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Roots Vocab Flashcards

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Hab, hib

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Hold (exhibit, habit, habitat)

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Hosp, host

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Host (hospice, hospital, hostess)

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Grat

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Pleasing (congratulations, grateful, gratitude)

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Greg

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Gather (segregation, gregarious, congregation)

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Fug

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Flee (fugitive, refuge, refugee)

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Gen

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Birth (generate, generation)

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Grad

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Step

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Gram

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Letter

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Hydr

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Water (dehydrate, hydrant, hydrogen)

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Imag

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Like, likeness (image, imaginary, imagination)

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Init

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Beginning (initial,intimate, initiative)

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Junct

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Join (adjunct, conjunction, juncture)

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Jud, jur, jus

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Law (judge, jury, justice)

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Lab

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Work (collaborative, elaborate, labor)

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Lat

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Carry (collate, relate, translate)

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Log

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Word (apology, dialogue, eulogy)

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Luc, lum

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Light (clucidate, lucid, illuminate)

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Lust

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Shine (illustrate, luster)

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Mar

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Sea (marine, maritime, mariner)

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Mem

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Mindful of (commemorate, memory, memorial, remember)

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21
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Merg, mers

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Dip (emerge, merge, merger)

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Meter

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Measure (barometer, centimeter, diameter)

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Migr

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Move (emigrate, immigrate, immigrant)

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Mim

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Same (mime, mimic, pantomime)

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Min

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Small (mini, minimal, minor)

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Miss, mit

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Send (dismiss, missile, mission)

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Mob

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Move (automobile, mobile, mobilize)

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Mort

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Death (immortal, mortal, mortician)

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Mut

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Change (commute, mutation, mutual)

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30
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Narr

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Tell (narrate, narrative, narrator)

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Neo

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New (neonatal, neophyte, neoclassic)

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Not

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Mark (denote, notation, notice)

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Noun, nun

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Declare, state ( announces denounce, enunciate)

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34
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Nov

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New (innovate, nova, novel)

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Onym

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Name (antonym, homonym, pseudonym)

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36
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Opt

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Eye (optic, optician, optical)

37
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Opt

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Best (optimal, optimist, optimise)

38
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Ord

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Row, lined up (extraordinary, order, ordinary)

39
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Path

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Feeling (antipathy, empathy, sympathy)

40
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Pel

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Drive (compel, expel, propel)

41
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pend

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Hang (append, appendix, pendulum)

42
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phon

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Sound (microphone, phonics, phonograph)

43
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Phys

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Nature (physical, physician physique)

44
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plex, plic

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Fold (complex, duplex, perplex, duplicate)

45
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Plur

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More (plural, pluralism, plurality)

46
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Pod

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Foot (podiatrist, podium, tripod)

47
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Poli

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City (cosmopolitan, metropolis, police)

48
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pon, pos

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Place (opponent, deposit, position)

49
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Pug

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Fight (pugnacious, pugilist, repugnant)

50
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Pul

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Urge (compulsion, compulsory, repulse)

51
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quer, ques, quir

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Ask (query, inquiry, inquest)

52
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Ras

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Scrape (abrasive, erase, rasp)

53
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Rect

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Straight (correct, direct, direction)

54
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Reg

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Guide (regal, regent, regulate)

55
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Rid

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Laugh (deride, derisive, ridicule)

56
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Rupt

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Break (abrupt, bankrupt, erupt, rupture)

57
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San

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Health (insane, insanity, sane)

58
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Scend

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Climb (ascend, descend, descendent)

59
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Sci

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Know (conscience, conscious, omniscient)

60
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Scop

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See (microscope, periscope, scope)

61
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Scibe, script

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Write (describe, inscribe, transcript)

62
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Sect

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Cut (dissect, intersect, section)

63
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Sed

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Settle (sedate, sedative, sedentary)

64
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Sense, sent

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Feel (sensation, sense, sensory)

65
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Serv

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Save (conserve, preserve, reserve)

66
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Sim

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Like (similar, simile, simulate)

67
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Sist

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Stand (assist, consist, resist)

68
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Sol

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Alone (desolate, solo, soliloquy)

69
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Solve

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Loosen (absolve, dissolve, resolve)

70
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Soph

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Wise (philosopher, sophisticated, sophomore)

71
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Spir

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Breathe (conspire, inspire, respiration)

72
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Sta

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Stand (station, stationary, stagnate)

73
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Strict

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Make tight (constrict, restrict, strict)

74
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Struct

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Build (construct, destruct structure)

75
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Sum

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Highest (sum, summary, summit)

76
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Surge, surr

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Rise (resurgent, surge, resurrect)

77
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Tact

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Touch (contact, intact, tact)

78
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Tain

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Hold (attain, contain, detain)

79
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Ten

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Stretch (tendency, tense, tension)

80
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Term

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End (determine, exterminate, term)

81
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Tex

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Weave (text, textile, texture)

82
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The

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God (atheism, polytheism, theology)

83
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Therm

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Heat (thermal, thermometer, thermos)

84
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Tort

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Twist (contort, retort, tort)

85
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Trib

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Give (attribute contribute, tribute)

86
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Trud, trus

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Push (intruder, abstruse, intrusive)

87
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Turb

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Confusion (disturb, perturb, turbulent)

88
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Urb

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City (urban, suburb, suburban)

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