Root Words Flashcards

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Ad

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to/toward

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Ab

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off/away from

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Albo/alb

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white

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Alg/algia

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pain

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Anti

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against

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Arthro

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joint

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aster/astr

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star

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bio

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life

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bi (di)

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two

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brachi

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arm

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brady

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slow

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brev

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short

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centi

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hundred

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cephal/cep

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head

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cerat

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horn

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chrom

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color

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crypt

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hidden/covered

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cyan

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blue

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cyte

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cell

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dactyl

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finger

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deca

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ten

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dent

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tooth

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dys

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bad/abnormal, difficult

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e-

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out of/away (without)

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edaphic

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of the soil/rock

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encephal

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brain

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endo/en

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within

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ephemeral

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short lived

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epi

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on/upon

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erythro

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red

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exo (ecto)

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outside of

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glob

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round, ball like

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gross

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thick

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halo

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salt

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hemi

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half

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hesper

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of the evening

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hetero

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unlike/unequal

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holo

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entire, whole

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homo

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same

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hydro

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water

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hyper

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above, beyond

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hypo

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under, below

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inter

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between

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intra

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within

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-ism

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a state or condition

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iso

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equal

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-itis

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inflammation/swelling

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lact

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milk

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leuk/leuko

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white

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macro

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large

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macula

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spot

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mes/meso

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middle

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meta

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last/after/along

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milli

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thousand

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micro

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minute/small or million

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mono

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one

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morph

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form

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myo/my

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muscle

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neo

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new

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nomen

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name

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noto/not

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back

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octo

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eight

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ology

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study of

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onc

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mass, tumor

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osteo

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bone

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pan

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all

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para/par

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near/beside

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path/pathy

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disease/suffering

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ped/pod

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foot/feet

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peri

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around

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philic

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loving

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phobic

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fearing

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phyto

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of plants

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plast/plasia

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form/formation/formed into

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platy

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flat

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poly

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many

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pseudo

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false, deceptive

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ptera (pterous)

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wing

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quad

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four

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sapro

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putrid

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schizo

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to split/split

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scler

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hard

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-sis

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state/condition

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stom/stoma

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mouth

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sacchar

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sugar

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some/somat

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body

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sten

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narrow

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styl

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pillar

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supra

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above, over, beyond

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sym/syn

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together

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tachy

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quick, swift

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tele

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far off, distant

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telo

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end

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thermo

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temperature

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trans

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across

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tri

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three

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trophic

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pertaining to nutrition/ feeding

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ventr

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belly, underside

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zo/zoa

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animal

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zygous

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pair