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Unit 1-20 Roots Flashcards

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Am

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To love

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Bene

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Well

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Bell

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War

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Pac

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Agree or peace

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Crim

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Fault or crime

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Prob

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Prove or proof

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Grav

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Heavy

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Lev

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Light

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Mania

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Madness

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Psych

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Breath, life, or soul

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Cept

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Take, seize

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Fin

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End

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Ject

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Throw or hurl

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Tract

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Drag or draw

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Duc/ Duct

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To lead

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Sequ

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To follow

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Ambi

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Both sides or around

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Epi

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On, over, or attached to

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Hyp/ Hypo

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Below, under

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Therm/ Thermo

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Warm

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Poly

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Many

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Prim

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First

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Hom/ Homo

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Same

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Dis

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Opposite or apart

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Vor

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Eat

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Carn

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Flesh or neat

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Cred

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To believe or to entrust

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Fid

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Faith or trust

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Curr/ curs

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To run

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Ped

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Foot

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Flect

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To bend

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Post

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After or behind

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Mal

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Bad

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Cata

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Down

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Prot/ Proto

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First in time or first formed

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Ante

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Before or in front of

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Ortho

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Straight, right, or true

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Rect

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Straight or right

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Eu

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Well

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Dys

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Bad or difficult

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Equ

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Equal

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Quis

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To seek or obtain

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Ple/ Plen

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To fill

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Metr/ Meter

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Measure

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Aud

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Having to do with hearing

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Son

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Sound

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Err

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To wander or to stray

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Ced

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To proceed or to yield

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Vis

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See

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Spect

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To look at

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Voc

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Voice or speak

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Phon

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Sound, voice, or speech

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Cur

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Care for

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Peri

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Around

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Sens

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Feeling or sense

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Soph

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Wise and wisedom

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Port

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To carry

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Pend

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To hang or to weigh

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Pan

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All

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Extra

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Outside or beyond

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Phot

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Light

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Luc

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Light

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Mor/ Mort

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To die or death

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Troph

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Nourishment

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Her

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Fug

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To flee or escape

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Cosm

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Sci

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To know or to understand

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Junct

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Part

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Mis

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Pel

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To move or drive

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Put

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To think, consider, or believe

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Log

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Word, speech, or reason

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Terr

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Mar

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Path

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Feelings or suffering

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Pen/ Pun

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Penalty and punish

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Matr/ Mater

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Aqu

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Cant

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Lingu

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Tongue and language

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Spir

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Breath and breathe

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Ver

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Turb

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To throw in confusion

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Volu/Volv

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To roll, wind, or turn

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Fac

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To make or do

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Umbr

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Vest

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To clothe or to dress

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The/Theo

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Icon

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Urb

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Cult

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Dem/Demo

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Popul

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Cord

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Culp

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Dict

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Gni/Gno

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Graph

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Art

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Fort

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Cis

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Crypt

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Ab/Abs

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Ped

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Trop

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Turn or change

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Neo

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Nov

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Pos

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Ten

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Term/Termin

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Geo

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Spher

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Vert

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Morph

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Form

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Shape or form

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Doc/Doct

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Top

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Centr/Center

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Sharp point

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Dom

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Omni

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Hol/Holo

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Retro

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Backward or behind

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Tempor

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Chron

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Anim

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Breath or soul

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Fig

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To shape or mold

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Ann/Enn

Think French

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Ev

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Age or lifetime

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Corp

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Tang/ tact

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Codi/ code

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Trunk of a tree

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Sign

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Capit

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Anthropo

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Human being

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Kine

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Dynam

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Grad

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Step or degree

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Reg

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Crit

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Jur

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To swear, take an oath

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Bio

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Gen

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Funct

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To perform, carry out

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Mut

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Fract

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To break or shatter

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Tele

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Distant or distance

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Phil

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Neg

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Denial or refusal

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Nom

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Pater/ Patr

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Lega

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To appoint

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Greg

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Herd or flock

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Flu

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Prehend/ Prehens

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Temper

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To moderate or keep within limits

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Purg

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To clean or cleanse

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