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AC / ACT

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to do to drive

agent
inactive
transact

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AGON

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struggle, contest

agony
antagonist
protagonist

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AM

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to love
amiable
amorous
enamor

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ANTRHOP

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man, human being

anthropology
philanthropist

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ARCH

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chief, first, to rule

archenemy
monarch
anarchy

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ART

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art, skill, craft

artisan
artificial

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AUDI

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to hear
audible,
audition
audience

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AUTO

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self

autonomous
automobile

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BIBLI

Greek

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book

bibliography
bibliophile

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BIO

Greek

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Life

biology
autobiography
antibiotic

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CAD
CAS
CID

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to fall, to befall, to happen

decadent
cascade
accident

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CAP
CAPT
CEPT
CIP

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to take, to seize

capacious
capture
accept
recipient

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CAPIT

CIPIT

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head

capital
decapitate
precipitate

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CARN

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flesh

carnal
carnage
incarnate

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CEDE
CEED
CESS

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to go, to yield

precede
succeed
access

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CERN

CRET

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to separate, to distinguish

discern
discretion
secret

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CHRON

Greek

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time

chronic
chronology
synchronism

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CIDE

CIS

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to kill, to cut

genocide
insecticide
incision

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CLAM

CLAIM

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to cry out

clamor
exclaim
reclaim

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CLIN

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to lean, to slope

recline
anticline
decline

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CLUD
CLUS
CLOS

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to close

include
exclusive
closet

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CORD

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heart

cordial
concord
discord

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CRED

CREDIT

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to believe, to trust

credible
credulous
accredited

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CRYPT, CURS, COURSE

Greek

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to run, to go

recur
current
cursive
recourse

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DEM(O) | Greek
people epidemic demotic democracy
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DIC | DICT
to say indicate predict malediction
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DUC, DUCT
to lead superinduce abduct production
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EQU
equal, even equation equivocate inequitable
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FAC, FACT, FECT, FIC
to do, to make facile factory defect deficient
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FER
to beat, to carry confer furtile nontransferable
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FID
faith fidelity confide perfidious
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FORT
strong fortify fortitude effort
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FRANG FRACT FRINGE
to break irrefrangible fracture infringe
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FUND FUS FOUND
to pour, to melt refund transfusion confound
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GEN | GENIT
birth, race, kind, cause progeny indigenous congenital
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GER | GEST
to bear, to carry, to produce belligerent suggestion gestation
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GRAPH GRAM (Greek)
to write autograph biography epigram
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GRAT
free, pleasing, grateful gratuity ingrate ingratiate
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HOMO | Greek
same homogeneous homonym homophone
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HYDR | Greek
water hydrant dehydrate hydraulic
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JAC | JECT
to throw adjacent, ejaculate, eject
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JUNCT JUG JOIN
to join, to marry conjunction conjugal enjoin
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JUR
to swear juror adjure juridical
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LEG LECT LIG
to choose, to gather, to read legislator lecture eligible
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LOG LOGUE (Greek)
speech, word, reasoning neologism eulogy prologue
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LOQU | LOCUT
to speak loquacious elocution prolocutor
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MAL(E)
bad, evil malformation dismal malediction
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MANU
hand manual manacle amanuensis
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MIT(T) | MIS(S)
to send, to let go admit, intermittent demise mission
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MORT
death mortal morbid mortuary
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MOV MOT MOB
to move remove motive demobilization
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NEO | Greek
new neophyte neologism Neoplatonic
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NOMEN NOMIN NOM
name cognomen nominate misnomer
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OMNI
all omnipotent omniscient omnivorous
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PATH | Greek
feeling, suffering, disease pathos sympathy antipathy
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PED
foot pedal pedestrian impede
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PEND | PENS
to hand, to weigh, to pay suspend pensive compensate
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PET | PETIT
to seek, to assail petulant petition competitor
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PHIL | Greek
to love philology philanthropist philospher
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PHOB | Greek
to fear acrophobia hydrophobia photophobia
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PHON | Greek
sound, voice phonograph antiphon euphony
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PHOT PHOS (Greek)
light photograph photosynthesis phosphorus
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PHYSI | Greek
nature physics physiology physique
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PLAC
to please, to appease placid implacable complacent
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PLIC PLICIT PLEX PLY
to fold, to interweave, to tangle complicate explicit perplex multiply
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PON POS(IT) POUND
to place, to put exponent impostor deposit propound
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PORT
to carry report exportation portfolio
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PROTO | Greek
first, original, primitive prototype protozoa protocol
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PSYCH | Greek
mind, soul psychology psychogenic psychopathic
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QUIR QUISIT QUEST
to ask, to see inquire prerequisite conquest
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RAP | RAPT
to snatch, to seize rapine rapid rapture
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REG, RECT
to rule, to keep straight regime regiment rectitude
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RUPT
to break interrupt rupture incorruptible
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SAL SIL SULT
to leap salient resilient insult
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SCI
to know science conscious
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SCRIB | SCRIPT
To write Prescribe inscription manuscript
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SED SESS SID
to sit, to settle non-sedentary session dissident
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SENS | SENT
To feel, to perceive sensation consequence persecute
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SEQU | SECUT
to follow sequel consequence persecute
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SERV
to serve, to protect, to save servant preserve conservatory
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SPEC SPECT SPIC
to look, to see speculate introspection perspicuous
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ST(A) STAT SITT
to stand constant stablish institute
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STRING STRICT STRAIN
to draw tight astringent constriction restrain
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TANG TACT TING
to touch tangent tactile contingent
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TEN TIN TAIN
to hold untenable abstinence abstain
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TEND TENS TENT
to stretch, to strive tendency intense attention
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THE THEO (Greek)
god atheist theology pantheon
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TOM | Greek
to cut, a section anatomy entomology craniotomy
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TRACT
to drag, to draw tractor extraction retract
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US | UT
to use usury peruse utility
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VEN | VENT
to come provenience convention advent
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VER
true veracious verdict verify
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VERT | VERS
to turn revert irreversible controversy
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VID | VIS
to see evident provident vision
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VIV
to live revive convivial vivid
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VOC | VOK
voice, to call vocal advocate evoke
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VOLV | VOLU
to roll, to turn, to wind revolve volume circumvolve
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CULP
blame, fault culprit culpable inculpate
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CUMB | CUB
to lie (down) succumb incumbent incubator
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CUR(R) CURS COURSE
to run, to go recur current cursive recourse

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