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Ab/Abs

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Off, away from, apart, down

Abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal, abdicate, abstinence, abstruse

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A

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Without

Amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous, apathy, atrophy, anomaly, agnostic.

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Ac/Acr

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Sharp, bitter

Acid, acute, acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, exacerbate

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Act/Ag

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To do, to drive, to force, to lead

Agile, agitate, litigate, prodigal, pedagogue, synagogue

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Ad/Al

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To, toward, near

Adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address, adhere, adjoin, advocate

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Al/Ali/Alter

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Other, another

Alternative, alias, alibi, alien, alter ego, altruist, allegory

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Am

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Love

Amateur, amatory, amenity, amorous, enamored, amity, inamorata, amiable, amicable

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Amb

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To go, to walk

Ambient, ambitious, preamble, ambassador, ambulance, ambulatory, ambush, preambulator

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Ambi/Amph

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Both, more than one, around

Ambiguous, amphibian, ambidextrous

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Anim

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Of the life, mind, soul, spirit

Unanimous, animus, equanimity, magnanimous

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Annui/Enni

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Year

Annual, anniversary, annuity, perennial, annals

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Ante

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Before

Anterior, Antecedent, antedate, antebellum, antediluvian

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Anthro/Andr

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Man, human

Anthropology, android, misanthrope, philanderer, androgynous, androgen, anthropocentric

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Anti

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Against

Antibody, antidote, antiseptic, antipathy, antipodal

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Apo

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Away

Apology, apostle, apocalypse, apogee, apocryphal, apostasy

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Arch/Archi/Archy

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Chief, principal, ruler

Architect, archenemy, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy

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Auto

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Self

Automatic, autocrat, autonomy

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Be

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To be, to have a particular quality, to exist

Belittle, bemoan, bewilder, belie

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Bel/Bell

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War

Antebellum, rebel, belligerent

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Ben/Bon

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Good

Benefit, benign, benediction,benelovent, bonus, bona fide.

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Bi

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Twice, double

Binocular, biennial, bilateral, bilingual, bipartisan

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Cad/Cid

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To fall, to happen by chance

Accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivist

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Cant/Cent/Chant

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To sing

Accent, chant, enchant, recant, incantation, incentive

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Cap/Cip/Cept

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To take, to get

Capture, anticipate, susceptible, emancipate, percipient, precept

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Card/Cord/Cour

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Heart

Cardiac, encourage, concord, discord, concordance

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Cap/Capit/Cipit

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Head, headlong

Capital, disciple, precipitate, precipice, capitulate, caption

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Carn

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Flesh

Carnivorous, carnage, carnival, reincarnation, incarnation

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Cast/Chast

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Cut

Cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste

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Ced/Ceed/Cess

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To go, to yield, to stop

Antecedent, concede, predecessor, cessation, incessant

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Centr

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Center

Concentrate, eccentric, concentric, centifuge, centrist

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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crim

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To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide

Discrete, ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion

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Chron

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Time

synchronize, chronology, anachronism, chronic, chronometer

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Circu

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Around, on all sides

Circumference, circumstances, circuit, circumambulate, circuitous

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Cis

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To cut

Scissors, precise, exorcise, incision, incisive

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Cla/Clo/Clu

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Shut, close

Conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, exclusive, cloister, preclude

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Claim/Clam

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To shout, to cry out

Exclaim, proclaim, clamor, disclaim, reclaim

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Cli

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Decline, recline, climax, proclivity, disclination

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Co/Col/Com/Con

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With , together

Connect, coerce, compatible, collide, collaborate, conciliate, commensurate

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Cour/Cur

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Running, a course

Recur, curriculum, courier, excursion, cursive, concur, incursion, cursory

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Cre/Cres/Cret

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To grow

Accrue, creation, increase, increment, accretion

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Cred

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To believe, to trust

Incredible, ceredentials, credo, credulity, credit

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Crup

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Hidden

Crypt, apocryphal, cryptology, crytography

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Cub/Cumb

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To lie down

Cubicle, succumb, incubate, incumbent, recumbent

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Culp

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Blame

Culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa

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Dac/Doc

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To teach

Doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate, docile, didactic

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De

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Away, off, down, completely, reversal

Descend, decipher, defile, defame, deferential, delineate

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Dem

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People

Democracy, epidemic, endemic, pandemic, demographics

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Di/Dia

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Apart, through

Dialogue, diagnose, dilate, dilatory, dichotomy

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Dic/Dict/Dit

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To say, to tell, to use words

Dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict

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Dign

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Worth

Dignity, dignitary, deign, condign, disdain

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Dis/Dif

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Away from, apart, reversal, not

Disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, diffuse

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Dog/Dox

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Opinion

Orthodox, paradox, dogma

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Dol

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Suffer, pain

Condolences, indolence, doleful, dolorous

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Don/Dot\Dow

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To give

Donate, pardon, antidote, anecdote, endow

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Dub

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Doubt

Dubious, dubiety, indubitable

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Duc/Duct

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To lead

Abduct, conduct, conducive, induce, induct, produce

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Dur

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Hard

Endure, durable duress, dour, duration

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Dys

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Faulty, abnormal

Dystrophy, dyspepsia, dyslexia, dysfunctional

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E/Ef/Ex

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Out, out of, from, former, completely

Evade, exclude, extricate, exonerate, expire, efface

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Epi

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Upon

Epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epigram, epithet

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Equ

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Equal, even

Equation, adequate, equidistant, iniquity

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Err

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To wander

Err, error, erratic, arrant

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Esce

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Becoming

Adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent, convalescent, reminiscent

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Eu

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Good, well

Euphemism, eulogy, eugenics, euthanasia

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Extra

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Outside, beyond

Extraordinary, extract, extradite, extrasensory, extrapolate

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Fab/Fam

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To speak

Fable, affable, ineffable, famous, defame

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Fac/Fic/Fig/Fait/Feit/Fy

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To do, to make

Factory, faction, deficient, prolific, configuration, ratify, effigy, counterfeit

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Fer

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To bring, to carry, to bear

Offer, confer, referendum, proffer, proliferate

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Ferv

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To boil, to bubble

Fervor, fervid, effervescent

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Fid

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Faith, trust

Confide, affidavit, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel

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Fin

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End

Final, confine, definitive, infinite, infinitesimal

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Flag/Flam

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To burn

Flammable, flambeau, flagrant, conflaguration

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Flect/Flex

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To bend

Deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect

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Flu/Flux

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To flow

Fluid, fluctuation, effluence, confluence, mellifluous

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Fore

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Before

Foresight, foreshadow, forestall, forthright

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Fort

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Chance

Fortune, fortunate, fortuitous

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Fort

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Strength

Fortify, fortissimo, forte

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Fra/Frac/Frag/Fring

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To break

Fracture, fragment, fractious, refractory, infringe

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Fus

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To pour

Profuse, fusillade, suffuse, diffuse, infusion

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Gen

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Birth, creation, race, kind

Generous, genetics, gender, carcinogen, congenital, progeny, miscegenation

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Gn/Gno

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Know

Agnostic, ignore, ignoramus, recognize, incognito, prognosis, diagnose

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Grad/Gress

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To step

Progress, aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, regress

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Grat

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Pleasing

Grateful, ingratiate, gratuity, gracious

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Her/Hes

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To stick

Coherent, Dhesive, inherent, adherent, heredity

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(H)etero

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Different

Heterosexual, heterogeneous, heterodox

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(H)om

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Same

Homogenous, homonym, homosexual. Anomaly, homeostasis

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Hyper

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Over, excessive

Hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia

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Hypo

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Under, beneath, less than

Hypodermic, hypochondriac, hypocritical, hypothesis

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Idio

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One’s own

Idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy

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Im/In/Em/En

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In, into

Embrace, enclose, intrinsic, influx, implicit, incarnate, indigenous

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Im/In

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Not, without

Inactive, innocuous, indolence, impartial, indigent

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Inter

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Between, among

Interstate, interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse

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Ject

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To throw, to throw down

Inject, dejected, eject, conjecture, abject

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Join/Junct

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To meet, to join

Junction, adjoin, subjugate, rejoinder, junta

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Jur

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To swear

Perjury, abjure, adjure

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Lav/Lut/Luv

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To wash

Lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge, antediluvian, ablution

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Lect/Leg

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Tpmselect, to choose

Collect, elect, select, eclectic, prelidection

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Lev

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Life, light, rise

Relieve, alleviate, relevant, levee, levitate, levity

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Loc/Log/Loqu

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Word, speech

Dialogue, elocution, prologue, eulogy, colloquial, grandiloquent, loquacious

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Luc/Lum/Lus

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Light

Illustrate, illuminate, illustrious, translucent, lackluster, lucid, luminous

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Lud/Lus

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To play

Allude, illusion, ludicrous, prelude

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Mag/Maj/Max

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Big

Magnify, magnitude, maximum, magnate, magnanimous, maxim

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Mal/Male

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Bad, ill, evil, wrong

Malfunction, malicious, malign, malady, maladroit, malapropism, malfeasance, malediction.

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Man

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Hand

Manual, manufacture, emancipate, manifest, mandate

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Min

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Small

Minute, minutiae, miniature, diminish, diminution

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Mis/Mit

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To send

Transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission

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Misc

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Mixed

Miscellaneous, miscegenation, promiscuous

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Mon/Monit

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To remind, to warn

Monument, monitor, summon, admonishm remonstrate

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Morph

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Shape

Amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphism

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Mort

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Death

Immortal, morbid, moribund

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Mut

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Change

Commute, mutation, transmutation, permutation, immutable

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Nat/Nas/Nai

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To be born

Natural, native, naive, cognate, renaissance, nascent

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Nc/Noc/Nox

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Harm

Innocent, noxious, obnoxious, innocuous

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Nom

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Rule, order

Astronomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy, autonomy

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Nom/Nym/Noun/Nown

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Name

Snonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym

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Nounc/Nunc

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To announce

Announce, pronounce, renounce

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Nov/Neo/Nou

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New

Novice, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, noveau riche

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Ob/Oc/Of/Op

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Toward, to, against, over

Obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous, obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious

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Omni

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All

Omnibus, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient

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Pac/Peac

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Peace

Appease, pacify, pacifier, pact

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Pan

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All, everyone

Panorama, panegyric, panoply, pantheon, pandemic

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Par

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Equal

Par, parity, apartheid, disparage, disparate

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Para

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Next to, beside

Parallel, parasite, parody, parable, paragon, paranoid

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Pas/Pat/Path

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Feeling, suffering, disease

Sympathy, empathy, compassion, dispassionate, impassive, sociopath, pathogenic

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Pau/Po/Pov/Pu

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Few, little, poor

Poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous, puerile

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Ped

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Child, education

Pedagogue, pediatrician, pedant, encyclopedia

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Ped/Pod

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Foot

Pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes

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Pen/Pun

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To pay, to compensate

Penal penalty, punitive, penance, penitent

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Pend/Pens

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To hang, to weight, to pay

Depend, stipend, compensate, indispensable, appendix, appendage

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Per

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Completely

Persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, perfunctory, pertinacious, perspicacious

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Peri

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Around

Perimeter, periscope, peripatetic

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Pet/Pit

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To go, to seek, to strive

Appetite, petition, centripetal, impetuous, petulant

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Phil

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Love

philosophy, philatelist, philology, bibliophile

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Plac

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To please

Placid, placebo, implacable, complacent, complaisant

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Ple

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To fill

Complete, deplete, supplement, implement, replete, plethora

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Plex/Plic/Ply

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To fold, twist, tangle, or bend

Complex, implicit, implicate, duplicity, supplicate

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Pon/Pos/Pound

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To put, to place

component, expose, juxtapose, respository

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Port

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To carry

Import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune

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Post

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After

Posthumous, posterior, posterity, post facto

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Pre

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Before

Precarious, precocious, premonition, presentiment, precedent, precept

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Prehend/Prise

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To take, to get, to seize

Surprise, enterprise, reprehensible, compromise, reprisals, apprehend

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Pro

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Much, for, a lot

Prolific, profuse, prodigal, prodigious, proselytize, propound, provident

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Prob

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To prove, to test

Probe, approbation, opprobrium, reprobate, problematic, probity

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Pug

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To fight

Pugnacious, impugn, repugnant, pugilist

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Punc/Pung/Poign

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To point, to prick

Point, puncture, pungent, compunction, punctilious, expunge

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Que/Quis

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To seek

Acquire, exquisite, conquest, inquisitive, query, querulous, perquisite

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Qui

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Quiet

Quiet, disquiet, tranquil, quiescence

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Rid/Ris

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To laugh

Riddle, derision, risible

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Rog

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To ask

Interrogate, arrogant, abrogate, surrogate, derogatory, arrogate

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Sacr/Sanct/Secr

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Sacred

Sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable, sacrament, sacrilege

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Sal/Sil/Sault/Sult

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To leap, to jump

Insult, assault, somersault, salient, resilient, insolent, exult, desultory

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Sci

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To know

conscious, conscience, unconscionable, omniscient, prescient

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Scribe/Scrip

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To write

Scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe, ascribe, conscription, transcript, circumscribe

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Se

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Apart

Select, separate, seduce, segregate, secede, sequester, sedition

154
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Sec/Sequ

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To follow

Second, prosecute, sequence, obsequious, non sequitur

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Sed/Sess/Sid

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To sit, to be still, to plan, to plot

Preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual, subsidiary, insidious, assiduous

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Sens/Sent

A

To feel, to be aware

Sense, sensory, sentiment, presentiment, dissent, resent, sentinel, insensate

157
Q

Sol

A

To loosen, to free

Dissolve, soluble, resolution, dissolution, dissolute, absolution

158
Q

Spec/Spic/Spit

A

To look, to see

Perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum, retrospective, circumspect, perspicacious, conspicuous, specious

159
Q

Sta/Sti

A

To stand, to be in place

Static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostasy

160
Q

Sua

A

Smooth

Suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage

161
Q

Sub/Sup

A

Below

Submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition

162
Q

Super/Sur

A

Above

Surpass, superlative, supersede, supercilious, superfluous, surmount, surveillance

163
Q

Tac/Tic

A

To be silent

Reticent, tacit, taciturn

164
Q

Tain/Ten/Tent/Tin

A

To hold

Detain, pertain, tenacious, abstention, tenure, tenable, sustenance, pertinacious

165
Q

Tend/Tens/Tent/Tenu

A

To stretch, to thin

Tension, tentative, tendentious, distend, attenuate, extenuating, contentious

166
Q

Theo

A

God

Atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis

167
Q

Tract

A

To drag, to pull, to draw

Tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract

168
Q

Trans

A

Across

Transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent

169
Q

Us/Ut

A

To use

Abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian

170
Q

Ven/Vent

A

To come, or to move toward

Convene, venturesome, intervene, contravene, adventitious

171
Q

Ver

A

Truth

Verdict, veracious, verity, verisimilitude, aver

172
Q

Verd

A

Greed

verdant, verdure

173
Q

Vers/Vert

A

To turn

Controversy, revert, diverse, aversion, introvert, extrovert, inadvertent, covert, avert

174
Q

Vi

A

Life

Vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, convivial

175
Q

Vid/Vis

A

To see

Evident, video, adviser, survey, vista

176
Q

Vil

A

Base, mean

Vilify, revile, vile

177
Q

Voc/Vok

A

To call

Vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vocation, avocation, vociferous, convoke, invoke

178
Q

Vol

A

To wish

Voluntary, malevolent, benevolent, volition

179
Q

Vor

A

To eat

Voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous

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