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A

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without;

amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous, apathy, atrophy (wasting away or body tissue), anomaly, agnostic

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AB/ABS

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off, away from, apart, down;

abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal, abdicate, abstinence, abstruse

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ACT/AG

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to do, to drive, to force, to lead;

agile, agitate, litigate, prodigal, pedagogue, synagogue

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AD/AL

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to, toward, near;

adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address, adhere, adjoin, advocate

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AL/ALI/ALTER

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other, another;

alternative, alias, alibi, alien, alter ego, altruist, allegory

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AM

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love;

amateur (pleasure rather than financial gain), amatory, amenity, amorous, enamored, amity, inamorata, amiable, amicable

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AMB

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to go, to walk;

ambient, ambitious, preamble, ambassador, ambulance, ambulatory, ambush, perambulator

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AMBI/AMPH

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both, more than one, around;

ambiguous, amphibian, ambidextrous

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ANIM

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of the life, mind, soul, spirit;
unanimous, animosity, animus (hostile feeling or attitude), equanimity (stability under tension), magnanimous (generous in forgiving)

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ANNUIT/ENNI

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year;

annual, anniversary, annuity, perennial, annals

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ANTE

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before;

anterior, antecedent, antedate, antebellum (before the war), antediluvian (before the biblical flood)

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ANTHRO/ANDR

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man, human;

anthropology, android, misanthrope (one who hates humans), philanderer, androgynous, androgen, anthropocentric

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ANTI

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against;

antibody, antidote, antiseptic, antipathy (aversion), antipodal (opposite side of the globe)

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APO

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away;
apology, apostle, apocalypse, apogee (highest or most distant point), apocryphal, apostasy (total desertion of ones religion or principles)

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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY

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chief, principal, ruler;

architect, archenemy, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy (state or society ruled by a select group)

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AUTO

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self;

automatic, autocrat, autonomy

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BE

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to be, to have a particular quality, to exist;

belittle, bemoan (to express pity for), bewilder, belie (to misrepresent, to contradict)

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BEL/BELL

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war;

antebellum, rebel, belligerent (warlike, given to waging war)

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BEN/BON

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good;

benefit, benign (having a kindly disposition), benediction (uttering a blessing), benevolent, bonus, bona fide

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BI

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twice, double;

binocular, biennial, bilateral, bilingual, bipartisan

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CAN/CID

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to fall, to happen by chance;

accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivist (one who repeatedly relapses)

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CANT/CENT/CHANT

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to sing;

accent, chant, enchant, recant (withdraw a statement), incantation, incentive

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CAP/CIP/CEPT

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to take, to get;

capture, anticipate, susceptible, emancipate, percipient (having perception, discerning), precept (rule of conduct)

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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT

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head, headlong;

capital, disciple, precipitate (hasten occurrence, bring about prematurely), precipice, capitulate (surrender), caption

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CARD/CORD/COUR

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heart;

cardiac, encourage, concord, discord (lack of harmony), concordance (agreement)

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CARN

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flesh;

carnivorous, carnage, carnival, reincarnation, incarnation

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CAST/CHAST

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cut;

cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste (free from obscenity, decent)

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CED/CEED/CESS

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to go, to yield, to stop;

antecedent, concede, predecessor, cessation, incessant

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CENTR

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center;

concentrate, eccentric (off-center), concentric (common center), centrifuge, centrist

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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT

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to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide;
discrete (detached from others), ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion (standard of judgement or criticism)

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CHRON

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time;

synchronize, chronology, anachronism, chronic, chronometer

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CIRCU

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around, on all sides;

circumference, circumstances, circuit, circumambulate, circuitous

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CIS

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to cut;

scissors, precise, exorcise, incision, incisive

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CLA/CLO/CLU

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shut, close;

conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, exclusive, cloister, preclude

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CLAIM/CLAM

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to shout, to cry out;

exclaim, proclaim, clamor, disclaim, reclaim

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CLI

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to lean toward;

decline, recline, climax, proclivity (inclination, bias), disinclination

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CO/COL/COM/CON

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with, together;

connect, coerce, compatible, collide, collaborate, conciliate, commensurate

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COUR/CUR

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running, a course;
recur, curriculum, courier, excursion, cursive, concur, incursion (hostile entrance into a place), cursory (going rapidly over something, hasty)

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CRE/CRESC/CRET

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to grow;

accrue, creation, increase, increment, accretion

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CRED

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to believe, to trust;

incredible, credentials, credo, credulity (willingness to believe or trust), credit

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CRYP

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hidden;

crypt, apocryphal, cryptology, cryptography (making and using secret writing)

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CUB/CUMB

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to lie down;

cubicle, succumb, incubate, incumbent (holding an indicated position), recumbent (reclining)

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CULP

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blame;

culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa

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DAC/DOC

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to teach;

doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate, docile, didactic (intended for instruction)

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DE

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away, off, down, completely, reversal;

descend, decipher, defile, defame, deferential, delineate

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DEM

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people;

democracy, epidemic, endemic (peculiar to a particular people or locality), pandemic (general, universal), demographics

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DI/DIA

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apart, through;

dialogue, diagnose, dilate (to make wider or larger), dilatory (inclined to delay or procrastinate), dichotomy

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DIC/DICT/DIT

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to say, to tell, to use words;

dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict (to forbid, prohibit)

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DIGN

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worth;

dignity, dignitary, deign, condign (well deserved, fitting), disdain

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E/EF/EX

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out, out of, from, former, completely;

evade, exclude, extricate, exonerate, expire, efface

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EPI

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upon;

epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epigram (witty or pointed saying tersely expressed), epithet

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EQU

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equal, even;

equation, adequate, equidistant, iniquity (gross injustice)

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ERR

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to wander;

err, error, erratic, arrant

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ESCE

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becoming;

adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent, convalescent (recovering from illness), reminiscent

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EU

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good, well;

euphemism, eulogy, eugenics, euthanasia (killing painlessly), euphony

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EXTRA

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outside, beyond;

extraordinary, extract, extradite (to hand over, a criminal), extrasensory, extrapolate

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FAB/FAM

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speak;

fable, affable, ineffable (too great for description in words), famous, defame

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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY

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to do, to make;

factory, faction, deficient, prolific, configuration, ratify, effigy, counterfeit

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FER

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to bring, to carry, to bear;

offer, confer, referendum, proffer, proliferate

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FERV

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to boil, to bubble;

fervor, fervid, effervescent

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FID

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faith, trust;

confide, affidavit, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel

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FIN

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end;

final, confine, definitive, infinite, infinitesimal

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FLAG/FLAM

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to burn;

flammable, flambeau, flagrant, conflagration

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FLECT/FLEX

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to bend;

deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect (bend knee in worship)

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FLU/FLUX

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to flow;

fluid, fluctuation, effluence, confluence, mellifluous

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FORE

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before;

foresight, foreshadow, forestall, forthright

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FORT

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chance;

fortune, fortunate, fortuitous

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FORT

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strength;

fortify, fortissimo, forte

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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING

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to break;

fracture, fragment, fractious (irritable), refractory (stubborn, rebellious), infringe

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FUS

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to pour;

profuse, fusillade (continuous discharge of firearms), suffuse, diffuse, infusion

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GEN

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birth, creation, race, kind;

generous, genetics, gender, carcinogenic, congenital, progeny, miscegenation (interbreeding of races)

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GN/GNO

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to know;

agnostic, ignore, ignoramus (person lacking knowledge), recognize, incognito, prognosis, diagnose

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GRAD/GRESS

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to step;

progress, aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, regress

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GRAT

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pleasing;

grateful, ingratiate, gratuity, gracious

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HER/HES

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to stick;

coherent, adhesive, inherent, adherent, heredity

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(H)ETERO

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different;

heterosexual, heterogeneous, heterodox

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(H)OM

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same;

homogenous, homonym, homosexual, anomaly, homeostasis

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HYPER

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over, excessive;

hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia

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HYPO

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under, beneath, less than;

hypodermic, hypochondriac (depression due to imaginary ailments), hypocritical, hypothesis

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IDIO

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one’s own;

idiot (anyone left to their own devices, stupid), idiom, idiosyncrasy

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IM/IN/EM/EN

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in, into;

embrace, enclose, intrinsic, influx, implicit, incarnate, indigenous

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INTER

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between, among;

interstate, interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse

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JECT

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to throw, to throw down;

inject, dejected, eject, conjecture (formation of opinion on incomplete information), abject (utterly hopeless)

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JOIN/JUNCT

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to meet, to join;

junction, adjoin, subjugate (to conquer), rejoinder, junta (military takeover)

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JUR

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to swear;

perjury (willfully lying while on oath), abjure (renounce an oath), adjure (to beg/command)

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LAV/LUT/LUV

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to wash;

lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge (flood), antediluvian (before biblical flood), ablution (act of cleaning)

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LECT/LEG

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to select, to choose;

collect, elect, select, eclectic (select ideas from various resources), predilection (liking)

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LEV

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lift, light, rise;

relieve, alleviate, relevant, levee, levitate, levity

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LOC/LOG/LOQU

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word, speech;

dialogue, elocution, prologue, eulogy, colloquial, grandiloquent, loquacious (talkative)

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LUC/LUM/LUS

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light;

illustrate, illuminate, illustrious, translucent, lackluster, lucid, luminous

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LUD/LUS

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to play;

allude, illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude, prelude

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MAG/MAJ/MAX

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big;

magnify, magnitude, maximum, magnate, magnanimous, maxim

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MAL/MALE

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bad, ill, evil, wrong;
malfunction, malicious, malign, malady, maladroit (clumsy, tackless), malapropism (humorous misuse of a word), malfeasance, malediction

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MAN

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hand;

manual, manufacture, emancipate, manifest, mandate

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MIN

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small;

minute, minutiae, miniature, diminish, diminution

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MIN

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to protect, to hang over;

eminent, imminent, prominent, preeminent, minatory (threatening)

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MIS/MIT

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to send;

transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission

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MISC

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mixed;

miscellaneous, miscegenation (mixed race marriage), promiscuous

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MON/MONIT

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to remind, to warn;

monument, monitor, summon, admonish, remonstrate, premonition

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MORPH

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shape;

amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphism

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MORT

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death;

immortal, morbid, moribund

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MUT

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change;

commute, mutation, transmutation, permutation, immutable

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NAT/NAS/NAI

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to be born;

natural, native, naive, cognate (related by blood), renaissance, nascent (starting to develop)

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NIC/NOC/NOX

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harm;

innocent, noxious, obnoxious, innocuous

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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN

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name;

synonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym

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NOUNC/NUNC

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to announce;

announce, pronounce, renounce

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NOV/NEO/NOU

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new;

novice, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, nouveau riche

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OB/OC/OF/OP

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toward, to against, over;

obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous (noisily defiant), obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious (overly submissive)

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OMNI

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all;

omnibus (anthology of all the works of one author or writing on similar subjects), omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient

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PAC/PEAC

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peace;

appease, pacify, pacifier, pact

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PAN

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all, everyone;

panorama, panegyric (formal or elaborate praise at an assembly), pantheon, pandemic

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PAR

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equal;
par, parity, apartheid (separates people according to race, etc.), disparage (to belittle), disparate (essentially different)

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PARA

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next to, beside;

parallel, parasite, parody, parable, paragon, paranoid

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PAS/PAT/PATH

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feeling, suffering, disease;

sympathy, empathy, compassion, dispassionate, impassive, sociopath (antisocial with no moral responsibilities)

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PAU/PO/POV/PU

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few, little poor;

poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous (lacking courage or resolution), puerile (childish, immature)

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PED

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child, education;

pedagogue (teacher), pediatrician, pedant (one who displays learning ostentatiously), encyclopedia

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PED/POD

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foot;

pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes (places diametrically opposite each other on the globe)

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PEN/PUN

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to pay, to compensate;

penal (punishment for crimes), penalty, punitive (serving for punishment), penance, penitent (contrite)

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PEND/PENS

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to hang, to weight, to pay;

depend, stipend, compensate, indispensable, appendix, appendage

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PER

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completely;

persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, perfunctory (routine), pertinacious (resolute), perspicacious (shrewd, astute)

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PERI

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around;

perimeter, periscope, peripatetic (walking around)

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PET/PIT

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to go, to seek, to strive;
appetite, compete, petition centripetal (moving towards center), impetuous (rash emotion), petulant (showing irritation about some annoyance)

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PHIL

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love;

philosophy, philatelist (loves stamps), philology, bibliophile

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PLAC

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to please;

placid, placebo, implacable, complacent, complaisant (inclined or disposed to please)

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PLE

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to fill;

complete, deplete, supplement, implement, replete, plethora

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PLEX/PLIC/PLY

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to fold, twist, tangle or bend;

complex, implicit implicate, duplicity, supplicate (to make humble and earnest entreaty)

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PON/POS/POUND

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to put, to place;

component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository

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PORT

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to carry;

import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune

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POST

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after;

posthumorous, posterior, posterity, post facto

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PRE

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before;

precarious, precocious,

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POST

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after;

posthumorous, posterior, posterity, post facto

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PRE

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before;

precarious, precocious, premonition, presentiment, precedent, precept

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PREHEND/PRISE

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to take, to get, to seize;

surprise, enterprise, reprehensible, comprise, reprisals, apprehend

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PRO

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much, for, a lot;

prolific, profuse, prodigal, prodigious, proselytize (to convert or recruit), propound, provident

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PROB

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to prove, to test;

probe, approbation, opprobrium (disgrace), reprobate, problematic, probity (honesty, high-mindedness)

136
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PUG

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to fight;

pugnacious (to fight readily), impugn (to challenge as false), repugnant, pugilist

137
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN

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to point, to prick;

point, puncture, pungent, compunction (feeling of uneasy for doing wrong), punctilious, expunge

138
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QUE/QUIS

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to seek;

acquire, exquisite, conquest, inquisitive, query, querulous, perquisite (a tip/gratuity)

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QUI

A

quiet;

quiet, disquiet, tranquil, acquiesce (to give in), quiescence (inactive, at rest)

140
Q

RID/RIS

A

to laugh;

riddle, derision (mockery), risible (causing laughter)

141
Q

ROG

A

to ask;

interrogate, arrogant, abrogate (abolish by formal means), surrogate, derogatory, arrogate (to claim unwarrantably)

142
Q

SACR/SANCT/SECR

A

sacred;

sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable (abominable), sacrament, sacrilege

143
Q

SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT

A

to leap, to jump;
insult, assault, somersault, salient (prominent or conspicuous), resilient, insolent, exult, desultory (random, unmethodical)

144
Q

SCI

A

to know;

conscious, conscience, unconscionable, omnicient, prescient (having knowledge of things before they happen)

145
Q

SCRIBE/SCRIP

A

to write;
scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe (to condemn as harmful), ascribe (to credit), conscription, transcript, circumscribe

146
Q

SE

A

apart;

select, separate, seduce, segregate, secede, sequester, sedition

147
Q

SEC/SEQU

A

to follow;

second, prosecute, sequence, obsequious (fawning), non sequitur (conclusion that does not follow from the premises)

148
Q

SED/SESS/SID

A

to sit, to be still, to plan, to plot;

preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual, subsidiary, insidious (to trap or beguile), assiduous

149
Q

SENS/SENT

A

to feel, to be aware;

sense, sensory, sentiment, presentiment, dissent, resent, sentinel, insensate (without feeling or sensitivity)

150
Q

SOL

A

to loosen, to free;

dissolve, soluble, resolution, dissolution, dissolute, absolution

151
Q

SPEC/SPIC/SPIT

A

to look, to see;
perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum, retrospective, circumspect, perspicacious (keen mental perception and understanding), conspicuous, specious (deceptively attractive)

152
Q

STA/STI

A

to stand, to be in place;

static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostasy (renunciation of ones previous loyalty)

153
Q

SUA

A

smooth;

suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage

154
Q

SUB/SUP

A

below;

submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition, submarine

155
Q

SUPER/SUR

A

above;

surpass, superlative (highest kind or order), supersede, supercilious, superfluous, surmount, surveillance

156
Q

TAC/TIC

A

to be silent;

reticent, tacit, taciturn

157
Q

TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN

A

to hold;

detain, pertain, tenacious, abstention, tenure, sustenance, pertinacious (persistent, stubborn)

158
Q

TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU

A

to stretch, to thin;
tension, tentative, tendentious (predisposition towards a point of view), distend, attenuate (weaken or reduce in force), extenuating (making less serious by offering excuses), contentious

159
Q

THEO

A

god;

atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis (glorification, glorified ideal)

160
Q

TRACT

A

to pull, to drag, to draw;

tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract

161
Q

TRANS

A

across;

transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent (refusing to agree or compromise)

162
Q

US/UT

A

to use;

abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian

163
Q

VEN/VENT

A

to come or to move toward;

convene, venturesome, intervene, contravene, adventitious

164
Q

VER

A

truth;

verdict, veracious, verity, verisimilitude (appearance of truth), aver

165
Q

VERD

A

green;

verdant, verdure

166
Q

VERS/VERT

A

to turn;

controversy, revert, diverse, aversion, introvert, extrovert, inadvertent, covert, avert

167
Q

VI

A

life;

vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, convivial (sociable)

168
Q

VID/VIS

A

to see;

evident, video, adviser, survey, vista

169
Q

VIL

A

base, mean;

vilify, revile, vile

170
Q

VOC/VOK

A

to call;

vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vocation, avocation, vociferous, convoke, invoke

171
Q

VOL

A

to wish;

voluntary, malevolent, benevolent, volition (free will)

172
Q

VOR

A

to eat;

voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous

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