Prefixes Flashcards

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aco(u)

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to hear, hearing (ex) acoustic

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act, ag

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to act, to do (ex) active, agent

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agog(ue), agogy

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to lead, leader, guiding, inducing (ex) demagogue

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agon, agonist

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struggle (ex) agony, antagonist

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alg, algesia, algia

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pain (ex) analgesic

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am, amat

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to love (ex) amiable, amarous

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ambul

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to walk (ex) circumambulate, amble

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andro, andry

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male (ex) android, androgynous

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anim

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feeling, life (ex) animate

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anthrop

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man, human being (ex) anthropology

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aqu

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water (ex) aquarium

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arch

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ancient, first, rule

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aud

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to hear

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aug, auct, auth, aux

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to increase, to create (ex) augment, author

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auto

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by or for oneself (ex) autobiography, automobile

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bene, bon

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good (ex)good, benefit

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brac, brachi

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the arm (ex) bracelet, brachiate

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cant, cent

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to sing (ex) canticle, chant, recant

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cap, capt, cep, cept

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to take, contain, seize, box (ex) capture, receipt, capacious

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capit, capt, cipit

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head, chief (ex) capital, precipitate, chapter, capitulate