulcet, dulcified, dulcimer

DUR

Hard, lasting


dour, durable, duration, duress, during, endure, obdurate, perdurable

E / EX

Out, out of, from, former, completely


efface, eliminate, emanate, eradicate, evade, evict, evince, exact, excavate, except, excerpt, excite, exclude, execute, exhale, exile, exit, expire, extricate

EGO

Self


ego, egocentric, egoism, egotist

EQU

Equal, Even


adequate, equable, equation, equator, equidistant, equilibrium, equinox, equivocate, iniquity

ERR

To wander


aberration, arrant, err, errant, erratic, erroneous, error

EU

Good, well


eugenics, eulogy, euphemism, euphony, euphoria, euthanasia

FAL

To err, to deceive


default, fail, fallacy, false, faux pas, infallible

FATU

Foolish


fatuity, fatuous, infatuate

FERV

To boil, To bubble


effervescent, fervent, fervid, fervor

FI / FID

Faith, trust


affiance, affidavit, confide, fealty, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel

FLAGR / FLAM

To burn


conflagration, flagrant, flambeau, inflame

FLECT / FLEX

To bend, to turn


circumflex, deflect, flex, flexible, genuflect, inflect, reflect

FUG

To flee, to fly


centrifuge, fugitive, fugue, refuge, refugee, subterfuge

FUM

Smoke


fume, fumigate, perfume

GEN

Birth, creation, race, kind


carcinogenic, congenital, degenerate, engender, eugenics, gender, gene, general, generation, generous, genesis, genetics, genial, genital, genius, gentility, gentle, ingenuity, progeny, regenerate

GNI / GNO

To know


agnostic, diagnose, gnomic, ignoramus, ignore, prognosis

GRAM / GRAPH

To write, to draw


anagram, diagram, epigram, epigraph, grammar, grammarian, gramophone, graph, graphic, graphite, phonograph, photograph, program, telegram

GREG

Flock


aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate

HAP

By chance


haphazard, hapless, happen, happily, happy, mayhap, mishap

HEMI

Half


hemicycle, hemisphere, hemistitch

(H)ETERO

Different, other


heterodox, heterodyne, heterogeneous, heterosexual

HOL

Whole


catholic, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holistic

(H)OM

Same


anomaly, homeostasis, homogeneous, homogenize, homologue, homonym, homophone, homosexual, homotype

HUM

Earth


exhume, humble, humility

ICON

Image, idol


icon, iconic, iconoclast, iconography, iconology

IN / IM

In, into


illuminate, implicit, incarnate, indigenous, influx, intrinsic, irrigate

IN / IM (2)

Not, without


illogical, immoral, impartial, inactive, indigent, indolence, innocuous, irrelevant


INTER

Between, Among


interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse, interstate, interval

INTRA

Inside, within


intramural, intrastate, intravenous

IT / ITER

Way, journey


ambition, circuit, itinerant, itinerary, reiterate, transit

JOC

Joke


jocose, jocular, jocularity, jocund, joke

JOUR

Day


adjourn, journal, journey

JUD

To judge


adjudicate, judiciary, judicious, prejudice

JUG / JUNCT

To join


adjunct, conjugal, conjunction, injunction, junction, junta, subjugate, subjunctive

JUR

Law, to swear


abjure, adjure, conjure, injure, juridical, jurisdiction, jurisprudence, jurist, jury, perjury

JUV

Young


juvenile, juvenilia, rejuvenate

LANG / LING

Tongue


bilingual, language, linguistic

LAUD

Praise, honor


cum laude, laud, laudable, laudatory

LAV / LAU / LU

To wash


ablution, antediluvian, deluge, dilute, laundry, lavatory, lave

LAX / LEAS / LES

Loose


lax, laxative, laxity, lease, leash, lessee, lessor, relax, release

LEC / LEG / LEX

To read, to speak


dialect, lectern, lecture, legend, legible, lesson, lexicographer, lexicon

LEV

To lift, to rise, light (weight)


alleviate, elevate, leaven, levee, lever, levitate, levity, levy, relevant,relieve

LI / LIG

To tie, to bind


ally, league, liable, liaison, lien, ligament, ligature, oblige, religion, rely

LIBER

Free


deliver, illiberal, liberal, liberality, liberate, libertine, liberty, livery

LITH

Stone


acrolith, lithography, lithoid, lithology, lithotomy, megalith, monolith

LOC / LOG / LOQU

Word, speech, thought


biology, circumlocution, colloquial, dialogue, elocution, eloquent, eulogy, geology, grandiloquent, interlocutor, locution, logic, loquacious, monologue, prologue, soliloquy, ventriloquism

LUC / LUM / LUS

Light (brightness)


illuminate, illustrate, illustrious, lackluster, lucid, luminous, translucent

MACRO

Great, long


macro, macrobiotics, macrocosm, macroscopic

MAG / MAJ / MAX

Big, great


magistrate, magnanimous, magnate, magnificent, magnify, magniloquent, magnitude, majesty, major, majority, master, maxim, maximum, mistress

MAL / MALE

Bad, ill, evil, wrong


maladroit, malady, malapropism, malediction, malefactor, malfeasance, malfunction, malevolence, malicious, malinger, malign

MAN / MANU

Hand


amanuensis, emancipate, manacle, manage, maneuver, manifest, manipulate, manner, manual, manufacture, manuscript

MAND / MEND

To command, to order, to entrust


command, commend, countermand, demand, mandate, mandatory, recommend, remand, reprimand

MEDI

Middle


immediate, intermediate, mean, media, median, mediate, medieval, mediocre, medium

MEGA

Large, great


megalith, megalomania, megalopolis, megaphone, megaton

MICRO

Very small


microbe, microcosm, micron, microorganism, microscope

MIS

Bad, wrong, to hate


misadventure, misanthrope, misapply, miscarry, mischance, mischief, misconstrue, miscount, misfit, misinterpret

MOB / MOM / MOT / MOV

To move


automobile, demote, immovable, locomotion, mob, mobile, mobility, mobilize, moment, momentous, momentum, motion, motive, motor, move, mutiny, promote, remove

MOLL

Soft


emollient, mild, mollify, mollusk

MON / MONO

One


monarchy, monism, monk, monochord, monogram, monograph, monolithic, monologue, monomania, monotonous

MOR / MORT

Death


amortize, immortal, morbid, moribund, mortality, mortify, mortuary

MULT

Many


multiple, multiplex, multiply, multitudinous

MUT

To change


commute, immutable, mutation, mutual, permutation, transmute

NAT / NAS / NAI / GNA

Birth


cognate, innate, naïve, nascent, natal, native, natural, nature, pregnant, renaissance

NAU / NAV

Ship, sailor


astronaut, circumnavigate, cosmonaut, nauseous, nautical, naval, nave, navy

NIHIL

Nothing, none


annihilate, nihilism

NOC / NOX

Harm


innocent, innocuous, internecine, noxious, nuisance, obnoxious, pernicious

NOCT / NOX

Night


equinox, noctambulant, nocturnal, nocturne

NOM / NYM / NOUN / NOWN

Name


acronym, anonymous, misnomer, nomenclature, nominal, nominate, noun, pronoun, pseudonym, renown, synonym

NON

Not


nonconformist, nonentity, nonpareil, nonpartisan

NOV / NEO / NOU

New


innovate, neologism, neophyte, neoplasm, nouveau riche, novel, novice, renovate

NULL

Nothing


annul, null, nullify, nullity

OB

Toward, to against, over


obese, obfuscate, oblique, obsequious, obstinate, obstreperous, obstruct, obtuse

OMNI

ALL


omnibus, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, omnivorous,

ONER

Burden


exonerate, onerous, onus

OSS / OSTE

Bone


osseous, ossicle, ossiferous, ossify, ossuary, ostectomy, osteopathy

PALP

To feel


palpable, palpate, palpitate, palpitation

PAN / PANT

ALL, everyone


panacea, pandemic, panegyric, panoply, panorama, pantheon

PASS / PAT / PATH

Feeling, suffering, disease


compassion, dispassionate, empathy, impassive, pathogenic, sociopath, sympathy

PEC

Money


impecunious, peculation, pecuniary

PED

Child, education


encyclopedia, pedagogue, pedant, pediatrician

PED / POD

Foot


antipodes, arthropod, expedite, impede, pedal, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigree, pediment, podium, tripod

PEL

To drive, to push


compel, dispel, expel, impel, propel

PEN / PENE

Almost


antepenult, peninsula, penult, penultimate, penumbra

PERI

Around


perihelion, perimeter, perineum, peripatetic, periphery, periscope

PHIL

Love


bibliophile, necrophilia, philanthropy, philatelist, philharmonic, philogyny, philology, philosophy

PHOB

Fear


Claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobic, xenophobia

PHON

Sound


antiphony, euphony, megaphone, phonetics, phonograph, polyphony, saxophone, symphony, telephone

PLAC

To please


complacent, complaisant, implacable, placate, placebo, placid

PLE / PLEN

To fill, full


accomplishment, complement, complete, deplete, implement, plenary, plenipotentiary, plenitude, plenty, replenish, replete, supplement

POLY

Many


polyandry, polygamy, polyglot, polygon, polyhedron, polytechnic, polytheism

PORT

To carry


comport, deportment, disport, export, import, important, importune, portable, portage, porter, portfolio, portly, purport, report, support, transport

POST

Behind, after


postfacto, posterior, postern, posthumous, postmeridian, postmortem, postscript, preposterious

POT

To drink


potable, potation, potion

PRE

Before, in front


preamble, precarious, precedent, precept, precocious, precursor, predict, preface, premonition, prescribe, presentiment, president

PRI / PRIM

First


primary, primal, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine

PRO

In front, before, much, for


problem, proceed, proclaim, procure, profuse, prolific, propound, prostate, proselytize, protest, provident

PRO / PROX

Near


approximate, propinquity, proximate, proximity

PROT / PROTO

First


protagonist, protocol, prototype, protozoan

PSEUD / PSEUDO

False


pseudepigrapha, pseudoclassic, pseudomorph, pseudonym, pseudopod, pseudoscience

PUG

To fight


impugn, pugilist, pugnacious, repugnant

PUNC / PUNG / POIGN

To point, to prick, to pierce


compunction, expunge, poignant, point, punch, punctilious, punctual, punctuate, puncture, pungent

PYR

Fire


pyre, pyromania, pyrometer, pyrosis, pyrotechnics

QUAD / QUAR / QUAT

Four


quadrant, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruple, quadruplets, quart, quarter, quaternary

QUIE / QUIT

Quiet, rest


acquiesce, qcquit, coy, disquiet, quiescence, quiet, quietude, quietus, quit, requiem, requital, tranquil

QUIN / QUINT

Five


quincunx, quinquennial, quintessence, quintile, quintillion, quintuple

RACI / RADI

Root


deracinate, eradicate, radical, radish

RAMI

Branch


ramification, ramiform, ramify

RE

Back, again


recline, refer, regain, remain, reorganize, repent, request

RECT

Straight, right


correct, direct, erect, rectangle, rectify, rectilinear, rectitude, rector

REG

King, rule


interregnum, realm, regal, regent, regicide, regime, regiment, region, regular, regulate

RETRO

Backward


retroactive, retrofit, retrograde, retrospective

RUB / RUD

Red


rouge, rubella, rubicund, rubric, ruby, ruddy, russet

RUD

Crude


erudite, rude, rudimentary, rediments

SACR / SANCT

Holy


consecration, desecrate, execrable, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege, sacristy, sacrosanct, saint, sanctify, sanctimonious, sanction, sanctity, sanctuary, sanctum

SAG / SAP / SAV

Taste, thinking, discerning


insipid, sagacious, sagacity, sage, sapient, savant, savor

SALU

Health


salubrious, salutary, salute

SALV

To save


safe, salvage, salvation, savior

SAN

Healthy


sane, sanitarium, sanitary, sanitation, sanity

SANG

Blood


consanguinity, sanguinary, sanguine

SAT

Enough


asset, dissatisfied, insatiable, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate

SCRIBE / SCRIPT

To write


ascribe, circumscribe, conscription, describe, indescribable, inscription, postscript, prescribe, proscribe, scribble, scribe, script, scripture, scrivener, subscribe, transcript

SE

Apart, away


secede, sedition, seduce, segregate, select, separate, sequester

SEC / SEQU / SUE / SUI

To follow


consecutive, consequent, execute, executive, non sequitur, obsequious, obsequy, persecution, prosecute, pursue, second, sequel, sequence, sue, suitable, suite, suitor

SED / SESS / SID

To sit. to settle


assiduous, dissident, insidious, preside, resident, residual, séance, sedate, sedative, sedentary, sediment, sedulous, session, siege, subside, supersede

SEM

Seed, to sow


disseminate, semen, seminal, seminar, seminary

SEMI

Half


semicircle, semicolon, semiconscious, semifluid

SEN

Old


senate, senescent, senile, senior, sire

SIN / SINU

Bend, fold


cosine, insinuate, sine, sinuous, sinus

SOL

Alone


desolate, isolate, sole, soliloquize, solipsism, solitude, solo

SOL

Sun


parasol, solar, solarium, solstice

SOMN

Sleep


insomnia, somnambulist, somniferous somniloquist, somnolent

SOPH

Wisdom


philosopher, sophism, sophist, sophisticated, sophistry

SOURC / SURG / SURRECT

To rise


insurgent, insurrection, resource, resurge, resurrection, source, surge

SPEC / SPIC

To look, to see


circumspect, conspicuous, despicable, inspect, perspective, respectable, retrospect, specious, spectrum, speculation

SPIR

Breath


aspire, conspire, expire, inspire, perspire, respirator, spirit, spiritual, sprightly, sprite, suspire, transpire

STRICT / STRING / STRAN

To tighten, to bind


astringent, constrain, constrict, district, restriction strain, strait, strangle, strict, stringent

SUA

Sweet, pleasing, to urge


assuage, dissuade, persuade, persuasive, suasion, suave, sweet

SUB / SUP

Below, under


subliminal, submissive, subsidiary, subterfuge, subtle, suppose

SUMM

Highest, total


consummate, sum, summary, summit

SUPER / SUR

Over, above


insuperable, superb, supercilious, superficial, superfluous, superior, superlative, supernatural, supersede, supervise, surmount, surpass, surrealism, surveillance, survey

SYM / SYN

Together


symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symposium, synonym, synthesis

TAC / TIC

To be silent


reticent, tacit, taciturn

TACT / TAG /C TAM / TANG

To touch


contact, contagious, contaminate, contiguous, cotangent, intact, intangible, integral, tact, tactile, tangent, tangential

TEST

To bear witness


attest, contest, detest, intestate, protest, testament, testify, testimonial

THERM

Heat


diathermy, thermal, thermesthesia, thermometer, thermonuclear, thermophilic, thermostat

TIM

Fear


intimidate, timid, timidity, timorous

TOR / TORQ / TORT

To twist


contort, distort, extort, retort, torch, torment, torque, torsion, tort, tortuous, torture

TORP

Stiff, numb


torpedo, torpid, torpor

TOX

Poison


antitoxin, intoxication, toxemia, toxic, toxicology, toxin

TRANS

Across, beyond


intransigent, transaction, transcendent, transcribe, transgress, transient, transition, transmit, transparent, transport

ULT

Last, beyond


penultimate, ulterior, ultimate, ultimatum, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultraviolet

UMBR

Shadow


adumbrate, penumbra, somber, umber, umbrage, umbrella

UN

Not


unaccustomed, unruly, unseen, untold, unusual

UND

Wave


abound, abundance, inundate, redundant, undulant, undulate

UNI / UN

One


reunion, unanimous, unicorn, uniform, union, unison, unit, unite, unity, universe

URB

City


exurbanite, suburb, urban, urbane, urbanity, urbanization

VAIL / VAL

Strength, use, worth


ambivalent, avail, convalescent, countervailing, equivalent, evaluate, invalid, prevalent, valediction, valiant, valid, valor, value

VER

Truth


aver, veracious, verdict, verify, verily, verisimilitude, verity, very

VERB

Word


adverb, proverb, verb, verbal, verbalize, verbatim, verbose, verbiage

VERD

Green


verdant, verdigris verdure

VI

Life


convivial, joie de vivre, revival, revive, survive, viable, vital, vitality, vivacity, vivid, viviparous, vivisection

VIL

Base, mean


revile, vile, vilify, vilification

VIRU

Poison


virulence, viruliferous, virus

VOC / VOK

Call, word


advocate, avocation, avow, convocation, convoke, equivocate, evoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, vocabulary, vocal, vocation, vociferous

VOL

Wish


benevolent, malevolent, Volant, volatile, volition, volley, voluntary

VOLU / VOLV

To roll, to turn


circumvolve, convolution, devolve, evolve, involution, revolt, revolution, revolve, voluble, volume, voluminous, volute

A / AN

Not, without


amoral, anomaly, anonymous, apathy, atheist, atrophy, atypical

AB

Off, away from, apart, down


abdicate, abduct, abhor, abject, abnormal, abolish, abstinence, abstract, abstruse

ABLE / IBLE

Capable of, worthy of


changeable, durable, indubitable, inevitable, infallible, irreducible, laudable, tolerable, variable

AC / ACR

Sharp, bitter, sour


acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acumen, acute, exacerbate

AD

To, toward, near


adapt, adequate, adumbrate, advocate, accede, adduce, affiliate, aggregate, allocate, annunciation, appall, arrest, assiduous, attract

AMBI / AMPHI

Both, on both sides, around


ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibian, amphitheater

AMBL / AMBUL

To go, to walk


amble, ambulance, ambulatory, perambulator, preamble

ANIM

Of the life, mind, soul, breath


animadversion, animal, animate, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, pusillanimous, unanimous

ANT / ANTE

Before


ancient, antebellum, antecedent, antechamber, antedate, antediluvian, anterior, anticipate, antiquity

ANTI

Against, opposite


antagonism, antibody, anticlimax, antidote, antipathy, antiphony, antipodal, antiseptic, antithesis

AQUA / AQUE

Water


aquamarine, aquarium, aquatic, aqueduct, subaqueous

AUTO

Self


autism, autobiography, autocrat, autograph, automatic, automaton, autonomy

BELL

War


antebellum, bellicose, belligerent, rebel, rebellion

BEN / BENE

Good


benediction, benefactor, benefit, benevolent, benign

BI / BIN

Two


Biennial, bifocals, bifurcate, bilateral, bilingual, binocular, binomial, bipartisan, biped, combination

BON / BOUN

Good, generous


bona fide, bonus, bountiful, bounty, debonair

BREV / BRID

Short, small


abbreviate, abridge, brevet, breviary, breviloquent, brevity, brief

BURS

Purse, money


bursar, bursary, disburse, reimburse

CARD / CORD / COUR

Heart


accord, cardiac, concord, concordance, cordial, discord, encourage, record

CARN

Flesh


carnage, carnal, carnival, carnivorous, incarnation

CAUS / CAUT

To burn


caustic, cauterize, cautery, encaustic, holocaust

CED / CEED / CESS

To go, to yield, to stop


abscess, accede, antecedent, cessation, concede, exceed, intercede, precede, predecessor, proceed, recede, recess, secede, succeed

CELER

Speed


accelerant, accelerate, celerity, decelarate

CENT

Hundredth


bicentennial, cent, centennial, centigrade, centigram, centimeter, century, percent

CHROM

Color


chromatic, chrome, chromosome, monochromatic

CHRON

Time


anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronometer, synchronize

CIRCU / CIRCUM

Around


circuit, circuitous, circumference, circumspect, circumstance

CO / COL / COM / CON

With, together


coerce, collaborate, collide, commensurate, communicate, compare, compatible, conciliate, connect

COGN / CONN

To know


cognition, cognizance, incognito, recognize, reconnaissance, reconnoiter

CONTRA / CONTRO / COUNTER

Against


contradict, contrary, controversy, counter, counteract, counterfeit, counterpart, encouter

CORP / CORS

Body


corporate, corps, corpse, corpulent, corpus, corpuscle, corset, incorporation

COSM

Order, universe, world


cosmetic, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolitan, cosmos, microcosm

CRE / CRESC / CRET

To grow


accretion, accrue, creation, excrescence, increase, increment