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A/AN

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: NOT / WITHOUT

  • **agnostic: **one who believes the existence of God is not provable
  • amoral: neither moral nor immoral; having no relation to morality
  • **anomaly: **an irregularity
  • **annoymous: **of unknown authorship or origin
  • **apathy: **lack of interest or emotion
  • **atheist: **one who does not believe in God
  • **atrophy: **the wasting away of body tissue
  • **atypical: **not typical
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AB

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OFF, AWAY, FROM, APART, DOWN

  • **abdicate: **to renounce or relinquish a throne
  • **abduct: **to take away by force
  • **abhor: **to hate, detest
  • **abject: **cast down; degraded
  • **abnormal: **deviating from a standard
  • **abolish: ** to do away with, make void
  • **abstinence: **forebearance from any indulgence of appetite
  • abstract: conceived apart from concrete realities, specific objectd, or actual instances
  • **abstruse: **hard to understand; secret, hidden
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ABLE / IBLE

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: CAPABLE OF, WORTHY OF

  • **changeable: **able to be changed
  • **combustible: ** capable of being burned; easily inflamed
  • **inevitable: **impossible to be avoided; certain to happen
  • **presentable: **suitable for being presented
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AC / ACR

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: SHARP, BITTER, SOUR

  • **acerbic: **sour or astringent in taste; harsh in temper
  • **acid: **something that is sharp, sour, or ill-natured
  • **acrimonious: **caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature
  • **acumen: **mental sharpness; quickness of wit
  • **exacerbate: **to increase bitterness or violence; aggravate
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ACT / AG

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: TO DO, TO DRIVE, TO FORCE, TO LEAD

  • **agile: **quick and well-coordinated in movement; active, lively
  • **agitate: **to move or force into violent, irregular actioin
  • **litigate: **to make the subject of a lawsuite
  • **pedagogue: **a teacher
  • **prodigal: **wastefully or recklessly extravagant
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ACOU

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: HEARING

  • **acoustic: **pertaining to hearing; sound made through mechanical, not electronic, means
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AD

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: TO, TOWARD, NEAR ( often the *d *is dropped and the first letter to which *a *is prefixed is doubled. )

  • **​accede: **to yield to a demand; to enter office
  • **adapt: **adjust or modify fittingly
  • **addict: **to give oneself over, as to a habit or pursuit
  • **address: **to direct a speech or written statement to
  • **adhere: ** to stick fast; cleave; cling
  • **adjacent: **near, close, or contigous; adjoining
  • **adjoin: **to be close or in contact with
  • **admire: **to regard with wonder, pleasure, and approval
  • advocate: to plead in favor of
  • **attract: **to draw either by physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses
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AL / ALI / ALTER

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: OTHER, ANOTHER

  • **alias: **an assumed name; another name
  • **alibi: **the defense by an accused person that he was verifiably elsewhere at the time of the crime which he is charged
  • **alien: **one born in another country; a foreigner
  • **allegory: **figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another
  • **alter ego: **the second self; a substitute or deputy
  • **alternative: **a possible choice
  • **altruist: **a person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others
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AM

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: LOVE

  • **amature: **a person who engages in an activity for pleasure rather than financial or professional gain
  • **amatory: **of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking
  • **amiable: **having or showing agreeable personal qualities
  • **amicable: **characterized by exhibiting good wiil
  • **amity: **friendship; peaceful harmony
  • **amorous: **inclined to love, esp. sexual love
  • **enamored: **inflamed with love; chramed; captivated
  • **inamorata: **a female lover
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AMBI / AMPHI

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: BOTH, ON BOTH SIDES, AROUND

  • **ambidextrous: **able to use both hands equally well
  • **ambient: **moving around freely; circulating
  • **ambiguous: **open to various interpretations
  • **amphibianL **any cold-blooded vertebrate, the larva of which is aquaitc and the adult of which is terrestrial; a personor thing having a twofold nature
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AMBL / AMBUL

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: TO GO , TO WALK

  • **ambulance: **a vehicle equipped for carrying sick people ( from a phrase meaning “walking hospital” )
  • **ambulatory: **of, pertaining to, or capable of walking
  • **perambulator: **one who makes a tour of inspection on foot
  • **preamble: **an introductory statment (originally: to walk in front )
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ANIM

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: OF THE LIFE, MIND, SOUL, BREATH

  • **animal: **a living being
  • **animosity: **a feeling of ill will or enmity
  • **equanimity: **mental or emotional stability, especially under tension
  • **magnanimous: **generous in forgiving an insult or injury
  • **unanimous: **of one mind; in complete accord
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ANNUI / ENNI

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: YEAR

  • **annals: **a record of events, esp. a yearly record
  • **anniversary: **the yearly recurrence of the date of a past event
  • **annual: **of, for, or pertaining to a year; yearly
  • **annuity: **a specific income payable at stated intervals
  • **perennial: **lasting for an indefinite amount of time
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ANT / ANTE

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: BEFORE

  • **antebellum: **before the war ( especially the American Civil War )
  • **antecedent: **existing, being, or going before
  • **antedate: **precede in time
  • **antediluvian: **belonging to the period before the biblical flood; very old or old-fashioned
  • **anterior: **placed before
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ANTHORD / ANDR

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: MAN, HUMAN

  • **androgen: **any substance that promotes masculine characteristics
  • **androgynous: **being both male and female
  • **android: **robot; mechanical human
  • **anthropocentric: **regarding humanity as the central fact of the universe
  • **anthropology: **the science that deals with the origins of humankind
  • **misanthrope: **one who hates humans or humanity
  • **philanderer: **one who carries on flirtations
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ANTI

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: AGAINST, OPPOSITE

  • **antibody: **a protein naturally existing in blood serum that reacts to overcome the toxic effects of an antigen
  • **antidote: **a remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc
  • **antipathy: **aversion
  • **antipodal: **on the opposite side of the globe
  • **antiseptic: **free from germs; particularly clean or neat
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APO

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: AWAY

  • **apocalypse: **revelation; discovery; disclosure
  • **apocryphal: **of doubtful anthorship or authenticity
  • **apology: **an expression of one’s regret or sorrow for having wronged another
  • **apostasy: **a total desertion of one’s religion, principles, party, cause, etc.
  • **apostle: **one of the 12 disciples sent forth by Jesus to preach the Gospel
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AQUA / AQUE

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: WATER

  • **aquamarine: **a bluish-green color
  • **aquarium: **a tank for keeping fish and other underwater creatures
  • **aquatic: **having to do with water
  • **aqueduct: **a channel for transporting water
  • **subaqueous: **underwater
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ARCH / ARCHI / ARCHY

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: CHIEF, PRINCIPAL, RULER

  • **anarchy: **a state or society without government or law
  • **anchenemy: **chief enemy
  • **architect: **the devisor, maker, or planner of anything
  • **monarchy: **a government in which the supreme power is lodged in a sovereign
  • **oligarchy: **a state or society ruled by a select group
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ARD

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: TO BURN

  • **ardent: **burning; fierce; passionate
  • **ardor: **flame; passion
  • **arson: **the crime of setting property on fire
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AUTO

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​: SELF

  • **autocrat: **an absolute ruler
  • **automatic: **self-moving or self-acting
  • **autonomy: **independence or freedom
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BE

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: ABOUT, TO MAKE, TO SURROUND, TO AFFECT (OFTEN USED TO TRANFORM WORDS INTO TRANSITIVE VERBS)

  • **belie: **to misrepresent; to contradict
  • **belittle: **to make small; to make something appear smaller
  • **bemoan: **to moan for; to lament
  • **bewilder: **to confuse completely ( that is, to make one mentally wander )
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BEL / BELL

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: BEAUTIFUL

  • belle: a beautiful woman
  • **embellish: **to make beautiful; to ornament
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BELL

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​: WAR

  • **antebellum: **before the war ( especially the American Civil War )
  • **belligerent: **warlike, given to waging war
  • **rebel: ** a person who resists authority, control, or tradition
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BEN / BENE

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: GOOD

  • **benediction: **act of uttering a blessing
  • **benefit: **anything advantageous to a person or thing
  • **benevolent: **desiring to do good to others
  • **benign: **having kindly disposition
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BI / BIN

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: TWO

  • **biennial: **happening every two years
  • **bilateral: **pertaining to or affecting two or both sides
  • **bilingual: **able to speak one’s native language and another with equal facility
  • **binocular: **having two eyes
  • combination**: **the joining of two or more things into a whole
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BON / BOUN

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​: GOOD, GENEROUS

  • **boan fide: **in good faith; without fraud
  • **bonus: **something given over and above what is due
  • **bountiful: **generous
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BREV / BRID

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: SHORT , SMALL

  • **abbreviate: **to shorten
  • **abridge: **to shorten
  • **brevity: ** an honorary promotion with no additoinal pay
  • **breviloquent: **laconic; concise in one’s speech
  • **brevity: **shortness
  • **brief: **short
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BURS

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: PURSE, MONEY

  • **bursar: **treasurer
  • **bursary: **treasurer
  • **disburse: **to pay
  • **reimburse: **to pay back
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CAD / CID

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: TO FALL, TO HAPPEN BY CHANCE

  • **accident: **happening by chance; unexpected
  • **cascade: **a waterfall descending over a steep surface
  • **coincidence: **a striking occurence of two or more events at one time, apparently by chance
  • **decadent: **decaying; deteriorating
  • **recidivist: **one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime
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CANT / CENT / CHANT

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: TO SING

  • **accent: **prominence of a syllable in terms of pronunication
  • **chant: **a song; singing
  • **enchant: **to subject to magical influence; bewitch
  • **incantation: **the chanting of words purporting to have magical power
  • **incentive: **that which incites action
  • **recant: **to withdraw or disavow a statement
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CAP / CIP / CEPT

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: TO TAKE, TO GET

  • **anticipate: **to realize beforehand; foretaste or foresee
  • **capture: **to take by force or stratagem
  • **emancipate: **to free from restraint
  • **percipient: **having perception; discerning; discriminating
  • **precept: **a commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct
  • **susceptible: **capable of receiving, admitting undergoing, or being affected by something
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CAP / CAPIT / CIPIT

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: HEAD, HEADLONG

  • **capital: **the city or town that is the official seat of government
  • **capitulate: **to surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms
  • **caption: **heading or title
  • **disciple: **one who is a pupil of the doctrines of another
  • **precipice: **a cliff with a vertical face
  • **precipitate: **to hasten the occurrence of; to bring about prematurely
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CARD / CORD / COUR

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: HEART

  • **cardiac: ** pertaining to the heart
  • **concord: **agreement; peace, amity
  • **concordance: **agreement, concord, harmony
  • **discord: **lack of harmony between persons ro things
  • **encourage: **to inspire with spirite or confidence
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CARN

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: FLESH

  • **carnage: **the slaugther of a great number of people
  • **carnival: **a traveling amusement show
  • **carnival: **eating flesh
  • **incarnation: **a being invested with a bodily form
  • **reincarnation: **rebirth of a soul in a new body
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CAST / CHAST

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: TO CUT

  • cast**: **to throw or hurl; fling
  • **caste: **a hereditary social group, limited to people of the same rank
  • **castigate: **to punish in order to correct
  • **chaste: **free from obscenity; decent
  • **chastise: **to discipline, esp. by corporal punishment
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CAUS / CAUT

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: TO BURN

  • **caustic: **burning or corrosive
  • **cauterize: **to burn or deaden
  • **cautery: **an instrument used for branding; branding
  • **holocaust: **a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means
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CED / CEED / CESS

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: TO GO, TO YIELD, TO STOP

  • **accede: **to yield to a demand; to enter office
  • **antecedent: **existing, being, or going before
  • **cessation: **a temporary or complete discontinuance
  • **concede: **to acknowledge as true, just, or proper; admit
  • **incessant: **without stop
  • **predecessor: **one who comes before another in an office, position, etc.
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CELER

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: SPEED

  • **accelerant: **something used to speed up a process
  • **accelerate: **to increase in speed
  • **celerate: **speed; quickness
  • **decelerate: **to decrease in speed
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CENT

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: HUNDRED, HUNDREDTH

  • **bicentennial: **two-hundredth anniversary
  • **cent: **a hundredth of a dollar
  • **centigrade: **a temperature system with one hudred degrees between the freezing and boiling points of water
  • **centimeter: **one hundredth of a meter
  • **centipede: ** a creature with many legs
  • **century: **one hundred years
  • **percent: **in every hundred
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CENTR

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: CENTER

  • **centrifuge: **an apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances of different densities using centrifugal force
  • **centrist: **of or pertaining to moderate political or social ideas
  • **concentrate: **to bring to a common center; to converge, to direct toward one point
  • **concentric: **having a common center, as in circles or spheres
  • **eccentric: **off-center
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**CERN / CERT / CRET / CRIM / CRIT **

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: TO SEPARATE, TO DISTINGUISH, TO JUDGE, TO DECIDE

  • **ascertain: **to make sure of; to determine
  • **certitude: **freedom from doubt
  • **criterion: **a standard of judgment or criticism
  • **discreet: **judicious in one’s conduct of speech, esp. with regard to maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature
  • **discrete: **detached from others, separate
  • **hypocrite: **a person who pretends to have beliefs that she does not
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CHROM

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: COLOR

  • **chromatic: **having to do with color
  • **chrome: **a metallic element (chromium) used to make vivid colors or something plated with chromium
  • **chromosome: **genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes
  • **monochromatic: **having only one color
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CHRON

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: TIME

  • **anachronism: **something that is out-of-date or belonging to the wrong time
  • **chronic: **constant, habitual
  • **chronology: **that sequential order in which past events occurred
  • **chronometer: **a highly accurate clock or watch
  • **synchronize: **to occur at the same time or agree in time
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CIRCU / CIRCUM

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: AROUND

  • **circuit: **a line around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current
  • **circuitous: **roundabout, indirect
  • **circumference: ** the outer boundary of a circular area
  • **circumspect: **cautious; watching all sides
  • **circumstances: ** the existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent
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CIS

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: TO CUT

  • **exorcise: **to seek to expel an evil spirit by ceremony
  • **incision: **a cut, gash, or notch
  • **incisive: **penetrating, cutting
  • **precise: **definitely stated or defined
  • **scissors: **cutting instrument for paper
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CLA / CLO / CLU

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: TO SHUT, TO CLOSE

  • **claustrophobia: **an abnormal fear of enclosed places
  • **cloister: **a courtyard bordered with covered walks, esp. in a religious insitution
  • **conclude: **to bring to an end; finish; to terminate
  • **disclose: **to make know, reveal, or uncover
  • **exclusive: **not admitting of something else; shutting out others
  • **preclude: **to prevent the presence, existence, or ocurrence of
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CLAIM / CLAM

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**​: TO SHOUT, TO CRY OUT **

  • **clamor: **a loud uproar
  • **disclaim: **to deny interest in or connection with
  • exclaim: to cry out or speak suddenly and vehemently
  • proclaim: to announce or declare in an official way
  • reclaim: to claim or demand the return of a right or possesion
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CLI

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: TO LEAN TOWARD

  • **climax: **the most intense point in the development of something
  • decline: to cause to slope or incline downward
  • disinclination: aversion, distate
  • proclivity: inclination, bias
  • recline: to lean back
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CO / COL / COM / CON

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: WITH, TOGETHER

  • **coerce: **to compel by force, intimidation, or authority
  • collaborate: to work with another, cooperate
  • collide: to strike one another with a forceful impact
  • commensurate: suitable in measure, proportionate
  • compatible: capable of existing together in harmony
  • concilate: to placate, win over
  • connect: to bind or fasten together
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COGN / CONN

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: TO KNOW

  • cognition: the process of knowing
  • incognito: with one’s name or identity concealed
  • recognize: to identify as already known
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CONTRA / CONTRO / COUNTER

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: AGAINST

  • **contradict: **to oppose; to speak against
  • contrary: opposed to; opposite
  • controversy: a disputation; a quarrel
  • counterfeit: fake; a false imitation
  • countermand: to retract an order
  • encounter: a meeting, often with an opponent
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CORP / CORS

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: BODY

  • corporation: a company legally treated as an individual
  • corps: a body ( an organized group ) of troops
  • corpse: a dead body
  • corpulent: obese; having a lot of flesh
  • corset: a garment used to give shape and support to the body
  • incorporation: combining into a single body
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COSM

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: ORDER, UNIVERSE, WORLD

  • **cosmetic: **improving the appearance ( making it look better ordered )
  • cosmic: relating to the universe
  • cosmology: a theory of the universe as a whole
  • cosmonaut: an astronaut; an exploer of outer space
  • cosmopolitan: worldly
  • cosmos: the universe; an orderly system; order
  • microcosm: a small system that reflects a larger whole
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COUR / CUR

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: RUNNING, A COURSE

  • concur: to accord in opinion; agree
  • courier: a messenger traveling in haste who bears news
  • curriculum: the regular course of study
  • cursive: handwriting in flowing strokes with the letters joined together
  • cursory: going rapidly over something; hasty; superficial
  • excursion: a short journey or trip
  • incursion: a hostile entrance into a place, esp. suddenly
  • recur: to happen again
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CRE / CRESC / CRET

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: TO GROW

  • **accretion: **an increase by natural growth
  • accure: to be added as a matter of periodic gain
  • creation: the act of producing or causing to exist
  • excrescence: an outgrowth
  • increase: to make greater in any repect
  • increment: something added or gained; an addition or increase
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CRED

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: TO BELIEVE, TO TRUST

  • **credentials: **anything that provides the basis for belief
  • credit: trustworthiness
  • credo: any formula of belief
  • credulity: willingness to believe or trust too readily
  • incredible: unbelievable
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CRYPT

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: HIDDEN

  • **apocryphal: **of doubtful authorship or authenticity
  • crypt: a subterranean chamber or vault
  • cryptohgraphy: procedures of making and using secret writing
  • crytology: the science of interpreting secret wirting, codes, ciphers, and the like
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CUB / CUMB

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: TO LIE DOWN

  • cubicle: any small space or compartment that is partitioned off
  • incubate: to sit upon for the purpose of hatching
  • incumbent: holding an indicated position
  • recumbent: lying down; reclining; leaning
  • succumb: to give away to superior force; yield
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CULP

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: FAULT, BLAME

  • **culpable: **deserving blame or censure
  • culprit: a person guilty of an offense
  • inculpate: to charge with fault
  • mea culpa: through my fault; my fault
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DAC / DOC

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**: TO TEACH **

  • didactic: intended for instruction
  • docile: easily managed or handled; tractable
  • doctor: someone licensed to practice medicine; learned person
  • doctrine: a particular principle advocated, as of a government of religion
  • indoctrinate: a imbue a person with learning
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DE

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: AWAY, OFF, DOWN, COMPLETELY, REVERSAL

  • **decipher: **to make out the meaning; to interpret
  • defame: to attack the good name or reputation of
  • deferential: respectful; to yield to judgment
  • defile: to make foul, dirty, or unclean
  • delineate: to trace the outline of; sketch or trace in outline
  • descend: to move from a higher to a lower place
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DELE

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: TO ERASE

  • **delete: **erase; blot out; remove
  • indelible: impossible to erase; lasting
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DEM

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: PEOPLE

  • **democracy: **government by the people
  • demographics: vital and social statistics of populations
  • endemic: peculiar to a particular people or locality
  • epidemic: affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person
  • pandimic: general, universal
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DEXT

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: RIGHT HAND, RIGHT SIDE, DEFT

  • **ambidextrous: **equally able to use both hands
  • dexter: on the right
  • dexterity: deftness; adroitness
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DI

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: DAY

  • dial: a device for seeing the hour of the day; a clock face; rotatable discs or knobs used as a control input
  • diary: a record of one’s days
  • dismal: gloomy (from “bad days”)
  • diurnal: daily
  • meridian: a direct line from the North Pole to the South Pole; the highest point reached by the sun; noon
  • quotidian: every day; ordinary
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DI / DIA

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: IN TWO, THROUGH, ACROSS

  • **diagnose: **to identify disease or fault from symptoms
  • dialogue: conversation between two or more persons
  • diameters: a line going through a circle, dividing it in two
  • dichotomy: division into two parts, kinds, etc.
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DI / DIF / DIS

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**: AWAY FROM, APART, REVERSAL, NOT **

  • **diffuse: **to pour out and spread, as in a fluid
  • **dilate: **to make wider or larger; to cause tp expand
  • dilatory: inclined to delay or procrastinate
  • disperse: to drive or send off in various directions
  • disseminate: to scatter or spread widely; promulgate
  • dissipate: to scatter wastefully
  • dissuade: to deter by advice or persuasion
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DIC / DICT / DIT

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: TO SAY, TO TELL, TO USE WORDS

  • **dictionary: **a book containing a selection of the words of a language
  • interdict: to forbid; prohibit
  • predict: to tell in advance
  • verdict: a judgment or decision
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DIGN

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: WORTH

  • **condign: **well deserved; fitting; adequate
  • deigh: to think fit or in accordance with one’s dignity
  • dignitary: a person who holds a high rank or office
  • dignity: nobility or elevation of character; worthiness
  • disdain: to look upon or treat with contempt
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DOG / DOX

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**: OPINION **

  • dogma: a system of tenets, as of a church
  • orthodox: sound or correct in opinion or doctrine
  • paradox: an opinion or statment contrary to accepted opinion
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DOL

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: TO SUFFER, TO PAIN, TO GRIEVE

  • **condolence: **expression of sympathy with one who is suffering
  • doleful: sorrowful, mournful
  • dolorous: full of pain or sorrow, grievous
  • indolence: a state of being lazy or slothful
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DON / DOT / DOW

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**: TO GIVE **

  • **anecdote: **a short narrative about an interesting event
  • antidote: something that prevents or counteracts ill effects
  • donate: to present as a gift or contribution
  • endow: to provide with a permanent fund
  • pardon: kind indulgence, forgiveness
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EX / E

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: OUT, OUT OF, FROM, FORMER, COMPLETELY

  • efface: to rub or wipe out; surpass, eclipse
  • evade: to escape from, avoid
  • exclude: to shut out; to leave out
  • exonerate: to free or declare free from blame
  • expire: to breathe out; to breathe one’s last; to end
  • extricate: to disentangle, release
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DORM

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: SLEEP

  • **dormant: **sleeping; inactive
  • dormitory: a place for sleeping; a residence hall
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DORS

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: BACK

  • dorsal: having to do with back
  • endorse: to sign on the back; to vouch for
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DUB

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: DOUBT

  • **dubiety: **doubtfulness
  • dubious: doubthful
  • indubialble: unquestionable
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DUC / DUCT

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: TO LEAD

  • **abduct: **to carry off or lead away
  • conducive: contributive, helpful
  • conduct: personal behavior, way of acting
  • induce: to lead or move by influence
  • induct: to install in a position with formal ceremoies
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DULC

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: SWEET

  • **dulcet: **sweet; pleasing
  • dulcified: sweetened; softened
  • dulcimer: a musical instrument
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DUR

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: HARD, LASTING

  • **dour: **sullen, gloomy (originally: hard, obsitnate)
  • durable: able to resist decay
  • duration: the length of time something exists
  • duress: compulsion by threat, coercion
  • endure: to hold out against; to sustain without yielding
  • obdurate: stubborn, resistant to persuasion
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DYS

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: FAULTY, ABNORMAL

  • **dysfunctional: **poorly functioning
  • dyslexia: an impairment of the ability to read due to a brain defect
  • dyspepsia: imparied digestion
  • dystrophy: faulty or inadequate nutrition or development
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EGO

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: SELF

  • **ego: **oneself; the part of oneself that is self-aware
  • egocnetric: focused on oneself
  • egoism/egotism: selfishness; self-absorption
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**EM / EN **

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: IN, INTO

  • **embrace: ** to clasp in the arms; to include or contain
  • **enclose: **to close in on all sides
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EPI

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: UPON

  • **epidemic: **affecting a large number of people at the same time and spreading from person to person
  • epidermis: the outer layer of the skin
  • epigram: a witty or pointed saying tersely expressed
  • epilogue: a concluding part added to a literary work
  • epithet: a word or phrase, used invectively as a term of abuse
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EQU

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: EQUAL, EVEN

  • **adquate: **equal to the requirement or occasion
  • equation: the act of maing equal
  • equidistant: equally distant
  • iniquity: gross injustice; wickedness
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ERR

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: TO WANDER

  • **arrant: **notorious; downright (originally: wandering)
  • err: to go astray in thought or belief, to be mistaken
  • erractic: deviating from the proper or usual course in conduct
  • error: a deviation from accuracy or correctness
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ESCE

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: BECOMING

  • **adolescent: **between childhood and adulthood
  • convalescent: recovering from illness
  • incandescent: glowing with heat; shining
  • obsolescent: becoming obsolete
  • reminiscent: reminding or suggestive of
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EU

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: GOOD, WELL

  • eugenic: improvment of qualities of race by control of inherited characteristics
  • eulogy: speech or writing in praise or commendation
  • euphemism: pleasant-sounding term for somthing unpleasant
  • euphony: pleasaness of sound
  • euthasia: killing a person painlessly, usually one who has an incurable, painful disease
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EXTRA

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: OUTSIDE, BEYOND

  • **extract: **to take out, obtain against a person’s will
  • extradite: to hand over ( person accused of crime) to state where crime was committed
  • extraordinary: beyond the ordinary
  • extrasensory: derived by means other than known senses
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FAB / FAM

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: TO SPEAK

  • **affable: ** friendly, courteous
  • defame: to attack the good name of
  • fable: fictional tale, esp. legendary
  • famous: well known, celebrated
  • ineffable: too great for description in words; that which must not be uttered
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FAC / FIC / FIG / FAIT / FEIT / FY

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: TO DO, TO MAKE

  • **configuration: **manner of arrangment, shape
  • counterfeit: imitation, forgery
  • deficient: incomplete or insufficient
  • effigy: sculpture or model of person
  • faction: small dissenting group within larger one, esp. in politics
  • factory: building for manufacture of goods
  • prolific: producing many offspring or much output
  • ratify: to confirm or accept by formal consent
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FAL

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: TO ERR, TO DECEIVE

  • **default: ** to fail
  • fail: to be insufficient; to be unsuccessful; to die out
  • fallacy: a flawed argument
  • false: not true; erroneous; lying
  • faux pas: a false step; a social gaffe
  • infallible: incapable of being wrong or being deceived
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FATU

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: FOOLISH

  • fatuity: foolishness; stupidity
  • fatuous: foolish; stupid
  • infatuated: swept up in a fit of passion, impairing one’s reason
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FER

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: TO BRING, TO CARRY, TO BEAR

  • confer: to grant, bestow
  • offer: to present for acceptance, refusal, or consideration
  • proffer: to offer
  • proliferate: to reproduce; produce rapidly
  • referendum: to vote on political question open to the entire electorate
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FERV

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: TO BOIL TO BUBBLE

  • effervescent: with the quality of giving off bubbles of gas
  • fervid: ardent, intense
  • fervor: passion, zeal
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FI / FID

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: FAITH, TRUST

  • affidavit: written statement on oath
  • confide: to entrust with a secret
  • fidelity: faithfulness, loyalty
  • fiduciary: of a trust; held or given in trust
  • infidel: disbeliever in the supposed true religion
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FIN

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: END

  • confine: to keep or restrict within certain limits; imprison
  • definitive: decisive, unconditional, final
  • final: at the end; coming last
  • infinite: boundles; endless
  • infinitesimal: infinitely or very small
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FLAGR / FLAM

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: TO BURN

  • conflagration: a large, destructive fire
  • flagrant: blatant, scandalous
  • flambeau: a lighted torch
  • inflame: to set on fire
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**FLECT / FLEX **

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**: TO FLOW **

  • deflect: to bend or turn aside from a purpose
  • flexible: able to blend without breaking
  • genuflect: to bend knee, esp. in worship
  • inflect: to change or vary pitch of
  • reflect: to throw back
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FORE

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: BEFORE

  • foreshadow: be warning or indication of (future event)
  • foresight: care or provision for future
  • forestall: to prevent to advance action
  • forthright: straightforward, outspoken, decisive
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FORT

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: CHANCE

  • fortuitous: happening by luck
  • fortunate: lucky, auspicious
  • fortune: chance or luck in human affairs
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FORT

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**: STRENGTH **

  • forte: strong point; something a person does well
  • fortify: to provide with fortifications; strengthen
  • fortissimo: very loud
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FRA / FRAC / FRAG / FRING

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: TO BREAK

  • fractious: irritable, peevish
  • fracture: breakage, esp. of a bone
  • fragment: a part broken off
  • infringe: to break or violate (a law, etc.)
  • refractory: stubborn, unmanageable, rebellious
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FUG

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: TO FLEE, TO FLY

  • centrifugal: flying off from the center
  • fugitive: on the run; someone who flees
  • fugue: a musical composition in which subsequent parts imitate or pursue the first part; a psychological state in which one flies from one’s own identity
  • refuge: a haven for those fleeing
  • refugee: a fleeing person who seeks refuge
  • subterfuge: a deception used to avoid a confrontation
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FULG

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: TO SHINE

  • effulgent: shining forth
  • refulgent: radiant; shining
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FUM

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: SMOKE

  • fume: smoke; scented vapor; to emit smoke or vapors
  • fumigate: to treat with smoke or vapors
  • perfume: scents, from burning incense or other sources of fragrance
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FUS

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: TO POUR

  • diffuse: to spread widely or thinly
  • fusillade: continuous discharge of firearm or outburst of cirticism
  • infusion: the act of permeating or steeping; liquid extract so obtained
  • profuse: lavish, extravagant, copious
  • suffuse: to spread throughout or over from within
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GEN

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: BIRTH, CREATION, RACE, KIND

  • carcinogenic: producing cancer
  • congenital: existing or as such from birth
  • gender: classification roughly corresponding to the two sexes and sexlessness
  • generous: giving or given freely
  • genertics: study of heredity and variation among animals and plants
  • progeny: offspring, descendants
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GN / GNO

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: TO KNOW

  • agnostic: one who believes that existence of God is not provable
  • diagnose: to identify disease or fault from symptons
  • ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uniformed
  • ignore: to refuse to take notice of
  • prognosis: to forecast, especially of disease
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GRAD / GRESS

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: TO STEP

  • aggresive: given to hostile act or feeling
  • degrade: to humiliate, dishonor, reduce to lower rank
  • digress: to depart from main subject
  • egress: going out; way out
  • progress: forward movement
  • regress: to move backward, revert to an earlier state
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GRAM / GRAPH

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: TO WRITE, TO DRAW

  • diagram: a figure made by drawing lines; an illustration
  • epigram: a short poem; a pointed statement
  • grammar: a system of language and its rules
  • graph: a diagram used to convey mathmatical information
  • photograph: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light
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GRAT

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: PLEASING

  • gracious: kindly, esp. to inferiors; merciful
  • grateful: thankful
  • gratuity: money given for good service
  • ingratiate: to bring oneself into favor
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GREG

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: FLOCK

  • aggregate: a number of things considered as a collective whole
  • congregate: to come together in a group
  • egregious: remarkably bad; standing out from the crowd
  • gregarious: sociable; enjoying spending time with others
  • segregate: to separate fromthe crowd
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HAP

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: BY CHANCE

  • haphazard: at random
  • hapless: without luck
  • happen: occur (originally: to occur by chance)
  • happily: through good fortune
  • happy: pleased, as by good fortune
  • mishap: an unlucky acciddent
  • perhaps: a qualifier suggesting something might (or might not) take place
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HEMI

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: HALF

  • hemisphere: half a sphere; half of the Earth
  • hemistich: half a line of poetry
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HER / HES

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: TO STICK

  • adherent: able to adhere; believer or advocate of a particular thing
  • adhesive: tending to remain in memory; sticky; an adhesive substance
  • coherent: logically consistent; having waves in phase and of one wavelength
  • inherent: involved in the constitution or essential character of something
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(H)ETERO

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: DIFFERENT, OTHER

  • heterodox: different from acknowledged standard; holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines
  • heterogeneous: of other origin; not originating in the body
  • heterosexual: of or pertaining to sexual orientation toward members of the opposite sex; relating to different sexes
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HOL

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: WHOLE

  • catholic: universal
  • holocaust: a burnt offering; complete destruction by fire or other means
  • hologram: a sort of three-dimensional image
  • holograph: a document written entirely by the person whose name it’s in
  • holistic: considering something as a unified whole
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(H)OM

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: SAME

  • anomaly: deviation from the common rule
  • homeostasis: a relatively stable state of equilibrium
  • homogeneous: of the same or similar kind of nature; of uniform structure of composition throughout
  • homonym: one of two or more words spelled and pronounced alike but different in meaning
  • homosexual: of, relating to, or exhibiting sexual desire toward a member of one’s own sex
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HUM

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: EARTH

  • exhume: unearth
  • humble: down-to-earth
  • humility: the state of being humble
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HYPER

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: OVER, EXCESSIVE

  • hyperactive: excessively active
  • hyperbole: purposeful exaggeration for effect
  • hyperglycemia: an abnormally high concentration of sugar in the blood
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HYPO

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: UNDER, BENEATH, LESS THAN

  • hypochodriac: one affected by extreme depression of mind or spirits, often centered on imaginary physical ailments
  • hypocritical: pretending to have beliefs one does not
  • hypodermic: relating to the parts beneath the skin
  • hypothesis: assumption subject to proof
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ICON

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: IMAGE, IDOL

  • icon: a symbolic pictiure; a statue; something seen as representative of a culture or movement
  • iconic: being representative of a culture or movment
  • iconoclast: one who attacks established beliefs; one who tears down images
  • iconology: symbolism
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IDIO

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: ONE’S OWN

  • idiom: a language, dialect, or style of speaking particular to a people
  • idosyncrasy: perculiarity of temperament; eccentricity
  • idiot: an utterly stupid person
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IN / IM

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: NOT, WITHOUT

  • (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.)
  • immoral: not moral; evil
  • impartial: not partial or biased; just
  • inactive: not active
  • indigent: deficient in what is required
  • indolence: showing a disposition to avoid exertion; slothful
  • innocuous: not harmful or injurious
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IN / IM

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: IN, INTO

  • (often the M is dropped and the first letter to which i is prefixed is doubled.)
  • implicit: not expressly stated; implied
  • incarnate: a given a bodily, esp. a human, form
  • indigenous: native; innate, natural
  • influx: the act of flowing in; inflow
  • intrisic: belonging to a thing by its very nature
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INTER

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: BETWEEN, AMONG

  • interim: a temporary or provisional arrangement; meantime
  • interloper: one who intrudes in the domain of others
  • intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time
  • intersperse: to scatter here and there
  • interstate: connecting or jointly involving states
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INTRA

A

: INSIDE, WITHIN

  • intramural: within a school; inside a city
  • intrastate: within a state
  • intravenous: inside the veins
129
Q

IT / ITER

A

: WAY, JOURNEY

  • ambition: strong desire to achieve (from “going around” for votes)
  • circuit: a lline around an area; a racecourse; the path traveled by eletrical current
  • itinerant: traveling
  • itinerary: travel plans
  • reiterate: to repeat
  • transit: traveling; means of transportation
130
Q

JECT

A

: TO THROW, TO THROW DOWN

  • abject: utterly hopeless, humiliating, or wretched
  • conjecture: formation of opinion on incomplete information
  • dejected: sad; depressed
  • eject: to throw out; expel
  • inject: to place (quality, etc.) where needed in something
131
Q

JOC

A

: JOKE

  • jocose: given to joking; playful
  • jocular: in a joking manner; funny
  • jocund: merry; cheerful
  • joke: a witticism; a humorous ancedote; something funny
132
Q

JOIN / JUG / JUNCT

A

: TO MEET, TO JOIN

  • adjoin: to be next to and joined with
  • conjugal: related to marriage
  • conjunction: joining; occuring together; a connecting word
  • injunction: a command; an act of joining; combining; a place where multiple paths join
  • junta: a group of military officers who join together to run a country; a council
  • rejoinder: to reply, retort
  • subjugate: to make subservient; to place under a yoke
133
Q

JOUR

A

: DAY

  • adjourn: to close a meeting; to put off further proceeding for another day
  • journal: a record of one’s day
  • journey: a trip (originally: a day’s travel)
134
Q

JUD

A

: TO JUDGE

  • adjudicate: to act as judge
  • judiciary: a system of courts; members of a court system
  • judicious: having good judgment
  • prejudice: a previous or premature judgment; bias
135
Q

JUR

A

: LAW, TO SWEAR

  • abjure: to renounce on oath
  • adjure: to beg or command
  • jurisprudence: a system of law; knowledge of law
  • perjury: willful lying while on oath
136
Q

JUV

A

: YOUNG

  • juvenile: young; immature
  • juvenilia: writing or art produced in one’s youth
  • rejuvenate: refresh; to make young again
137
Q

LANG / LING

A

: TONGUE

  • bilingual: speaking two languages
  • language: a system of (usually spoken) communication
  • linguistic: the study of language
138
Q

LAUD

A

: PRAISE, HONOR

  • cum laude: with honor
  • laudable: praiseworthy
  • laudatory: expressing praise
139
Q

LAV / LAU / LU

A

: TO WASH

  • ablution: act of cleaning
  • antediluvian: before the biblical flood; extremely old
  • deluge: a great flood of water
  • dilute: to make thinner or weaker by the addition of water
  • laundry: items to be, or that have been, washed
  • lavatory: a room with equipment for washing hands and face
140
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LAX / LEAS / LES

A

: LOOSE

  • lax: loose; undisciplined
  • laxative: medicine or food that loosens the bowels
  • lease: to rent out (that is, to let something loose for other’s use)
  • leash: a cord used to hold an animal while giving it some freedom to run loose
  • relax: loosen; to less strict; clam down
  • release: let go; set free
141
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**LEC / LEG / LEX **

A

: TO READ, TO SPEAK

  • dialect: a manner of speaking; a regional variety of a language
  • lectern: a reading desk
  • lecture: an instrucional speech
  • legend: a story; a written explanation of a map or illustration
  • legible: readble
  • lesson: instruction ( originally: part of a book or oral instruction to be studied and repeated to a teacher )
  • lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries
  • lexicon: dictionary
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LECT / LEG

A

: TO SELECT, TO CHOOSE

  • collect: to gather together or assemble
  • ecletic: selecting ideas, etc. from various sources
  • elect: to choose; to to decide
  • predilection: preference, liking
  • select: to choose with care
143
Q

LEV

A

: TO LIFT, TO RISE, LIGHT (WEIGHT)

  • alleviate: to make easier to endure, lessen
  • levee: embankment against river flooding
  • leviate: to rise in the air or cause to rise
  • levity: humor, frivolity, gaiety
  • relevant: bearing on or pertinent to information at hand
  • relieve: to mitigate; to free from a burden
144
Q

LI / LIG

A

: TO TIE, TO BIND

  • ally: to unite: one in an alliance
  • league: an association; a group of nations, teams etc. that have agreed to work for a common cause
  • liable: legally responsible; bound by law
  • liaison: a connection; one who serves to connect
  • lien: the right to hold a property due to an outstanding debt
  • ligament: a band holding bones together; a bond
  • ligature: a connection between two letters; a bond
  • oblige: to obligate; to make indebted or form personal bonds by doing favor
  • rely: to depend upon ( orginally: to come together; to rally
145
Q

LIBER

A

: FREE

  • deliver: to set free; to save; to hand over
  • liberal: generous; giving away freely
  • liberality: generosity
  • liberate: set free
  • libertine: one who follows one’s own path, without regard for morals or other restrictions
  • liberty: freedom
  • livery: a uniform; an emblem indicating an owner of manufacturer ( originally: an allowance of food or other provisions given to servants )
146
Q

LITH

A

: STONE

  • **acrolith: **a statue with a stone head and limbs (but a wooden body)
  • lithography: a printing process that originally involved writing on a flat stone
  • lithology: the study of rocks and stones
  • lithotomy: an operation to remove stones from the body
  • megalith: a very big stone
  • monolith: a single block of stone, often shaped into a monument
147
Q

LOC / LOG / LOQU

A

: WORD, SPEECH, THOUGHT

  • colloquial: of ordinary or familiar conversation
  • dialogue: conversation, esp. in a literary work
  • elocution: art of clear and expressive speaking
  • eulogy: speech or writing in praise of someone
  • grandiloquent: pompous or inflated in language
  • loquacious: talkative
  • prologue: introduce to poem, play, etc.
148
Q

LUC / LUM / LUS

A

: LIGHT (BRIGHTNESS)

  • illuminate: to supply or brigthen with light
  • illustrate: to make intelligible with example or analogies
  • illustrious: highly distinguished
  • lackluster: lacking brilliance or radiance
  • lucid: easily understood, intelligible
  • luminous: bright, brilliant, glowing
  • translucent: permitting light to pass through
149
Q

LUD / LUS

A

: TO PLAY

  • allude: to refer casually or indirectly
  • delude: to mislead the mind or judgment of, deceive
  • elude: to avoid capture or escape or escape defection by
  • illustion: something that deceives by producing a false impression of reality
  • ludicrous: ridiculous, laughable
  • prelude: a preliminary to an action, event, etc.
150
Q

MACRO

A

: GREAT, LONG

  • macro: broad; large; a single computer command that executed a longer set of commands
  • macrobiotics: a system intended to prolong life
  • macrocephalous: having a large head
  • macrocosm: the universe; a large system that is reflected in at least one of its subsets
  • macroscopic: large enough to be visible to the naked eye
151
Q

MAG / MAJ / MAX

A

: BIG, GREAT

  • magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury
  • magnate: a powerful or influential person
  • magnify: to increase the apparent size of
  • magitude: greatness of size, extent, or dimensions
  • maxim: an expression of general truth or principle
  • maximum: the highest amount, value, or degree attained
152
Q

MAL / MALE

A

: BAD, ILL, EVIL, WRONG

  • maladroit: clumsy, tactless
  • malady: a disorder or disease of the body
  • malapropism: humorous miuse of a word
  • malediction: a curse
  • malfeasance: misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official
  • malfunction: failure to function properlu
  • malicious; full of or showing malice
  • maligh: to speak harmful untruths about, to slander
153
Q

MAN / MANU

A

: HAND

  • emancipate: to free from bondage
  • manifest: readily perceived by the eye or the understanding
  • manual: operated by hand
  • manufacture: to make by hand or machinery
154
Q

MAND / MEND

A

: TO COMMAND, TO ORDER, TO ENTRUST

  • command: to order; an order; control
  • commend: to give something over to the care of anoter; to praise
  • countermand: to retract an order
  • demand: to strongly ask for; to claim; to require
  • mandatory; commanded; required
  • recommend; to praise and suggest the use of; to advise
  • remand: to send back
155
Q

MEDI

A

: MIDDLE

  • immediate: nearest; having nothing in between
  • intermediate: in the middle
  • mean: average; in the middle
  • mediate: to serve as a go-between; to try to settle an argument
  • medieval: related to the Middle Ages
  • mediocre: neither good nor bad; so-so
  • medium: size between small and large; a substance or agency that things travel through (as, for example, light travels through airm and news is conveyed by television and newspapers)
156
Q

MEGA

A

: LARGE, GREAT

  • **megalith: **a very big stone
  • megalomania: a mental condition involving delusion of greatness; an obsession with doing great things
  • megalopolis: a very large city
  • megaphone: a device for magnifying the sound of one’s voice
  • megaton: explosive power equal to 1,000 tons of T.N.T
157
Q

MICRO

A

: VERY SMALL

  • microbe: a very small organism
  • microcosm: a small system that reflects a larger whole
  • micron: a millionth of a metwr
  • microorganism: a very small organism
  • microscope: a device that magnifies very small things for viewing
158
Q

MIN

A

**: SMALL **

  • diminish: to lessen
  • diminution: the act or process of diminishing
  • miniature: a copy or model that represents something in greatly reduced size
  • minute: a unit of time equal to one-sixtieth of an hour
  • minutiae: small or trivial details
159
Q

MIN

A

: TO PROJECT, TO HANG OVER

  • eminent: towering above other: projecting
  • imminent: about to occur; impending
  • preeminent: superior to notable above all others
  • prominent: projecting outward
160
Q

MIS

A

: BAD, WRONG, TO HATE

  • misadventure: bad luck; an unlucky accident
  • misanthrope: one who hates people or humanity
  • missapply: to use something incorrectly
  • mischance: bad luck; an unlucky accident
  • mischief; bad or annoying behavior
  • misconstrue: to take something in a way that was not intended; to understand something incorrectly
  • misfit: somebody or something that does not fit in
161
Q

MIS / MIT

A

: TO SEND

  • emissary: a message or agent sent to represent the interests of another
  • intermittent: stopping and starting at intervals
  • remission: a lessening of intensity of degree
  • remit: to send money
  • transmit: to send from one person, thing, or place to another
162
Q

MISC

A

: MIXED

  • miscellaneous: made up of a variety of parts or ingredients
  • promiscuous: consisting of diverse and unrelated parts or individuals; indiscriminate
163
Q

MOB / MOM / MOT / MOV

A

: TO MOVE

  • **automobile: **a vehecle that moves under its own power; a motorized car
  • demote: to move downward in an organization
  • immovable: incapable of being moved; unyielding
  • locomotion: moving from place to place; the ability to do so
  • mob: the rabble; a disorderly group of people ( from the Latin mobile vulgus, meaning “the fickle crowd”)
  • mobile: movable
  • mobilize: to make ready for movment; to assemble
  • moment: an instant; importance
  • momentous: of great importance (originally: having the power to move)
  • momentum: the force driving a moving object to keep moving; a growing force
  • motion: movement
  • motive: a reason for action; what moves a person to do something
  • motor: a device that makes something move
  • mutiny: rebellion against authority, esp. by sailors
  • promote: to move to a higher rank in an organization
  • remove: to take away; to move away
164
Q

MOLL

A

: SOFT

  • emollient: something that softens or soothes (e.g., a lotion)
  • mild: gentle; kind
  • mollify: soothe; soften; calm
  • mollusk: a phylum of invertebrate animals - including octopuses, squids, oysters, clams, and slugs -with soft bodies
165
Q

MON / MONO

A

: ONE

  • monarchy: rule by a single person
  • monk: a man in a religious order living apart from society (originally: a religious hermit)
  • monochord: a musical instrument with a single string
  • monogram: a design combining multiple letters into one
  • monograph: a scholarly study of a single subject
  • monologue: a speech or other dramatic composition recited by one person
  • monomania: an obsession with a single subject
  • monotonous: boring; spoken using only one tone
166
Q

MON / MONIT

A

: TO REMIND, TO WARN

  • admonish: to counsel against something; caution
  • monitor: one that admonishes, cautions, or reminds
  • monument: a structure, such as a building, tower, or sculpture, erected as a memorial
  • premonition: forewarning, presentment
  • remonstrate: to say or plead in protect, objection, or reproof
  • summon: to call together; convene
167
Q

MOR / MORT

A

: DEATH

  • immortal: not subject to death
  • morbid: susceptible to preoccupation with unwholesome matters
  • moribund: dying, decaying
168
Q

MORPH

A

: SHAPE

  • **amorphous: **without definite form; lacking a specific shape
  • anthropomorphism: attributionof human characteristic to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena
  • metamorphosis: a transformation, as by magic or sorcery
169
Q

MULT

A

: MANY

  • multiple: many, having parts; a number containing some quantity of a small number without remainder
  • multiplex: having many parts; a movie theater or other building with many separate unite
  • multiply: to increase; to become many
  • multiudinous: very many; containing very many; having very many forms
170
Q

MUT

A

: TO CHANGE

  • commute: to substitute; exchange; interchange
  • immutable: unchangable, invariable
  • mutation: the process of being changed
  • permutation: a complete change; transformation
  • transmute: to change from one form into another
171
Q

NAT / NAS / NAI / GNA

A

: BIRTH

  • cognate: related by blood; having a common ancestor
  • naive: lacking worldiness and sophistication; artless
  • nascent: starting to develop
  • native: belonging to one by nature; inborn; innate
  • natural: present due to nature, not artificial or man-made means
  • renaissnace: rebirth,esp. referring to culture
172
Q

NAU / NAV

A

: SHIP, SAILOR

  • astronaut: one who travels in outer space
  • circumnavigate: to sail all the way around
  • cosmonaut: one who travels in outer space
  • nauseous: causing a squeamish feeling (originally: seasickness)
  • nautical: related to sailing or sailors
  • naval: related to the navy
  • nave: the central portion of a church (which resembles the shape of a ship)
  • navy: a military force consisting of ships and sailors
173
Q

NIHIL

A

: NOTHING, NONE

  • annilate: wipe out; reduce to nothing
  • nihilism: denial of all moral beliefs; denial that existance has any meaning
174
Q

NOC / NOX

A

: HARM

  • innocent: uncorrupted by evil, malice, or wrongdoing
  • innocuous: not harmful or injurious
  • noxious: injurious or harmful to health or morals
  • obnoxious: highly disagreeable or offensive
175
Q

NOCT / NOX

A

: NIGHT

  • equinox: one of two times in a year when day and night are equal in length
  • noctambulant: walkingat night; sleepwalking
  • nocturnal: related to the night; active at night
  • noctune: a dreamlike piece of music; a painting set at night
176
Q

NOM

A

: RULE, ORDER

  • astronomy: the scientific study of the universe beyond the Earth
  • autonomy: independence, self-governance
  • economy: the careful of thrifty use of resources, as of income, materials, or labor
  • gastronomy: the art or science of good eating
  • taxonomy: the science, laws, or principles of classification
177
Q

NOM / NYM / NOUN / NOWN

A

: NAME

  • acronym: a word formed from the initial letters of a name
  • annoymous: having an unknown or unacknowledged name
  • nomenclature: a system of name; systematic naming
  • nominal: existing in name only; negligible
  • nominate: to propse by name as a candidate
  • noun: a word that names a person, place, or thing
  • renown: fame; reputation
  • synonym: a word having a meaning similar to that of another word of the same language
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178
Q

NON

A

: NOT

  • nonconformist: one who does not conform to a church or other societal insitution
  • nonentity: something that does not exist; something that is unimportant
  • nonpareil: something with no equal
  • nonpartisan: not affiliated with a political party
179
Q

NOV / NEO / NOU

A

: NEW

  • innovate: to begin or introduce something new
  • neologism: a newly coined word; phrase, or expression
  • neophyte: a beginner; a new convert; a new worker
  • neoplasm: a new growth in the body; a tumor
  • nouveau riche: one who had lately become rich
  • novice: a person new to any field or activity
  • renovate: to restore to an earlier condition
180
Q

NULL

A

: NOTHING

  • annul: to cancel; to make into nothing
  • nullify: to cancel; to make into nothing
  • nullity: the condition of being nothing
181
Q

OB

A

: TOWARD, TO, AGAINST, OVER

  • obses: extremely fat; corpulent
  • obfuscate: to render indistinct or dim; darken
  • oblique: having a slanting or sloping direction
  • obsequious: overly submissive
  • obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an idea, inflexible
  • obtuse: not sharp, pointed, acute in any form
182
Q

OMNI

A

: ALL

  • omnibus: an anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects
  • omnipotent: all powerful
  • omnipresent: everywhere at one time
  • omniscient: having infinite knowledge
183
Q

ONER

A

: BURDEN

  • **exonerate: **to free from blame (orginally: to relieve of a burden)
  • onerous: burdensome; difficult
  • onus: a burden; a responsibility
184
Q

OSS / OSTE

A

: BONE

  • ossify: to become; to harden; to become callous
  • ossuary: a place where bones are kept; a charnel house
  • osteopathy: a medical system based on the belief that many illness can be traced to issues in the skeletal system
185
Q

PAC / PEAC

A

: PEACE

  • appease: to bring peace to
  • pacifier: something or someone that eases the anger or agitation of
  • pacify: to ease the anger or agitation of
  • pact: a formal agreement, as between nations
186
Q

PALP

A

: TO FEEL

  • palpable: capable of being felt; tangible
  • palpate: to feel; to examine by feeling
  • palpitate: to beat quickly as the heart; to throb
187
Q

PAN / PANT

A

: ALL, EVERYONE

  • pandemic: widespreadm general, universal
  • penegyric: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly
  • panoply: a wide-ranging and impressive array or display
  • panorama: an unobstruced and wide view of an extensive area
  • pantheon: a public building containing tombs or memorials of the illustratious dead of a nation
188
Q

PAR

A

: EQUAL

  • **apartheid: ** any system or caste that separates
  • disparage: to belittle, speak disrespectfully about
  • disparate: essentially different
  • par: an equality in value or standing
  • parity: equally, as in amount, status, or character
189
Q

PARA

A

: NEXT TO, BESIDE

  • parable: a short, allegorical story designed to illustrate a moral lesson or religious principle
  • paragon: a model of excellence
  • parallel: extending in the same direction
  • paranoid: suffering from a baseless distrust of others
  • parasite: an organism that lives on or within a plant or animal of another species, from which it obtains nutrients
  • parody: to imitate for purposes of satire
190
Q

PAS / PAT / PATH

A

: FEELING, SUFFERING, DISEASE

  • compassion: a feeling of deep sympathy for someone struck by misfortune, accompanied by a desire to alleviate suffering
  • dispassionate: devoid of personal feeling or bias
  • empathy: the identification with the feelings or thoughts of others
  • impassive: showing or feeling no emotion
  • pathogenic: causing disease
  • sociopath: a person whose behavior is antisocial and who lacks a sense of moral responsibility
  • sympathy: harmony ro agreement in feeling
191
Q

PAU / PO / POV / PU

A

: FEW, LITTLE, POOR

  • impoverish: to deplete
  • paucity: smallness of quantity; scarcity; scantiness
  • pauper: a person without any personal means of support
  • poverty: the condition of being poor
  • puerille: childish, immature
  • pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution
192
Q

PEC

A

: MONEY

  • **impecunious: **having no money; penniless
  • peculation: embezzlement
  • pecuniary: relating to money
193
Q

PED

A

: CHILD, EDUCATION

  • encyclopedia: book or set of book containing article on various topics, covering all branches of knowledge or of one particular subject
  • pedagogue: a teacher
  • pedant: one who displays learning ostentatiously
  • pediatrician: a doctor who primarily has children as patients
194
Q

PED / POD

A

: FOOT

  • antipodes: a places that are diametrically opposite each other on the globe
  • expedite: to speed up the progress of
  • impede: to retard progress by means of obstacles or hindrances
  • pedals: a foot-operated lever or part used to control
  • pedestrian: a person who travels on foot
  • podium: a small platform for an orchestra conductor, speaker, etc.
195
Q

PEL

A

: TO DRIVE, TO PUSH

  • compel: to force; to command
  • dispel: to drive away; to disperse
  • expel: to drive out; to banish; to eject
  • impel: to force; to drive forward
  • propel: to drive forward
196
Q

PUN

A

: TO PAY, TO COMPENSATE

  • **penal: **of or pertaining to punishment, as for crimes
  • penalty: a punishment imposed for a violation of law or rule
  • penance: a punishment undergone to express regret for a sin
  • penitent: contrite
  • punitive: serving for, concerned with, or inflicting punishment
197
Q

PEN / PENE

A

: ALMOST

  • peninsula: a landmass that is mostly surrounded by water, making it almost an island
  • penultimate: second-to-last
  • penumbra: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light
198
Q

PEND / PENS

A

: TO HANG, TO WEIGHT, TO PAY

  • appendage: a limb or other subsidiary part that diverge from the central structure
  • appendix: supplementary material at the end of a text
  • compensate: to counterbalance, offset
  • depend: to rely; to place trust in
  • indispensable: absolutely necessary, essential, or requisite
  • stipend: a periodic payment; fixed or regular pay
199
Q

PER

A

: COMPLETELY

  • perforate: to make a way through or into something
  • perfunctory: performed merely as routine duty
  • perplex: to cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood
  • persistent: lasting or enduring tenaciously
  • perspicacious: shrewed, astute
  • pertinacious: resolute, persistent
  • persue: to read with thoroughness or care
200
Q

PERI

A

: AROUND

  • perimeter: the border or outer boundary of two-dimensional figure
  • peripatetic: walking or traveling about; itinerant
  • periscope: an optical instrument for seeing objects in an obstructed field of vision
201
Q

**PET / PIT **

A

: TO GO, TO SEEK, TO STRIVE

  • appetite: a desire for food or drink
  • centripetal: moving toward the center
  • compete: to strive to outdo another
  • impetuous: characterized by sudden or rash action or emotion
  • petition: a formally a drawn request soliciting some benefit
  • petulant: showing sudden irritation, esp. over some annoyance
202
Q

PHIL

A

: LOVE

  • bibliophile: one who loves or collects books
  • philatelist: one who loves or collects postage stampes
  • philology: the study of literary texts to establish their authenticity and determine their meaning
  • philosophy: the rational investigation of the truths and principles of being, knowledge, or conduct
203
Q

PHOB

A

: FEAR

  • claustrophobia: fear of enclosed places
  • hydrophobia: fear of water, which is a symptom of rabies; rabies
  • phobia: fear; an irrational fear
  • xenophobia: fear of foreigners; hatred of foreigners
204
Q

PHON

A

: SOUND

  • euphony: the quality of sounding good
  • megaphone: a device for magnifying the sound of one’s voice
  • phonetics: the study of the sounds used in speech
  • polyphony: the use of the simulateous melodic lines to produce harmonies in musical compositions
  • telephone: a device for transmitting sound at a distance
205
Q

PHOTO

A

: LIGHT

  • photograph: a picture, originally made by exposing chemically treated film to light
  • photon: a packet of light or other electromagnetic radiation
  • photosynthesis: the process by which plants create carbohydrate when under light
206
Q

PLAC

A

: TO PLEASE

  • complacent: self-satisfied, unconcerned
  • complaisant: inclined or disposed to please
  • implacable: unable to be pleased
  • placebo: a substance with no pharmacological effect that acts to placate a patient who believes it to be a medicine
  • placid: pleasantly clam or peaceful
207
Q

PLE / PLEN

A

: TO FILL, FULL

  • complete: having all parts or elements
  • deplete: to decrease seriously or exhaust the supply of
  • implement: an instrument, tool, or utensil for accomplishing work
  • plethora: excess, overabundance
  • plenitude: fullness
  • replete: abundantly supplied
  • supplement: something added to supply a deficiency
208
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PLEX / PLIC / PLY

A

: TO FOLD, TWIST, TANGLE, OR BEND

  • complex: composed of many interconnected parts
  • duplicity: deceitfulness in speech or conduct, double-dealing
  • implicate: to show to be involved, usually in an incriminating manner
  • replica: any close copy or reproduction
  • supplicate: to make humble and earnest entreaty
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POLY

A

: MANY

  • **polyandry: ** the practice of having multiple husbands
  • polygamy: the practice of having multiple wives
  • polyglot: someone who speaks many languages
  • polygon: a figure with many sides
  • polythesim: belief in many gods
210
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PON / POS / POUND

A

: TO PUT, TO PLACE

  • component: a constituent part, elemental ingredient
  • expose: to lay open to danger, attack, or harm
  • expound: to set forth in detail
  • juxtapose: to place close together or side by side
  • repository: a receptacle or place where things are deposited
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PORT

A

: TO CARRY

  • deportment: conduct, behavior
  • disport: to divert or amuse oneself
  • export: to transmit aboard
  • import: to bring in from a foreign country
  • importune: to urge or press with excessive persistence
  • portable: easily carried
212
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POST

A

: BEHIND, AFTER

  • post facto: after the fact
  • posterior: situated at the rear
  • posterity: future generations
  • posthumous: after death
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POT

A

: TO DRINK

  • potable: drinkable; safe to drink; a drink
  • potation: drinking; a drink
  • potion: a drinkable medicine, poison, or other concoction
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PRE

A

: BEFORE, IN FRONT OF

  • precarious: dependent on circumstances beyond one’s control
  • precedent: an act that serves as an example for subsequent situations
  • precept: a commandment given as a rule of action or conduct
  • precocious: unusually advanced ro mature in mental development or talent
  • premonition: a feeling of anticipation over a future event
  • presentiment: foreboding
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PREHEND / PRISE

A

: TO TAKE, TO GET, TO SEIZE

  • apprehend: to take into custody
  • comprise: to include or contain
  • enterprise: a project undertaken
  • reprehensible: deserving rebuke or censure
  • reprisals: retaliation against an enemy
  • surprise: to strike with an unexpected feeling of wonder or astonishment
216
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PRI / PRIM

A

: FIRST

  • primary: first; most important
  • primal: original; most important
  • prime: first in quality; best
  • primeval: ancient; going back to the first age of the world
  • pristine: original; like new; unspoiled; pure
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PRO

A

: IN FRONT, BEFORE, MUCH, FOR

  • problem: a difficult question (orginally: one put before another solution)
  • proceed: to go forward
  • profuse: spending or giving freely
  • prolific: highly fruitful
  • propound: to set forth for consideration
  • proselytize: to convert or attempt to recruit
  • provident: having or showing foresight
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PROB

A

: TO PROVE, TO TEST

  • approbation: praise, consideration
  • opprobrium: the disgrace incurred by shamful conduct
  • probe: to search or examine thoroughly
  • probity: honesty: high-mindedness
  • reprobate: a depraved or wicked person
219
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PROP / PROX

A

: NEAR

  • approximate: very near; close to being accurate
  • proximate: nearby; coming just before or just after
  • proximity: nearness; distance
220
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PROT / PROTO

A

: FIRST

  • protagonist: the main character in a play or story
  • protocol: diplomatic etiqutte; a system of proper conduct; the original record of a treaty ot other negotiation
  • prototype: the first version of an invention, on which later models are based
  • protozoan: belonging to a group of single-celled animals, which came before more complex animals
221
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PSEUD / PSEUDO

A

: FALSE

  • pseudonym: a false name; a pen name
  • pseudopod: part of a single-celled organism that can be stuck out (like a foot) and used to move around
  • pseudoscience: false science; something believed to be based on the scientific method but that actually is not
222
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PUG

A

: TO FIGHT

  • impugn: to challenge as false
  • pugilist: a fighter or boxer
  • pugnacious: to quarrel or fight readily
  • repungnant: objectionable or offensive
223
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PUNC / PUNG / POIGN

A

: TO POINT, TO PRICK, TO PIERCE

  • compunction: a feeling of uneasiness for doing wrong
  • expunge: to erase, eliminate completely
  • point: a sharp or tapering end
  • punctilious: strict or exact in the observance of formalities
  • puncture: the act of piercing
  • pungent: caustic or sharply expensive
224
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PYR

A

: FIRE

  • pyre: a bonfire, usually for burning a dead body
  • pyromania: an urge to start fires
  • pyrosis: heartburn
  • pyrotechnics: fireworks
225
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QUE / QUAR / QUAT

A

: FOUR

  • quadrant: a quarter of a circle; a 90-degree arc
  • quadrille: a square dance involving four couples
  • quadruple: four times as many
  • quardruplets; four children born in one birth
  • quart: one fourth of a gallon
  • quaternary: the number four; the fourth in a series
226
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QUE / QUIS

A

: TO SEEK

  • acquire: to come into possession of
  • conquest: the act gaining control by force
  • exquisite: of special beauty or charm
  • inquisitive: given to research, eager for knowledge
  • perquiste: a gratuity, tip
  • querulous: full of complaints
  • query: a question, inquiry
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QUIE / QUIT

A

: QUIET, REST

  • acquiesce: to comply, give in
  • disquiet: lack of calm or peace
  • quiescence: the condition of being at rest, still, inactive
  • quiet: making little or no sound
  • tranquill: free from commotion or tumult
228
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QUIN / QUINT

A

: FIVE

  • quinquennial: a five-year period; a fifth anniversary
  • quintessence: the essential part of something (originally: the “fifth essence,” which was believed to permeate everything and be what stars and planets were made of )
  • quintuple: five times as many
229
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RACI / RADI

A

: ROOT

  • deracinate: to uproot
  • eradicate: to uproot; to wipout
  • radical: pertaining to roots; questioning everything, even basic belief; going to root causes; through
  • radish: a root vegetable
230
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RAMI

A

: BRANCH

  • ramification: a branch; an offshoot; a collection of branches; a consequence
  • ramiform: branchlike
231
Q

RE

A

: BACK, AGIAN

  • recline: to lean back; to lie down
  • regain: to gain again; to take back
  • remain: to stay behind; to be left; to continue to be
  • reorganize: to organize again
  • request: to ask (originally: to seek again)
232
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RECT

A

: STRAIGHT, RIGHT

  • correct: to set right
  • direct: to guide; to put straight
  • erect: upright; starting up straight
  • rectangle: a four-sided figure in which every angle is a right angle
  • rectitude: moral uprightness; moral straightness
233
Q

REG

A

: KING, RULE

  • interregnum: a period between kings
  • realm: a kingdom; a domain
  • regal: kingly; royal
  • regent: one who serves on behalf of a king; one who rules
  • regicide: killing a king; one who kills a king
  • regiment: a body of troops in army; to form into such a body; to subject to strict rule
  • regular: having a structure following some rule; orderly; normally used; average
234
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RETRO

A

: BACKWARD

  • retroactive: extending to things that happened in the past
  • retrofit: to install newer parts into an older device or structure
  • retrograde: moving backward; appearing to move backward
  • retrospective: looking back at the past
235
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RID / RIS

A

: TO LAUGH

  • derision: the act of mockery
  • risible: causing laughter
236
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ROG

A

: TO ASK

  • abrogate: to abolish by formal means
  • arrogant: making claims to superior importance or rights
  • arrogate: to claim unwarrantably or presumptuously
  • derogatory: belittling, disparaging
  • interrogate: to ask questions of, esp. formally
  • surrogate: a person appointed to act for another
237
Q

RUB / RUD

A

: RED

  • rouge: a red powder used as makeup
  • rubella: German measles; a diease marked by red spots
  • rubicund: reddish; rosy-cheeked
  • rubric: a rule; a guide for scoring tests; a heading in a book set in red letters
  • russet: reddish-brown; a coarse cloth, usually reddish-brown; a type of apple or pear, typically reddish-brown
238
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RUD

A

: CRUDE

  • erudite: scholarly; learned (that is, trained out of crudeness)
  • rude: uncivilized; impolite
  • rudimentary: underdeveloped; related to rudiments
  • rudiments: first principles; imperfect first step fo one’s training
239
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SACR / SANCT

A

: HOLY

  • execrable: abominable
  • sacrament: something regarded as possessing sacred character
  • sacred: devoted or dedicated to a deity or religious purpose
  • sacrifice: the offering of some living or inanimate thing to a deity in homage
  • sacrilege: the violation of anything sacred
  • sanctify: to make holy
  • sanction: authoritative permission or approval
240
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SAG / SAP / SAV

A

: TASTE, THINKING, DISCERNING

  • insipid: tasteless
  • sagacious: perceptive; discerning; insightful
  • sage: wise
  • sapient: wise
  • savant: a learned person
  • savor: taste; to enjoy flavors
241
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SAL / SIL / SAULT / SULT

A

: TO LEAP, TO JUMP

  • assault: a sudden or violent attack
  • desultory: at random, ummethodical
  • exult: to show or feel triumphant joy
  • insolent: boldly rude or disrespectful
  • insult: to treat with contemptuous rudeness
  • resilient: able to spring back to an original from after compression
  • salient: prominent or conspicuous
  • somerault: to roll the body end over end, making a complete revolution
242
Q

SAL

A

: SALT

  • salary: payment for services (originally: money for Roman soldiers to buy salt)
  • saline: containing salt; salty
243
Q

SALU

A

: HEALTH

  • salubrious: healthful
  • salutary: healthful
  • salute: to greet; a gesture of greeting (originally: to wish good health)
244
Q

SALV

A

: TO SAVE

  • salvage: to save; something saved or recovered
  • salvation: being saved
  • savior: one who saves
245
Q

SAN

A

: HEALTHY

  • sane: mentally healthy
  • sanitarium: a place of healing
  • sanitary: promoting health; related to conditions that affect health, such as cleanliness
246
Q

SANG

A

: BLOOD

  • consanguinity: being related by blood
  • sanguinary: bloody; bloodthirsty
  • sanguine: hopful; confident ( from the “sanguine humor.” which was believed to be associated with those traits)
247
Q

SAT

A

: ENOUGH

  • assets: property; possesions (originally: enough property to cover one’s debts)
  • dissatisfied: feeling that one does not have enough
  • state: to fill
  • satify: to meet one’s desires; to meet an obligation; to provide with enough
  • saturate: to fill completely; to entirely satisfy
248
Q

SCI

A

: TO KNOW

  • conscience: the inner sense of what is right or wrong; impelling one toward right action
  • conscious: aware of one’s own existence
  • omniscient: knowing everything
  • prescient: having knowledge of thing before they happen
  • unconscionable: unscupuslous
249
Q

SCRIBE / SCRIPT

A

: TO WRITE

  • ascribe: to credit or assign, as to a cause or course
  • circumscribe: to draw a line around
  • conscription: draft
  • describe: to tell or depict in words
  • postcript: any addition or supplement
  • proscribe: to condemn as harmful or odious
  • scribble: to write hastily or carelessly
  • script: handwriting
  • transcript: a written or typed copy
250
Q

SE

A

: APART, AWAY

  • secede: to withdraw formally from an association
  • sedition: incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government
  • seduce: to lead astray
  • segregate: to separate or set apart from others
  • select: to choose in preference to another
  • separate: to keep apart; divide
  • sequester: to remove or withdraw into solitude or retirement
251
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SEC / SEQU / SUE / SUI

A

: TO FOLLOW

  • non sequitur: an inference or a conclsion that does not follow from the premises
  • obsequious: fawning
  • prosecute: to seek to enforce by legal process
  • pursue: to chase after
  • second: next after the first
  • sequence: the following of one thing after another
  • suite: a series; a set (originally: a train of followesrs)
252
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SED / SESS / SID

A

: TO SIT, TO SETTLE

  • assiduous: diligent, persistent, hardworking (literally, “sitting down” to business)
  • dissident: disagreeing, as in opinion or attitude (literally, “sitting apart”)
  • insidious: intended to entrap or beguile; lying in wait to entrap
  • preside: to exercise management or control; to sit in the leader’s chair
  • resident: a person who lives in a place
  • residual: remaining, leftover
  • sediment: the matter at which settle to the bottom of liquid
  • session: a meeting at which people sit together in dicussion
253
Q

SEM

A

: SEED, TO SOW

  • disseminate: to spread; to scatter around
  • semen: seed ( of male animals)
  • seminary: a school, esp. for religious training (originally: a place for raising plants)
254
Q

SEMI

A

: HALF

  • semicircle: half a circle
  • semiconscious: only partly conscious; half awake
255
Q

SEN

A

**: OLD **

  • senate: the highest legislative body (from “ council of elders”)
  • senescent: getting old
  • senile: relating to old afe: experiencing memory loss or other age-related mental impairments
  • sire: a title for a king; a father (originally: an important person, an old man)
256
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SENS / SENT

A

: TO FEEL, TO BE AWARE

  • dissent: to differ in opinion, esp. from the majority
  • insensate: without feeling or sensitivity
  • presentiment: a feeling that something is about to happen
  • resent: to feel or show displeasure
  • sense: any of the faculties by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating outside the body
  • sensory: of or pertaining to the senses or sensation
257
Q

SIN / SINU

A

: BEND, FOLD, CURVE

  • insinuate: to introduce in sneaky or winding ways
  • sinuous: moving in a bending or wavy manner
  • sinus: a curved or irregularly shaped cavity in the body, such as those related to the nostrils
258
Q

SOL

A

: ALONE

  • desolate: deserted; laid waste; left alone
  • isolate: to set apart from others
  • soliloquize: talk to oneself; talk onstage as if oneself
  • solipism: the belief that the only thing that really exists, or can really be known, is oneself
  • solitude: that state of being alone
259
Q

SOL

A

: TO LOOSEN, TO FREE

  • absolution: forgiveness for wrongdoing
  • dissolute: indifferent to moral restraints
  • dissolution: the act or process of dissolving into parts or elements
  • dissolve: to make a solution of as by mixing in a liquid
  • resolution: a formal expreesion of opinion or intention made
  • soluble: capable of being dissolved or liquefied
260
Q

SOL

A

: SUN

  • parasol: an umbella that protects from the sun
  • solar: related to the sun
  • solarium: a sumroom; a room with windows for taking in the sun
  • solistice: one of two days when the sun reaches its highest point at noon and seems to stand still
261
Q

SOMN

A

: SLEEP

  • insomnia: inability to sleep
  • somnambulist: a sleepwalker
  • somniferous: sleep-inducing
  • somniloquist: one who talks while asleep
  • somnolent: sleep-inducing; sleepy; drowsy
262
Q

SOPH

A

: WISDOM

  • philosopher: one who studies logic, beauty, truth, etc. one who seeks wisdom
  • sophism: a superficially appealing but fallacious argument
  • sophisticated: complex; worldly; experienced
263
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SOURC / SURG / SURRECT

A

: TO RISE

  • insurgent: rising up in revolution; rushing in
  • insurrection: risingj up in armed rebellion
  • resurrection: coming back to life; rising again
  • source: where something comes from (such as spring water rising out of the ground)
  • surge: to rise up forcefully, as ocean waves
264
Q

SPEC / SPIC

A

: TO LOOK, TO SEE

  • circumspect: watchful and discreet, cautious
  • conspicuous: easily seen or noticed; readily observable
  • persepctive: one’s mental view of facts, ideas, and their interrelationships
  • perspicacious: having keen mental perception and understanding
  • retrospective: contemplative of past situations
  • specious: deceptively attractive
  • spectrum: a broad range of related things that form a continuous series
  • speculation: the contemplation or consideraton of some subject
265
Q

SPIR

A

: BREATH

  • aspire: to desire; to pant for (originally: to breath on)
  • expire: to breath out; to breath one’s last; to come to an end
  • spirit: the breath of life; the soul; an incorporeal supernatural being; an outlook; a lively quality
266
Q

STA / STI

A

: TO STAND, TO BE IN PLACE

  • apostasy: renunciation of an object of one’s previous loyalty
  • constitute: to make up
  • destitute: without means of subsistence
  • obstinate: stubbornly adhering to a purpose, opinion, or course of action
  • stasis: the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces
  • static: of bodies or forces at rest or in equilibrium
267
Q

STRICT / STRING / STRAN

A

: TO TIGHTEN, TO BIND

  • ​astringent: causing to tighten
  • constrain: to confine; to bind within certain limits
  • restriction: a limitation
  • strangle: to kill by suffocation, usally by tightening a cord or one’s hand around the throat
268
Q

SUA

A

: SWEET, PLEASING, TO URGE

  • **assuage: **to make less severe, ease, relieve
  • dissuade: to deter; to advise against
  • persuade: to encourage; to convince
  • suave: smoothly agreeable or polite; sweet
269
Q

SUB / SUP

A

: BELOW, UNDER

  • subliminal: existing or operating below the threshold of confidence
  • submissive: inclined or ready to submit
  • subsidiary: serving to assist or supplement
  • subterfuge: an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule
  • subtle: thin, tenuous, or rarefied
  • suppose: to put down as hypothesis; to use as the underlying basis of an argument; to assume
270
Q

SUMM

A

: HIGHEST, TOTAL

  • consummate: highly qualified; complete; perfect
  • sum: total; amount of money
  • summary: concise statement of the total findings on a subject; comprehensive
  • summit: hightest point
271
Q

SUPER / SUR

A

: OVER, ABOVE

  • supercilious: arrogant, haughty, condescending
  • superfluous: extra, more than necessary
  • superlative: the highest kind or order
  • supersede: to replace in power, as by another person or thing
  • surmount: to get over or across, to prevail
  • surpass: to go beyond in amount, extent, or degree
  • surveillance: a watch kept over someone or something
272
Q

SYM / SYN

A

: TOGETHER

  • symbiosis: living together in a mutually beneficial relationship
  • symmetry: balanced proportions; having opposite parts that mirror one another
  • sympathy: affinity; feeling affected by what happens to another
  • symposium: a meeting at which ideas are discussed ( originally: a party at which people drink together)
  • synonym: a word that means the same thing as another
  • synthesis: combining things to create a new whole
273
Q

TAC / TIC

A

: TO BE SILENT

  • reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely
  • tacit: unspoken understanding
  • tacitum: uncommunicative
274
Q

**TACT / TAG / TAM / TANG **

A

: TO TOUCH

  • **contact: **to touch; to get in touch
  • contagious: able to spread by contact, as disease
  • contaminate: to corrupt, taint, or otherwise damage the integrity of something by contact or mixture
  • contiguous: directly touching; sharing a boundary
  • intact: untouched; whole
  • intangible: unable to be tounched
  • tactile: pertaining to tounch; tounchable
275
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TAIN / TEN / TENT / TIN

A

: TO HOLD

  • abstention: the act of refraning voluntarily
  • detain: to keep from proceeding
  • pertain: to have reference or relation
  • pertinacious: persistent, stubborn
  • sustenance: nourishment, means of livelihood
  • tenable: capable of being held, maintained, or defended
  • tenacious: holding fast
  • tenure: the holding or possessing of anything
276
Q

TEND / TENS / TENT / TENU

A

: TO STRETCH , TO THIN

  • attenuate: to weaken or reduce in force
  • contentious: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
  • distend: to expand by strecting
  • extenuating: making less serious by offering excuses
  • tendentious: having a predisposition toward a point of view
  • tension: the act of stretching or straining
  • tentative: of the nature of, or done as a trial, attempt
277
Q

TEST

A

: TO BEAR WITNESS

  • attest: bear witness
  • contest: to dispute (from brining a lawsuit by calling witnesses)
  • detest: to despise; to hate ( originally: to curse something by calling upon God to witness it)
  • protest: a dissent; a declaration, esp. of disagreement
  • testament: a statment of a person’s wishes for the disposal of his or her property after death; a will
  • testify: bear witness
278
Q

THO

A

: GOD

  • apotheosis: glorification, glorified ideal
  • atheist: one who does not believe in deity ro divine system
  • theocracy: a form of government in which a deity is recogized as the supreme ruler
  • theology: the study of divine things and divine faith
279
Q

THERM

A

: HEAT

  • thermal: relating to heat; retaining heat
  • thermometer: a device for measuring heat
  • thermonuclear: relating to a nuclear reaction that takes place at high temperatures
  • thermostat: device for regulating heat
280
Q

TIM

A

: FEAR

  • **intimidate: **to strike fear into; to make fearful
  • timid: fearful; shy
281
Q

TOR / TORQ / TORT

A

: TO TWIST

  • contort: to twist; to distort
  • distort: to pull out of shape, often by twisting; to twist or misrepresent facts
  • extort: to wring money, property, or services out of somebody using threats or force
  • torch: a portable flame used for light ( perhaps derived from hemp twisted around sticks, then dipped in pitch)
  • torque: twisting force; a force that creats rotation
  • tort: a wrongful act (other than breach of contract) that legally entitles one to damages
  • torture: to inflict pain ( including by twisting instrument like the rack or wheel)
282
Q

TORP

A

: STIFF, NUMB

  • **torpedo: **a explosive weapon used to sink ships (originally: a fish-the electric ray-that could shock vitims to numbness)
  • torpid: numbed; sluggish
  • torpor: numbness; listlessness; apathy
283
Q

TOX

A

: POISON

  • **antioxin: **antibody that counteracts a given poison
  • intoxication: being poisoned; drunknness
  • toxic: poisonous
284
Q

TRACT

A

: TO DRAG, TO PULL, TO DRAW

  • abstract: to draw ot pull away, remove
  • attract: to draw either by physical force or by an appeal to emotions or senses
  • contract: a legally binding document
  • detract: to take away from, esp. a positive thing
  • protract: to prolong, draw out, extend
  • tractable: easily managed or controlled
  • tractor: a powerful vehicle used to pull farm machinery
285
Q

TRANS

A

: ACROSS, BEYOND

  • intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise
  • transaction: the act of carrying on or conduct to a conclusion or settlement
  • transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits
  • transgress: to violate a law, command, or moral code
  • transition: a change from one way of being to another
  • transparent: easily seen through, recognized, or detected
286
Q

ULT

A

: LAST, BEYOND

  • penultimate: second-to-last
  • ulterior: beyond what is immediately present; future; beyond what is stated; hidden
  • ultimate: last; final
  • ultimatum: final offer; final term
  • ultraviolet: beyond the violet end of the spectrum
287
Q

UMBR

A

: SHADOW

  • adumbrate: to foreshadow; to sketch; to overshadow
  • penumbra: a shaded area between pure shadow and pure light
  • somber: gloomy; darkened
  • umbrage: shade; shadow; displeasure; resentment
  • umbrella: a device providing shade from the sun or protection from rain
288
Q

UN

A

: NOT

  • **unseen: **not seen
  • unusual: not usual; exceptional; strange
289
Q

UND

A

: WAVE

  • **abound: **to be plentiful; to overflow (from water flowing in waves)
  • inundate: to flood
  • undulate: to move in a wavelike way
290
Q

UNI / UN

A

: ONE

  • **reunion: **a meeting that brings people back together
  • unanimous: of one mind; in complete accord
  • uniform: of one kind; consistent
  • universe: all things considered as one whole
291
Q

URB

A

: CITY

  • suburb: a rediential area just outside a city; an outlying area of a city
  • urban: relating to a city
  • urbane: polite; refined; polished ( considered characteristic of those in cities)
  • urbanization: the process of an area becoming more like a city
292
Q

US / UT

A

: TO USE

  • abuse: to use wrongly or improperly
  • usage: a customary way of doing something
  • usurp: to seize and hold
  • utilitarian: efficient, functional, useful
293
Q

VAIL / VAL

A

: STENGTH, USE, WORTH

  • ambivalent: being caught between contradictory feeling of equal power or worth
  • avail: to have force; to be useful; to be of value
  • convalescent: recovering strength; healing
  • equivalent: of equal worth, strength, or use
  • evaluate: to determine the worth of
  • invalid: having no force or strength; void
  • valediction: a farewell (from wishing that someone be well; i.e. that someone have strength)
  • valid: having force; legally binding; effective; useful
  • value: worth
294
Q

VEN / VENT

A

: TO COME OR TO MOVE TOWARD

  • adventitous: accidental
  • contravene: to come into conflict with
  • convene: to assemble for some public purpose
  • intervene: to come between disputing factions, mediate
  • venturesome: showing a disposition to undertake risks
295
Q

VER

A

: TRUTH

  • aver: to affirm, to declare to be true
  • veracious: habitually truthful
  • verdict: a judgment or decision
  • verisimilitude: the apperance or semblance of truth
  • verity: truthfulness
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VERB

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: WORD

  • proverb: an adage; a byword; a short, commonly known saying
  • verbatim: exactly as stated; word-for word
  • verbose: wordy
  • verbiage: excessive use of words; diction
297
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VERD

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: GREEN

  • verdant: green with vegetation; inexperienced
  • verdure: fresh, rich vegetation
298
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VERS / VERT

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: TO TURN

  • aversion: dislike
  • avert: to turn away from
  • controversy: a public dispute involving a matter of opinion
  • diverse: of a different kind, form, character
  • extrovert: an outgoing person
  • inadvertent: unintentional
  • introvert: a person concerned primarily with inner thoughts and feeling
  • revert: to return to a former habit
299
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VI

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: LIFE

  • convivial: sociable
  • joie de vivre: joy of life (French expression)
  • viable: capable of living
  • vivacity: the quality of being lively, animated, spirited
  • vivid: strinking bright or intense
300
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**VID / VIS **

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: TO SEE

  • adviser: one who gives counsel
  • evident: plain or clear to the sight or understanding
  • survey: to view in a general or comprehensive way
  • video: element pertaining to the transimission or reception of an image
  • vista: a view or prospect
301
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VIL

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: BASE, MEAN

  • revile: to criticize with harsh language
  • vile: loathsome, unpleasant
  • vilify: to slander, to defame
302
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VIRU

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: POISON

  • virulent: acrimonious; very bitter; very poisonous
  • viruliferous: containing a virus
  • virus: a submicroscopic agent that infects an organism and causes disease
303
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VOC / VOK

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: CALL, WORD

  • advocate: to support or urge by argument
  • avocation: something one does in addition to a principle occupation
  • convoke: to call together
  • equivocate: to use ambiguous or unclear exprssions
  • invoke: to call together
  • vocabulary: the stock of words used by or known to a particular person or group
  • vocation: a particular occupation
  • vociferous: crying out noisily
304
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VOL

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: WISH

  • benevolent: characterized by or expressing goodwill
  • malevolent: characterized by or expressing bad will
  • volition: free choice, free will; act of choosing
  • voluntary: undertaken of one’s own accord or by free choice
305
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VOLU / VOLV

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: TO ROLL, TO TURN

  • convolution: a twisting or folding
  • evolve: to develop naturally; literally, to unfold or unroll
  • revolt: to rebel; to turn against those in authority
  • revolve: to rotate; to turn around
  • voluable: easily turning; fluent; changable
  • volume: a book ( origianally: a scroll ); size or dimensions (originally: of a book)
306
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VOR

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: TO EAT

  • carnivorous: meat-eating
  • omnivorous: eating or absoring everything
  • voracious: having a great appetite

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