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Common Roots Flashcards

1
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Ami/ amic

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Friend e.g amiable (friendly)

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Anthro

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Mankind (anthropology) (study of humans and their works)

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Aus

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Sound (audible)

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Bell or belli

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Belligerence (aggressive behaviour)

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Bio

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Life

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Brev

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Briefness (abbreviation)

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Cap

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Take or seize (capture)

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Card

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To go, yield (accede - to give consent) (secsede- to withdraw from)

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Chron

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Time

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Cohn

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Know (cognition - process of knowing)

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Corp

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Body (corpse)

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Crac , Crat

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  • rule or ruler (auto craft - an absolute ruler)
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Cred

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Believe (credulous - gullible)

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Culp

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Guilty (culprit)

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Cur, curse

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To run (concurrent) running at the same time

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Dem(o)

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People (democracy)

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Dic

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Speak, say (dictate- a command) , dictum ( an authoritative pronouncement)

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Equ

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Equal (equable- steady)

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Fac, fact, fect, fic

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To make or do (effective) (malefactor- one who makes evil)

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Gen

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Birth (generate, progeny- offspring)

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Graph

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Writing (autobiography)

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Greg

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Group (gregarious- likes to be in a group) (aggregate - to cluster together)

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Laud

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Praise (applaud)

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Luc

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Light (elucidate- to clarify or shed light on)

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Min

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Small (minute, minimum)

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Mor

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Death (moratorium - halt in activity) (moribund- dying) morgue

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Mut

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Change (mutation , transmute - one form to another)

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Nov

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New (novelty, novice)

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Nym

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Name (pseudonym- fake name)

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Pac

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Peace - pacifist (peace loving)

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Path

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Feeling (sympathy)

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Phon

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Sound (phone, euphony- pleasant sounds, cacophony- unpleasant sounds)

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Pug

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Fight (pugnacious- tending to fight, pugilist - a fighter or boxer)

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Quer, quis, quir

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Ask - (query, inquire, inquisition)

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Sci

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To know (science)

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Scrib, scrip

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To write ( prescription)

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Sens, sent

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To feel (sensitive) (sentient - having sensation or consciousness)

38
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Simil

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Same (similar, similitude)

39
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Son

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Sound (sonar)

40
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Soph -

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Wisdom (philosopher)

41
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Spec

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To look (circumspect - cautious)

42
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Sta, stat

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To stay in position (stagnant, stationary)

43
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Temp

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Time (temporary) (temporal)

44
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Terra

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Earth - terrain

45
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The, theo

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God (theocracy - government in which god is the supreme ruler) (atheist)

46
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Vac

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Empty (vacuum - space of empty matter) (vacuity - absence of thought/intelligence)

47
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Ver

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Truth (verify, verity)

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Vert

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To turn- convert, invert

49
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Vit, viv

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Life - vital, (vivacity- to call back)

50
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Voc, vok

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Call - vocal - revoke

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