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Ab

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Off, away from, apart, down.

Abdicate, abduct, abhor, abject, abnormal, abolish, abstinence, abstract, abstruse.

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Able/Ible

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Capable of or worthy of.

Changeable, combustible, inevitable, presentable.

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Ac/acr

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Sharp, bitter, sour.

Acerbic, acid, acrimonious, acumen, acute, exacerbate.

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Act/ag

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To do, to drive, to force, to lead.

Agile, agitate, litigate, pedagogue, prodigal, synagogue.

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Acou

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Hearing.

Acoustic

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Ad or A double letter

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To, toward, near.

Accede, adapt, addict, address, adhere, adjacent, adjoin, admire, advocate, attract.

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Al/Ali/alter

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Other or another.

Alias, alibi, alien, allegory, alter ego, alternative, altruist.

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Am

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Love.

Amateur, amatory, amiable, amicable, amity, enamored, inamorata.

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Ambi/amphi

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Both, on both sides, around.

Ambidextrous, ambient, ambiguous, amphibian.

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Ambl/ambul

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To go, to walk.

Ambulance, ambulatory, perambulator, preamble.

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Anim

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Of the life, mind, soul, breath.

Animal, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, unanimous.

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Annui/enni

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Year.

Annals, annual, anniversary, annuity, perennial.

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Ant/ante

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Before.

Antebellum, Antecedent, antedate, antediluvian, anterior.

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Anthro/andr

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Human, man

Androgen, androgynous, android, anthropocentric, anthropology, misanthrope, philanderer

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Anti

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Opposite or against.

Antibody, antidote, antipathy, antipodal, antiseptic.

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Apo

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Away.

Apocalypse, apocryphal, apogee, apology, apostasy, apostle.

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Aqua/aque

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Water.

Aquamarine, aquarium, aquatic, aqueduct, subaqueous.

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Arch/archy/archi

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Chief, principal, ruler.

Anarchy, archenemy, architect, monarchy, oligarchy

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Ard

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To burn.

Ardent, ardor, arson.

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Auto

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Self

Autocrat, automatic, autonomy.

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A or An

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Not, without.

Agnostic, amoral, anomaly, anonymous, apathy, atheist, atrophy, atypical.

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Be

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About, to make, to surround, to affect.

Belie, belittle, bemoan, bewilder.

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Bel/bell

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Beautiful.

Belle, embellish

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Bell

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War.

Antebellum, belligerent, rebel.

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Ben/bene
Good. | Benediction, benefit, benevolent, benign.
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Bi/bin
Two. | Biennial, bilingual, bilateral, binocular, bipartisan, combination
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Bon/boun
Good, generous. | Bona fide, bonus, bountiful,
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Brev/brid
Short, small. | Abbreviate, abridge, brevet, breviloquent, brevity, brief.
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Burs
Purse, money. | Bursar, bursary, disburse, reimburse.
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Cad/cid
To fall, to happen by chance. | Accident, cascade, coincidence, decadent: decaying/deteriorating, recidivist: one who repeatedly relapses into crime
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Cant/cent/chant
To sing | Accent, chant, enchant, incantation, incentive, and recant.
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Cap/capit/cipit
Head, headlong | Capital, capitulate, caption, disciple, precipice, precipitate
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Cap/cip/cept
To take, to get | Anticipate, capture, emancipate, percipient, precept, susceptible
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Card/cord/cour
Heart | Cardiac, concord, concordance, discord, encourage
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Carn
Flesh | Carnage, carnival, carnivorous, incarnation, reincarnation
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Cast/chast
To cut | Cast, caste, castigate, chaste, chastise, castrate
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Caus/caut
To burn | Caustic, cauterize, cautery, holocaust,
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Ced/ceed/cess
To go, to yield, to stop | Accede, antecedent, cessation, concede, incessant, predecessor
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Celer
Speed | Accelerate, accelerant, celerity, decelerate
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Cent
Hundred, hundredth | Bicentennial, cent, centigrade, centimeter, centipede, century, percent
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Centr
Center | Centrifuge, centrist, concentrate, concentric, eccentric
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Cern/cert/cret/crim/crit
To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide | Ascertain, certitude, criterion, discreet, discrete, hypocrite
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Chrom
Color | Chromatic, chrome, chromosome, monochromatic
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Chron
Time | Anachronism, chronic, chronology, chronometer, synchronize
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Circu/circum
Around. | Circuit, circuitous, circumference, circum size, circumspect, circumstance
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Cis
To cut | Exorcise, incision, incisive, precise, scissors
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Cla/clo/clu
To shut, to close | Claustrophobia, cloister, conclude, disclose, exclusive, preclude
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Claim/clam
To shout, to cry out | Clamor, disclaim, exclaim, proclaim, reclaim
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Cli
To lean towards | Climax, decline, disinclination, proclivity, recline
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Co/col/com/con
With, together | Coerce, collaborate, collide, commensurate, compatible, conciliate, connect
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Cogn/conn
To know | Cognition, incognito, recognize
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Contra/contro/counter
Against | Contradict, contrary, controversy, counterfeit, countermand, encounter
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Corp/cors
Body | Corporation, corps, corpse, corpulent, corset, incorporation
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Cosm
Order, universe, world | Cosmetic, cosmic, cosmology, cosmonaut, cosmopolitan, cosmos, microcosm
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Cour/cur
Running, a course | Concur, courier, curriculum, cursory, excursion, incursion, recur
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Cre/cresc/cret
To grow | Accretion, accrue, creation, excrescence, increase, increment
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Cred
To believe, to trust | Credentials, credit, credo, credulity, incredible
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Crypt
Hidden | Apocryphal, crypt, cryptography, cryptology,
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Cub/cumb
To lie down | Cubicle, incubate, incumbent, recumbent, succumb
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Culp
Fault, blame | Culpable, culprit, inculpate, mea culpa
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Dac/doc
To teach | Didactic, docile, Doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate
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De
Away, off, down, completely, reversal | Decipher, defame, deferential, defile, delineate, descend
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Dele
To Erase Delete Indelible
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Dem
People | Democracy, demographics, endemic, epidemic, pandemic
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Dext
Right hand, right side, deft | Ambidextrous, dexter, dexterity,
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Di
Day | Dial, diary, dismal, diurnal, meridian, quotidian
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Di/dia
In two, through, across | Diagnose, dialogue, diameter, dichotomy
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Di/dif/dis
Away from, apart, reversal, not | Diffuse, dilate, dilatory, disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade
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Dic/dict/dit
To say, to tell, to use words | Dictionary, interdict, predict, verdict
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Dign
Worth | Condign, deign, dignitary, dignity, disdain
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Dog/dox
Opinion | Dogma, orthodox, paradox
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Dol
To suffer, to pain, to grieve | Condolence, doleful, dolorous, indolence
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Don/dot/Dow
To give | Anecdote, antidote, donate, endow, pardon
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Dorm
Sleep | Dormant, dormitory
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Dors
Back | Dorsal, endorse
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Dub
Doubt | Dubiety, dubious, indubitable
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Duc/duct
To lead | Abduct, conducive, conduct, induce, induct, produce
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Dulc
Sweet | Dulcet, dulcified, dulcimer
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Dur
Hard, lasting | Dour, durable, duration, duress, endure, obdurate
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Dys
Faulty, abnormal | Dysfunctional, dyslexia, dyspepsia, dystrophy
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E/ex
Out, out of, from, former, completely | Efface, evade, exclude, exonerate, expire, extricate
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Ego
Self | Ego, egocentric, egoism, egotism
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Em/en
In, into | Embrace, enclose
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Epi
Upon | Epidemic, epidermis, epigram, epilogue, epithet
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Equ
Equal, even | Adequate, equation, equidistant, iniquity,
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Err
To wander | Arrant, err, erratic, error
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Esce
Becoming | Adolescent, convalescent, incandescent, obsolescent, reminiscent
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Eu
Good, well | Eugenics, eulogy, euphemism, Euphony, euthanasia
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Extra
Outside, beyond | Extract, extradite, extraordinary, extrapolate, extra sensory
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Fab/fam
To speak | Affable, defame, fable, famous, ineffable,
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Fac/fic/fig/fait/feit/fy
To do, to make | Configuration, counterfeit, deficient, effigy, faction, factory, prolific, ratify
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Fal
To err, to deceive | Default, fail, fallacy, false, faux pas, infallible
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Fatu
Foolish | Fatuity, fatuous, infatuated
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Fer
To bring, to carry, to bear | Confer, offer, proffer, proliferate, referendum
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Ferv
To boil, to bubble | Effervescent, fervid, fervor
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Fi/fid
Faith, trust | Affidavit, confide, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel
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Fin
End | Confine, definitive, final, infinite, infinitesimal
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Flagr/flam
To burn, | Conflagration, flagrant, flambeau, inflame
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Flect/flex
To bend, to turn | Deflect, flexible, genuflect, inflect, reflect
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Flu/flux
To flow | Confluence, effluence, fluctuation, fluid, mellifluous
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Fore
Before | Foreshadowing, foresight, forestall, forthright
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Fort
Chance | Fortuitous, fortunate, fortune
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Fort
Strength | Forte, fortify, fortissimo
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Fra/frac/frag/fring
To break | Fractious, fracture, fragment, infringe, refractory
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Fug
To flee, to fly | Centrifugal, fugitive, fugue, refuge, refugee, subterfuge
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Fulg
To shine | Effulgent, refulgent
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Fum
Smoke | Fume, fumigate, perfume
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Fus
To pour | Diffuse, fusillade, infusion, profuse, suffuse,
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Gen
Birth, creation, race, kind | Carcinogenic, congenital, gender, generous, genetics, progeny.
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Gn/gno
To know | Agnostic, diagnose, ignoramus, ignore, prognosis
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Grad/gress
To step | Aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, progress, regress
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Gram/graph
To write, to draw | Diagram, epigram, grammar, graph, graphite, photograph
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Grat
Pleasing | Gracious, grateful, gratuity, ingratiate
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Greg
Flock | Aggregate, congregate, egregious, gregarious, segregate
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Hap
By chance | Haphazard, hapless, happen, happily, happy, mishap, perhaps,
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Hemi
Half | Hemisphere, hemistitch
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Hes/her
To stick | Adherent, adhesive, coherent, inherent
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(H)etero
Different, other | Heterodox, heterogeneous, heterosexual
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Hol
Whole | Catholic, holocaust, hologram, holograph, holistic
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(H)om
Same | Homeostasis, homogeneous, homosexual, homonym
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Hum
Earth | Exhume, humble, humility
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Hyper
Over, excessive | Hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia
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Hypo
Under, beneath, less than | Hypochondriac, hypocritical, hypodermic, hypothesis
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Icon
Image, idol | Icon, iconic, iconoclast, iconology
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Idio
Ones own | Idiom, idiosyncrasy, idiot
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In/im
In, into | Implicit, incarnate, indigenous, influx, intrinsic
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In/im
Not, without | Immoral, impartial, inactive, indigent, indolence, innocuous
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Inter
Between, among | Interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse, interstate
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Intra
Inside, within | Intramural, intrastate, intravenous
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It/iter
Way, journey | Ambition, circuit, itinerant, itinerary, reiterate, transit
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Ject
To throw, to throw down | Abject, conjecture, dejected, eject, inject
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Joc
Joke | Jocose, jocular, jocund, joke,
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Join/jug/junct
To meet, to join | Adjoin, conjugal, conjunction, injunction, junction, junta, rejoinder, subjugate
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Jour
Day | Adjourn, journal, journey
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Jud
Judge | Adjudicate, judiciary, judicious, prejudice
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Jur
Law, to swear | Abjure, adjure, jurisprudence, perjury
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Juv
Juvenile, juvenilia, rejuvenate
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Lang/ling
Tongue | Bilingual, language, linguistics
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Laud
Praise, honor | Cum laude, laudable, laudatory
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Lav/lau/lu
To wash | Ablution, antediluvian, deluge, dilute, laundry, lavatory
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Lax/leas/les
Loose | Lax, laxative, lease, leash, relax, release
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Lec/leg/lex
To read, to speak | Dialect, lectern, lecture, legend, legible, lexicographer, lexicon
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Lect/leg
To select, to choose | Collect, eclectic, elect, predilection, select
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Lev
To lift, to rise, lightweight | Alleviate, levee, levitate, levity, relevant, relieve
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Li/lig
To tie, to bind | Ally, league, liable, liaison, lien, ligament, ligature, oblige, rely
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Liber
Free | Deliver, liberal, liberality, liberate, libertine, Liberty, livery
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Lith
Stone | Caroling, lithography, litho loft, lithotomy, megalith, monolith
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Loc/log/loqu
Word, speech, thought | Colloquial, dialogue, elocution, eulogy, grandiloquent, loquacious, prologue
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Luc/lum/lus
Light/ brightness | Illuminate, illustrate, illustrious, lackluster, lucid, luminous, translucent
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Lud/lus
To play | Allude, delude, elude, illusion, ludicrous, prelude
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Macro
Great/long | Macro, macrobiotics, microcephalous, macrocosm, macroscopic
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Mag/maj/max
Big, great | Magnanimous, magnate, magnify, magnitude, maxim, maximum
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Mal/male
Bad, Ill, evil, wrong | Maladroit, malady, malapropism, malediction, malfeasance, malfunction, malicious, malign
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Man/Manu
Hand | Emancipate, manifest, manual, manufacture
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Mand/mend
To command, to order, to entrust | Command, commend, countermand, demand, mandatory, recommend, remand
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Medi
Middle | Immediate, intermediate, medieval, mediocre, medium
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Mega
Large, great | Megalith, megalomania, megalopolis, megaphone, megaton
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Micro
Very small | Microbe, microcosm, micron, microorganism, microscope
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Min
Small | Diminish, diminution, miniature, minute, minutiae
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Min
To project, to hang over | Eminent, imminent, preeminent, prominent
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Mis
Bad, wrong, to hate | Misadventure, misanthrope, misapply, mischance, mischief, misconstrue, misfit
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Mis/mit
To send | Emissary, intermittent, remission, remit, transmit
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Misc
Mixed | Miscellaneous, promiscuous
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Mob/mom/mot/mov
To move Automobile, demote, immovable, locomotion, mob, mobile, mobilize, moment, momentous, motion, motive, motor, mutiny, promote, remove
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Moll
Soft | Emollient, mild, mollify, mollusk
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Mon/monit
To remind, to warn | Admonish, monitor, monument, premonition, remonstrate, summon
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Mon/mono
One | Monarchy, monk, mono chord, monogram, monograph, monologue, monomania, monotonous
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Mor/mort
Death | Immortal, morbid, moribund
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Morph
Shape | Amorphous, anthromorphism, metamorphosis
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Mult
Many | Multiple, multiplex, multiply, multitudinous
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Mut
To change | Commute, immutable, mutation, permutation, transmute
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Nat/nas/nai/gna
Birth | Cognate, naive, nascent, native, natural, Renaissance
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Nau/nav
Ship, sailor | Astronaut, circumnavigate, cosmonaut, nauseous, nautical, naval, nave, navy
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Nihil
Nothing, none | Annihilate, nihilism
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Noc/nox
Harm | Innocent, innocuous, noxious, obnoxious
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Noct/nox
Night | Equinox, noctambulant, nocturnal, nocturne
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Nom
Rule, order | Astronomy, autonomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy
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Nom/nym/noun/nown
Name | Acronym, anonymous, nomenclature, nominal, nominate, noun, renown, synonym
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Non
Not | Noncomformist, nonentity, nonpareil, nonpartisan
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Nounc/nunc
To proclaim | Announce, pronounce, renounce
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Nov/neo/nou
New | Innovate, neologism, neophyte, neoplasm, nouveau riche, novice, renovate
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Null
Nothing | Annul, nullify, nullity
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Ob
Toward, to, against, over | Obese, obfuscate, oblique, obsequious, obstinate, obstreperous, obstruct, obtuse
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Omni
All | Omnibus, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient
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Oner
Burden | Exonerate, onerous, onus
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Oss/oste
Bone | Ossify, ossuary, osteopathy
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Pac/peac
Peace | Appease, pacifier, pacify, pact
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Palp
To feel | Palpable, palpate, palpitate
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Pan/pant
All/ everyone | Pandemic, panegyric, panoply, panorama, pantheon
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Par
Equal | Apartheid, disparage, disparate, par, parity
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Para
Next to, beside | Parable, paragon, parallel, paranoid, parasite, parody
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Pas/pat/path
Feeling, suffering, disease | Compassion, dispassionate, empathy, impassive, pathogenic, sociopath, sympathy
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Pau/po/pov/pu
Few, little, poor | Impoverish, paucity, pauper, poverty, puerile, pusillanimous
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Pec
Money | Impecunious, peculation, pecuniary
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Ped
Child, education | Encyclopedia, pedagogue, pedant, pediatrician
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Ped/pod
Foot | Antipodes, expedite, impede, pedal, pedestrian, podium
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Pel
To drive, to push | Compel, dispel, expel, impel, propel
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Pen/pene
Almost | Peninsula, penultimate, penumbra
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Pen/pun
To pay, to compensate | Penal, penalty, penance, penitent, punitive
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Pend/pens
To hang, to weight, to pay | Appendage, appendix, compensate, depend, indispensable, stipend
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Per
Completely | Perforate, perfunctory, perplex, persistent, perspicacious, pertinacity a, peruse
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Peri
Around | Perimeter, peripatetic, periscope
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Pet/pit
To go, to seek, to strive | Appetite, centripetal, compete, impetuous, petition, petulant
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Phil
Love | Bibliophile, philatelist, philology, philosophy
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Phob
Fear | Claustrophobia, hydrophobia, phobia, xenophobia
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Phon
Sound | Euphony, megaphone, phonetics, polyphony, telephone
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Photo
Light | Photograph, photon, photosynthesis
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Plac
To please | Complacent, complaisant, implacable, placebo, placid
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Ple/plen
To fill, full | Complete, deplete, implement, plentitude, plethora, replete, supplement
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Plex/plic/ply
To fold, twist, tangle, bend | Complex, duplicity, implicate, implicit, replica, supplicate
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Poly
Many | Polyandry, polygamy, polyglot, polygon, polytheism
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Pon/pos/pound
To put, to place | Component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository
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Port
To carry | Deportment, dis port, export, import, importune, portable
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Post
Behind, after | Post facto, posterior, posterity, posthumous
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Pot
To drink | Potable, potation, potion
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Pre
Before, in front | Precarious, precedent, precept, precocious, premonition, presentiment
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Prehend/prise
To take, to get, to seize | Apprehend, comprise, enterprise, reprehensible, reprisals, surprise
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Pri/prim
First | Primal, primary, prime, primeval, pristine
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Pro
In front, before, much, for | Problem, proceed, profuse, prolific, propound, proselytize, provident
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Prob
To prove, to test | Approbation, opprobrium, probe, probity, reprobate
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Prop/prox
Near | Approximate, proximate, proximity
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Prot/proto
First | Protagonist, protocol, prototype, protozoan
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Pseud/pseudo
False | Pseudonym, pseudopod, pseudoscience
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Pug
To fight | Impugn, pugilist, pugnacious, repugnant
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Punc/pung/poign
To point, to prick, to pierce | Compunction, expunge, point, punctilious, puncture, pungent
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Pyr
Fire | Pyre, pyromania, pyrosis, pyrotechnics
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Quad/quar/quat
Four | Quadrant, quadrille, quadruple, quadruplets, quart, quaternary,
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Que/quis
To seek | Acquire, conquest, exquisite, inquisitive, perquisite, querulous, query
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Quie/quit
Quiet, rest | Acquiesce, disquiet, quiescence, quiet, tranquil
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Quin/quint
Five | Quinquennial, quintessence, quintuple
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Raci/radi
Root | Deracinate, eradicate, radical, radish
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Rami
Branch | Ramification, ramiform
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Re
Back/again | Recline, regain, remain, reorganize, request
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Rect
Straight, right | Correct, direct, erect, rectangle, rectitude
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Reg
King, rule | Interregnum, realm, regal, regent, regicide, regiment, regular
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Retro
Backward | Retroactive, retrofit, retrograde, retrospective
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Rid/ris
To laugh | Derision, risible
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Rog
To ask | Abrogate, arrogant, arrogate, derogatory, interrogate, surrogate
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Rub/rud
Red | Rouge, rubella, rubicund, rubric, russet
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Rud
Crude | Erudite, rude, rudimentary, rudiments
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Sacr/sanct
Holy | Execrable, sacrament, sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege, sanctify, sanction
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Sag/sap/sav
Taste, thinking, discerning | Insipid, sagacious, sage, sapient, savant, savor
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Sal
Salt | Salary, saline
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Sal/sil/sault/sult
To leap, to jump | Assault, desultory, exult, insolent, insult, resilient, salient, somersault
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Salu
Health | Salubrious, salutary, salute,
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Salv
To save | Salvage, salvation, savior
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San
Healthy | Sane, sanitarium, sanitary
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Sang
Blood | Consanguinity, sanguinary, sanguine
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Sat
Enough | Assets, dissatisfied, sate, satisfy, saturate
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Sci
To know | Conscience, conscious, omniscient, prescient, unconscionable
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Scribe/script
To write | Ascribe, circumscribe, conscription, describe, postscript, proscribe, scribble, script, transcript
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Se
Apart, away | Secede, sedition, seduce, segregate, select, separate, sequester
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Sec/sequ/sue/Sui
To follow | Non sequitur, obsequious, prosecute, pursue, second, sequence, suite
254
Sed/sess/Sid
To sit, to settle | Assiduous, dissident, insidious, preside, resident, residual, sediment, session
255
Sem
Seed, to sow | Disseminate, semen, seminary
256
Semi
Half | Semicircle, semiconscious
257
Sen
Old | Senate, senescent, senile, sire
258
Sens/sent
To feel, to be aware | Dissent, insensate, presentiment, resent, sense, sensory, sentiment, sentinel
259
Sin/sinu
Bend, fold, curve | Insulate, sinuous, sinus
260
Sol
Alone | Desolate, isolate, soliloquize, solipsism, solitude
261
Sol
Sun | Parasol, solar, solarium, solstice
262
Sol
To loosen, to free | Absolution, dissolute, dissolution, dissolve, resolution, soluble
263
Somn
Sleep | Insomnia, somnambulist, somniferous, somniloquist, somnolent
264
Soph
Wisdom | Philosopher, sophism, sophisticated
265
Sourc/surg/surrect
To rise | Insurgent, insurrection, resurrection, source, surge
266
Spec/spic
To look, to see | Circumspect, conspicuous, perspective, perspicacious, retrospective, specious, spectrum, speculation
267
Spir
Breath | Aspire, expire, spirit,
268
Sta/sti
To stand, to be in place | Apostasy, constitute, destitute, obstinate, stasis, static
269
Strict/string/stran
To tighten, to bind | Astringent, constrain, restriction, strangle
270
Sua
Sweet, pleasing, to urge | Assuage, dissuade, persuade, suave
271
Sub/sup
Below, under | Subliminal, submissive, subsidiary, subterfuge, subtle, suppose
272
Summ
Highest, total | Consummate, sum, summary, summit
273
Super/Sur
Over, above | Supercilious, superfluous, superlative, supersede, surmount, surpass, surveillance
274
Sym/syn
Together | Symbiosis, symmetry, sympathy, symposium, synonym, synthesis
275
Tac/tic
To be silent | Reticent, tactic, taciturn
276
Tact/tag/tam/tang
To touch | Contact, contagious, contaminate, contiguous, intact, intangible, tactile
277
Tain/ten/tent/tin
To hold | Abstention, detain, pertain, pertinacious, sustenance, tenable, tenacious, tenure
278
Tend/tens/tent/tenu
To stretch, to thin | Attenuate, contentious, distend, extenuating, tendentious, tension, tentative
279
Test
To bear witness | Attest, contest, detest, protest, testament, testify
280
Theo
God | Apotheosis, atheist, theocracy, theology
281
Therm
Heat | Thermal, thermometer, thermonuclear, thermostat
282
Tim
Fear | Intimidate, timid
283
Tor/torq/tort
To twist | Contort, distort, extort, torch, torque, tort, torture
284
Torp
Stiff, numb | Torpedo, torpid, torpor
285
Tox
Poison | Antitoxin, intoxicated, toxic
286
Tract
To drag, to pull, to draw | Abstract, attract, contract, detract, protracted, tractable, tractor
287
Trans
Across, beyond | Intransigent, transaction, transcendent, transgress, transition, transparent
288
Ult
Last, beyond | Penultimate, ulterior, ultimate, ultimatum, ultraviolet
289
Umbr
Shadow | Adumbrate, penumbra, somber, umbrage, umbrella
290
Un
Not | Unseen, unusual
291
Und
Wave | Abound, inundate, undulate
292
Uni/un
One | Reunion, unanimous, unicorn, uniform, universe
293
Urb
City | Suburb, urban, urbane, urbanization
294
Us/ut
To use | Abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian
295
Vail/Val
Strength, use, worth | Ambivalent, avail, convalescent, equivalent, evaluate, invalid, valediction, valid, value
296
Ven/vent
To come or to move toward | Adventitious, contravene, convene, intervene, venturesome
297
Ver
Truth | Aver, voracious, verdict, verisimilitude, verity
298
Verb
Word | Proverb, verbatim, verbiage, verbose
299
Verd
Green | Verdant, verdure
300
Vers/vert
To turn | Aversion, avert, controversy, diverse, extrovert, inadvertent, introvert, revert
301
Vi
Life | Convivial, joie de vivre, viable, vivacity, vivid
302
Vid/vis
To see | Adviser, evident, survey, video, vista
303
Vil
Base, mean | Revile, vile, vilify
304
Viru
Poison | Virulent, viruliferous, virus
305
Voc/vok
Call, word | Advocate, avocation, convoke, equivocate, invoke, vocabulary, vocation, vociferous
306
Vol
Wish | Benevolent, malevolent, volition, voluntary
307
Volu/volv
To roll, to turn | Convolution, evolve, revolt, revolve, voluble, volume
308
Vor
To eat | Carnivorous, omnivorous, voracious

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