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CRED |
To believe, to trust
accredit, credentials, credible, credit, creditable, credo, credulity, creed, incredible, incredulous |
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CRYPT |
Hidden
apocryphal, crypt, cryptic, cryptography, cryptology |
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CUB / CUMB |
To lie down
concubine, cubicle, incubate, incubus, incumbent, recumbent, succubus, succumb |
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CULP |
Fault, blame
culpable, culprit, exculpate, inculpate, mea culpa
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DE |
Away, off, down, completely, reversal
decipher, defame, deferential, defile, delineate, descend |
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DEXT |
Right hand, right side, deft
ambidextrous, dexter, dexterity, dexterous |
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DI |
Day
dial, diary, dismal, diurnal, meridian, quotidian |
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DI / DIA |
In two, though, across
diagnose, diagonal, diagram, dialect, dialogue, diameter, diaphanous, diaphragm, diarrhea, diatribe, dichotomy |
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DI / DIF / DIS |
Away from, apart, reversal, not diffuse, dilate, dilatory, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, distant, diverge |
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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 |
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DOL |
To suffer, to pain, to grieve condole, condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolence |
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DORM |
Sleep dormant, dormitory |
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DORS |
Back dorsal, endorse |
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DUC / DUCT |
To lead abduct, conducive, conduct, conduit, induce, induct, produce |
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DULC |
Sweet dulcet, dulcified, dulcimer |
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DUR |
Hard, lasting dour, durable, duration, duress, during, endure, obdurate, perdurable |
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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 |
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EGO |
Self ego, egocentric, egoism, egotist |
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EQU |
Equal, Even adequate, equable, equation, equator, equidistant, equilibrium, equinox, equivocate, iniquity |
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ERR |
To wander aberration, arrant, err, errant, erratic, erroneous, error |
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EU |
Good, well eugenics, eulogy, euphemism, euphony, euphoria, euthanasia |
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FAL |
To err, to deceive default, fail, fallacy, false, faux pas, infallible |
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FATU |
Foolish fatuity, fatuous, infatuate |
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FERV |
To boil, To bubble effervescent, fervent, fervid, fervor |
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FI / FID |
Faith, trust affiance, affidavit, confide, fealty, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel |
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FLAGR / FLAM |
To burn conflagration, flagrant, flambeau, inflame |
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FLECT / FLEX |
To bend, to turn circumflex, deflect, flex, flexible, genuflect, inflect, reflect |
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FUG |
To flee, to fly centrifuge, fugitive, fugue, refuge, refugee, subterfuge |
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FUM |
Smoke fume, fumigate, perfume |
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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 |
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GNI / GNO |
To know agnostic, diagnose, gnomic, ignoramus, ignore, prognosis |
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GRAM / GRAPH |
To write, to draw anagram, diagram, epigram, epigraph, grammar, grammarian, gramophone, graph, graphic, graphite, phonograph, photograph, program, telegram |
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GREG |
Flock aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate |
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HAP |
By chance haphazard, hapless, happen, happily, happy, mayhap, mishap |
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HEMI |
Half hemicycle, hemisphere, hemistitch |
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(H)ETERO |
Different, other heterodox, heterodyne, heterogeneous, heterosexual |
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HOL |
Whole catholic, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holistic |
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(H)OM |
Same anomaly, homeostasis, homogeneous, homogenize, homologue, homonym, homophone, homosexual, homotype |
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HUM |
Earth exhume, humble, humility |
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ICON |
Image, idol icon, iconic, iconoclast, iconography, iconology |
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IN / IM |
In, into illuminate, implicit, incarnate, indigenous, influx, intrinsic, irrigate |
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IN / IM (2) |
Not, without illogical, immoral, impartial, inactive, indigent, indolence, innocuous, irrelevant
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INTER |
Between, Among interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse, interstate, interval |
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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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JOC |
Joke jocose, jocular, jocularity, jocund, joke |
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JOUR |
Day adjourn, journal, journey |
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JUD |
To judge adjudicate, judiciary, judicious, prejudice |
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JUG / JUNCT |
To join adjunct, conjugal, conjunction, injunction, junction, junta, subjugate, subjunctive |
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JUR |
Law, to swear abjure, adjure, conjure, injure, juridical, jurisdiction, jurisprudence, jurist, jury, perjury |
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JUV |
Young juvenile, juvenilia, rejuvenate |
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LANG / LING |
Tongue bilingual, language, linguistic |
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LAUD |
Praise, honor cum laude, laud, laudable, laudatory |
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LAV / LAU / LU |
To wash ablution, antediluvian, deluge, dilute, laundry, lavatory, lave |
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LAX / LEAS / LES |
Loose lax, laxative, laxity, lease, leash, lessee, lessor, relax, release |
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LEC / LEG / LEX |
To read, to speak dialect, lectern, lecture, legend, legible, lesson, lexicographer, lexicon |
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LEV |
To lift, to rise, light (weight) alleviate, elevate, leaven, levee, lever, levitate, levity, levy, relevant,relieve |
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LI / LIG |
To tie, to bind ally, league, liable, liaison, lien, ligament, ligature, oblige, religion, rely |
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LIBER |
Free deliver, illiberal, liberal, liberality, liberate, libertine, liberty, livery |
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LITH |
Stone acrolith, lithography, lithoid, lithology, lithotomy, megalith, monolith |
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LOC / LOG / LOQU |
Word, speech, thought biology, circumlocution, colloquial, dialogue, elocution, eloquent, eulogy, geology, grandiloquent, interlocutor, locution, logic, loquacious, monologue, prologue, soliloquy, ventriloquism |
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LUC / LUM / LUS |
Light (brightness) illuminate, illustrate, illustrious, lackluster, lucid, luminous, translucent |
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MACRO |
Great, long macro, macrobiotics, macrocosm, macroscopic |
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MAG / MAJ / MAX |
Big, great magistrate, magnanimous, magnate, magnificent, magnify, magniloquent, magnitude, majesty, major, majority, master, maxim, maximum, mistress |
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MAL / MALE |
Bad, ill, evil, wrong maladroit, malady, malapropism, malediction, malefactor, malfeasance, malfunction, malevolence, malicious, malinger, malign |
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MAN / MANU |
Hand amanuensis, emancipate, manacle, manage, maneuver, manifest, manipulate, manner, manual, manufacture, manuscript |
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MAND / MEND |
To command, to order, to entrust command, commend, countermand, demand, mandate, mandatory, recommend, remand, reprimand |
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MEDI |
Middle immediate, intermediate, mean, media, median, 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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MIS |
Bad, wrong, to hate misadventure, misanthrope, misapply, miscarry, mischance, mischief, misconstrue, miscount, misfit, misinterpret |
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MOB / MOM / MOT / MOV |
To move automobile, demote, immovable, locomotion, mob, mobile, mobility, mobilize, moment, momentous, momentum, motion, motive, motor, move, mutiny, promote, remove |
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MOLL |
Soft emollient, mild, mollify, mollusk |
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MON / MONO |
One monarchy, monism, monk, monochord, monogram, monograph, monolithic, monologue, monomania, monotonous |
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MOR / MORT |
Death amortize, immortal, morbid, moribund, mortality, mortify, mortuary |
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MULT |
Many multiple, multiplex, multiply, multitudinous |
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MUT |
To change commute, immutable, mutation, mutual, permutation, transmute |
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NAT / NAS / NAI / GNA |
Birth cognate, innate, naïve, nascent, natal, native, natural, nature, pregnant, 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, internecine, noxious, nuisance, obnoxious, pernicious |
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NOCT / NOX |
Night equinox, noctambulant, nocturnal, nocturne |
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NOM / NYM / NOUN / NOWN |
Name acronym, anonymous, misnomer, nomenclature, nominal, nominate, noun, pronoun, pseudonym, renown, synonym |
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NON |
Not nonconformist, nonentity, nonpareil, nonpartisan |
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NOV / NEO / NOU |
New innovate, neologism, neophyte, neoplasm, nouveau riche, novel, novice, renovate |
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NULL |
Nothing annul, null, 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, omnivorous, |
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ONER |
Burden exonerate, onerous, onus |
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OSS / OSTE |
Bone osseous, ossicle, ossiferous, ossify, ossuary, ostectomy, osteopathy |
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PALP |
To feel palpable, palpate, palpitate, palpitation |
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PAN / PANT |
ALL, everyone panacea, pandemic, panegyric, panoply, panorama, pantheon |
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PASS / PAT / PATH |
Feeling, suffering, disease compassion, dispassionate, empathy, impassive, pathogenic, sociopath, sympathy |
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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, arthropod, expedite, impede, pedal, pedestal, pedestrian, pedigree, pediment, podium, tripod |
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PEL |
To drive, to push compel, dispel, expel, impel, propel |
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PEN / PENE |
Almost antepenult, peninsula, penult, penultimate, penumbra |
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PERI |
Around perihelion, perimeter, perineum, peripatetic, periphery, periscope |
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PHIL |
Love bibliophile, necrophilia, philanthropy, philatelist, philharmonic, philogyny, philology, philosophy |
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PHOB |
Fear Claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobic, xenophobia |
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PHON |
Sound antiphony, euphony, megaphone, phonetics, phonograph, polyphony, saxophone, symphony, telephone |
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PLAC |
To please complacent, complaisant, implacable, placate, placebo, placid |
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PLE / PLEN |
To fill, full accomplishment, complement, complete, deplete, implement, plenary, plenipotentiary, plenitude, plenty, replenish, replete, supplement |
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POLY |
Many polyandry, polygamy, polyglot, polygon, polyhedron, polytechnic, polytheism |
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PORT |
To carry comport, deportment, disport, export, import, important, importune, portable, portage, porter, portfolio, portly, purport, report, support, transport |
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POST |
Behind, after postfacto, posterior, postern, posthumous, postmeridian, postmortem, postscript, preposterious |
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POT |
To drink potable, potation, potion |
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PRE |
Before, in front preamble, precarious, precedent, precept, precocious, precursor, predict, preface, premonition, prescribe, presentiment, president |
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PRI / PRIM |
First primary, primal, prime, primeval, primordial, pristine |
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PRO |
In front, before, much, for problem, proceed, proclaim, procure, profuse, prolific, propound, prostate, proselytize, protest, provident |
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PRO / PROX |
Near approximate, propinquity, proximate, proximity |
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PROT / PROTO |
First protagonist, protocol, prototype, protozoan |
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PSEUD / PSEUDO |
False pseudepigrapha, pseudoclassic, pseudomorph, 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, poignant, point, punch, punctilious, punctual, punctuate, puncture, pungent |
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PYR |
Fire pyre, pyromania, pyrometer, pyrosis, pyrotechnics |
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QUAD / QUAR / QUAT |
Four quadrant, quadrille, quadrinomial, quadruple, quadruplets, quart, quarter, quaternary |
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QUIE / QUIT |
Quiet, rest acquiesce, qcquit, coy, disquiet, quiescence, quiet, quietude, quietus, quit, requiem, requital, tranquil |
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QUIN / QUINT |
Five quincunx, quinquennial, quintessence, quintile, quintillion, quintuple |
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RACI / RADI |
Root deracinate, eradicate, radical, radish |
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RAMI |
Branch ramification, ramiform, ramify |
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RE |
Back, again recline, refer, regain, remain, reorganize, repent, request |
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RECT |
Straight, right correct, direct, erect, rectangle, rectify, rectilinear, rectitude, rector |
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REG |
King, rule interregnum, realm, regal, regent, regicide, regime, regiment, region, regular, regulate |
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RETRO |
Backward retroactive, retrofit, retrograde, retrospective |
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RUB / RUD |
Red rouge, rubella, rubicund, rubric, ruby, ruddy, russet |
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RUD |
Crude erudite, rude, rudimentary, rediments |
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SACR / SANCT |
Holy consecration, desecrate, execrable, sacerdotal, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege, sacristy, sacrosanct, saint, sanctify, sanctimonious, sanction, sanctity, sanctuary, sanctum |
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SAG / SAP / SAV |
Taste, thinking, discerning insipid, sagacious, sagacity, sage, sapient, savant, savor |
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SALU |
Health salubrious, salutary, salute |
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SALV |
To save safe, salvage, salvation, savior |
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SAN |
Healthy sane, sanitarium, sanitary, sanitation, sanity |
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SANG |
Blood consanguinity, sanguinary, sanguine |
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SAT |
Enough asset, dissatisfied, insatiable, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate |
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SCRIBE / SCRIPT |
To write ascribe, circumscribe, conscription, describe, indescribable, inscription, postscript, prescribe, proscribe, scribble, scribe, script, scripture, scrivener, subscribe, 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 consecutive, consequent, execute, executive, non sequitur, obsequious, obsequy, persecution, prosecute, pursue, second, sequel, sequence, sue, suitable, suite, suitor |
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SED / SESS / SID |
To sit. to settle assiduous, dissident, insidious, preside, resident, residual, séance, sedate, sedative, sedentary, sediment, sedulous, session, siege, subside, supersede |
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SEM |
Seed, to sow disseminate, semen, seminal, seminar, seminary |
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SEMI |
Half semicircle, semicolon, semiconscious, semifluid |
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SEN |
Old senate, senescent, senile, senior, sire |
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SIN / SINU |
Bend, fold cosine, insinuate, sine, sinuous, sinus |
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SOL |
Alone desolate, isolate, sole, soliloquize, solipsism, solitude, solo |
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SOL |
Sun parasol, solar, solarium, solstice |
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SOMN |
Sleep insomnia, somnambulist, somniferous somniloquist, somnolent |
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SOPH |
Wisdom philosopher, sophism, sophist, sophisticated, sophistry |
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SOURC / SURG / SURRECT |
To rise insurgent, insurrection, resource, resurge, resurrection, source, surge |
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SPEC / SPIC |
To look, to see circumspect, conspicuous, despicable, inspect, perspective, respectable, retrospect, specious, spectrum, speculation |
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SPIR |
Breath aspire, conspire, expire, inspire, perspire, respirator, spirit, spiritual, sprightly, sprite, suspire, transpire |
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STRICT / STRING / STRAN |
To tighten, to bind astringent, constrain, constrict, district, restriction strain, strait, strangle, strict, stringent |
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SUA |
Sweet, pleasing, to urge assuage, dissuade, persuade, persuasive, suasion, suave, sweet |
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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 insuperable, superb, supercilious, superficial, superfluous, superior, superlative, supernatural, supersede, supervise, surmount, surpass, surrealism, surveillance, survey |
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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 /C TAM / TANG |
To touch contact, contagious, contaminate, contiguous, cotangent, intact, intangible, integral, tact, tactile, tangent, tangential |
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TEST |
To bear witness attest, contest, detest, intestate, protest, testament, testify, testimonial |
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THERM |
Heat diathermy, thermal, thermesthesia, thermometer, thermonuclear, thermophilic, thermostat |
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TIM |
Fear intimidate, timid, timidity, timorous |
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TOR / TORQ / TORT |
To twist contort, distort, extort, retort, torch, torment, torque, torsion, tort, tortuous, torture |
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TORP |
Stiff, numb torpedo, torpid, torpor |
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TOX |
Poison antitoxin, intoxication, toxemia, toxic, toxicology, toxin |
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TRANS |
Across, beyond intransigent, transaction, transcendent, transcribe, transgress, transient, transition, transmit, transparent, transport |
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ULT |
Last, beyond penultimate, ulterior, ultimate, ultimatum, ultramarine, ultramontane, ultraviolet |
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UMBR |
Shadow adumbrate, penumbra, somber, umber, umbrage, umbrella |
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UN |
Not unaccustomed, unruly, unseen, untold, unusual |
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UND |
Wave abound, abundance, inundate, redundant, undulant, undulate |
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UNI / UN |
One reunion, unanimous, unicorn, uniform, union, unison, unit, unite, unity, universe |
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URB |
City exurbanite, suburb, urban, urbane, urbanity, urbanization |
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VAIL / VAL |
Strength, use, worth ambivalent, avail, convalescent, countervailing, equivalent, evaluate, invalid, prevalent, valediction, valiant, valid, valor, value |
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VER |
Truth aver, veracious, verdict, verify, verily, verisimilitude, verity, very |
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VERB |
Word adverb, proverb, verb, verbal, verbalize, verbatim, verbose, verbiage |
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VERD |
Green verdant, verdigris verdure |
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VI |
Life convivial, joie de vivre, revival, revive, survive, viable, vital, vitality, vivacity, vivid, viviparous, vivisection |
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VIL |
Base, mean revile, vile, vilify, vilification |
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VIRU |
Poison virulence, viruliferous, virus |
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VOC / VOK |
Call, word advocate, avocation, avow, convocation, convoke, equivocate, evoke, invoke, provoke, revoke, vocabulary, vocal, vocation, vociferous |
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VOL |
Wish benevolent, malevolent, Volant, volatile, volition, volley, voluntary |
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VOLU / VOLV |
To roll, to turn circumvolve, convolution, devolve, evolve, involution, revolt, revolution, revolve, voluble, volume, voluminous, volute |
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A / AN |
Not, without amoral, anomaly, anonymous, apathy, atheist, atrophy, atypical |
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AB |
Off, away from, apart, down abdicate, abduct, abhor, abject, abnormal, abolish, abstinence, abstract, abstruse |
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ABLE / IBLE |
Capable of, worthy of changeable, durable, indubitable, inevitable, infallible, irreducible, laudable, tolerable, variable |
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AC / ACR |
Sharp, bitter, sour acerbic, acid, acrid, acrimonious, acumen, acute, exacerbate |
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AD |
To, toward, near adapt, adequate, adumbrate, advocate, accede, adduce, affiliate, aggregate, allocate, annunciation, appall, arrest, assiduous, attract |
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AMBI / AMPHI |
Both, on both sides, around ambidextrous, ambiguous, ambivalent, amphibian, amphitheater |
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AMBL / AMBUL |
To go, to walk amble, ambulance, ambulatory, perambulator, preamble |
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ANIM |
Of the life, mind, soul, breath animadversion, animal, animate, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, pusillanimous, unanimous |
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ANT / ANTE |
Before ancient, antebellum, antecedent, antechamber, antedate, antediluvian, anterior, anticipate, antiquity |
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ANTI |
Against, opposite antagonism, antibody, anticlimax, antidote, antipathy, antiphony, antipodal, antiseptic, antithesis |
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AQUA / AQUE |
Water aquamarine, aquarium, aquatic, aqueduct, subaqueous |
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AUTO |
Self autism, autobiography, autocrat, autograph, automatic, automaton, autonomy |
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BELL |
War antebellum, bellicose, belligerent, rebel, rebellion |
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BEN / BENE |
Good benediction, benefactor, benefit, benevolent, benign |
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BI / BIN |
Two Biennial, bifocals, bifurcate, bilateral, bilingual, binocular, binomial, bipartisan, biped, combination |
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BON / BOUN |
Good, generous bona fide, bonus, bountiful, bounty, debonair |
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BREV / BRID |
Short, small abbreviate, abridge, brevet, breviary, breviloquent, brevity, brief |
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BURS |
Purse, money bursar, bursary, disburse, reimburse |
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CARD / CORD / COUR |
Heart accord, cardiac, concord, concordance, cordial, discord, encourage, record |
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CARN |
Flesh carnage, carnal, carnival, carnivorous, incarnation |
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CAUS / CAUT |
To burn caustic, cauterize, cautery, encaustic, holocaust |
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CED / CEED / CESS |
To go, to yield, to stop abscess, accede, antecedent, cessation, concede, exceed, intercede, precede, predecessor, proceed, recede, recess, secede, succeed |
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CELER |
Speed accelerant, accelerate, celerity, decelarate |
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CENT |
Hundredth bicentennial, cent, centennial, centigrade, centigram, centimeter, century, percent |
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CHROM |
Color chromatic, chrome, chromosome, monochromatic |
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CHRON |
Time anachronism, chronic, chronicle, chronometer, synchronize |
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CIRCU / CIRCUM |
Around circuit, circuitous, circumference, circumspect, circumstance |
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CO / COL / COM / CON |
With, together coerce, collaborate, collide, commensurate, communicate, compare, compatible, conciliate, connect |
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COGN / CONN |
To know cognition, cognizance, incognito, recognize, reconnaissance, reconnoiter |
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CONTRA / CONTRO / COUNTER |
Against contradict, contrary, controversy, counter, counteract, counterfeit, counterpart, encouter |
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CORP / CORS |
Body corporate, corps, corpse, corpulent, corpus, corpuscle, corset, incorporation |
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COSM |
Order, universe, world cosmetic, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolitan, cosmos, microcosm |
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CRE / CRESC / CRET |
To grow accretion, accrue, creation, excrescence, increase, increment |