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ALIEN

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of another: alienation

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ART

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art, skill: artifact

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FIN

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end, limit: finale

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FIRM

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firm, strong: confirm

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FORT

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strong: fortitude

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GRAND

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great: grandiose

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GRAV [GRIEV]

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heavy: grave, grievance

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LINE [LIGN]

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line: align

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NIHIL/NUL(L)

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nothing: nihilism, annul

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PART

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part: particle, depart

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VERB

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word, verb: verbatim

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VEST

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garment: vest, vestment (VESTIG is a completely different base that means “trace”)

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CED, CESS

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to go, yield: concede, procession

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DUC, DUCT

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to lead: conduct, induce

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JUDIC

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judgement: judiciary, adjudicate

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JUR, JUST

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right, law; take an oath, form an opinion: jury, justice, conjure

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LEV

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light, to lift: levitate, levity, elevate

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LOQU, LOCUT

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to speak: loquacious seelie :), elocution

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LUD, LUS

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to play, mock: ludinus…., delude, illusion

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PREC

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to request, beg, prayer: precarious

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TRUD, TRUS

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to push, thrust: protrude, intrusion

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VEN, VENT [VENU]

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to come: venture, intervene, invention

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CRUC

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cross: crucify

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GREG

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flock, herd: congregate, segregate

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HAB, AB, (HIB)

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to have, hold as customary: habit, inability

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PED

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foot: pedicure, pedal, pedestrian

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PUNG, PUNCT

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to prick, point: puncture, punctual

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SACR (SECR)

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sacred: sacrament

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SANCT

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holy: sanctify, sanctuary

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SENT, SENS

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to feel, think: sensation, sentiment, consent

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TURB

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disturb: turbulent, perturb

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VERT, VERS

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to turn: revert, aversion, versatile

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VI(A)

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way, road: previous

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CLUD, CLUS [CLOS]

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to shut: exclude, disclose

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CUR(R), CURS, [COURS], [COR(S)]

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to run, go: current, excursion

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GRAD, GRESS

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to step, go: regress, graduate

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PEND, PENS

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to hang, weigh, pay: depend, suspend, expense

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PLE, PLET, PLEN

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to fill, full: plentiful, complete, implement

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SPEC, (SPIC), SPECT

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to look: specimen, specter, spectacle

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UND, [OUND]

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wave: undulate, abundant, abound

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VID, VIS, [VIEW]

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to see: evident, visual, vista

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VOC, VOK

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voice, to call: invoke, vocal

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SEMI

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half, partly: semicircle

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UN

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one: unanimous, unicycle

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PRIM

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first: primary, primitive

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DU

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two: duet, dual

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BI, BIN(before vowels)

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two, twice: binary, binoculars, bicycle

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TRI

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three: tricycle, triangle

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QUADR(U)

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four, quadruped

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QUART

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fourth: quartet, quarter

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QUINT

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fifth: quintuplet

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SEXT

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six, sixth: sextet

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SEPT(EM)

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seven: september

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OCT, OCTAV

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eight, eighth: octave, octagon

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DECI(M)

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tenth: decimal, deciliter

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CENT

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hundred: century, centimeter

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MILL

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thousand: millennia

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ANIM

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mind, feeling, life: animal, animated

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ANN(U), (ENNI)

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year: annual, perennial

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BENE, BON

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well, good: benefactor, bonus

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CANT, (CENT) [CHANT]

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to sing: incantation, incentive

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CUR

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cure, care: secure

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EQU, (IQU)

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equal, even: equidistant, iniquity

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FER

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to bear, carry: refer, conference, transfer

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LAT

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to bear, carry: relate, translation

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MAGN

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great: magnitude,

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MAL(E)

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bad, malignant, malicious

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MULT

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many: multiply, multitude

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OPTIM

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best: optimum

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PLIC, PLEX, [PLY]

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to fold, tangle, interweave: complicate, imply, complex

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AQU(A)

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water: aquatic

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CORPOR, CORP(US)

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body: corporeal

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OMN

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all: omnipresent, omnivorous

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REG, (RIG), RECT

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right, straight, to rule, stiffen: rectify, regular

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SIMIL, SIMUL

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similar lol: simulate, simile

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TEMPER, TEMPOR

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time, due season, set bounds: temperate, temporal

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TEN, (TIN), TENT, [TAIN]

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to hold: pretense, tenant

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TEND, TENT, TENS

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to stretch, strive: tendon, tense, pretense

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TENU

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stretched, thin: tenuous, attenuate

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DOM(IN)

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house, master: domicile, dominant

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FLAG(R), FLAM(M)

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to burn, flame: flagrant, flammable

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FLAT

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to blow: flatulence, inflate

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GEN, GENER

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race, origin, kind: genus, generous

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GEN

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to give birth to, produce: generate

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LATER

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side: lateral

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LUC, LUMIN

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shine, light: lucid, lumination

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PAR

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to ready, bring forth, provide: prepare, separate

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SEN

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old: senile, senior

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SERV

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to serve, save: service

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CUMB, CUB

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lie down: succumb, incumber

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FEDER

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league, treaty: federation, confederate

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FID

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faith: confident

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FIDEL

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faithful: fidelity

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HER, HES

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to stick: adhere, adhesive

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ORD(IN)

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to put in order, arrange: order, ordinance

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POT, POSS

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to be able, have power: possess, potent, possible

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SAL (SIL), SALT, SULT

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to leap: insult, salient

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SED, (SID), SESS

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to sit, settle: sediment, insidious, session

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TERR

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land, earth: terraform

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CRED

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to believe, or trust: credible

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DOC, DOCT

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to teach: doctorate, indoctrinate

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FA(B), FAT, FESS, FAM

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to speak, reveal: infant, confess, affable

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FALL, FALS, [FAIL], [FAULT]

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to deceive: fallacy, false, failure, default

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MOD

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measure: module, modest

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MUT

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to change: mutant

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TANG (TING), TACT

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to touch: tactile, tangent

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TRACT

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to drag: traction, tractor

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