Roots Flashcards
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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
Good as in benefit and benign
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Bi/Bin
Two as in bilateral and binocular
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Bon/Boun
Good or generous as in bonus and bountiful
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Brev/Brid
Short or small as in breviloquent, brevet, and abridge
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Cad/Cid
To fall or happen by chance as in cascade, decadent, accident, and recidivist
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Cant/Cent/Chant
To sing as in incantation, incentive, and chant
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Cap/Capit/Cipit
Head or headlong as in caption, capital, and precipitate
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Cap/Cip/Cept
To take or get as in capture, anticipate, and precept
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Card/Coud/Cord
Heart as in cardiac, concord, or encourage
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Carn
Flesh as in carnage or incarnation
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Cast/Chast
To cut as in castigate or chastise
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Caus/Caut
To burn as in caustic, holocaust, and cautery
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Ce/Ceed/Cess
To go, yield, or stop as in predecessor, proceed, and cessation
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Celer
Speed as in accelerate or celerity
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Cent
Hundred or hundredth as in centimeter, centipede, and bicentennial
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Centr
Center as in centrifuge, centrist, and concentric
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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crit
To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide as in ascertain, discrete, and hypocrite
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Chrom
Color as in chromatic or chromosome
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Chron
Time as in anachronism or chronic
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Circu/Circum
Around as in circuitous or circumspect
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Cis
To cut as in incision
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Cla/Clo/Clu
Shut or close as in claustrophobia, cloister, and exclusive
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Claim/Clam
To shout or to cry as in exclaim or clamor
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Cli
To lean to toward
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Cli
To lean toward as in disinclination or proclivity
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Co/Col/Com/Con
With or together as in coerce, collaborate, commensurate, and conciliate
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Cogn/Conn
To know as in cognition or incognito
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Contra/Contro/Counter
Against as in contrary, controversy, and countermand
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Corp/Cors
Body as in corpulent and corset
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Cosm
Order, universe, or world as in cosmetic, cosmology, and microcosm
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Cour/Cur
Running or a course as in cursory or courier
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Cre/Cresc/Cret
To grow as in increase, accretion, and excrescence
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Cred
To believe or to trust as in credulity and credit
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Crypt
Hidden as in cryptology
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Cum/Cumb
To lie down as in cubicle or incumbent
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Culp
Fault or blame as in culpable
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Dac/Doc
To teach as in didactic or indoctrinate
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De
Away, off, down, completely, reversal as in depart, descend, deferential, and defile
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Dele
To erase as in indelible
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Dem
People as in endemic
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Dext
Right hand, right side, or deft as in ambidextrous, dexter, and dexterity
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Di
Day as in dial or diurnal
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Di/Dia
In two, through, or across as in dichotomy, diameter, and diagnose
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Di/Dif/Dis
Away from, apart, reversal or not as in disperse, disseminate, dissuade, and dilate
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Dic/Dict/Dit
To say, to tell, or to use words as in interdict, verdict, or predict
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Dign
Worth as consign and deign
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Dog/Dox
Opinion as in dogma and orthodox
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Dol
To suffer, to pain, or to grieve as in condolence, dolorous, and doleful
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Don/Dot/Dow
To give as in donate, anecdote, and endow
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Dorm
Sleep as in dormitory
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Dors
Back as in endorse or dorsal
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Dub
Doubt as in dubious
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Duc/Duct
To lead as in induce and abduct
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Dulc
Sweet as in dulcified
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Dur
Hard or lasting as in obdurate or duration
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Dys
Faulty or abnormal as in dysfunctional and dyspepsia
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E/Ex
Out, out of, from, former, or completely as in efface, evade, exonerate, and extricate
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Ego
Self as in egoism
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Em/En
In or into as in embrace or enclose
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Epi
Upon as in epidermis or epithet
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Equ
Equal or even as in equidistant and iniquity
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Err
To wander as in err and erratic
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Esce
Becoming as in convalescent and obsolescent
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Eu
Good or well as euphonic and eugenics
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Extra
Outside or beyond as in extradite and extrasensory
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Fab/Fam
To speak as in affable and defame
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Fac/Fic/Fig/Fait/Feit/Fy
To do or to make as in faction, deficient, configuration, counterfeit, and effigy
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Fal
To err or deceive as in fallacy and infallible
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Fatu
Foolish as in fatuity
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Fer
To bring, to carry, or to bear as in referendum, confer, and proffer
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Ferv
To boil or to bubble as in effervescent and fervid
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Fi/Fid
Faith or trust as in affidavit and confide
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Fin
End as in definitive and final
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Flagr/Flam
To burn as in conflagration and flambeau
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Flect/Flex
To bend or to turn as in deflect and flexible
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Flu/Flux
To flow as in fluctuation and influx
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Fore
Before as in foreshadow
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Fort
Chance as in fortune and fortuitous
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Fort
Strength as in forte and fortissimo
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Fra/Frac/Frag/Fring
To break as in fractious, fracture, fragment, and infringe
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Fug
To flee or to fly as in fugitive and centrifugal
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Fulg
To shine as in effulgent and refulgent
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Fum
Smoke as in fumigate and perfume
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Fus
To pour as in fusillade and profuse
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Gen
Birth, creation, race, kind as in congenital, engender, gender, and progeny
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Gn/Gno
To know as in ignoramus and agnostic
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Grad/Gress
To step as in graduate and egress
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Gram/Graph
To write or draw as in diagram and photograph
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Grat
Pleasing as in gratuity and ingratiate
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Greg
Flock as in congregate and egregious
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Hap
By chance as in haphazard and hapless
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Hemi
Half as in hemisphere and hemistich
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Her/Hes
To stick as in adherent and adhesive
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Hetero
Different or other as in heterodox and heterogeneous
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Hol
Whole as in catholic and holograph
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(H)om
Same as in anomaly and homonym
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Hum
Earth as in exhume and humble
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Hyper
Over or excessive as in hyperbole and hyperactive
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Hypo
Under, beneath, or less than as in hypodermic, hypothesis, and hypochondriac
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Icon
Image or idol as in iconology and iconic
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Idio
One's own as in idiom and idiosyncrasy
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In/Im
In or into as in intrinsic and implicit
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In/Im
Not or without as in innocuous and immoral
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Inter
Between or among as in interim and interloper
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Intra
Inside or within as in intramural and intravenous
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It/Iter
Way or journey as in itinerant and reiterate
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Ject
To throw or throw down as in abject and eject
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Joc
Joke as in jocose and jocund
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Join/Jug/Junct
To meet or join as in adjoin, conjugal, and injunction
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Jour
Day as in adjourn and journal
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Jud
To judge as in adjudicate and prejudice
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Jur
Law or to swear as in jurisprudence and abjure
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Juv
Young as in juvenile and rejuvenate
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Lang/Ling
Tongue as in bilingual and language
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Laud
Praise or honor as in cum laude and laudatory
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Lav/Lau/Lu
To wash as in lavatory, laundry, and ablution
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Lax/Leas/Les
Loose as in laxative, lease, and relax
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Lec/Leg/Lex
To read or speak as in dialect, legend, and lexicon
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Lect/Leg
To select or choose as in eclectic and predilection
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Lev
To lift, rise, of light (weight) as in alleviate, levitate, and levity
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Li/Lig
To tie or bind as in lien and ligature
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Liber
Free as in liberality and libertine
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Lith
Stone as in acrolith and lithography
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Loc/Log/Loqu
Word, speech, or thought as in colloquial, dialogue, and loquacious
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Luc/Lum/Lus
Light (brightness) as in lucid, illuminate, and lackluster
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Lud/Lus
To play as in delude and illusion
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Macro
Great or long as in macrocephalous and macrocosm
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Mag/Maj/Max
Big or great as in magnanimous, major, and maxim
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Mal/Male
Bad, ill, evil, or wrong as in maladroit, malediction, malicious, and malapropism
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Man/Manu
Hand as in manifest and manufacture
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Medi
Middle as in immediate and mediocre
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Mand/Mend
To command, order, or entrust as in command, countermand, and recommend
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Mega
Large or great as in megalith and megalopolis
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Micro
Very small as in microchip and microorganism
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Min
Small as in diminish and minutiae
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Min
To project or hang over as in eminent and prominent
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Mis
Bad, wrong, or to hate as in misadventure, misconstrue, and misanthrope
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Mis/Mit
To send as in emissary and remit
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Misc
Mixed as in miscellaneous and promiscuous
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Mob/Mom/Mot/Mov
To move as in automobile, momentum, motive, and remove
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Moll
Soft as in mollify and emollient
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Mon/Monit
To remind or warn as in premonition and admonish
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Mon/Mono
One as in monarchy and monomania
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Mor/Mort
Death as in immortal and moribund
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Morph
Shape as in anthropomorphism and metamorphosis
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Mult
Many as in multiplex and multitudinous
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Mut
Change as in commute and immutable
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Nat/Nas/Nai/Gna
Birth as in native, nascent, naive, and cognate
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Nau/Nav
Ship or sail as in astronaut and circumnavigate
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Nihil
Nothing or none as in annihilate and nihilism
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Noc/Nox
Harm as in innocuous and noxious
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Noct/Nox
Noctambulant and Equinox
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Nom
Rule or order as in autonomy and taxonomy
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Nom/Nym/Noun/Nown
Name
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Non
Not
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Nounc/Nunc
To announce
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Nov/Neo/Nou
New
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Null
Nothing
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Ob
Toward, to, against, over
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Omni
All
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Oner
Burden
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Oss/Oste
Bone
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Pac/Peac
Peace
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Palp
To feel
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Pan/Pant
All or everyone
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Par
Equal
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Para
Next to or beside
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Pas/Pat/Path
Feeling, suffering, or disease
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Pau/Po/Pov/Pu
Few, little, or poor
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Pec
Money
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Ped
Child or education
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Ped/Pod
Foot
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Pel
To drive or push
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Pen/Pene
Almost
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Per
Completely
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Peri
Around
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Pet/Pit
To go, to seek, or to strive
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Phil
Love
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Phob
Fear
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Phon
Sound
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Photo
Light
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Plac
To please
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Ple/Plen
To fill or full
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Plex/Plic/Ply
To fold, twist, tangle, or bend
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Poly
Many
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Pon/Pos/Pound
To put or to place
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Port
To carry
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Post
Behind
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Pot
To drink
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Pre
Before or in front
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Prehend/Prise
To take, get or seize
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Pri/Prim
First
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Pro
In front, before, much, for
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Prob
To prove or test
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Prop/Prox
Near
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Prot/Proto
First
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Pen/Pun
To pay or compensate as in penalty
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Pend/Pens
To hang, weigh, or lay as in appendage
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Pseud/Pseudo
False as in pseudonym
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Pug
To fight as in pugnacious
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Punc/Pung/Poign
To point, prick, or pierce
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Pyr
Fire as in pyromaniacs
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Quad/Quar/Quat
Four as in quadrant
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Que/Quis
To seek as in acquire
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Quie/Quit
Quiet or rest as in quiescence
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Quin/Quint
Five as in quinquennial
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Raci/Radi
Root as in deracinate
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Rami
Branch as in ramifications
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Re
Back or again as in reorganize
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Rect
Straight or right as in erect
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Reg
King or rule
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Retro
Backward as in retroactive
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Rid/Ris
To laugh as in risible
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Rog
To ask as in abrogate
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Rub/Rud
Red as in rubella
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Rud
Crude as in rude
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Sacr/Sanct
Holy as in sacrament
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Sag/Sap/Sav
Taste, thinking or discerning as in sagacious
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Sal
Salt as in saline
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Sal/Sil/Sault/Sult
To leap or jump as in assault and insolent
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Salu
Health as in salubrious
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Salv
Save as in salvage
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San
Health as in sanitary
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Sang
Blood as in sanguinary
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Sat
Enough as in satiate
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Sci
To know as in conscious
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Scribe/Script
To write as in circumscribe
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Se
Apart or away as in secede
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Sec/Sequ/Sue/Sui
To follow as in pursue and suite
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Sed/Sess/Sid
To sit or settle
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Sem
Seed or sow as in seminary
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Semi
Half as in semicircle
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Sen
Old as in senile
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Sens/Sent
To feel or to be aware as in dissent
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Sin/Sinu
Bend, fold, or curve as in sinuous
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Sol
Alone as in solitude
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Sol
Sun as in parasol
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Sol
To loosen or free as in absolution
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Somn
Sleep as in insomnia
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Soph
Wisdom as in sophism
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Sourc/Surg/Surrect
To rise as in source or resurrection
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Spec/Spic
To look or see as in circumspect
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Spir
Breath as in aspire
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Sta/Sti
To stand or be in place
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Strict/String/Stran
To tighten or bind as in constrain
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Sua
Sweet, pleasing, or to urge as in persuade
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Sub/Sup
Below or under as in subtle
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Summ
Highest or total as in summit
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Super/Sur
Over and above as in supersede
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Sym/Syn
Together as in symbiosis
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Tac/Tic
To be silent
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Tact/Tag/Tam/Tang
To touch as in contact
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Tain/Ten/Tent/Tin
To hold as in contain
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Tend/Tens/Tent/Tenu
To stretch or then as in attenuate
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Test
To bear witness as in attest
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Theo
God as in theology
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Therm
Heat as in thermometer
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Tim
Fear as in timid
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Tor/Torq/Tort
Twist as in distort
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Torp
Stuff or numb as in torpedo
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Tox
Poison as in toxic
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Tract
To drag, pull, or draw as in protract
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Trans
Beyond or across as in transgress
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Ult
Last as in ultimate
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Umbr
Shadow as in umbrage
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Un
Not as in unseen
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Und
Wave as in undulate
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Uni/Un
One as in unanimous
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Urb
City as in suburb
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Us/Ut
To use as in utilize
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Vail/Val
Strength, use, or worth
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Ven/Vent
To come or to move toward as in contravene
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Ver
Truth as in veracity
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Verb
Word as in verbose
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Verd
Green as in verdant
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Vers/Vert
To turn as in aversion
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Vi
Life as in viable
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Vid/Vis
See as in video
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Vil
Base or mean as in revile
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Viru
Poison as in virulent
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Voc/Vok
Call or word as in advocate
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Vol
Wish as in benevolent
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Volu/Volv
To roll or turn as in evolve
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Vor
Eat as in carnivore
