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Vocabulary Acquisition Flashcards

1
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Root Word

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The most basic part of words.

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Prefix

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Added to the beginning to change a word

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Suffix

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Added to the end to change a word

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Dress

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Clothing

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Form

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Shape

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Normal

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Typical

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Phobia

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Fear Of

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Port

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Carry

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Stand-Alone Word

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A root word that doesn’t need a suffix or prefix to mean something

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Ami,Amic

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Love

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Anni

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Year

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Aud

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To Hear

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Bene

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Good

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Biblio

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Book

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Cap

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Take, Seize

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Cent

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One Hundred

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Chrom

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Color

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Chron

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Time

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Circum

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Around

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Cred

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Believe

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Corp

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Body

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Dict

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To Say

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Equi

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Equal

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Fract; Rupt

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To Break

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Ject

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Throw

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Mal

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Bad

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Min

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Small

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Mort

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Death

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Multi

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Many

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Ped

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Foot

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Rupt

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Break

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Sect

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Cut

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Script

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Write

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Sol

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Sun

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Struct

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Build

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Terr

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Earth

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Therm

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Heat

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Vid, Vis

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To See

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Voc

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Voice; To Call

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Auto-

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Self

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Con-

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With

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Hydro-

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Water

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Im,In,Non,Un-

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Not

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Inter-

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Between

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Mis-

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Incorrect, Badly

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Over-

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Too Much

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Post-

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After

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Pre-

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Before

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Re-

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Again

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Sub-

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Under, Below

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Trans-

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Across

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-able

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Can Be Done

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-an,ean,ian

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Belonging or relating to

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-ed

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Happened in the past

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-en

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Made Of

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-er

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Comparative (more than)

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-est

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Comparative (most)

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-ful

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Full Of

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-ic

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Having Characteristics Of

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-ion, tion, ation, ition

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Act, Process

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-ist

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Person Who Practices

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-less

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Without

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-logy

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Study Of

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Context

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Using other words around an unfamiliar word in a sentence

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65
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Multiple Meaning Words

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More than one definition or meaning.

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Part of Speech

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Category of words that have the same grammatical properties.
Main parts in English are: Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, and Adverbs.

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Noun

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A Person, Place, Thing, or Idea

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Adjective

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A word that describes a noun or pronoun

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Verb

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An action or state of being

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Adverb

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A word that describes a verb, adjective, or other adverb

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71
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Domain-Specific Words

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Academic Vocabulary

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72
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Dysentery

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Abnormal condition of the intestines

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Endoscopy

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Visual examination of the inside of the body

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Exoskeleton

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Pertaining to the external skeleton

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Hypertension

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High blood pressure

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Hypoglycemia

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Low blood sugar

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Interarticular

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Between the joints

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Intravenous

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In a vein

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Neoplasm

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Abnormal new growth of tissue

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Pericardium

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Tissue surrounding the heart

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Postmortem

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After death

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Prenatal

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Before birth

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Subcutaneous

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Under the skin

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Unformed

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Not formed

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85
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Acoust, Ot

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Ears

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Angi

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Vessel

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Arteri

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Arteries

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Arthr

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Joints

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Capill

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Capillaries

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Carcin

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Cancer

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Card, Cardi

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Heart

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Chondr

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Cartilage

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Col

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Large Intestines

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Cutane, Dermat, Derm

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Skin

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Cyto

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Cell

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Enceph

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Brain

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Enter

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Small Intestine

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Fasci

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Fascia

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Gastr

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Stomach

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Hem, Hemat

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Blood

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Hepat

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Liver

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Hidr

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Sweat Gland

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Malign

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Harmful

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Mort

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Death

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Myel

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Spinal Cord, Bone Marrow

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My

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Muscles

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Nas, Rhin

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Nose

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Nat

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Birth, Born

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Nephr, Ren

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Kidneys

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Neur

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Nerves

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Ocul, Ophthalm

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Eyes

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Or

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Mouth

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Oste, Oss, Ost

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Bones

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Path

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Disease

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Phleb, Ven

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Veins

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Pil

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Hair

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Pneum, Pneumon

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Lungs

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Ten, Tend, Tendin

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Tendons

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A-

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Without

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An-

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Without

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Ab-

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From, Away

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Ad-

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Toward

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Ana-

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Up

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Ante-

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Before

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Anti-

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Against

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Append-

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To Hang

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Bi-

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Two

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Bin-

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Two

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Brady-

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Slow

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Contra-

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Against

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Di-

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Two

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Dis-

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Undo or Free From

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Dys-

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Difficult

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Ecto-

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Outside

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Exo-

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Outside

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Extra-

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Outside

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Epi-

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Above or Surrounding

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Endo-

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Within

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Erythr-

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Red

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Glyc-

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Sweet

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Hypo-

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Below

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Hyper-

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Above

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Infra-

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Under, Below

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Inter-

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Between

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Intra-

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Inside

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Iso-

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Equal

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Macro-

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Large

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Mal-

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Bad

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Meso-

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Middle

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Meta-

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After

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Micro-

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Small

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Mono-

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One

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Multi-

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Many

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Muti-

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Change

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Neo-

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New

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Para-

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Beside

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Peri-

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Surrounding

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Poly-

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Many

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Post-

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After

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Pre-

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Before

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Re-

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Back

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Retro-

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Behind or Back

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Semi-

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Half

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Sub-

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Under

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Super-

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Above or Over

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Syn-

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Together, Joined

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Tachy-

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Fast

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Trans-

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Across, Through, Beyond

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Tri-

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Three

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Ultra-

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Beyond, Excess

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Uni-

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One

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-al

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Pertaining to

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-algia

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Pain

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-ase

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Enzyme

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-centesis

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Surgical puncture

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-clast

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Broken

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-crit

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To separate

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-cyte

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Cell

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-ectomy

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Surgical removal, excision

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-emia

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Blood condition

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-emisi

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Vomiting

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-gen

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Causing, producing

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-genesis

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Causing, producing

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-genic

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Causing, producing

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-gram

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Written

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-ia

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Condition of, diseased or abnormal state

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-iac

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Pertaining to

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-ic

A

Pertaining to

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-ior

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Pertaining to

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-ism

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State of

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-itis

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Inflammation of

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-ist

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One who specializes in

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-logy

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Study of

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-lyte

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Dissolvable

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-lytic

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Destroy, reduce

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-mania

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Madness

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-megaly

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Enlargement

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-odia

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Smell

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-ologist

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One who practices or studies

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-oma

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Swelling, tumor

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-opia

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Vision

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-opsy

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To view

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-orrhea

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Flow, excessive discharge

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-orrhexis

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Rupture

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-osis

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Abnormal increase in production

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-ostomy

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Creation of an artificial opening

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-otomy

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Incision, cut into

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-oxia

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Oxygen

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-plasty

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Surgical repair

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-sclerosis

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Hardening of

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-scope

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Instrument used for visual examination

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-scopy

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Visual examination of

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-sepsis

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Infection

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-statis

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Stop or control

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-tomy

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Cutting

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-tropic

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Influencing

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-toxic

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Poison

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Pathology

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The study of diseases

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Epidermis

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Pertaining to the outer part of the skin

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Rhinorrhoea

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Flow from the nose

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Tachycardia

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Rapid heart beat

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