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A/an

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Not, without

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Agnostic
Amoral 
Anomaly
Anonymous
Apathy
Atheist
Atrophy
Atypical
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  1. One who believe the existence of god is nor provable
  2. Neither moral or immoral
  3. An irregularity
  4. Unknown authorship
  5. Lack of interest
  6. One who does not believe in god
  7. Wasting away of body tissue
  8. Not typical
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AB

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Off, away from, apart, down

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Abdicate
Abduct
Abhor
Abject
Abnormal 
Abolish 
Abstinence
Abstract
Abstruse
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  1. To renounce or relinquish a throne
  2. To take away by force
  3. To hate, detest
  4. Cast down, degrade
  5. Deviating from standard
  6. To do away with, make void
  7. Forbearance from indulgence
  8. Conceive apart from concrete
  9. Hard to understand
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Able/ible

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Capable, worthy of

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Changeable
Combustible
Inevitable
Presentable

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  1. Able to be changed
  2. Capable of being burned
  3. Impossible to be avoided
  4. Suitable for being presented
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AC/ACR

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Sharp, bitter, sour

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Acerbic
Acid
Acrimonious
Acumen
Acute
Exacerbate
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  1. Sour or astringent in taste, harsh in temper
  2. Something that is sharp, sour, or ill natured
  3. Caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature
  4. Mental sharpness, quickness of wit
  5. Sharp at the end, ending in a point
  6. To increase bitterness or violence
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ACT/AG

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To do, to drive, to force, to lead

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Agile
Agitate
Pedagogue 
Prodigal 
Synagogue
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  1. Quick and well coordinate in movement
  2. To move or force into violent
  3. Teacher
  4. Wastefully or recklessly extravagant
  5. Gathering or congregation of jews for purpose of religious worship
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Acou

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Hearing

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Acoustic

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Pertaining to hearing, sound made through mechanical, not electronic, means

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AD

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To, toward, near

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Accede
Adapt
Addict
Address
Adhere
Adjacent
Adjoin
Admire
Advocate
Attract
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  1. To yield to a demand
  2. Adjust or modify fittingly
  3. To give oneself over, as to a habit or pursuit
  4. To direct a speech or written statement
  5. To stick fast, cleave, cling
  6. Near, close, or contiguous
  7. To be close or in contact with
  8. To regard with wonder, pleasure, and approval
  9. To plead in favor of
  10. 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

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Alias
Alibi
Alien
Allegory
Alter ego 
Alternative
Altruist
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  1. An assumed name
  2. The defense by an accused person that he was verifiably elsewhere at the time of the crime
  3. One born in another country
  4. Figurative treatment of one subject under the guise of another
  5. Second self, substitute or deputy
  6. Possible choice
  7. Person unselfishly concerned for the welfare of others
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AM

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Love

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A mature
Amatory
Amiable
Amicable
Amity 
Amorous 
Enameled
Inamorata
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  1. Person who engages in an activity for pleasure
  2. Of or pertaining to lovers or lovemaking
  3. Having or showing agreeable personal qualities
  4. Characterized by exhibiting good will
  5. Friendship, peaceful harmony
  6. Inclined to love, sexual love
  7. Inflamed with love, charmed, captivated
  8. Female lover
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AMBI/AMPHI

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Both, on both sides, around

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Ambidextrous
Ambient
Ambiguous
Amphibian

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  1. To use both hands
  2. Move around freely
  3. Open to various interpretations
  4. Two fold nature
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AMBL/AMBUL

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To go, to walk

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Ambulance
Ambulatory
Perambulator
Preamble

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  1. Vehicl equipped for carrying sick people
  2. Of, pertaining to, capable of walking
  3. One who makes tour of inspection on foot
  4. Intro statement
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ANIM

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Of the life, mind, soul, breath

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Animal
Animosity 
Equanimity 
Magnanimous
Unanimous
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  1. Living being
  2. Feeling of ill will or enmity
  3. Mental or emotional stability, especially under tension
  4. Generous in forgiving an insult or injury
  5. Of one mind
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ANNUI/ENNI
Year
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``` Annals Anniversary Annual Annuity Perennial ```
1. Record of events 2. Yearly recurrence of the date 3. Of, for, or pertaining to a year 4. Specified income payable at stated intervals 5. Lasting for an indefinite amount of time
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Ant/ante
Before
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``` Antebellum Antecedent Antedate Antediluvian Anterior ```
1. Before the war 2. Existing, being, or going 3. Precede in time 4. Belonging to period before biblical flood 5. Placed before
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Anthro/Andr
Man, human
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``` Androgen Androgynous Android Anthropogenic Anthropology Misanthrope Philanderer ```
1. Any substance that promotes masculine characteristics 2. Being both male and female 3. Robot 4. Humanity as central fact of universe 5. Science that deals with the origins of humankind 6. One who hates humans or humanity 7. One who carries on flirtations
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Anti
Against, opposite
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``` Antibody Antidote Antipathy Antipodal Antiseptic ```
1. Protein naturally existing in blood serum that reacts to overcome the toxic effects of an antigen 2. Remedy for counteracting the effects of poison, disease, etc 3. Aversion 4. Opposite side of the globe 5. Free from germs
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Apo
Away
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``` Apocalypse Apocryphal Apogee Apology Apostasy Apostle ```
1. Revelation, discovery, disclosure 2. Of doubtful authorship or authenticity 3. Highest or most distant point 4. Expression of one's regret or sorrow for having wronged another 5. Total desertion of one's religion, principles, party, etc 6. One of 12 disciples sent forth by jesus to preach the gospel
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Aqua/aque
Water
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``` Aquamarine Aquarium Aquatic Aqueduct Subaqueous ```
1. Bluish green color 2. Tan for keeping fish and other underwater creatures 3. Having to do with water 4. Channel for transporting water 5. Underwater
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Arch/archi/arch
Chief, principal, ruler
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``` Anarchy Archenemy Architect Monarchy Oligarchy ```
1. Sate or society without government or law 2. Chief enemy 3. Devisor, maker, planner of anything 4. Government in which the supreme power is lodged in a sovereign 5. State or society ruled by a select group
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ARD
To burn
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Ardent Ardor Arson
1. Burning, fierce, passionate 2. Flame, passion 3. Crime of setting property
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Auto
Self
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Autocrat Automatic Autonomy
1. Absolute ruler 2. Self-moving 3. Independence
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Be
About, to make, to surround, to affect
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Belie Belittle Bemoan Bewilder
1. To misrepresent 2. To make small 3. To moan for, to lament 4. To confuse completely
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Bel/bell
Beautiful
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Belle | Embellish
1. Beautiful woman | 2. To make beautiful
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Bell
War
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Antebellum Belligerent Rebel
1. Before the war 2. Warlike, given to waging war 3. Person who resists authority
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Ben/bene
Good
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Benediction Benefit Benevolent Benign
1. Act of uttering a blessing 2. Anything advantageous to a person or thing 3. Desiring o do good to others 5. Having kindly disposition
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Bi/bin
Two
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``` Biennial Bilateral Bilingual Binocular Bipartisan Combination ```
1. Happening every 2 years 2. Pertaining to or affecting two or bother sides 3. Speak 2 languages 4. Two eyes 5. Represent 2 parties 6. Joining of 2 or more things into a whole
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Bon/boun
Good, generous
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Bona ride Bonus Bountiful
1. In good faith 2. Something given over and above what is due 3. Generous
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Brev/brid
Short, small
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``` Abbreviate Abridge Brevet Breviloquent Brevity Brief ```
1. To shorten 2. To shorten 3. Honorary promotion with no additional pay 4. Laconic, concise in one's speech 5. Shortness 6. Short
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Burs
Purse, money
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Bursar Bursary Disburse Reimburse
1. Treasurer 2. Treasury 3. To pay 4. To pay back
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Cad/cid
To fall, to happen by chance
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``` Accident Cascade Coincidence Decadent Recidivist ```
1. Happening by chance, unexpected 2. Waterfall 3. Striking occurrence of two or more events at one time 4. Decaying, deteriorating 5. One who repeatedly relapses
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Cant/cent/chant
To sing
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``` Accent Chant Enchant Incantation Incentive Recant ```
1. Prominence of a syllable in terms of pronunciation 2. Song 3. Subject to magical influence 4. Chanting of words purporting to have magical power 5. To which incites action 6. To withdrawal
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Cap/cip/cept
To take, to get
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``` To anticipate Capture Emancipate Percipient Precept Susceptible ```
1. To realize beforehand 2. Take by force 3. Free from restraint 4. Having perception 5. Commandment or direction given as a rule of conduct 6. Capable of receiving, admitting, undergoing, or being affected by something
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Cap/capit/cipit
Head, headlong
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``` Capital Capitulate Caption Disciple Precipice Precipitate ```
1. The city or town that is the official seat of government 2. To surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms 3. Heading or title 4. One who is a pupil of the doctrines of another 5. Cliff with a vertical face 6. Hasten the occurrence of
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Card/cord/cour
Heart
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``` Cardiac Concord Concordance Discord Encourage ```
1. Pertaining to the heart 2. Agreement, peace 3. Agreement, concord,harmony 4. Lack of harmony between persons or things 5. To inspire with spirit or confidence
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Carn
Flesh
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``` Carnage Carnival Carnivorous Incarnation Reincarnation ```
1. Slaughter of a great number of people 2. Traveling amusement show 3. Eating flesh 4. Being invested with a bodily form 5. Rebirth of a soul in a new body
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Cast/chast
To cut
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``` Cast Caste Castigate Chaste Chastise ```
1. To throw or hurl 2. Hereditary social group 3. Punish in order to correct 4. Free from obscenity 5. Discipline
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Caus/caut
To burn
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Caustic Cauterize Cautery Holocaust
1. Burning or corrosive 2. Burn or deaden 3. Instrument used for branding 4. Burnt offering
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Ced/ceed/cess
To go, to yield, to stop
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``` Accede Antecedent Cessation Concede Incessant Predecessor ```
1. To yield to demand 2. Existing 3. Temporary or complete discontinuance 4. To acknowledge as true 5. Without stop 6. One who comes before another
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Celer
Speed
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Accelerant Accelerate Celerity Decelerate
1. Something used to speed up a process 2. To increase in speed 3. Speed, quickness 4. To decrease in speed
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Cent
Hundred
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``` Bicentennial Cent Centigrade Centimeter Centipede Century Percepnt ```
1. 2 hundred 2. Hundredth of a dollar 3. Temp system with one hundred degrees between freezing and boiling points 4. One hundredth of a meter 5. Many legs 6. One hundred years 7. In every hundred
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Centr
Center
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``` Centrifuge Centrist Concentrate Concentric Eccentric ```
1. Apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances of diff densities 2. Of or pertaining to operate political or social ideas 3. To bring to common center 4. Having a common center 5. Off center
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Cern/cert/cret/crim/crit
To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide
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``` Ascertain Certitude Criterion Discreet Discrete Hypocrite ```
1. To make sure of 2. Freedom from doubt 3. Standard of judgement 4. Judicious in ones conduct of speech 5. Detached from others 6. Person who pretend to have beliefs that she does not
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Chrom
Color
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Chromatic Chrome Chromosome Monochromatic
1. Having to do with color 2. Metallic element used to make vivid colors or something plated with chromium 3. Genetic material that can be studied by coloring it with dyes 4. Having only one color
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Chron
Time
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``` Anachronism Chronic Chronology Chronometer Synchronize ```
1. Something that is out of date or belonging to the wrong time 2. Constant, habitual 3. Sequential order in which past events occurred 4. Highly accurate clock 5. Occur at the same time
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Circu/circum
Around
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``` Circuit Circuitous Circumference Circumspect Circumstances ```
1. Line around an area 2. Roundabout 3. Outer boundary of circular area 4. Cautious 5. Existing conditions or state of affairs surrounding and affecting an agent
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Cis
To cut
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``` Exorcise Incision Incisive Precise Scissors ```
1. To seek to expel evil spirit 2. Cut, gash, notch 3. Penetrating, cutting 4. Definitely stated or defined 5. Cutting instrument for paper
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Cla/clo/clu
To shut, to close
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``` Claustrophobia Cloister Conclude Disclose Exclusive Preclude ```
1. Abnormal fear of enclosed spaces 2. Courtyard bordered with covered walks 3. To bring to an end 4. To make known, reveal, or uncover 5. Not admitting of something else 6. To prevent the presence
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Claim/clam
To shout, to cry out
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``` Clamor Disclaim Exclaim Proclaim Reclaim ```
1. A loud uproar 2. To deny interest in or connection with 3. To cry out 4. To announce or declare 5. To claim the return of a right
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Cli
To lean toward
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``` Climax Decline Disinclination Proclivity Recline ```
1. The most intense point 2. To cause slope or incline downward 3. Aversion 4. Inclination 5. Lean back
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Co/col/com/con
With, together he
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``` Coerce Collaborate Collide Commensurate Compatible Conciliate Connect ```
``` To compel by force To work with another To strike one another Suitable in measure Capable of existing together To placate To bind ```
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Cogn/conn
To know
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Cognition Incognito Recognize
The process of knowing With ones identity concealed To identify as already known
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Contra/contro/counter
Against
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``` Contradict Contrary Controversy Counterfeit Countermand Encounter ```
``` Oppose Opposed to Disputation Fake Restrict an order Meeting ```
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Corp/cors
Body
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``` Corporation Corps Corpse Corpulent Corset Incorporation ```
``` Company treated as individual Body of troops Dead body Obese Give shape and support body Combining into single body ```
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Cosm
Order, universe, world
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``` Cosmetic Cosmic Cosmology Cosmonaut Cosmopolitan Cosmos Microcosm ```
``` Improving the appearance Relating to the universe Theory of the universe An astronaut Worldly Universe Small system that reflects larger one ```
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Cour/cur
Running, a course
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``` Concur Courier Curriculum Cursive Cursory Excursion Incursion Recur ```
``` Accord in opinion Messenger traveling in haste who bears news Regular course of study Handwriting in flowing strokes Going rapidly over something Short journey or trip Hostile entrance into a place To happen again ```
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Cre/cresc/cret
To grow
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``` Accretion Accrue Creation Excrescence Increase Increment ```
``` To increase by natural growth To be added as matter of periodic gain Act of producing or causing to exist Outgrowth To make greater Something added or gained ```
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Cred
To believe, to trust
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``` Credentials Credit Credo Credulity Incredible ```
``` Anything that provides basis for belief Trustworthiness Formula of belief Willingness to believe or trust too readily Unbelievable ```
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Crypt
Hidden
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Apocryphal Crypt Cryptography Cryptology
Doubtful authorship Subterranean chamber Procedure of making and usin secret writing Science of interpreting secret writings
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Cub/cumb
To lie down
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``` Cubicle Incubate Incumbent Recumbent Succumb ```
``` Any small space or compartment To situation upon for hatching Holding indicated position Lying down To give away, yield ```
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Culp
Fault, blame
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Culpable Culprit Inculcate Mea culpa
Deserving blame Person guilty of offense Charge with fault Through my fault

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