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Root: cur/cure/curist
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Meaning: care, cure
curator : in charge of a museum curative : remedy accurate : precise, correct sinecure : a paid job with no duties attached procure: to get by effort The CURATOR of the museum is responsible for the safety of its contents. Water is said to be a universal CURATIVE Seismographic readings are not ACCURATE enough to pinpoint the location of an earthquake An honorary job is contrary to SINECURE Vocabulary can be PROCURED only by consistency |
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Root: dem/o- demic
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Meaning: people, population
demotic : colloquial or vulgar pandemic : occur everywhere demagogue : politician who evokes emotions and gains popularity endemic : indigenous epidemic : rapid spread of the disease The epic in its DEMOTIC rhetoric excited the commoners In the aftermath of the earthquake plague was PANDEMIC. An ENDEMIC of yellow fever broke out in Africa. In ancient societies a DEMAGOGUE was a leader of the people The plague EPIDEMIC was quickly controlled by the people |
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Root: pan(t)/o
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Meaning: all, every
pantheism : god is nature panoply: an array, a suit of armor pantheon : a memorial panacea : a universal remedy pantaloon: trousers A PANTHEIST believes that everything is a manifestation of God A PANOPLY protects a warrior from bodily harm The PANTHEON refers to the temple built by emperor Hadrian The phrase Universal PANACEA is repetitive The word PANTALOON refers to a character in long trousers |
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Root: dic /dict /diction
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Meaning: say, speech, word
abdicate: renounce indict: accuse malediction: curse apodictic : logically correct The prince ABDICATED the throne to marry a divorcee The witness was INDICTED of the crime by the lawyer The couple used a store of old world MALEDICTIONS to fight with each other The APODICTIC deduction of the scientist was applauded |
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Root: fid/fidel/fi/fy
Meaning: faith, trust |
fidelity : faithful, to trust, believe
perfidy : treachery fiduciary : of a trust fiddle : to trifle, waste time fidget : to move restlessly A dog’s fidelity to its master is known One who deceives is perfidious A fiduciary is entrusted with a responsible job John is known to fiddle time away One who fidgets is nervous |
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Root: quir/quisit/quest
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Meaning: ask/seek
acquisitive : grasping inquire : ask, investigate inquisitive : eager, curious requisite : requirement perquisite : perks He has an acquisitive nature The police inquire into the crime She has an inquisitive mind She put in requisite amount of work The company offers perquisites |
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Root: rupt
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Meaning : break, burst
corrupt : dishonest, immoral disrupt : disorder rupture : burst, break interrupt : disturb erupt : break violently There is nothing worse than a corrupt friend He tried to disrupt the calm and peace He had a rupture in his spleen The speaker ignored his interruption The volcano erupted at midnight |
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Root: scrib, script
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Meaning: to write
inscribe: final entry of a name prescribe : rule, order proscribe: prohibit, plan transcribe : copy from the original circumscribe: encircle, limit The author inscribed a copy of his book to his friend Doctors prescribe antibiotics The nations agreed to proscribe germ warfare The opera was transcribed for the two singers The player stayed within the circumscribed field |
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Root: spec/spic/spect
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Meaning: look at
conspicuous : attractive, visible spectacular: grand display despicable: contemptible perspicuity: lucidity speculate: think, guess The light house was conspicuous The race ended in a spectacular neck finish His despicable behavior enraged all Her perspicuity towards spirituality is well known He could not speculate accurately |
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Root: voc/vok
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Meaning: voice, to call
evoke: to produce a response evocation: to call something forth invocation: an appeal to God revoke: cancel avocation: hobby His sarcasm evoked anger The author moved evocation of the past The chaplain made an invocation at the opening ceremony The captain revoked the soldiers The doctor’s avocation is playing golf |
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Root: volv, volut
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Meaning: to roll
involve: engross, part of revolve: roll back, rotate evolve: to develop, unfold evolution: process of development revolt: an uprising Building vocabulary involves study The planets revolve around the sun Birds evolved from reptiles The evolution of living things happened over a million years An oppressed nation revolts |
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Root: vert/vers
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Meaning: to turn
avert: to ward of danger aversion: dislike divert: apart, distract reverse: set back subversive : to overthrow An oppressed nation revolts He tried to avert the accident She has aversion to large crowds Police diverted the traffic because of the accident A lie is a reverse of truth The Boston tea party was considered a subversive act |
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Root: ten-, tin-, tent-, tain-
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Meaning: to hold
detain : to delay lieutenant : acting in lieu of another pertinacious : sticking stubbornly to one opinion tenacious : stubborn impertinent : disrespectful He was detained by heavy traffic A second lieutenant ranks below the first The pertinacious detective tracked down the suspect The wounded animal clung to its life tenaciously The boy is rude and impertinent |
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Root: tang-, ting-, tact-
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Meaning: to touch
contingent : accidental intact : unchanged tact : a sense of appropriateness tangible : touchable tangent : sudden change Our trip is contingent upon good weather The fire destroyed the garage but left the house intact A diplomat must have tact to retain harmony The oasis was not tangible, it was an illusion The line is tangent to the circle |
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Root: pend-, pens-
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Meaning: to hang, weigh or pay
depend : to trust, rely on dispense : to administer expend : to use up suspend : to halt, interrupt expense : cost or charge Children depend on their parents The judge dispenses justice He expended much energy on his work The chandelier was suspended from the ceiling A car can be a great expense |
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Root: pet-, petit-
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Meaning: to go, seek, strive
petition : the act of repetitive : again impetus : moving force, impulse impetuous : impulsive impetrate : to entreat The judge heard the petition Bad teaching makes the learning process repetitive A moving body tends to decline in impetus His impetuous actions led him into dangerous situations The criminal impetrated the judge for justice |
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Root: cap, capt
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Meaning: to take, contain
caper : prance, gambol captious : exaggerate faults captive : prisoner capitulate : surrender unconditionally capricious : sudden change, erratic capability : capacity decapitate : behead caitiff : cowardly caisson : wooden box casket : coffin His capers took him into whimsical situations His captious nature won him notoriety He is captive of his own fears The enemy capitulated to the victorious general The capricious nature of the poet was felt in his poems Glass has the capability of resisting heat An executioner decapitates the sentenced prisoners A caitiff ran away from the battle field A caisson is used to store material from moisture A wooden casket is used to bury dead bodies |
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Root: ten, tin, tain
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Meaning: to hold something
untenable : indefensible tenebrous : gloomy, obscure tendentious : bias taint : discredit contain : restrain contingent : conditional entertainment : amusement tenet : doctrine held to be true appertain : belong to as part countertenor : adult male able to sing in alto The argument was quite untenable as it defied logic The future was tenebrous for the victim The novel reflects the tendentious thinking of the author Yellow journalism taints people’s reputation He could not contain his amusement Our plans are contingent on the weather A circus provides entertainment A person’s philosophy governs his tenets Emotions appertain to a person’s psyche The singer’s countertenor was amazing |
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Root: sta, stat, sti, sist
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Meaning: stand, stay
Statutory : decree contrast : to exhibit unlikeness transubstantiation : transmutation prestidigitation : magic superstitious : irrational fear of the unknown restive : stubborn, balky restitution : restoring to owners subsistence : exist, live destitute : lacking, impoverished stanch : loyal Smoking is injurious to health is a statutory warning Light and shadow offer contrast Eucharistic bread and wine are transubstantiation of body and blood of Christ Sleight of hand is prestidigitation Fears of unknown show a superstitious nature The child became restive and unmanageable at the party The drought hit farmers were offered restitution by the government The meager subsistence is commensurate with his means The vagabond was destitute and uncared for by his sin He was a stanch admirer of Clinton |
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Root: radic/rud/ram/i/rac/rhiz/o
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radical : basic, from root
deracinate : displace, uproot eradicate : to get rid of a terrible disease ramify : to have complicating outgrowths irradiate : to become radiant Electricity brought a radical change in the way of life To deracinate is to displace from one’s native environment Small pox is eradicated An issue can have numerous ramifications A firefly irradiates phosphorescent glow |
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Root: vinc/vinct/vict/vince
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Meaning: to conquer
vincible : to overcome, defeat convict : to find guilty evict : to expel evince : to reveal convince : to persuade by argument The mountain stands invincible The convict hung down his head in shame The tenant was evicted on non payment of dues He evinced keen interest in Physics The jury was convinced of his innocence and pronounced him not guilty |
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Root: vig/veg/veil
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Meaning: alert, watchful
invigorate : to refresh vigil : to keep watch vigilant : alert vigilante : one who takes law into his own hands surveillance : supervision The swim invigorated his spirits and he felt relaxed A strict vigil is kept on the eve of the feast day The vigilant policeman averted the disaster The self righteous man transformed into a vigilante The surveillance team kept a close watch on the subject |
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Root: vid/vis/vid/view
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Meaning: to see, sight
visa: an official stamp on a passport voyeur : one who secretly observes others private activities visage : facial expression envisage : to picture mentally clairvoyant : seeing object not perceived by senses Visa means the document has been seen Most people are shameless voyeurs His pleasant visage made him popular His strong imagination helped him envisage the complete picture A clairvoyant communicates with the spirits |
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Root: suave, suade, suas
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Meaning: pleasant, counsel
suave: courteous persuasive : power to convince assuage : less severe pain dissuade : deter assuasive : soothing The gentleman is suave and euphemistic The persuasive counseling paid off To assuage is to comfort The mother dissuaded her child from eating ice-cream The assuaging song lulled the baby |
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Root: zo/o/zoon/zoa/zoic
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Meaning: life, to live, living
zoanthropy : man as animal zoetic : vital zoolatory : worship of animals zoophobia : abnormal fear of animals zodiac : the 12 signs Zoanthropy is a delusion Oxygen is a zoetic component Certain African tribes practice zoolatory John suffers from zoophobia The zodiac is divided into 12 equal parts |
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Root: xer/o
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Meaning: dry copier
xerox : dry copier xerophagy : eating dry food elixir : prolongs life xerarch : originating in a dry habitat xerophilous : drought resisting A xerox gives us the true copy of the original Xerophagy is a kind of fasting in the early church An elixir prolongs life Cactus is a xerarch and survives dry weather Desert plants are xerophilous and survive hardy conditions |
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Root: xen/o/xene/xeny/xenous
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Meaning: foreign, strange
xenophobia : fear of stranger philoxeny : hospitality to strangers xenogenesis : heterogenesis xenogenous : caused by a foreign body xenomania : craze for foreign things The isolated child suffered from xenophobia The sunny Indian temperament promotes philoxeny The xenogenous organism originates in the host Teenagers are known for their xenomania |
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Root: verb
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Meaning: word, speech
verbigeration : repetition of meaningless words verbose : wordy verve : energy proverb : adage verbatim: exactly the same word The politician’s speech was full of verbigeration The essay was verbose The verve of the speaker was remarkable A proverb is a pithy saying The verbatim narrative was boring |
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Root: vulg/vulge
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Meaning: common, ordinary
vulgar : boorish, coarse vulgate: vernacular divulge : to disclose promulgate : to publish, to announce vulgarity offends good taste There are a few vulgar scenes in the movie The vulgate of the epic made it popular The secret was divulged The king promulgated the coronation The vulgarity of the article drew opposition |
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Root: vor/vour/vorous
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Meaning: eat greedily
voracious : ravenous devour: eat greedily omnivorous : eating both animal and plant food sanguivorous : feeding on blood seminivorous : feeding on seeds He has a voracious appetite The hungry lion devoured the piece of meat Man is omnivorous Mosquitoes are sanguivorous Birds are seminivorous |
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Root: volu/t/vol/volve/volv
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Meaning: to turn, to roll
devolution : degeneration evolve : to change into something else involve : to embroil revolt : to protest convolute : wrap thoroughly The descent through stages of time is devolution Man evolved from the primates The politician was involved in the scam The medicine has revolting smell The rope was in a convoluted tangle |
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Root: vol/nol
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Meaning: desire/wish
1. voluptuary: a sensualist 2. volition : a conscious choice 3. velleity : a lowest level of volition 4. involuntary : reflex action 5. malevolent : vindictive The sybarites are known for their voluptuary way of life The king abdicated out of his own volition The velleity of the child can be ignored Heart beat is an involuntary action His ill feelings towards others made him malevolent |
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Root: vit/viv
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Meaning: life, live
1. convivial : social, festive 2. revivify : to restore 3. vivid : bright 4. victual : food supplies 5. vitality : liveliness 1. The comedian created a convivial ambience 2. The old building was revivified 3. His vivid imagination was evident in his art 4. The deity was offered victuals 5. The leader’s vitality enthused the crowds |
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Root: fact, fict, fect, feas, feat
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Meaning: to do, to make
1. façade: front of the building 2. facetious : silly, clumsy wit 3. factitious : sham, fake 4. factotum : an assistant who does many jobs 5. fetish : false, sorcery 6. officious : meddlesome 7. vilify : slander, defame 8. soporific : sleepy, drowsy 9. mortify : humiliate 10. fortify : to strengthen against attack 1. His pleasant façade belied his true nature 2. His facetious remarks precipitated the argument into a brawl 3. The world of cinema is factitious 4. A factotum is assigned with numerous jobs 5. An amulet is a sign of fetish 6. Mark’s officious nature made him interfere 7. The new medicine made him soporific 8. The speaker was mortified by pungent criticism 9. To vilify a person’s character is to defame him 10. Russia sold Alaska to fortify its continental coastline |
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Root: fab, fam, fat, fes
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Meaning: speak, say, reputation
1. fable : short story with animal characters that point a moral 2. defame : slander, libel 3. ineffable : unspeakable 4. confabulate : to talk casually, chat 5. nefarious : infamously wicked 1. Aesop’s fables are popular stories 2. The article was an attempt to defame the ruling party 3. The gory situation was ineffable 4. The internet provides an easy access to confabulate 5. His nefariousness landed him in jail |
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Root: fall, falt, fail, fault
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Meaning: to deceive, deception
1. fallacy : a misleading notion 2. fallibility : liable to error 3. failure: lack of success 4. faucet : tap 5. infallibility : perfection 1. Various types of fallacies lead to errors in reasoning 2. Everyone is prone to fallibilities 3. Failures are stepping stones to success 4. A leaky faucet wastes water 5. No one is infallible |
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Root: fer, ferrous, ferrence
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Meaning: to carry
1. proliferate : to grow by multiplication 2. sufferance : tolerance 3. odoriferous : fragrant 4. inferential : derived by meaning 5. fertile : bearing, productive 1. A sudden nuclear proliferation has been observed recently 2. The passive sufferance of injustice is evident 3. The odoriferous flowers triggered the senses 4. The meaning of the statement is inferential 5. A fertile land yields abundance of crop |
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Root: flag(r), flam (m), fulg, flame
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Meaning: to burn, flame
1. flagitious : villainous, wicked 2. flagrant: notorious 3. refulgent : brilliant 4. effulgence : radiant 5. inflame: set on fire, worsen 1. The flagitious act of convict landed him in trouble 2. A diamond is refulgent in its brightness 3. An effulgent object shines forth brilliantly 4. The flagrant error invited contempt 5. The remarks inflamed tension |
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Root: flat, flate, flation
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Meaning: to blow, wind
1. conflate : fuse 2. deflate : to release air 3. inflate : fill with air 4. flout : to scorn 5. flabellum : breeze 1. Different metals are conflated to get a new metal 2. A puncture in the balloon deflated it 3. A balloon is inflated by blowing air into it 4. He flouted all rules with his illegal activities 5. The flabellum from the west is windy |
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Root: flex, flat
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Meaning: bend
1. deflect : swerve 2. genuflect : to bend knees in worship 3. reflect : to give back 4. retroflex : bend backwards 5. reflexive : involuntary 1. The armor deflected the bullet 2. The maid genuflects in front of the queen 3. Cost reflects demand 4. The dancer’s retroflex amused the audience 5. Blinking is a reflexive action |
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Root: flor, florate, florescent
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Meaning: flower, bloom
1. florescence: flowering 2. florid: reddish, decorated 3. efflorescence : blooming 4. inflorescence : arrangement of flowers on the axis 5. flourish : thrive 1. The flowers became fluorescent in spring 2. His florid face reflected his embarrassment 3. Flowers in bloom are efflorescent 4. The flowering part of the plant is the inflorescence 5. During 16th century art flourished |
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Root: flu, flux, flur, fluoro
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Meaning: to flow
1. fluorescence: emission of light 2. affluent : wealthy 3. refluent : ebbing 4. superfluous : unnecessary 5. confluence : a flow together of tow or more streams 1. Fire flies are fluorescent in the dark 2. A business tycoon is affluent 3. His speech was superfluous 4. The refluent waters receded 5. The sea is the confluence of rivers |
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Root: mirror, mis, mini, minut, minim
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Meaning: small, less, worse
1. minute : insignificant 2. minuet : a slow dance 3. minstrel : a medieval musician 4. diminuendo : reducing sound 5. miscreant : villain 1. Even a minute amount of radiation could be hazardous 2. A minuet was in vogue in the 17th century 3. A minstrel sang through the streets 4. Reduction of loudness is diminuendo 5. A miscreant holds false religious beliefs |
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Root: mesce, misc, mix, med
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Meaning: mixture
1. mélange : a mixture 2. promiscuous : indiscriminate behavior 3. melee : jumble 4. medley : heterogeneous elements 5. admixture : mixing 1. A compound is a mélange 2. He has a promiscuous nature 3. The child was lost during the melee 4. The medley is worth listening to 5. An alien element added to the original results in an admixture |
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Root: mort, mor
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Meaning: death, mortal
1. moribund : in a dying state 2. mortgage : pledge property 3. amortize : to liquidate a debt 4. morbid : gloomy 5. immortal : not subject to death 1. A stagnant company is moribund 2. A conveyance of property as security is a mortgage 3. A loan is amortized by periodic payments to the creditor 4. He evinced a morbid interest in death 5. God is immortal |
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Root: man, main
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Meaning: stay, dwell
1. manor: man, main 2. menagerie: a collection of wild animals 3. immanence : inherent 4. menial : servile 5. remnant : remaining, left over 1. The main house of a plantation is a manor 2. A menagerie is made of glass 3. Thoughts are immanent within the mind of a person 4. Menial tasks are relegated to the lowest cadre 5. The remnants of cloth are sewn into a quilt |
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Root: manu, mand
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Meaning: hand, handmade, entrust
1. mandatory: an obligation, compulsory 2. manumit : to liberate 3. countermand : to cancel 4. emancipate : to free from bondage maneuver: planned moves 1. Learning one’s mother tongue is mandatory 2. To manumit a slave is an act of benevolence 3. The prohibitory law was countermanded 4. In Roman civil law to emancipate is to end paternal control 5. He maneuvered his way into the confidence of the army |
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Root: mem, mart
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Meaning: to remember
1. memoir : records of events 2. immemorial : extending memory beyond 3. reminiscent : suggestive of earlier events 4. memento : souvenir 5. memory : retain in mind 1. A memoir is also a biography 2. From time immemorial man has been selfish 3. His style is reminiscent of Hemingway’s 4. A memento serves as a reminder of past events 5. To have good memory is a blessing while learning vocabulary |
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Root: nas, not
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Meaning: born, birth
1. naïve : unsophisticated 2. impregnate : to infuse 3. innate : native, born 4. renascent : being reborn 5. cognate: same percentage A naïve realist perceives the world as it is His advice was impregnated with wisdom There is an innate defect in the hypotheses A renascent interest in Henry James brought further information Closely related languages have cognate words |
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Root: neg, negate, negatun
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Meaning: to deny
1. negate : to nullify 2. abnegate : refusal of one’s right 3. renege : to renounce 4. renegade : one who deserts a cause 5. denial : refuse to believe or disavowal 1. Pessimism negates the hope of the situation 2. The king abnegated the throne 3. To renege a promise is to go back on one’s word 4. A renegade deserts a cause for another 5. Peter’s denial of the fact is very well known |
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Root: jug, junct, joins
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Meaning: link, join, meet
1. conjoin: to unite 2. conjunct : connected 3. disjoin : disunite 4. enjoin : direct order 5. injunction : a legal command 6. joust : a tournament 7. junta : a council 8. juxtapose : to place close to each other 9. rejoinder : an answer sub-junction : to append 1. When born they were conjoint twins 2. The moon and earth were in conjunction forming an eclipse 3. The disjointed train ran out of control 4. The court enjoined the tenant to vacate 5. The owner was restrained from evicting the tenant by the injunction of the court 6. The two contenders in the joust were tired 7. After the coup the junta acted as the interim government 8. The two pictures were placed in juxtaposition 9. The defendant’s rejoinder shocked the judge 10. The sub-junction to the tenth amendment was revoked |
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Root: hab, hib, (lib)
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Meaning: to have, to hold as customary
1. habiliment : equipment 2. habitude: customary condition 3. inhabit : dwell 4. prohibit : to forbid 5. inhibit : restrain Clothes as worn by people in particular profession is habiliment A person’s habitude reflects his belief Weird notions inhabit is mind Smoking is prohibited here His extreme inhibition made him go unnoticed in the meeting |
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Root: no, not, note, notation
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Meaning: knowledge, known
1. notoriety : bad repute 2. connotation : a secondary meaning 3. connoisseur : expert in matters of art 4. incognito : to avoid notice 5. quaint : strange, pleasant His notoriety lent him no credibility The word fireplace has a possible connotation of hospitality A connoisseur is reliable in matters of taste and fine arts The star decided to travel incognito to avoid fans The quaint old house evoked happy memories |
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Root: gran, granule, grain
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Meaning: grain
1. granary : a store house 2. granule : a small particle 3. grenade : a small shell 4. garner : together 5. ingrain : to fix deeply A repository of grain is granary A granule is a little grain Hand grenades were used in World War –II He garnered courage to speak to the boss An ingrained superstition prevented him from venturing abroad |
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Root: grat
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Meaning: thankful
1. grace: elegance 2. gratis : free of cost 3. gratuitous : given freely 4. ingrate: ungrateful 5. ingratiate : to establish favor of others Fine paintings graced the stately home Companies provide service gratis The article was a gratuitous insult to the senior The uncharitable ingrate ignored his benefactor He ingratiated himself with his boss |
