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279 Cards in this Set
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ALIEN-
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of another (alien, alienation)
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ART-
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art, skill (art, artifact)
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FIN-
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end, limit (final, definite)
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FIRM-
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firm, strong (firmament, confirm)
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FORT-
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strong (fort, forte, comfort)
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GRAND-
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great (grand, grandeur)
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GRAV-, [GRIEV-]
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heavy (grave, grievance, grief)
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LINE-, [LIGN-]
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line (line, align)
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NIHIL-
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nothing (annihilate, nihilism)
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NUL(L)-
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nothing (null, annul)
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PART-
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part (part, depart)
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VERB-
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word, verb (verb, adverb, verbatim, proverb)
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VEST-
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garment (vest, vestment)
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Ab-, a-, abs-
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away from (abduct, abnormal, avert, abstract) (beware: a + double consonant means to, toward)
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Ad-, ac-, (a- + -sc, -sp, -st)
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to, toward (adopt, admire, aggression)
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Ambi-
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both, around (ambidextrous)
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Ante-
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before, in front of (antecedent)
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Circum-
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around (circumference)
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Con-, com-, co-
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with, together (connect)
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Contra-, contro-, counter-
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against (contradict)
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de-
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down, off, thoroughly (descend)
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Dis-, di-, dif-
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apart, in different directions, not (dispute)
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CED-, CESS-
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to go, yield (concede, excess)
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DUC-, DUCT-
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to lead (induce, conduct)
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JUDIC-
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judgment (judicial)
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JUR-, JUST-
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right, law; take an oath, form an opinion (jury)
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LEV-
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light (in weight); to lift (levity)
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LOQU-, LOCUT-
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to speak (colloquial)
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LUD-, LUS-
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to play, mock (illusion)
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PREC-
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to request, beg; prayer (precarious)
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TRUD-, TRUS-
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to push, thrust (protrude)
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VEN-, VENT-, VENU-
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to come (intervene)
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Ex-, e-, ef-
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out, from, completely (expel, evade) (ex + s = the x is dropped)
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Extra-, extro-
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outside, beyond (extraordinary, extrovert)
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In-, im-, ig- before n
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not (ineffective, ignore)
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In-, im-, (en-, em-)
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in, into, against (inject, endure, embrace)
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Infra-
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below, beneath (infrared)
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Inter-
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between, among (interrupt)
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Intra-, intro-
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within (intramural)
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Non-
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not (nonresident)
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Ob-
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toward, against, face-to-face, completely (obstruct)
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Per-
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through, wrongly, completely (perfect, persecute)
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CRUC-
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cross (crucify)
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GREG-
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flock, herd (congregate)
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HAB-, AB-, (HIB-)
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to have, hold as customary (habit, inability)
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PED-
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foot (pedal, pedestrian)
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PUNG-, PUNCT-
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to prick, point (puncture)
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SACR-, (SECR-)
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sacred (sacrament)
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SANCT-
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holy (sanctify)
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SENT-, SENS-
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to feel, think (consent)
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TURB-
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disturb (perturb, trouble)
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VERT-, VERS-
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to turn (revert)
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VI(A)-
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way, road (via, previous)
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Post-
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after, behind (postpone)
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Pre-
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before, in front of (prevent)
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Pro-
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forward, in front of, for (promote)
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Re-, red- (before vowels)
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back, again (renew, recall)
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Retro-
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backward, behind (retroactive)
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Se-, sed- (before vowels)
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aside, away (secede, segregation, sedition)
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Sub-, sus-, suc-, etc.
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under, up from under, secretly (submerge, suspend, succumb)
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Super-, (sur-)
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above, over (superhuman, surreal)
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Trans-, tran-, tra-
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across, through (transfer, traverse, transparent)
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Ultra-
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beyond, exceedingly (ultraviolet, ultramodern)
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CLUD-, CLUS-, CLOS-
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to shut (exclude, disclose)
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CUR(R)-, CURS-, (COURS-), (COR(S)-
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to run, go (recur, current, concourse)
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GRAD-, GRESS
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to step, go (gradual, progress)
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PEND-, PENS
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to hang, weigh, pay (dependent, expense)
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PLE-, PLET-, PLEN-
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to fill; full (implement, complete, plenary)
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SPEC-, (SPIC-), SPECT-
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to look (specimen, conspicuous, inspect)
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UND-, (OUND-)
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wave (abundant, abound)
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VID-, VIS-, (VIEW-)
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to see (evident, visual, review)
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VOC-, VOK-
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voice; to call (vocal, revoke)
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SEMI-
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half, partly (semiannual)
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UN-
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one (uniform, unanimous)
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PRIM-
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first (primary, primitive)
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DU-
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two (duet, dual)
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BI-, BIN- (before vowels)
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two; twice (bicycle, binoculars)
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TRI-
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three (tricycle, triangle)
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QUADR(U)-
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four (quadrangle, quadruple)
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QUART-
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fourth (quarter)
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QUINT-
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fifth (quintuplet, quintet)
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SEXT-
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six; sixth (sextet)
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SEPT(EM)-
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seven (septet, September)
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OCT-
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eight (octet)
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OCTAV-
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eighth (octave)
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DECI(M)-
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tenth (deciliter, decimal)
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CENT-
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hundred (century, centennial)
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MILL-
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thousand (millimeter, mill)
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ANIM-
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mind, feeling, life (animated, animal)
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ANN(U)-, (ENNI-)
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year (annual, perennial)
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BENE-, BON-
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well, good (benefit, bonus)
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CANT-, (CENT-), CHANT-
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to sing (incantation, incentive, enchant)
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CUR-
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cure, care (secure)
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EQU-, (IQU-)
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equal, even (equal, iniquity)
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FER-
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to bear, carry (refer, transfer)
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LAT-
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to bear, carry (elate, relate, translation)
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MAGN-
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great (magnitude, magnify)
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MAL(E)-
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bad (maladjusted, malicious, malignant)
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MULT-
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many (multitude, multiply)
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OPTIM-
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best (optimum)
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PLIC-, PLEX-, (PLY-)
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to fold, tangle, interweave (complicate, implicate, complex, imply, multiply)
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-al, (-ial, -eal)
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(adjective forming) pertaining to, like, (belonging to, having the character of) (vocal, verbal, equal)
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-ane, - (e)an, -ian, (-ain)
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(adjective forming) pertaining to, like, (belonging to, having the character of) (veteran, mundane, mountain)
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-an, (-ian)
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makes nouns, one connected with (librarian, barbarian)
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-ar
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(adjective forming) (pertaining to, like,) belonging to, having the character of (popular, regular, familiar)
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-ose, (-iose)
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(adjective forming) full of (grandiose, comatose)
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-ous (-ious, -eous)
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(adjective forming) full of, having the character of, like (famous, populous, various)
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AQU(A)-
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water (aquatic, aqueduct)
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CORPOR-, CORP(US)-
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body (incorporate, corpuscle, corpse)
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OMN-
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all (omnipresent, omnivorous)
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REG-, (RIG-), RECT-
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right, straight; to rule, stiffen, straighten (regular, incorrigible, rectify)
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SIMIL-, SIMUL-
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like, similar (simulate, simile)
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TEMPER-, TEMPOR-
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time, due season; to set bounds (temperate, temperature, temporary)
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TEN-, (TIN-), TENT-, (TAIN-)
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to hold (tenant, continue, content, contain)
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TEND-, TENT-, TENS-
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to stretch, strive (tendon, tense, tent, distend, pretense)
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TENU-
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stretched, thin (tenuous, attenuate)
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-(u)lent, -(o)lent
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(adjective-forming) full of, disposed to (fraudulent, violent)
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-ic, -tic
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(adjective-forming) pertaining to, like (civic, classic, rustic)
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-ary
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(adjective-forming) pertaining to, connected with, having the character of (literary, military, temporary)(y turns to i: precarious) noun forming: one connected with
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-ile, -il
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(adjective-forming) pertaining to, like, belonging to, having the character of (juvenile, hostile, civil)
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DOM(IN)-
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house, master (dome, predominant)
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FLAG(R)-, FLAM(M)-
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to burn; flame (flagrant, conflagrant, inflammation)
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FLAT-
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to blow (inflate, flatulent, conflation)
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GEN-, GENER-
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race, kind, origin (general, genus, generous)
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GEN-
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to give birth to, produce (genital, ingenious, ingenuity)
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LATER-
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side (equilateral, laterally)
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LUC-, LUMIN-
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to shine; light (lucid, illuminate)
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PAR-
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to ready, bring forth, provide (prepare, separate)
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SEN-
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old (senate, senior)
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SERV-
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to serve, save (servant, service, preserve, conservation)
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-ine
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(adjective forming) pertaining to, like, of (feminine, canine)
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-ate, it(e)
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(adjective forming)possessing, being (accurate, adequate, favorite, explicit)
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-ant, -ent (-ient)
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(adjective forming) equivalent to English present participle ending –ing (urgent, apparent, vigilant) noun: person who, that which (agent, inhabitant, adherent, servant)
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CUMB-, CUB-
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to lie down (succumb, incubator)
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FEDER-
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league, treaty (confederate)
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FID-
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faith (confident)
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FIDEL-
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faithful (infidelity)
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HER-, HES-
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to stick (adhere, adhesive)
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ORD(IN)-
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to put in order, arrange (order, ordinary)
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POT-, POSS-
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to be able, have power (potent, possible)
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SAL-, (SIL-), SALT-, SULT-
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to leap (salient, resilient, saltatorial, insult)
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SED-, (SID-), SESS-
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to sit, settle (sediment, insidious, session)
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TERR-
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land, earth (terrestrial, territory)
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-able, -ible
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(adjective forming) able to be, able to, tending to (-abil-, -ibil-) (portable, adaptable, flexible)
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-ablility, (-ibility, -bility)
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(adjective forming) inclination, suitability, capacity, or tendency to act or be acted upon in a (specified) way
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-ile
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(adjective forming) able to be, able to, tending to (agile, volatile, reptile)
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-acious
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(adjective forming) tending to, inclined to (audacious, tenacious)
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CRED-
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to believe, trust (credential, creditor, discredit)
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DOC-, DOCT-
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to teach (document, doctor, indoctrinate)
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FA(B)-, FAT-, FESS-, FAM-
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to speak, reveal (affable, infant, preface, confess, fame, fabulous)
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FALL-, FALS-, (FAIL-), (FAULT-)
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to deceive (fallacy, false, failure, default)
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MOD-
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measure (modicum, modest, modern, modify)
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MUT-
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to change (mutant, mutation)
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TANG-, (TING-), TACT-
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to touch (tangent, contingent, contact, intact)
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TRACT-
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to drag (tractor, traction, detract)
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-itious
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(adjective forming) tending to, characterized by (fictitious, expeditious)
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-id
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(adjective forming) tending to, inclined to (frigid, rapid, humid)
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-ulous
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(adjective forming) tending to, inclined to (garrulous, tremulous)
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AC(U)-, ACR-, ACET-
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sharp, bitter (acid, acute, acetic acid)
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CAD-, (CID-), CAS-
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to fall, befall (cadence, accident, incident, casual, occasion)
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CAP-, (CIP-), CAPT-, (CEPT-), [CEIV-]
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to take, seize (incapacitate, recipient, capture, except)
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FAC-, (FIC-), FACT-, (FECT-)
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to do, make (faculty, efficient, manufacture, effective) (defeat, feasible)
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FLOR-
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flower (florist, floral, Florida) (flour, flower)
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FLU-, FLUX-, FLUV-, FLUOR(O)-
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to flow; a flow (fluid, flux, effluvia, fluoroscope)
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FOLI-, [FOIL-]
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leaf (folio, defoliant, tinfoil)
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NOC-, NOX-, NIC-, NEC-
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to harm, kill (innocent, obnoxious, pernicious, internecine)
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NOV-
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new (novel, novice, innovative)
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-ive
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(adjective-forming) tending to, inclined to (active, attractive, effective)
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-uous
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(adjective-forming) tending to, inclined to (continuous, conspicuous)
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-ory
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(adjective-forming) tending to, serving for (introductory, compulsory, contradictory)
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CERN-, CRET-, CERT-
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to separate, distinguish (discernment, secret, excrete, ascertain)
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DUR-
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hard, to last (duration, endurable)
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FUND-, FUS-, [FOUND-]
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to pour, melt (refund, fusion, confusion, foundry)
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NASC-, NAT-
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to be born (nascent, native, prenatal, nature, natural)
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PEL(L)-, PULS-
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to drive, push (propel, compelling, impulsive, repulsive)
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PON-, POSIT-, [POUND-], [POSE-]
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to place, put (component, deposit, position, compound, compose, oppose)
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TORT-
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to twist (torture, distort)
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-ity (-ety, -ty)
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(noun-forming) quality of, state of (gravity/gravitate, sanity/sanitary, society, novelty, dignitary)
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-(i)tude
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(noun-forming) quality of, state of (longitude/longitudinal, multitude/multitudinous, magnitude)
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-acy
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(noun-forming) quality or state of being or having (accuracy, inadequacy, confederacy)
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AM-
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to love (amorous, amatory)
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DE-, DIV-
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god (deify, divine)
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[JOURN-]
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day (journal)
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OR-
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to speak formally, plead (oracle, oration, peroration)
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PROB-, [PROV-]
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good; to test (probe, probity, approve)
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RAP-, RAPT-, (REPT-)
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to seize (rapid, rape, rapture)
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STRING-, STRICT-, [STRAIN-]
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to draw tight (stringent, strict, restrict, restrain)
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VER-
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true (veritable, aver, very)
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-(i)mony
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(noun-forming) quality of, state of (testimony/testimonial, matrimony/matrimonial)
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-acity
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(noun-forming) quality of being inclined to (audacity, capacity, rapacity)
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-y
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(noun-forming) quality of, state of, act of, result of (custody/custodial, perjury, controversy/controversial)
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-ate
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(noun-forming) office of, holder(s) of the office of (senate, magistrate, electorate)
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CID-, CIS-
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to kill, cut (insecticide, fratricide, incision, precise)
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MATR-, MATERN-
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mother (matron, maternity)
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PATRI-
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fatherland, country (patrimony, paternity)
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PATR, PATERN-
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father (patrimony, paternity)
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PATRON-
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protector (patronize)
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SEQU-, SECUT-
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to follow (sequence, consequence, prosecute, consecutive)
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SOL-
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alone (solitude, desolation)
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VIV-
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to live (vivid, revive)
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-ion
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(noun-forming) act of, state of, result of (completion, prevention, production)
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-ment
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(noun-forming) result of, means of, act of, state of (excitement, ligament, monument, regiment)
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-men
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(noun-forming) result of, means of, act of, state of (specimen)
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CRE-, CRESC-, CRET-
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to grow (crescent, excrescence, concrete)
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I-, IT-
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to go (transient, ambient, initial, transition)
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JUG-, JUNCT-, [JOIN-], [JOINT-]
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a yoke; to join (jugular, juncture, join, rejoinder, conjointly)
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LEG-, (LIG-), LECT-
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to choose, pick out, read (legible, legend, eligible, elect, selective)
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MON-
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to warn, advise (admonish, monument, monitor, premonition)
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SOLV-, SOLUT-
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to free, loosen (solve, absolve, solution, absolute)
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-(i)cule, (-cle, -icle)
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(diminutive) little (molecule, muscle/muscular, particle/particular)
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-el
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(diminutive) little (novel, morsel, panel)
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-il
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(diminutive) little (pupil, codicil)
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-ole, -ule (-le)
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(diminutive) little (vacuole, aureole, capsule, scruple/scrupulous, circle/circular)
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FERV-
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to boil, bubble (fervent, fervidity)
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FRANG-, (FRING-), FRACT-
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to break (frangible, fraction)
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GRAN-
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grain (granary, granite, granola)
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MINOR-, MINUS-, MINUT-
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small, smaller (minority, minute, diminutive)
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PATI-, PASS-
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to endure, suffer (patient, passive, passion)
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QUIR-, QUISIT-, QUEST-
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to ask, seek (inquire, inquisition, question, inquest)
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SEC-, SEG-, SECT-
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to cut (secant, segment, bisect, section)
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-ance, -ancy, -ence, -ency
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(noun-forming) quality of _ing, state of _ing (vigilance, hesitancy, influence, fluency)
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-or
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(noun-forming) state of, result of (ardor, furor, error)
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-ary (-arium)
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(noun-forming) place for (library, granary, aquarium)
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-ory (-orium)
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(noun-forming) place for (dormitory, lavatory, auditorium)
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AG-, (IG-), ACT-
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to do, drive (agent, agile, inactive, transact)
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CLAM-, [CLAIM-]
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to cry out (exclamation, proclamation, declaim, proclaim)
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COG-
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to think, reflect, consider (cogent, cogitation) (co- + AG-)
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DIC, DICT-
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to say (diction, contradiction, edict)
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GER-, GEST-
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to carry, produce (exaggerate, congestion, digest)
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MIT(T)-, MIS(S)-
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to send, let go (admit, transmitter, missile, transmission)
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SCI-
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to know (science, conscientious)
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SON-
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sound (supersonic, resonance, sonata)
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VAL-, [VAIL-]
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to be strong, be worthy (value, equivalent, valid, avail, prevail)
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-ure
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(noun forming) act of, result of (fracture, puncture, rupture)
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-(u)lence, -(o)lence
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(noun forming)state or quality of being full of (violence, fraudulence) (-ulent + -y)
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-or
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(noun forming) one who does, that which does (actor, aggressor, tractor, motor)
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-and(um), -(i)end(um)
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(noun forming)that which must be _ed (agendum, memorandum) (plural form: -anda, -(i)enda)
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ERR-
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to wander (error, erratic)
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JAC-, JECT-
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to throw (ejaculate, inject, projectile, reject)
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NOMEN-, NOMIN-
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name, noun (nomenclature, nominate, pronominal)
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SCRIB-, SCRIPT-
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to write (describe, inscribe, scribble, conscription, subscription)
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ST(A)-, STIT-, SIST-
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to stand (stance, circumstance, station, insist)
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VOLV-, VOLUT-
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to roll (revolve, involve, evolution, revolution)
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-esce
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(verb forming) to begin, to become (convalesce, obsolescent, effloresce)
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CAPIT, (CIPIT-)
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head (capital, decapitate, precipitate)
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GNO-, NO-, NOT-
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to know (recognize, ignore, noble, note)
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LOC-
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place (local, dislocate)
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PUT-
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to prune, reckon, think (amputate, compute, impute)
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RADIC-
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root (radical, eradicate)
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ROG-
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to ask (arrogant, derogatory)
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SPIR-
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to breathe (spirit, conspire, inspiration)
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-ify, -efy
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(verb forming) to make (pacify, magnify, liquefy)
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-ific
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(adjective forming) making, causing (pacific, terrific)
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AL-, ALT-
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to nourish, grow tall (alumnus, alimony, altitude)
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MEDI-
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middle (median, medium, immediate)
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MIGR-
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to move from one place to another (migratory, transmigrate, immigrant)
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MORT-
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death (mortal, mortuary)
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PET-
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to seek, assail (compete, petition, appetite)
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PUG(N)-
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to fight; a fist (repugnant, impugn, pugilist)
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GRAT-
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pleasing, grateful (gratitude, gratuitous)
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MISC-, MIXT-
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to mix (promiscuous, immiscible, admixture)
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MOV-, MOT-
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to move (movement, remove, motion, remote)
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NEG-
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to deny (negative, renegade)
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PURG-
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to clean (purge, purgative)
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VULG-
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common, ordinary (vulgar, vulgate)
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CORD-
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heart (cordial, accord, record)
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FLECT-, FLEX-
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to bend (deflection, reflection, flexible, reflex)
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MAN(U)-
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hand (manicure, manipulate, manual, manuscript)
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PORT-
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to carry (portable, deport, report)
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STRU-, STRUCT-
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to build (instrument, structure, instruct)
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TERMIN-
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boundary, end (terminal, determine)
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VINC-, VICT-
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to conquer (convince, evince, victor, convict)
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AUD-
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to hear (audience, audit, auditorium)
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CARN-
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flesh (carnage, incarnation)
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NUNCI-, [NOUNC-]
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to announce (annunciation, denunciation, denounce, pronounce)
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PRESS-
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to press (pressure, compression)
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PROPRI-
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one’s own; fitting (proprietary, appropriate)
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SAT(IS)-
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enough (satiate, satisfy)
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-at(e)
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verbal suffix
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