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50 Cards in this Set
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PATER/PATR
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paternity - fatherhood patronize - condescend to, disparage, buy from patricide - murder of one's father patrimony - inheritance or heritage derived from one's father |
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PED
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pedant - uninspired, boring academic who makes display of his or her learning pedantic - showing off learning pedagogue - teacher pedodontics - dentistry dealing with children |
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PED/POD
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pediform - shaped like a foot pedestrian - commonplace pedate - having feet podiatry - diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the foot |
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PEL/PULS
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pulse - regular or rhythmical beating pulsate - beat, to vibrate repellant - something that repels or drives back propellant - something that provides thrust |
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PER
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peregrinate - wander through percutaneous - effecting something through the skin permeable - penetrate pervasive - spread throughout every part permeate - diffuse through |
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PERI
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AROUND, NEAR periosteal - around a bone peripatetic - moving about or from place to place perihelion - point in orbit nearest the sun perigee - point in orbit nearest earth periphrasis - circumlocution |
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PET
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petition - a request to a superior authority competition - act of striving against others to attain a goal petulant - contemptuous, peevish petition principli - begging the question |
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PHIL
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LOVE, FONDNESS, PREFERENCE philanthropist - lover of mankind, doer of good technophile - lover of technology philogynist - lover of women philhelline - lover of things Greek philtre - love potion |
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PHOBOS
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phobia - abnormal irrational fear of a thing hydrophobia - fear of water |
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PHON
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phonogram - symbol that represents sound phonic - relating to sound phonetics - study of speech sounds cacophony - jarring, unpleasant noise |
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PHOS/PHOT
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photosensitive - sensitive to light or radiant energy phototaxis - growth directed by light photophile - loving light photometry - measurement of the properties of light |
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PHYS/PHYSIO
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physiology - function of a living organism physical - relating to the body physiolatry - worship of nature physiocracy - government that is in accord with the operation of natural laws physiognomy - divination of character from a person's face |
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PICT
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depict - represent in a picture pictograph - picture that represents a word or idea picturesque - of a picture, quaintly attractive pictorial - relating to or composed of pictures |
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PLAC
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placid - calm placate - lessen another's anger, pacify implacable - inflexible, incapable of being appeased complacent - self-satisfied placebo - something given to please or quiet |
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POLI
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metropolitan - relating to a major city cosmopolitan - common to the whole world political - relating to affairs of the state polity - political organization of a state |
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POLY
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polyphony - use of one symbol for many sounds polymorphic - having many forms polyglot - speaker of many languages polytheist - one who believes in more than one god |
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PON/POS
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compose - constitute or form component - an element or ingredient composite - made up of components oppose - place so as to be opposite something else repose - place, to lay down |
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POPUL
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populate - supply with inhabitants, people popular - reflecting the taste of people at large populace - the masses population - all of the people who inhabit an area populous - containing many inhabitants |
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PORT
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portage - act of transporting or carrying portal - an entrance or gate portable - able to be carried easily deport - expel from a country portfolio - case to carry papers |
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POST
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posterity - future generations, all of a person's descendants posterior - bottom, rear postdiluvian - after the flood posthumous - after a person's death post factum - after the event |
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PRE
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prenatal - before birth preclude - make impossible in advance premise - proposition upon which an argument is based precept - principle, law precedent - a model for something that follows |
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PREHEND/PREHENS
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reprehend - censure, reprove comprehend - take in the meaning, to grasp apprehension - act of seizing, understanding prehensile - able to grasp prehension - act of grasping |
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PRIM
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prima facie - at first sight, on the face of it primapara - a woman having her first child primeval - ancient, primitive primordial - original, existing from the beginning primogeniture - state of being the eldest child |
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PRO
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pro re nata - for an emergency (for the thing born) proponent - supporter prodigy - highly gifted child, marvel propensity - inclination, tendency proclivity - tendency, inclination |
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PROTO
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protogenic - formed at the beginning prototype - an original model protomorphic - primitive protoplast - an original ancestor protolithic - relating to the first stone age |
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PSEUDO
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pseudonym - pen name, fictitious or borrowed name pseudopsia - an optical illusion pseudodox - false doctrine pseudomorph - false or irregular form pseudocyesis - false pregnancy |
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PSYCH
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psyche - the mind psychedelic - mind-expanding |
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PUB
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republic - political order in which a body of citizens has supreme power publication - communication of information to the public publicity - act of communicating info to attract public interest publish - announce, bring to attention of the public |
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PUNCT
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punctilious - strictly attentive to small details in form of conduct punctilio - fine point of etiquette punctual - prompt puncture - hold made by a sharp object punctate - like a point, ending in a point |
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PUT/PUTAT |
putative - supposed repute - consider, suppose reputed - supposed to be such reputation - state of being held in high esteem compute - determine an amount or number |
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QUER/QUES/QUIR/QUIS |
query - a question inquest - an investigation, court or legal proceeding inquisition - an investigation, act of inquiring inquirer - one who asks a question requisite - required |
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recant - retract a statement or opinion rebut - refute by evidence or argument retract - withdraw, take back recurrence - repetition redundant - exceeding what is necessary, unnecessarily repetitive |
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RECT |
erect - fix in an upright position rectitude - moral uprightness rectilinear - bounded by straight lines recto - right-hand page of a book |
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RECT/REG/REGN |
rector - Anglican cleric in charge of a parish correct - remove the errors from regime - a government in power regulation - a law to govern conduct regular - confirming with fixed procedure or discipline |
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RETRO |
retrospect - review or contemplation of the past retrograde - backward motion or direction retroactive - applying to an earlier time retroject - throw back |
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RID/RIS
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deride - mock ridicule - words that evoke contemptuous laughter at a person derision - ridicule ridibund - easily moved to laughter |
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ROG/ROGAT |
prerogative - a special right or privilege rogatory - requesting information rogation - solemn prayer derogatory - disparaging, belittling |
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SACR/SANCT |
sanctify - set apart as holy, consecrate sanction - approval, ratification, permission sacrosanct - extremely sacred, beyond criticism sanctimonious - pretending to be pious or righteous |
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SCI |
scibile - something that is possible to know sciolism - conceited and shallow knowledgeability prescient - having foresight nescience - absence of knowledge, ignorant |
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SCOP |
scopic - visual telescope - device used to observe distant objects |
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SCRIB/SCRIP |
ascribe - attribute to a cause or source circumscribe - limit, confine prescribe - set down a rule, recommend a treatment manuscript - document written by hand |
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secede - withdraw from an alliance select - pick out, choose seclusion - act of keeping apart from social contact seduce - lead away from accepted principles secretive - not open or frank |
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SEC/SECT/SEGM |
sectile - relating to a mineral that can be cut smoothly by a knife dissect - cut apart secant - straight line that intersects a curve segmented - divided into parts |
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SECU/SEQU |
sequel - something that follows obsequious - overly submissive sequatious - disposed to follow another |
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SEMI |
semiterrestrial - partially living on land semiannual - occurring twice a year semitaur - half-man half-bull creature in mythology |
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SENS/SENT |
sensate - perceived by the senses insensible - unconscious, unresponsive sentiment - view based on emotion rather than reason sentient - aware, conscious, able to perceive sentisection - vivisection performed without the use of anasthesia |
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SOL |
solarium - room exposed to sunlight solarize - expose to sunlight soliterraneous - relating to the meteorological effect of sun and earth solarimeter - device that measures the flux of the sun's radiation |
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SOLV/SOLU |
soluble - able to be dissolved, possible to solve dissolution - disintegration, debauchery irresolute - undecided |
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SOMN |
somnambulance - walking in one's sleep somniloquence - talking in one's sleep somnolent - sleepy somniferous - inducing sleep |
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SOPH |
sophist - one who is skilled in deceptive argumentation sophistry - plausible but misleading argumentation sophisticate - make more worldly, refine sophomoric - showing lack of judgment and immaturity philosophy - love of wisdom |
