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Ab

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Off, away from, apart, or down as in abdicate, abduct, abnormal, or abject

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Able/Ible

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Capable of or worthy of as in changeable or combustible

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Ac/Acr

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Sharp, bitter, or sour as in acumen, exacerbate, or acerbic

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Act/Ag

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To do, to drive, to force, or to lead as in agile, agitate, or pedagogue

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Acou

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Hearing as in acoustic

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Ad

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To, toward, or near as in adhere, accede, or adjacent

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Al/Ali/Alter

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Other or another as in alias or alternative

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Am

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Love as in amateur or amicable

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Ambi/Amphi

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Both, on both sides, or around as in ambidextrous, ambiguous, or ambient

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Ambl/Ambul

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To go or to walk as in ambulatory or perambulator

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Anim

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Of life, mind, soul, or breath as in animal, equanimity, unanimous, or magnanimous

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Annui/Enni

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Year as in annuity or perennial

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Ant/Ante

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Before as in antebellum or antedate

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Anthro/Andr

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Man or human as in anthropocentric or androgen

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Anti

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Against or opposite as in antipathy or antipodal

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Apo

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Away as in apogee or apostasy

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Aqua/Aque

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Water as in aquarium or aqueduct

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Arch/Archi/Archy

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Chief, principal, or ruler as in archenemy, architect, or oligarchy

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A/An

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Not or without like atypical or apathy

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Ard

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To burn as in ardent

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Auto

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Self as in autocrat and automatic

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Be

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About, to make, to surround, and to affect as in belittle and bewilder

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Bel/Bell

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Beautiful as in embellish

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Bell

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War as in belligerent and rebel

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Ben/Bene

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Good as in benefit and benign

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Bi/Bin

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Two as in bilateral and binocular

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Bon/Boun

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Good or generous as in bonus and bountiful

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Brev/Brid

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Short or small as in breviloquent, brevet, and abridge

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Cad/Cid

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To fall or happen by chance as in cascade, decadent, accident, and recidivist

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Cant/Cent/Chant

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To sing as in incantation, incentive, and chant

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Cap/Capit/Cipit

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Head or headlong as in caption, capital, and precipitate

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Cap/Cip/Cept

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To take or get as in capture, anticipate, and precept

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Card/Coud/Cord

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Heart as in cardiac, concord, or encourage

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Carn

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Flesh as in carnage or incarnation

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Cast/Chast

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To cut as in castigate or chastise

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Caus/Caut

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To burn as in caustic, holocaust, and cautery

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Ce/Ceed/Cess

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To go, yield, or stop as in predecessor, proceed, and cessation

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Celer

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Speed as in accelerate or celerity

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Cent

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Hundred or hundredth as in centimeter, centipede, and bicentennial

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Centr

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Center as in centrifuge, centrist, and concentric

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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crit

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To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide as in ascertain, discrete, and hypocrite

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Chrom

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Color as in chromatic or chromosome

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Chron

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Time as in anachronism or chronic

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Circu/Circum

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Around as in circuitous or circumspect

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Cis

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To cut as in incision

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Cla/Clo/Clu

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Shut or close as in claustrophobia, cloister, and exclusive

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Claim/Clam

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To shout or to cry as in exclaim or clamor

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Cli

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To lean to toward

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Cli

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To lean toward as in disinclination or proclivity

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Co/Col/Com/Con

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With or together as in coerce, collaborate, commensurate, and conciliate

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Cogn/Conn

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To know as in cognition or incognito

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Contra/Contro/Counter

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Against as in contrary, controversy, and countermand

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Corp/Cors

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Body as in corpulent and corset

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Cosm

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Order, universe, or world as in cosmetic, cosmology, and microcosm

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Cour/Cur

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Running or a course as in cursory or courier

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Cre/Cresc/Cret

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To grow as in increase, accretion, and excrescence

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Cred

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To believe or to trust as in credulity and credit

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Crypt

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Hidden as in cryptology

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Cum/Cumb

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To lie down as in cubicle or incumbent

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Culp

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Fault or blame as in culpable

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Dac/Doc

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To teach as in didactic or indoctrinate

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De

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Away, off, down, completely, reversal as in depart, descend, deferential, and defile

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Dele

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To erase as in indelible

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Dem

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People as in endemic

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Dext

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Right hand, right side, or deft as in ambidextrous, dexter, and dexterity

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Di

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Day as in dial or diurnal

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Di/Dia

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In two, through, or across as in dichotomy, diameter, and diagnose

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Di/Dif/Dis

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Away from, apart, reversal or not as in disperse, disseminate, dissuade, and dilate

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Dic/Dict/Dit

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To say, to tell, or to use words as in interdict, verdict, or predict

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Dign

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Worth as consign and deign

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Dog/Dox

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Opinion as in dogma and orthodox

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Dol

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To suffer, to pain, or to grieve as in condolence, dolorous, and doleful

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Don/Dot/Dow

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To give as in donate, anecdote, and endow

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Dorm

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Sleep as in dormitory

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Dors

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Back as in endorse or dorsal

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Dub

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Doubt as in dubious

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Duc/Duct

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To lead as in induce and abduct

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Dulc

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Sweet as in dulcified

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Dur

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Hard or lasting as in obdurate or duration

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Dys

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Faulty or abnormal as in dysfunctional and dyspepsia

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E/Ex

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Out, out of, from, former, or completely as in efface, evade, exonerate, and extricate

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Ego

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Self as in egoism

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Em/En

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In or into as in embrace or enclose

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Epi

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Upon as in epidermis or epithet

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Equ

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Equal or even as in equidistant and iniquity

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Err

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To wander as in err and erratic

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Esce

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Becoming as in convalescent and obsolescent

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Eu

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Good or well as euphonic and eugenics

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Extra

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Outside or beyond as in extradite and extrasensory

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Fab/Fam

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To speak as in affable and defame

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Fac/Fic/Fig/Fait/Feit/Fy

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To do or to make as in faction, deficient, configuration, counterfeit, and effigy

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Fal

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To err or deceive as in fallacy and infallible

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Fatu

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Foolish as in fatuity

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Fer

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To bring, to carry, or to bear as in referendum, confer, and proffer

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Ferv

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To boil or to bubble as in effervescent and fervid

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Fi/Fid

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Faith or trust as in affidavit and confide

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Fin

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End as in definitive and final

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Flagr/Flam

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To burn as in conflagration and flambeau

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Flect/Flex

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To bend or to turn as in deflect and flexible

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Flu/Flux

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To flow as in fluctuation and influx

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Fore

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Before as in foreshadow

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Fort

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Chance as in fortune and fortuitous

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Fort

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Strength as in forte and fortissimo

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Fra/Frac/Frag/Fring

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To break as in fractious, fracture, fragment, and infringe

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Fug

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To flee or to fly as in fugitive and centrifugal

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Fulg

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To shine as in effulgent and refulgent

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Fum

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Smoke as in fumigate and perfume

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Fus

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To pour as in fusillade and profuse

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Gen

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Birth, creation, race, kind as in congenital, engender, gender, and progeny

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Gn/Gno

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To know as in ignoramus and agnostic

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Grad/Gress

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To step as in graduate and egress

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Gram/Graph

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To write or draw as in diagram and photograph

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Grat

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Pleasing as in gratuity and ingratiate

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Greg

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Flock as in congregate and egregious

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Hap

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By chance as in haphazard and hapless

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Hemi

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Half as in hemisphere and hemistich

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Her/Hes

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To stick as in adherent and adhesive

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Hetero

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Different or other as in heterodox and heterogeneous

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Hol

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Whole as in catholic and holograph

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(H)om

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Same as in anomaly and homonym

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Hum

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Earth as in exhume and humble

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Hyper

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Over or excessive as in hyperbole and hyperactive

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Hypo

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Under, beneath, or less than as in hypodermic, hypothesis, and hypochondriac

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Icon

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Image or idol as in iconology and iconic

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Idio

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One’s own as in idiom and idiosyncrasy

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In/Im

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In or into as in intrinsic and implicit

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In/Im

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Not or without as in innocuous and immoral

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Inter

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Between or among as in interim and interloper

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Intra

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Inside or within as in intramural and intravenous

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It/Iter

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Way or journey as in itinerant and reiterate

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Ject

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To throw or throw down as in abject and eject

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Joc

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Joke as in jocose and jocund

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Join/Jug/Junct

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To meet or join as in adjoin, conjugal, and injunction

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Jour

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Day as in adjourn and journal

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Jud

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To judge as in adjudicate and prejudice

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Jur

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Law or to swear as in jurisprudence and abjure

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Juv

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Young as in juvenile and rejuvenate

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Lang/Ling

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Tongue as in bilingual and language

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Laud

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Praise or honor as in cum laude and laudatory

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Lav/Lau/Lu

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To wash as in lavatory, laundry, and ablution

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Lax/Leas/Les

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Loose as in laxative, lease, and relax

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Lec/Leg/Lex

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To read or speak as in dialect, legend, and lexicon

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Lect/Leg

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To select or choose as in eclectic and predilection

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Lev

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To lift, rise, of light (weight) as in alleviate, levitate, and levity

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Li/Lig

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To tie or bind as in lien and ligature

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Liber

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Free as in liberality and libertine

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Lith

A

Stone as in acrolith and lithography

148
Q

Loc/Log/Loqu

A

Word, speech, or thought as in colloquial, dialogue, and loquacious

149
Q

Luc/Lum/Lus

A

Light (brightness) as in lucid, illuminate, and lackluster

150
Q

Lud/Lus

A

To play as in delude and illusion

151
Q

Macro

A

Great or long as in macrocephalous and macrocosm

152
Q

Mag/Maj/Max

A

Big or great as in magnanimous, major, and maxim

153
Q

Mal/Male

A

Bad, ill, evil, or wrong as in maladroit, malediction, malicious, and malapropism

154
Q

Man/Manu

A

Hand as in manifest and manufacture

155
Q

Medi

A

Middle as in immediate and mediocre

156
Q

Mand/Mend

A

To command, order, or entrust as in command, countermand, and recommend

157
Q

Mega

A

Large or great as in megalith and megalopolis

158
Q

Micro

A

Very small as in microchip and microorganism

159
Q

Min

A

Small as in diminish and minutiae

160
Q

Min

A

To project or hang over as in eminent and prominent

161
Q

Mis

A

Bad, wrong, or to hate as in misadventure, misconstrue, and misanthrope

162
Q

Mis/Mit

A

To send as in emissary and remit

163
Q

Misc

A

Mixed as in miscellaneous and promiscuous

164
Q

Mob/Mom/Mot/Mov

A

To move as in automobile, momentum, motive, and remove

165
Q

Moll

A

Soft as in mollify and emollient

166
Q

Mon/Monit

A

To remind or warn as in premonition and admonish

167
Q

Mon/Mono

A

One as in monarchy and monomania

168
Q

Mor/Mort

A

Death as in immortal and moribund

169
Q

Morph

A

Shape as in anthropomorphism and metamorphosis

170
Q

Mult

A

Many as in multiplex and multitudinous

171
Q

Mut

A

Change as in commute and immutable

172
Q

Nat/Nas/Nai/Gna

A

Birth as in native, nascent, naive, and cognate

173
Q

Nau/Nav

A

Ship or sail as in astronaut and circumnavigate

174
Q

Nihil

A

Nothing or none as in annihilate and nihilism

175
Q

Noc/Nox

A

Harm as in innocuous and noxious

176
Q

Noct/Nox

A

Noctambulant and Equinox

177
Q

Nom

A

Rule or order as in autonomy and taxonomy

178
Q

Nom/Nym/Noun/Nown

A

Name

179
Q

Non

A

Not

180
Q

Nounc/Nunc

A

To announce

181
Q

Nov/Neo/Nou

A

New

182
Q

Null

A

Nothing

183
Q

Ob

A

Toward, to, against, over

184
Q

Omni

A

All

185
Q

Oner

A

Burden

186
Q

Oss/Oste

A

Bone

187
Q

Pac/Peac

A

Peace

188
Q

Palp

A

To feel

189
Q

Pan/Pant

A

All or everyone

190
Q

Par

A

Equal

191
Q

Para

A

Next to or beside

192
Q

Pas/Pat/Path

A

Feeling, suffering, or disease

193
Q

Pau/Po/Pov/Pu

A

Few, little, or poor

194
Q

Pec

A

Money

195
Q

Ped

A

Child or education

196
Q

Ped/Pod

A

Foot

197
Q

Pel

A

To drive or push

198
Q

Pen/Pene

A

Almost

199
Q

Per

A

Completely

200
Q

Peri

A

Around

201
Q

Pet/Pit

A

To go, to seek, or to strive

202
Q

Phil

A

Love

203
Q

Phob

A

Fear

204
Q

Phon

A

Sound

205
Q

Photo

A

Light

206
Q

Plac

A

To please

207
Q

Ple/Plen

A

To fill or full

208
Q

Plex/Plic/Ply

A

To fold, twist, tangle, or bend

209
Q

Poly

A

Many

210
Q

Pon/Pos/Pound

A

To put or to place

211
Q

Port

A

To carry

212
Q

Post

A

Behind

213
Q

Pot

A

To drink

214
Q

Pre

A

Before or in front

215
Q

Prehend/Prise

A

To take, get or seize

216
Q

Pri/Prim

A

First

217
Q

Pro

A

In front, before, much, for

218
Q

Prob

A

To prove or test

219
Q

Prop/Prox

A

Near

220
Q

Prot/Proto

A

First

221
Q

Pen/Pun

A

To pay or compensate as in penalty

222
Q

Pend/Pens

A

To hang, weigh, or lay as in appendage

223
Q

Pseud/Pseudo

A

False as in pseudonym

224
Q

Pug

A

To fight as in pugnacious

225
Q

Punc/Pung/Poign

A

To point, prick, or pierce

226
Q

Pyr

A

Fire as in pyromaniacs

227
Q

Quad/Quar/Quat

A

Four as in quadrant

228
Q

Que/Quis

A

To seek as in acquire

229
Q

Quie/Quit

A

Quiet or rest as in quiescence

230
Q

Quin/Quint

A

Five as in quinquennial

231
Q

Raci/Radi

A

Root as in deracinate

232
Q

Rami

A

Branch as in ramifications

233
Q

Re

A

Back or again as in reorganize

234
Q

Rect

A

Straight or right as in erect

235
Q

Reg

A

King or rule

236
Q

Retro

A

Backward as in retroactive

237
Q

Rid/Ris

A

To laugh as in risible

238
Q

Rog

A

To ask as in abrogate

239
Q

Rub/Rud

A

Red as in rubella

240
Q

Rud

A

Crude as in rude

241
Q

Sacr/Sanct

A

Holy as in sacrament

242
Q

Sag/Sap/Sav

A

Taste, thinking or discerning as in sagacious

243
Q

Sal

A

Salt as in saline

244
Q

Sal/Sil/Sault/Sult

A

To leap or jump as in assault and insolent

245
Q

Salu

A

Health as in salubrious

246
Q

Salv

A

Save as in salvage

247
Q

San

A

Health as in sanitary

248
Q

Sang

A

Blood as in sanguinary

249
Q

Sat

A

Enough as in satiate

250
Q

Sci

A

To know as in conscious

251
Q

Scribe/Script

A

To write as in circumscribe

252
Q

Se

A

Apart or away as in secede

253
Q

Sec/Sequ/Sue/Sui

A

To follow as in pursue and suite

254
Q

Sed/Sess/Sid

A

To sit or settle

255
Q

Sem

A

Seed or sow as in seminary

256
Q

Semi

A

Half as in semicircle

257
Q

Sen

A

Old as in senile

258
Q

Sens/Sent

A

To feel or to be aware as in dissent

259
Q

Sin/Sinu

A

Bend, fold, or curve as in sinuous

260
Q

Sol

A

Alone as in solitude

261
Q

Sol

A

Sun as in parasol

262
Q

Sol

A

To loosen or free as in absolution

263
Q

Somn

A

Sleep as in insomnia

264
Q

Soph

A

Wisdom as in sophism

265
Q

Sourc/Surg/Surrect

A

To rise as in source or resurrection

266
Q

Spec/Spic

A

To look or see as in circumspect

267
Q

Spir

A

Breath as in aspire

268
Q

Sta/Sti

A

To stand or be in place

269
Q

Strict/String/Stran

A

To tighten or bind as in constrain

270
Q

Sua

A

Sweet, pleasing, or to urge as in persuade

271
Q

Sub/Sup

A

Below or under as in subtle

272
Q

Summ

A

Highest or total as in summit

273
Q

Super/Sur

A

Over and above as in supersede

274
Q

Sym/Syn

A

Together as in symbiosis

275
Q

Tac/Tic

A

To be silent

276
Q

Tact/Tag/Tam/Tang

A

To touch as in contact

277
Q

Tain/Ten/Tent/Tin

A

To hold as in contain

278
Q

Tend/Tens/Tent/Tenu

A

To stretch or then as in attenuate

279
Q

Test

A

To bear witness as in attest

280
Q

Theo

A

God as in theology

281
Q

Therm

A

Heat as in thermometer

282
Q

Tim

A

Fear as in timid

283
Q

Tor/Torq/Tort

A

Twist as in distort

284
Q

Torp

A

Stuff or numb as in torpedo

285
Q

Tox

A

Poison as in toxic

286
Q

Tract

A

To drag, pull, or draw as in protract

287
Q

Trans

A

Beyond or across as in transgress

288
Q

Ult

A

Last as in ultimate

289
Q

Umbr

A

Shadow as in umbrage

290
Q

Un

A

Not as in unseen

291
Q

Und

A

Wave as in undulate

292
Q

Uni/Un

A

One as in unanimous

293
Q

Urb

A

City as in suburb

294
Q

Us/Ut

A

To use as in utilize

295
Q

Vail/Val

A

Strength, use, or worth

296
Q

Ven/Vent

A

To come or to move toward as in contravene

297
Q

Ver

A

Truth as in veracity

298
Q

Verb

A

Word as in verbose

299
Q

Verd

A

Green as in verdant

300
Q

Vers/Vert

A

To turn as in aversion

301
Q

Vi

A

Life as in viable

302
Q

Vid/Vis

A

See as in video

303
Q

Vil

A

Base or mean as in revile

304
Q

Viru

A

Poison as in virulent

305
Q

Voc/Vok

A

Call or word as in advocate

306
Q

Vol

A

Wish as in benevolent

307
Q

Volu/Volv

A

To roll or turn as in evolve

308
Q

Vor

A

Eat as in carnivore

GRE Vocabulary (4 decks)

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