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Ob

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Toward, to, against, over

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Obese
Obfuscate
Oblique
Obsequious 
Obstreperous 
Obstruct
Obtuse
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Extremely fat
Render indistinct
Having a slanting direction
Overly submissive
Stubbornly adhering to an idea 
Stubbornly adhering to an idea
Noisily defiant
To block or fill with obstacles 
Not sharp, pointed, or acute
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Omni

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All

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Omnibus
omnipotent
Omnipresent
Omniscient

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An anthology of the works of one author
All powerful
Everywhere at one time
Having infinite knowledge

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Oner

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Burden

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Exonerate
Onerous
Onus

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To free from blame
Burdensome
Burden

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Oss/oste

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Bone

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Ossify
Ossuary
Osteopathy

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To become bone
A place where bones are kept
Medical system based on belief that many illnesses can be traced to issues in skeletal system

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Pac/peac

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Peace

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Appease
Pacifier
Pacify
Pact

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To bring peace to
Something that eases anger
To ease the anger or agitation of
Formal agreement

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Palp

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To feel

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Palpable
Palate
Palmitate

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Capable of being felt
To feel
To beat quickly

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Pan/pant

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All, everyone

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Pandemic
Panegyric 
Panoply 
Panorama
Pantheon
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Widespread
Formal or elaborate praise
Wide ranging and impressive array or display
Unobstructed and wide view of extensive area
Public building containing tombs or memorials

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Par

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Equal

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Apartheid
Disparage
Disparate
Par 
parity
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Any system that separates people
To belittle
Essentially different
An equality in value 
Equally
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Para

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Next to, beside

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Parable
Paragon
Parallel
Paranoid
Parasite 
Parody
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Short, allegorical story to teach lesson
Model of excellence
Extending in the same direction
Distrust. Of others
Organism lives on other thing, obtains nutrients from
Imitate for purposes of satire

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Pas/pat/path

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Feeling, suffering, disease

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Compassion
Dispassionate
Empathy
Impassive
Pathogenic
Sociopath 
Sympathy
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Deep sympathy 
Devoid of personal feeling
Identification with feelings of others 
Showing or feeling no emotion
Causing disease 
Person whose behavior is antisocial 
Harmony or agreement in feeling
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Pau/po/pov/pu

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Few, little, poor

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Impoverishe
Paucity 
Pauper
Poverty
Puerile
Pusillanimous
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To deplete
Smallness of quantity
Person without any personal means of support 
Condition of being poor 
Childish 
Lacking courage
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Pec

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Money

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Impecunious
Peculation
Pecuniary

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Having no money
Embezzlement
Relating to money

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Ped
Child, education
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Encyclopedia Pedagogue Pedant Pediatrician
Book or set of books containing articles on various topics Teach One who displays learning ostentatiously Doctor for kids
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Ped/pod
Food
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``` Antipodes Expedite Impede Pedal Pedestrian Podium ```
Places that are diametrically opposite on globe To speed up the progress To read progress by means of obstacles or hindrances Food operated lever Person who travels on foot Small platform
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Pel
To drive, to push
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``` Compel Dispel Expel Impel Propel ```
``` To force To drive away To drive out To force To drive forward ```
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Pen/pun
To pay, to compensate
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``` Penal Penalty Penance Penitent Punitive ```
``` Of or pertaining to punishment Punishment for violation Punishment undergone to express regret Contrite Serving for or inflicting punishment ```
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Pen/pene
Almost
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Peninsula Penultimate Penumbra
Landmass surround almost all by water Second to last Shaded area between pure shadow and pure light
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Pend/pens
To hang, to weight, to pay
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``` Appendage Appendix Compensate Depend Indispensable Stipend ```
``` Limb or other part from central structure Supplementary material Counterbalance To rely Absolutely necessary Periodic payment ```
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Per
Completely
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``` Perforate Perfunctory Perplex Persistent Perspicacious Pertinacity Peruse ```
``` To make way through or into something Performed merely as routine To cause to be puzzled Lasting or enduring Shrewd Resolute To read with thoroughness ```
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Peri
Around
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Perimeter Peripatetic Periscope
The border Walking or traveling Optical instrument for seeing
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Pet/pit
To go, to seek, to strive
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``` Appetite Centripetal Compete Impetuous Petition Petulant ```
``` Desire for food Moving toward the center To strive to outdo Characterized by rash action Formally drawn request for some benefit Showing sudden irritation ```
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Phil
Love
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Bibliophile Philatelist Philology Philosopher
One that loves books Collects postage stamps Study of literary texts to establish authenticity One who investigates the truths and principles of being
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Phob
Fear
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Phon
Sound
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``` Euphony Megaphone Phonetics Polyphony Telephone ```
``` Quality of sounding good Device to magnify sound Study of sounds Use of simultaneous melodic lines to produce harmonies in music Device to transmit sound at distance ```
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Photo
Light
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Plac
To please
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``` Complacent Complaisant Implacable Placebo Placid ```
``` Self satisfied Include to please Unable to be pleased Substance with no affects Pleasantly calm or peaceful ```
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Ple/plen
To fill, full
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``` Complete Deplete Implement Plenitude Plethora Replete Supplement ```
``` Having all parts To decrease Instrument to accomplish work Fullness Excess Abundantly supplied Add to supply a deficiency ```
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Plex/plic/ply
To fold, twist, tangle, bend
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``` Complex Duplicity Implicate Implicit Replica Supplicate ```
``` Composed of many interconnected parts Deceitfulness in speech To show to be involved Not expressly stated Any close copy To make humble ```
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Poly
Many
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Pon/pos/pound
To put, to place
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``` Component Expose Expound Juxtapose Repository ```
``` Constituent part Lay open to danger Set forth in detail Place close together or side by side Receptacle or place where things are deposited ```
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Port
To carry
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``` Deportment Disport Export Import Importune Portable ```
``` Conduct Diver oneself Transmit abroad Bring in from foreign country Urge with persistence Easily carried ```
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Post
Behind, after
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Post facto Posterior Posterity Posthumous
After the fact Rear Future generations After death
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Pot
To drink
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Potable Potation Potion
Drinkable Drinking Drinkable medicine
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Pre
Before, in front
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``` Precarious Precedent Precept Precocious Premonition Presentment ```
Dependent on circumstances beyond control Act that serves as example for other situations Commandment as rule of action Advanced in development or talent Feeling of anticipation over future event Foreboding
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Prehend/prise
To take, to get, to seize
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``` Apprehend Comprise Enterprise Reprehensible Reprisals Surprise ```
``` To take into custody To include Project undertaken Deserving rebuke or censure Retaliation against enemy Unexpected ```
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Pri/prim
First
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Pro
In front, before, much, for
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``` Problem Proceed Profuse Prolific Propound Proselytize Provident ```
``` Difficult question Go forward Spending or giving freely Highly fruitful Set forth for consideration Convert or attempt to recruit Having or showing foresight ```
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Prob
To prove, to test
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``` Approbation Opprobrium Probe Probity Reprobate ```
``` Praise Disgrace from shameful conduct Search or examine thoroughly Honesty Depraved or wicked person ```
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Prop/prox
Near
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Prot/proto
First
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Protagonist Protocol Prototype Protozoan
Main character Diplomatic etiquette First version Single called
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Pseud/pesudo
False
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Pug
To fight
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Impugn Pugilist Pugnacious Repugnant
Challenge as false Fighter Quarrel or fight readily Objectionable
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Punc/pung/poign
To point, to prick, to pierce
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``` Compunction Expunge Point Punctilious Puncture Pungent ```
``` Feeling of uneasiness Erase, eliminate Sharp or tapering end Strict or exact observance Act of piercing Caustic or sharply expressive ```
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Pyr
Fire
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Pyre Pyromania Pyrosis Pyrotechnics
Bonfire Urge to start fires Heartburn Fireworks
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Quad/quar/quat
Four
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Que/quis
To seek
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``` Acquire Conquest Exquisite Inquisitive Perquisite Querulous Query ```
``` To come into possession Act gaining control Special beauty Given to research Gratuity Full of complaints Question ```
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Quie/quit
Quiet, rest
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``` Acquiesce Disquiet Quiescence Quiet Tranquil ```
``` To comply Lack of calm Condition of being at rest Making little or no sound Free from commotion ```
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Quin/quint
Five
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Raci/radi
Root
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Deracinated Eradicate Radical Radish
To uproot To uproot Pertaining to roots Root veggie
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Rami
Branch
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Re
Back, again
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Recline Regain Remain Reorganize request
``` Lean back Gain again Stay behind Organize again To ask ```
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Rect
Straight, right
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``` Correct Direct Erect Rectangle Rectitude ```
``` To set right To guide Upright Four sided figure Moral uprightness ```
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Reg
King, rule
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``` Interregnum Realm Regal Regent Regicide Regiment Regular ```
``` Period between kinds Kingdom Kindly One who serves on behalf of a king Killing a kind Body of troops Having structure following some rule ```
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Retro
Backward
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Retroactive Retrofit Retrograde Retrospective
Extending to things that happened in past To install newer parts into old structure Move backward Looking at past
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Rog
To ask
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``` Abrogate Arrogant Derogatory Interrogate Surrogate ```
``` Abolish Making claims to importance Claim unwarrantable Belittling To ask questions of Person appointed to act for another ```
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Rub/rud
Red
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``` Rouge Rubella Rubicund Rubric Russet ```
``` Red power for makeup German measles Reddish, rosy cheeks Rule Reddish brown ```
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Rud
Crude
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Erudite Rude Rudimentary Rudiments
Scholarly Uncivilized Undeveloped First principles
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Sarc/sanct
Holy
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``` Execrable Sacrament Sacred Sacrifice Sacrilege Sanctify Sanction ```
``` Abominable Something regarded as possessing sacred character Devoted to religious purpose Offering of something Violation of something sacred To make holy Authoritative ```
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Sag/sap/sav
Taste, thinking, discerning
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``` Insipid Sagacious Sage Sapient Savant Savor ```
``` Tasteless Perceptive Wise Wise Learned person Taste ```
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Sal/sil/sault/sult
To leap, to jump
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``` Assault Desultory Exult Insolent Insult Resilient Salient Somersault ```
``` Sudden or violent attack Random To show or feel joy Boldly rude To treat with contemptuous rudeness Able to spring back to an original form Prominent To roll the body ```
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Sal
Salt
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Salu
Health
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Salubrious | Salutary
Healthful | Healthful
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Salv
To save
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Salvage Salvation Savior
To save Being saved One who saves
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San
Healthy
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Sane Sanitarium Sanitary
Mentally healthy Place of healing Promoting health
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Sang
Blood
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Consanguinity Sanguinary Sanguine
Being related by blood Bloody Hopeful
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Sat
Enough
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``` Assets Dissatisfied Sate Satisfy Saturate ```
``` Property Feeling that one does not have enough To fill To meet ones desires To fill completely ```
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Sci
To now
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``` Conscience Conscious Omniscient Prescient Unconscionable ```
``` The inner sense of right and wrong Aware of own existence Knowing everything Having knowledge of things before they happen Unscrupulous ```
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Scribe/script
To write
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``` Ascribe Circumscribe Conscription Describe Postscript Proscribe Scribble Script Transcript ```
``` To credit or assign To draw line around Draft To tell in words Any addition Condemn as harmful To write hastily Handwriting Written or typed copy ```
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Se
Apart, away
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``` Secede Sedition Seduce Segregate Select Separate Sequester ```
``` To withdrawal formally Incitement of discontent To lead astray To separate or set apart To choose in preference To keep apart To remove ```
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Sec/sequ/sue/sui
To follow
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``` Non sequitur Obsequious Prosecute Pursue Second Sequence Suite ```
``` Inference or conclusion that does not follow from premises Fawning To seek to enforce To chase after Next after first Following one thing after another Series ```
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Sed/sess/sid
To sit, to settle
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``` Assiduous Dissident Insidious Preside Resident Residual Sediment Session ```
``` Diligent, persistent Disagreeing Intended to entrap To exercise management or control Person who lives in place Remaining The matter that settles to bottom Meeting at which people sit together ```
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Sem
Seed, to sow
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Disseminate Semen Seminary
To spread Seed A school
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Semi
Half
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Semicircle | Semiconscious
Half circle | Only partly conscious
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Sen
Old
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Senate Senescent Senile Sire
Highest legislative body Getting old Relating to old age Title for king
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Sens/sent
To feel, to be aware
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``` Dissent Insensate Presentment Resent Sense Sensory Sentiment Sentinel ```
``` Differ in opinion Without feeling Feeling that something is about to happen To feel or show displeasure Any of the faculties by which humans and animals perceive stimuli Of or pertaining to the senses An attitude or feeling toward something Person or thing ```
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Sin/sinu
Bend, fold, curve
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Insinuate Sinuous Sinus
To introduce in sneaky or winding ways Moving in a benign or wavy manner Curved cavity
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Sol
Alone
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``` Desolate Isolate Soliloquize Solipsism Solitude ```
``` Deserted Set apart Talk to oneself Believe that only thing that exists is oneself State of being alone ```
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Sol
Loosen, to free
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``` Absolution Dissolute Dissolution Dissolve Resolution Soluble ```
``` Forgiveness Indifferent to oral restraints Act or process of dissolving into parts Make solution of Formal expression of opinion Capable of being dissolved ```
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Sol
Sun
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Parasol Solar Solarium Solstice
Umbrella Related to sun Sunroom Sun reaches highest point
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Somn
Sleep
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``` Insomnia Somnambulist Somniferous Somniloquist Somnolent ```
``` Inability to sleep Sleepwalker Sleep inducing Talking while sleeping Sleep inducing ```
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Soph
Wisdom
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Sophism | Sophisticated
Superficially appealing but fallacious argument | Complex
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Sourc/surg/surrect
To rise
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``` Insurgent Insurrection Resurrection Source Surge ```
``` Rising up in revolution Rising up in rebellion Coming back to life Where something comes from To rise up forcefully ```
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Spec/spic
To look, to see
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``` Circumspect Conspicuous Perspective Perspicacious Retrospective Specious Spectrum Speculation ```
``` Watchful Easily seen or noticed Mental view of facts Keen mental perception Contemplative of past situations Deceptively attractive Broad range of related things that form continuous series Contemplation or consideration of some subject ```
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Spir
Breath
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Aspire Expire Spirit
To desire To breathe out The breath of life
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Sta/sti
To stand, to be in place
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``` Apostasy Constitute Destitute Obstinate Stasis Static ```
``` Renunciation of an object of ones previous loyalty To make up Without means of subsistence Stubbornly adherent to a purpose State of equilibrium or inactivity Bodies at rest ```
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Strict/string/stran
To tighten, to bind
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Stringent Constrain Restriction Strangle
Causing to tighten Confine Limitation Kill by suffocation
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Sau
Sweet, pleasing, to urge
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Assuage Dissuade Persuade Suave
Make less severe To deter Encourage Smoothly agreeable
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Sub/sup
Below, under
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``` Subliminal Submissive Subsidiary Subterfuge Subtle Suppose ```
Existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness Inclined or ready to submit Serving to assist or supplement Artifice or expedient used to evade a rule Thin, tenuous Put down as a hypothesis
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Summ
Highest, total
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Consummate Sum Summary Summit
Highly qualified Total Concise statement of the total findings Highest point
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Super/sur
Over, above
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``` Supercilious Superfluous Superlative Supersede Surmount Surpass Surveillance ```
``` Arrogant Extra Highest kind or order Replace in power Get over or across To go beyond in amount A watch kept over someone ```
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Sym/syn
Together
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``` Symbiosis Symmetry Sympathy Symposium Synonym Synthesis ```
Living together in mutually beneficial relationship Balanced proportions Affinity Meeting at which ideas are discussed Word that means the same thing combining new things
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Reticent Tacit Taciturn
Disposed to be silent Unspoken understanding Uncommunicative

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