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1
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Eight parts of speech are…

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Noun, verb, pronoun, adverb, adjective, preposition, conjunction, interjection

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Define the eight parts of speech

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Noun-person place thing. Conjunction-connects words Verb-action linking helping. Interjection -expresses feeling
Pronoun-used in place of nouns
Adverb-modifies a verb
Adjective-modifies noun or pnoun
Preposition-shows relationship between n or p and another word

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Underline…

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Books works of art plays words

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Quote…

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Chapter titles short poems episodes

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Numbers

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Three words use numerals
Dates use numerals
Write if # begins a sentence

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5essential comma spots

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Items in a series Comma error spot
After intro Dates locations titles
Interrupters

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Semi colon spots

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For clarity
Join independent clauses
W/conj. adverbs

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Essential colon spots

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Before formal lists
Before formal statements or quotes
Between Ind clauses whenever second clause explains first

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Rhetoric

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Art of persuasion in speaking and writing

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10
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Claim

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Your thesis statement

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Counter claim

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Mentioning your opponents strongest points and dismissing them with your supported opinion

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12
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Classical rhetoric appeals

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Logos- appeals to readers ability to reason
Pathos- appeal to emotion
Ethos- appeal to what other respected people think of your own credibility

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3000-50 BC

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Ancient Egypt

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1607

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Jamestown

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1776

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D of I

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1861-1865

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Civil war

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17
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1917-1918

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WWI

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18
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1941-1945

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WWII

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19
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1960s

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Vietnam war civil rights jfk milk

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20
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Hook meathods

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Anecdote fig Lang statement dialogue

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21
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Hero journey

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1 separation
2 initiation
3 discovery
4 return

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22
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One of the four humors meaning anger

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Choler

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23
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Cruel ruler

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Tyrant

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Harmful

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Pernicious

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Enemy

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Adversary

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26
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Heroic brave courageous

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Valiant

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27
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Suffering pain

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Anguish

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28
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Magnificent, grand

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Splendor

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29
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Wedding marriage

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Nuptials

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30
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State of seriousness

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Solemnity

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31
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Outward appearance

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Semblance

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32
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Confession

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Shrift

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33
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Lies

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Perjuries

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34
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State of envy or jealousy

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Envious

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35
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Courteous polite kind

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Gracious

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36
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Abuse torture to make someone suffer

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Torment

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37
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To question ask about

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Inquire

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38
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To fake to pretend to be affected

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Feign

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39
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Speed, urgency in movement

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Haste

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40
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Eat, consume quickly

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Devour

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41
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Excessive pride in ones self

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Conceit

42
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Fight

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Quarrel

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Chaos excessive disagreement

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Discord

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Accepting circumstances

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Submission

45
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A man exhibiting female characteristics

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Effeminate

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Loving feeling affection

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Amorous

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Bright stands out

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Garish

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Tiresome

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Tedious

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Lying misinterpreting the truth

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Deceit

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Native naturally occurring in a particular region

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Indigenous

51
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Acts of straying from the right or normal way

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Aberrations

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With out permission

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Illicitly

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Quality of being religious or reverent

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Piety

54
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To instruct and improve, particularly in more religious knowledge

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Edification

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Conductive to success favorable

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Auspicious

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Act of kindness wanting to do good

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Benevolence

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Exhibiting a tendency to quarrels or disputes

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Contentious

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Be filled with a feeling of love for

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Enamored

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Overwhelm with things or people to be dealt with

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Inundate

60
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Showing a comparison, a relationship

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Analogous

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Feeling or expressing great happiness and triumph

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Jubilant

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Inborn natural

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Innate

63
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Concise and exact use of words in writing or speech

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Brevity

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Coming after something in time following

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Subsequent

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Action or speech that makes someone annoyed or angry

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Provocation

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Characterized by anger violent

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Vehement

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Having or displaying a friendly or pleasant manner

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Amiable

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Lacking in special interest, dull

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Blandly

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Evil harmful cruel

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Malicious

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To put down bully, deny self worth

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Degrading

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Reddish but healthy in color

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Ruddy

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Approach and address boldly or aggressively

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Accost

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Incapable of producing any useful result, pointless

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Futile

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Consisting of parts that together form a whole

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Integration

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Act or practice of being separate

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Segregation

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Taking extreme care with minute details. Precise

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Meticulous

77
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Form of punishment in which a person is forced to run through two rows of people who strike at him or her

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Gauntlet

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Extremely disturbing or distressing

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Harrowing

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A complete failure, disaster, catastrophe

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Fiasco

80
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An overwhelming quality or explosion as words, blows, criticism

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Barrage

81
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Prevent someone from accomplishing something

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Thwarted

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Root

In front of, earlier

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Fore

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Root

Faith

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Fid

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Root

Flower

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Flor

85
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Root

Preform work

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Funct

86
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Root

Earth global ,soil

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Geo

87
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Root

Angle

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Gon

88
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Root

Sun

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Helio

89
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Root

Too much over exsessive

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Hyper

90
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Root

Under

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Hypo

91
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Root

Medical care

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Iatr

92
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Root

Peculiar, personal, distinct

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Idio

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Root

Beneath blow

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Infra

94
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Root

Between among jointly

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Inter

95
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Root

Throw

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Ject

96
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Root

Work

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Lab

97
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Root

Milk

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Lac

98
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Root

Side

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Later

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Root

Long

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Macro

100
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Root

Great, large

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Magn

101
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Root

Mental illness

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Mania

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