GRE Roots Flashcards
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A
A
without;
amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous, apathy, atrophy (wasting away or body tissue), anomaly, agnostic
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AB/ABS
A
off, away from, apart, down;
abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal, abdicate, abstinence, abstruse
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ACT/AG
A
to do, to drive, to force, to lead;
agile, agitate, litigate, prodigal, pedagogue, synagogue
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AD/AL
A
to, toward, near;
adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address, adhere, adjoin, advocate
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AL/ALI/ALTER
A
other, another;
alternative, alias, alibi, alien, alter ego, altruist, allegory
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AM
A
love;
amateur (pleasure rather than financial gain), amatory, amenity, amorous, enamored, amity, inamorata, amiable, amicable
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AMB
A
to go, to walk;
ambient, ambitious, preamble, ambassador, ambulance, ambulatory, ambush, perambulator
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AMBI/AMPH
A
both, more than one, around;
ambiguous, amphibian, ambidextrous
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ANIM
A
of the life, mind, soul, spirit;
unanimous, animosity, animus (hostile feeling or attitude), equanimity (stability under tension), magnanimous (generous in forgiving)
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ANNUIT/ENNI
A
year;
annual, anniversary, annuity, perennial, annals
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ANTE
A
before;
anterior, antecedent, antedate, antebellum (before the war), antediluvian (before the biblical flood)
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ANTHRO/ANDR
A
man, human;
anthropology, android, misanthrope (one who hates humans), philanderer, androgynous, androgen, anthropocentric
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ANTI
A
against;
antibody, antidote, antiseptic, antipathy (aversion), antipodal (opposite side of the globe)
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APO
A
away;
apology, apostle, apocalypse, apogee (highest or most distant point), apocryphal, apostasy (total desertion of ones religion or principles)
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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY
A
chief, principal, ruler;
architect, archenemy, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy (state or society ruled by a select group)
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AUTO
A
self;
automatic, autocrat, autonomy
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BE
A
to be, to have a particular quality, to exist;
belittle, bemoan (to express pity for), bewilder, belie (to misrepresent, to contradict)
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BEL/BELL
A
war;
antebellum, rebel, belligerent (warlike, given to waging war)
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BEN/BON
A
good;
benefit, benign (having a kindly disposition), benediction (uttering a blessing), benevolent, bonus, bona fide
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BI
A
twice, double;
binocular, biennial, bilateral, bilingual, bipartisan
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CAN/CID
A
to fall, to happen by chance;
accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivist (one who repeatedly relapses)
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CANT/CENT/CHANT
A
to sing;
accent, chant, enchant, recant (withdraw a statement), incantation, incentive
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CAP/CIP/CEPT
A
to take, to get;
capture, anticipate, susceptible, emancipate, percipient (having perception, discerning), precept (rule of conduct)
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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT
A
head, headlong;
capital, disciple, precipitate (hasten occurrence, bring about prematurely), precipice, capitulate (surrender), caption
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CARD/CORD/COUR
heart;
| cardiac, encourage, concord, discord (lack of harmony), concordance (agreement)
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CARN
flesh;
| carnivorous, carnage, carnival, reincarnation, incarnation
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CAST/CHAST
cut;
| cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste (free from obscenity, decent)
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CED/CEED/CESS
to go, to yield, to stop;
| antecedent, concede, predecessor, cessation, incessant
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CENTR
center;
| concentrate, eccentric (off-center), concentric (common center), centrifuge, centrist
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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT
to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide;
discrete (detached from others), ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion (standard of judgement or criticism)
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CHRON
time;
| synchronize, chronology, anachronism, chronic, chronometer
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CIRCU
around, on all sides;
| circumference, circumstances, circuit, circumambulate, circuitous
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CIS
to cut;
| scissors, precise, exorcise, incision, incisive
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CLA/CLO/CLU
shut, close;
| conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, exclusive, cloister, preclude
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CLAIM/CLAM
to shout, to cry out;
| exclaim, proclaim, clamor, disclaim, reclaim
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CLI
to lean toward;
| decline, recline, climax, proclivity (inclination, bias), disinclination
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CO/COL/COM/CON
with, together;
| connect, coerce, compatible, collide, collaborate, conciliate, commensurate
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COUR/CUR
running, a course;
recur, curriculum, courier, excursion, cursive, concur, incursion (hostile entrance into a place), cursory (going rapidly over something, hasty)
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CRE/CRESC/CRET
to grow;
| accrue, creation, increase, increment, accretion
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CRED
to believe, to trust;
| incredible, credentials, credo, credulity (willingness to believe or trust), credit
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CRYP
hidden;
| crypt, apocryphal, cryptology, cryptography (making and using secret writing)
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CUB/CUMB
to lie down;
| cubicle, succumb, incubate, incumbent (holding an indicated position), recumbent (reclining)
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CULP
blame;
| culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa
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DAC/DOC
to teach;
| doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate, docile, didactic (intended for instruction)
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DE
away, off, down, completely, reversal;
| descend, decipher, defile, defame, deferential, delineate
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DEM
people;
| democracy, epidemic, endemic (peculiar to a particular people or locality), pandemic (general, universal), demographics
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DI/DIA
apart, through;
| dialogue, diagnose, dilate (to make wider or larger), dilatory (inclined to delay or procrastinate), dichotomy
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DIC/DICT/DIT
to say, to tell, to use words;
| dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict (to forbid, prohibit)
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DIGN
worth;
| dignity, dignitary, deign, condign (well deserved, fitting), disdain
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E/EF/EX
out, out of, from, former, completely;
| evade, exclude, extricate, exonerate, expire, efface
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EPI
upon;
| epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epigram (witty or pointed saying tersely expressed), epithet
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EQU
equal, even;
| equation, adequate, equidistant, iniquity (gross injustice)
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ERR
to wander;
| err, error, erratic, arrant
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ESCE
becoming;
| adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent, convalescent (recovering from illness), reminiscent
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EU
good, well;
| euphemism, eulogy, eugenics, euthanasia (killing painlessly), euphony
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EXTRA
outside, beyond;
| extraordinary, extract, extradite (to hand over, a criminal), extrasensory, extrapolate
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FAB/FAM
speak;
| fable, affable, ineffable (too great for description in words), famous, defame
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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY
to do, to make;
| factory, faction, deficient, prolific, configuration, ratify, effigy, counterfeit
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FER
to bring, to carry, to bear;
| offer, confer, referendum, proffer, proliferate
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FERV
to boil, to bubble;
| fervor, fervid, effervescent
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FID
faith, trust;
| confide, affidavit, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel
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FIN
end;
| final, confine, definitive, infinite, infinitesimal
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FLAG/FLAM
to burn;
| flammable, flambeau, flagrant, conflagration
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FLECT/FLEX
to bend;
| deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect (bend knee in worship)
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FLU/FLUX
to flow;
| fluid, fluctuation, effluence, confluence, mellifluous
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FORE
before;
| foresight, foreshadow, forestall, forthright
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FORT
chance;
| fortune, fortunate, fortuitous
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FORT
strength;
| fortify, fortissimo, forte
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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING
to break;
| fracture, fragment, fractious (irritable), refractory (stubborn, rebellious), infringe
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FUS
to pour;
| profuse, fusillade (continuous discharge of firearms), suffuse, diffuse, infusion
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GEN
birth, creation, race, kind;
| generous, genetics, gender, carcinogenic, congenital, progeny, miscegenation (interbreeding of races)
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GN/GNO
to know;
| agnostic, ignore, ignoramus (person lacking knowledge), recognize, incognito, prognosis, diagnose
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GRAD/GRESS
to step;
| progress, aggressive, degrade, digress, egress, regress
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GRAT
pleasing;
| grateful, ingratiate, gratuity, gracious
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HER/HES
to stick;
| coherent, adhesive, inherent, adherent, heredity
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(H)ETERO
different;
| heterosexual, heterogeneous, heterodox
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(H)OM
same;
| homogenous, homonym, homosexual, anomaly, homeostasis
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HYPER
over, excessive;
| hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia
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HYPO
under, beneath, less than;
| hypodermic, hypochondriac (depression due to imaginary ailments), hypocritical, hypothesis
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IDIO
one's own;
| idiot (anyone left to their own devices, stupid), idiom, idiosyncrasy
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IM/IN/EM/EN
in, into;
| embrace, enclose, intrinsic, influx, implicit, incarnate, indigenous
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INTER
between, among;
| interstate, interim, interloper, intermittent, intersperse
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JECT
to throw, to throw down;
| inject, dejected, eject, conjecture (formation of opinion on incomplete information), abject (utterly hopeless)
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JOIN/JUNCT
to meet, to join;
| junction, adjoin, subjugate (to conquer), rejoinder, junta (military takeover)
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JUR
to swear;
| perjury (willfully lying while on oath), abjure (renounce an oath), adjure (to beg/command)
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LAV/LUT/LUV
to wash;
| lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge (flood), antediluvian (before biblical flood), ablution (act of cleaning)
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LECT/LEG
to select, to choose;
| collect, elect, select, eclectic (select ideas from various resources), predilection (liking)
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LEV
lift, light, rise;
| relieve, alleviate, relevant, levee, levitate, levity
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LOC/LOG/LOQU
word, speech;
| dialogue, elocution, prologue, eulogy, colloquial, grandiloquent, loquacious (talkative)
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LUC/LUM/LUS
light;
| illustrate, illuminate, illustrious, translucent, lackluster, lucid, luminous
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LUD/LUS
to play;
| allude, illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude, prelude
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MAG/MAJ/MAX
big;
| magnify, magnitude, maximum, magnate, magnanimous, maxim
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MAL/MALE
bad, ill, evil, wrong;
malfunction, malicious, malign, malady, maladroit (clumsy, tackless), malapropism (humorous misuse of a word), malfeasance, malediction
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MAN
hand;
| manual, manufacture, emancipate, manifest, mandate
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MIN
small;
| minute, minutiae, miniature, diminish, diminution
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MIN
to protect, to hang over;
| eminent, imminent, prominent, preeminent, minatory (threatening)
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MIS/MIT
to send;
| transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission
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MISC
mixed;
| miscellaneous, miscegenation (mixed race marriage), promiscuous
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MON/MONIT
to remind, to warn;
| monument, monitor, summon, admonish, remonstrate, premonition
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MORPH
shape;
| amorphous, metamorphosis, anthropomorphism
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MORT
death;
| immortal, morbid, moribund
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MUT
change;
| commute, mutation, transmutation, permutation, immutable
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NAT/NAS/NAI
to be born;
| natural, native, naive, cognate (related by blood), renaissance, nascent (starting to develop)
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NIC/NOC/NOX
harm;
| innocent, noxious, obnoxious, innocuous
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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN
name;
| synonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym
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NOUNC/NUNC
to announce;
| announce, pronounce, renounce
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NOV/NEO/NOU
new;
| novice, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, nouveau riche
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OB/OC/OF/OP
toward, to against, over;
| obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous (noisily defiant), obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious (overly submissive)
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OMNI
all;
| omnibus (anthology of all the works of one author or writing on similar subjects), omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient
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PAC/PEAC
peace;
| appease, pacify, pacifier, pact
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PAN
all, everyone;
| panorama, panegyric (formal or elaborate praise at an assembly), pantheon, pandemic
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PAR
equal;
par, parity, apartheid (separates people according to race, etc.), disparage (to belittle), disparate (essentially different)
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PARA
next to, beside;
| parallel, parasite, parody, parable, paragon, paranoid
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PAS/PAT/PATH
feeling, suffering, disease;
| sympathy, empathy, compassion, dispassionate, impassive, sociopath (antisocial with no moral responsibilities)
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PAU/PO/POV/PU
few, little poor;
| poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous (lacking courage or resolution), puerile (childish, immature)
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PED
child, education;
| pedagogue (teacher), pediatrician, pedant (one who displays learning ostentatiously), encyclopedia
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PED/POD
foot;
| pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes (places diametrically opposite each other on the globe)
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PEN/PUN
to pay, to compensate;
| penal (punishment for crimes), penalty, punitive (serving for punishment), penance, penitent (contrite)
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PEND/PENS
to hang, to weight, to pay;
| depend, stipend, compensate, indispensable, appendix, appendage
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PER
completely;
| persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, perfunctory (routine), pertinacious (resolute), perspicacious (shrewd, astute)
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PERI
around;
| perimeter, periscope, peripatetic (walking around)
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PET/PIT
to go, to seek, to strive;
appetite, compete, petition centripetal (moving towards center), impetuous (rash emotion), petulant (showing irritation about some annoyance)
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PHIL
love;
| philosophy, philatelist (loves stamps), philology, bibliophile
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PLAC
to please;
| placid, placebo, implacable, complacent, complaisant (inclined or disposed to please)
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PLE
to fill;
| complete, deplete, supplement, implement, replete, plethora
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PLEX/PLIC/PLY
to fold, twist, tangle or bend;
| complex, implicit implicate, duplicity, supplicate (to make humble and earnest entreaty)
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PON/POS/POUND
to put, to place;
| component, expose, expound, juxtapose, repository
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PORT
to carry;
| import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune
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POST
after;
| posthumorous, posterior, posterity, post facto
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PRE
before;
| precarious, precocious,
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POST
after;
| posthumorous, posterior, posterity, post facto
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PRE
before;
| precarious, precocious, premonition, presentiment, precedent, precept
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PREHEND/PRISE
to take, to get, to seize;
| surprise, enterprise, reprehensible, comprise, reprisals, apprehend
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PRO
much, for, a lot;
| prolific, profuse, prodigal, prodigious, proselytize (to convert or recruit), propound, provident
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PROB
to prove, to test;
| probe, approbation, opprobrium (disgrace), reprobate, problematic, probity (honesty, high-mindedness)
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PUG
to fight;
| pugnacious (to fight readily), impugn (to challenge as false), repugnant, pugilist
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN
to point, to prick;
| point, puncture, pungent, compunction (feeling of uneasy for doing wrong), punctilious, expunge
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QUE/QUIS
to seek;
| acquire, exquisite, conquest, inquisitive, query, querulous, perquisite (a tip/gratuity)
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QUI
quiet;
| quiet, disquiet, tranquil, acquiesce (to give in), quiescence (inactive, at rest)
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RID/RIS
to laugh;
| riddle, derision (mockery), risible (causing laughter)
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ROG
to ask;
| interrogate, arrogant, abrogate (abolish by formal means), surrogate, derogatory, arrogate (to claim unwarrantably)
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SACR/SANCT/SECR
sacred;
| sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable (abominable), sacrament, sacrilege
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
to leap, to jump;
insult, assault, somersault, salient (prominent or conspicuous), resilient, insolent, exult, desultory (random, unmethodical)
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SCI
to know;
| conscious, conscience, unconscionable, omnicient, prescient (having knowledge of things before they happen)
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SCRIBE/SCRIP
to write;
scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe (to condemn as harmful), ascribe (to credit), conscription, transcript, circumscribe
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SE
apart;
| select, separate, seduce, segregate, secede, sequester, sedition
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SEC/SEQU
to follow;
| second, prosecute, sequence, obsequious (fawning), non sequitur (conclusion that does not follow from the premises)
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SED/SESS/SID
to sit, to be still, to plan, to plot;
| preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual, subsidiary, insidious (to trap or beguile), assiduous
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SENS/SENT
to feel, to be aware;
| sense, sensory, sentiment, presentiment, dissent, resent, sentinel, insensate (without feeling or sensitivity)
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SOL
to loosen, to free;
| dissolve, soluble, resolution, dissolution, dissolute, absolution
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SPEC/SPIC/SPIT
to look, to see;
perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum, retrospective, circumspect, perspicacious (keen mental perception and understanding), conspicuous, specious (deceptively attractive)
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STA/STI
to stand, to be in place;
| static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostasy (renunciation of ones previous loyalty)
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SUA
smooth;
| suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage
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SUB/SUP
below;
| submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition, submarine
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SUPER/SUR
above;
| surpass, superlative (highest kind or order), supersede, supercilious, superfluous, surmount, surveillance
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TAC/TIC
to be silent;
| reticent, tacit, taciturn
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
to hold;
| detain, pertain, tenacious, abstention, tenure, sustenance, pertinacious (persistent, stubborn)
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
to stretch, to thin;
tension, tentative, tendentious (predisposition towards a point of view), distend, attenuate (weaken or reduce in force), extenuating (making less serious by offering excuses), contentious
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THEO
god;
| atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis (glorification, glorified ideal)
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TRACT
to pull, to drag, to draw;
| tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract
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TRANS
across;
| transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent (refusing to agree or compromise)
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US/UT
to use;
| abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian
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VEN/VENT
to come or to move toward;
| convene, venturesome, intervene, contravene, adventitious
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VER
truth;
| verdict, veracious, verity, verisimilitude (appearance of truth), aver
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VERD
green;
| verdant, verdure
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VERS/VERT
to turn;
| controversy, revert, diverse, aversion, introvert, extrovert, inadvertent, covert, avert
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VI
life;
| vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, convivial (sociable)
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VID/VIS
to see;
| evident, video, adviser, survey, vista
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VIL
base, mean;
| vilify, revile, vile
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VOC/VOK
to call;
| vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vocation, avocation, vociferous, convoke, invoke
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VOL
to wish;
| voluntary, malevolent, benevolent, volition (free will)
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VOR
to eat;
| voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous
