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LUD/LUS
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to play
Examples: allude, illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude, prelude |
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MAG/MAJ/MAX
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big
Examples: magnify, magnitude, maximum, magnate, magnanimous, maxim |
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MAL/MALE
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bad, ill, evil, wrong
Examples: malfunction, malicious, malign, malady, maladroit, malapropism, malfeasance, malediction |
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MAN
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hand
Examples: manual, manufacture, emancipate, manifest, mandate |
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MIN
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small
Examples: minute, minutiae, miniature,"", diminish, diminution |
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MIN
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to project, to hang over
Examples: eminent, imminent, prominent, preeminent, minatory |
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MIS/MIT
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to send
Examples: transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission |
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MISC
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mixed
Examples: miscellaneous, miscegenation, promiscuous |
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MON/MONIT
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to remind; to warn
Examples: monument, monitor, summon, admonish, remonstrate, premonition |
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MORPH
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shape
Examples: amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphism |
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MORT
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death
Examples: immortal, morbid, moribund |
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MUT
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change
Examples: commute, mutation, transmutation, permutation, immutable |
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NAT/NAS/NAI
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to be born
Examples: natural, native, naive, cognate, renaissance, nascent |
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NIC/NOC/NOX
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harm
Examples: innocent, noxious, obnoxious, innoxuous |
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NOM
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rule, order
Examples: astronomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy, autonomy |
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NOM/NYM/ NOUN/NOWM
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name
Examples: synonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym |
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NOUNC/NUNC
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to announce
Examples: announce, pronounce, renounce |
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NOV/NEO/NOU
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new
Examples: novice, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, nouveau |
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OB/OC/OF/OP
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toward, to against, over
Examples: obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous, obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious |
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OMNI
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all
Examples: omnibus, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient |
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PAC/PEAC
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peace
Examples: appease, pacify, pacifier, pact |
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PAN
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all, everyone
Examples: panorama, panegyric, panoply, pantheon, pandemic |
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PAR
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equal
Examples: par, parity, apartheid, disparage, disparate |
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PARA
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next to, beside
Examples: parallel, parasite, parody, parable, paragon, paranoid |
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PAS/PAT/PATH
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feeling, suffering, disease
Examples: sympathy, empathy, compassion, dispassionate, impassive, sociopath, pathogenic |
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PAU/PO/POV/PU
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few, little, poor
Examples: poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous, puerile |
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PED/POD
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foot
Examples: pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes |
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PEN/PUN
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to pay; to compensate
Examples: penal, penalty, punitive, penance, penitent |
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PEND/PENS
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to hang; to weight; to pay
Examples: depend, stipend, compensate, indispensable, appendix, appendage |
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PER
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completely
Examples: persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, perfunctory, pertinacious, perspicacious |
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PERI
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around
Examples: perimeter, periscope, peripatetic |
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PET/PIT
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to go; to seek; to strive
Examples: appetite, compete, petition, centripetal, impetuous, petulant |
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PHIL
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love
Examples: philosophy, philatelist, philology, bibliophile |
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PLAC
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to please
Examples: placid, placebo, implacable, complacent, complasiant |
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PLE
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to fill
Examples: complete, deplete, supplement, implement, replete, plethora |
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PLEX/PLIC/PLY
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to fold, twist, tangle, or bend
Examples: complex, replica, implicit, implicate, duplicity, supplicate |
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PON/POS/POUND
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to put; to place
Examples: component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository |
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PORT
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to carry
Examples: import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune |
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POST
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after
Examples: posthumous, posterior, posterity, post facto |
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PRE
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before
Examples: precarious, precocious, premonition, presentiment, precedent, precept |
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PREHEND/PRISE
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to take; to get; to seize
Examples: surprise, enterprise, reprehensible, comprise, reprisals, apprehend |
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PRO
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mush, for, a lot
Examples: prolific, profuse, prodigal. prodigious, proselytize, propound, provident |
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PROB
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to prove; to test
Examples: probe, approbation, opprobrium, opprobrium, reprobate, problematic, prbity |
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PUG
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to fight
Examples: pugnacious, impugn, repugnant, pugilist |
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN
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to point; to prick
Examples: point, puncture, pungent, compunction, punctilious, expunge |
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QUE/QUIS
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to seek
Examples: acquire, exquisite, conquest, inquisitive, query, querulous, perquisite |
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QUI
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quite
Examples: quiet, disquiet, tranquil, acquuisece, quiescence |
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RID/RIS
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to laugh
Examples: riddle, derision, risible |
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ROG
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to ask
Examples: interrogate, arrogant, abrogate, surrogate, derogatory, arrogate |
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SACR/SANCT/SECR
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sacred
Examples: sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable, sacrament, sacrilege |
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
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to leap, to jump
Examples: insult, assault, somersault, salient, resilient, insolent, exult, desultory |
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SCI
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to know
Examples: conscious, conscience, unconscionable, omniscient, prescient |
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SCRIBE/SCRIP
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to write
Examples: scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe, ascribe, conscription, transcript, circumscribe |
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SE
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apart
Examples: select, separate, seduce, segregate, secede, sequester, sedition |
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SEC/SEQU
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to follow
Examples: second, prosecute, sequence, obsequious, non sequitur |
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SED/SESS/SID
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to sit; to be still; to plan; to plot
Examples: preside,resident, sediment, dissident, residual, subsidiary, insidious, assiduous |
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SENS/SENT
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to feel; to be aware
Examples: sense, sensory, sentiment, presentiment, dissent, resent, sentinel, insensate |
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SOL
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to loosen; to free
Examples: dissolve, soluble, resolution, dissolution, dissolute, absolution |
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spec/SPIC/SPIT
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to look; to see
Examples: perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum, retrospective, circumspect, perspicacious, conspicuous, specious |
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STA/STI
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to stand; to be in place
Examples: static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostary |
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SUA
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smooth
Examples: suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage |
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SUB/SUP
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below
Examples: submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition |
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SUPER/SUR
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above
Examples: surpass, superlative, supersede, supercilious, superfluous, surmount, surveillance |
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TAC/TIC
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to be silent
Examples: reticent, tacit, taciturn |
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
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to hold
Examples: detain, pertain, tenacious, abstention, tenure, tenable, sustenance, pertinacious |
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TEND/TENs/TENT/TENU
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to stretch; to thin
Examples: tension, tentative, tendentious, distend, attenuate, extenuating, contentious |
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THEO
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god
Examples: atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis |
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TRACT
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to drag; to pull; to draw
Examples: tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract |
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TRANS
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across
Examples: transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent |
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US/UT
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to use
Examples: abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian |
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VEN/VENT
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to come or to move toward
Examples: convene, venturesome, intervene, contravene, adventitious |
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VER
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truth
Examples: verdict, veracious, verity, verisimilitude, aver |
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VERD
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green
Examples: verdant, verdure |
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VERS/VERt
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to turn
Examples: controversy, revert, diverse, aversion, introvert, extrovert, inadvertent, covert, acert |
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VI
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life
Examples: vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, convival |
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VID/VIS
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to see
Examples: evident, video, adviser, survey, vista |
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VIL
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base, mean
Examples: vilify, revile, vile |
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VOC/VOK
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to call
Examples: vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vocation, avocation, vociferous, convoke, invoke |
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VOL
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to wish
Examples: volunteer, malevolent, benevolent, volition |
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VOR
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to eat
Examples: voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous |
