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35 Cards in this Set
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quadruped
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an animal with four feet
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bi-, di-
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two
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millennium
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a period of a thousand years; a hoped-for period of great happiness, peace, and prosperity
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oct-
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eight
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pentagon
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a figure having five sides and five angles
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cent-
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hundred
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penticle
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a five pointed star
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quint-, penta-
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five
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dilemma
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a situation requiring a choice between two alternatives
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centigrade
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divided into 100 degrees
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QUINTESSENCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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THE PUREST OR MOST TYPICAL EXAMPLE... ORIGINALY MENT THE FITH ESSENCE(SPACE) THE 4 ESSENCES WERE FIRE, EARTH, WIND, AND WATER... MUST KNOW THIS WORD WORD FOR WORD
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deci-
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tenth
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dipterous
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having two wings
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hepta-, sep-
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seven
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monotony
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sameness; lack of variety
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demi-, hemi-, semi-
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half
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unilateral
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of, on, or by one side only
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ennea-,non-,novem-
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nine
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mono-, uni-
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one
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centi-
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hundredth
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ambi-, amphi-
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both, around
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kilometer
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a metric unit of lenght equal to 1,000 meters
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milli-
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thousandth
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ambiance
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an environment or atmosphere/feeling of a place
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centimeter
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a metric unit of length equal to one hundredth of a meter
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deca-
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ten
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quadr-, tetr-
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four
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kilo-, mili-
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thousand
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ambivalent
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having opposit and conflicting feelings about something; unsure
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ambiguous
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having two or more possible meanings; indefinite, puzziling
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ambidextrous
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able to use both hands equally well
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ambi-, amphi-
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both, around
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kilobyte
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a unit of capacity equal to 1,024 bytes; which are groups of binary numbers processed as units by a computer
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hexa-, ses-, sex-
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six
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tri-
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three
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