Latin and Greek Roots Flashcards
(181 cards)
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A
amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous
A
without
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AB/ABS
abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal
A
off, away from, apart, down
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AC/ACR
acid, acute, acerbic, acrid, exacerbate
A
sharp, bitter
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ACT/AG
agile, agitate, litigate, prodigal, synagogue
A
to do; to drive; to force; to lead
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AD/AL
adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address
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to, toward, near
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AL/ALI/ALTER
alternative, alias, alibi, alter, altruist
A
other, another
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AM
amateur, amenity, enamored, amity, amicable
A
love
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AMB
ambient, preamble, ambassador, ambush
A
to go; to walk
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AMBI/AMPH
ambiguous, amphibian, ambidextrous
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both, more than one, around
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ANIM
unanimous, animosity, equanimity, animus
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of the life, mind, soul, spirit
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ANNUI/ENNI
annual, perennial, anniversary
A
year
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ANTE
anterior, antedate, antebellum, antediluvian
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before
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ANTHRO/ANDR
android, misanthrope, androgynous, anthropogenic
A
man, human
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ANTI
antibody, antidote, antipathy, antiseptic
A
against
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APO
apology, apocalypse, apogee, apostasy
A
away
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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY
architect, archenemy, anarchy, monarchy
A
chief, principal, ruler
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AUTO
automatic, autocrat, autonomy
A
self
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BE
belittle, bemoan, bewilder, belie
A
to be; to have a particular quality; to exist
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BEL/BELL
antebellum, rebel, belligerent
A
war
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BEN/BON
benefit, benevolent, bonus, bona fide
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good
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BI
binocular, biennial, bilingual
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twice, double
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CAD/CID
accident, coincidence, decadent
A
to fall; to happen by chance
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CANT/CENT/CHANT
accent, chant, enchant, recant, incentive
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to sing
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CAP/CIP/CEPT
capture, anticipate, suceptible
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to take; to get
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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT
capital, precipitate, capitulate
head, headlong
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CARD/CORD/COUR
cardiac, encourage, dicord
heart
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CARN
carnivorous, canival, reincarnation
flesh
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CAST/CHAST
cast, castigate, chastise
cut
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CED/CEED/CESS
actecendent, concede, predecessor
to go; to yield; to stop
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CENTR
concentrate, eccentric, concentric, centrifuge
center
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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT
dicrete, acertain, discreet, hypocrite
to separate; to judge; to distinguish; to decide
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CHRON
synchronize, chronology, chronic
time
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CIRCU
circumference, circuit, circumstances
around, on all sides
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CIS
scissors, precise, incision
to cut
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CLA/CLO/CLU
conclude, claustrophobia, disclose
shut, close
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CLAIM/CLAM
exclaim, proclaim, clamor, reclaim
to shout; to cry out
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CLI
decline, recline, climax
to lean toward
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CO/COL/COM/CON
connect, coerce, compatible, collide
with, together
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COUR/CUR
recur, curriculum, concur, courier
running; a course
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CRE/CRESC/CRET
accrue, increase, increment, accretion
to grow
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CRED
incredible, credit, credentials
to believe; to trust
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CRYP
crypt, cryptology, cryptography
hidden
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CUB/CUMB
cubicle, succumb, incubate, recumbent
to lie down
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CULP
culprit, culpable, mea culpa
blame
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DAC/DOC
doctor, indoctrinate, docile
to teach
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DE
decend, decipher, defile, defame, delineate
away, off, down completely, reversal
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DEM
democracy, epidemic, endemic, demographics
people
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DI/DIA
dialogue, diagnose, dichotomy
apart, through
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DIC/DICT/DIT
dictionary, predict, verdict
to say; to tell; to use words
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DIGN
dignity, deign, condign, disdain
worth
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DIS/DIF
disperse, disseminate, dissipate
away from, apart, reversal, not
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DOG/DOX
orthodox, paradox, dogma
opinion
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DOL
condolence, indolence, doleful
suffer, pain
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DON/DOT/DOW
donate, pardon, antidote, endow
to give
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DUB
dubious, dubiety, indubitable
doubt
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DUC/DUCT
abduct, conduct, induce, produce
to lead
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DUR
endure, durable, duress, duration
hard
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DYS
dystrophy, dyslexia, dysfunctional
faulty, abnormal
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E/EF/EX
evade, explude, extricate, exonerate
out, out of, from, former, completely
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EPI
epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epigram
upon
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EQU
equation, adequate, iniquity
equal, even
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ERR
err, error, erratic
to wander
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ESCE
adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent
becoming
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EU
euphemism, eulogy, euthanasia
good, well
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EXTRA
extraordinary, extract, extrapolate
outside, beyond
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FAB/FAM
fable, affable, ineffable, defame
speak
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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY
factory, faction, prolific, ratify, conterfeit
to do; to make
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FER
offer, referendum, proliferate
to bring; to carry; to bear
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FERV
fervor, fervid, effervescent
to boil; to bubble
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FID
confide, fidelity, infidel
faith, trust
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FIN
final, confine, definitive, infinite
end
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FLAG/FLAM
flammable, flagrant, conflagaration
to burn
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FLECT/FLEX
deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect
to bend
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FLU/FLUX
fluid, fluctuation, confluence, effluence
to flow
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FORE
foresight, foreshadow, forthright
before
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FORT
fortune, fortunate, fortuitous
chance
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FORT
fortify, fortissimo, forte
strength
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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING
fracture, fragment, refractory, infringe
to break
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FUS
profuse, suffuse, diffuse, infusion
to pour
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GEN
generous, genetics, gender, carcinogenic
birth, creation, race, kind
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GN/GNO
agnostic, ignore, recognize, incognito
know
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GRAD/GRESS
progress, aggressive, degrade, digress
to step
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GRAT
grateful, gratuity, gracious
pleasing
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HER/HES
coherent, adhesive, inherent, adherent
to stick
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(H)ETERO
heterosexual, heterogeneous
different
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(H)OM
homogeneous, homosexual, anomaly
same
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HYPER
hyperactive, hyperbole, hyperglycemia
over, excessive
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HYPO
hypodermic, hypochondriac, hypocritical
under, beneath, less than
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IDIO
idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy
one's own
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IM/IN/EM/EN
embrace, intrinsic, inplicit, incarnate
in, into
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IM/IN
inactive, innocuous, impartial
in, into
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INTER
interstate, interim, intermittent
between, among
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JECT
inject, dejected, eject, conjecture
to throw; to throw down
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JOIN/JUNCT
junction, adjoin, subjugate
to meet; to join
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JUR
perjury, abjure, adjure
to swear
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LAV/LUT/LUV
lavatory, pollute, deluge, antediluvian
to wash
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LECT/LEG
collect, elect, select, eclectic
to select, to choose
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LEV
relieve, alleviate, relevant, levitate
lift, light, rise
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LOC/LOG/LOQU
dialogue, elocution, prologue, colloquial
word, speech
| didn't want to use loquacious... too obvious!
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LUC/LUM/LUS
illustrate, translucent, lackluster, lucid
light
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LUD/LUS
allude, illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude
to play
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MAG/MAJ/MAX
magnify, maximum, magnanimous
big
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MAL/MALE
malfunction, malicious, malign
bad, ill, evil, wrong
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MAN
manual, manufacture, manifest
hand
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MIN
minute, minutiae, miniature
small
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MIN
eminent, imminent, prominent
to project, to hang over
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MIS/MIT
transmit, remission, intermittent
to send
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MISC
micellaneous, promiscuous
mixed
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MON/MONIT
monument, summon, admonish, premonition
to remind; to warn
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MORPH
amorphous, metamorphosis
shape
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MORT
immortal, morbid, moribund
death
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MUT
commute, mutation, permutation
change
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NAT/NAS/NAI
natural, native, cognate
to be born
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NIC/NOC/NOX
innocent, noxious, obnoxious
harm
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NOM
astronomy, economy, taxonomy
rule, order
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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN
synonym, nominate, nomenclature
name
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NOUNC/NUNC
announce, pronounce, renounce
to announce
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NOV/NEO/NOU
novice, renovate, innovate, nouveau riche
new
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OB/OC/OF/OP
obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obtuse
toward, to, against, over
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OMNI
omnibus, omnipresent, omnipotent
all
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PAC/PEAC
appease, pacify, pacifier, pact
peace
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PAN
panorama, pantheon, pandemic
all, everyone
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PAR
par, apartheid, disparage, disparate
equal
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PARA
parallel, parasite, parody, paranoid
next to, beside
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PAS/PA
sympathy, compassion, impassive, pathogenic
feeling, suffering, disease
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PAU/PO/POV/PU
poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, puerile
few, little, poor
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PED
pediatrician, pedant, encyclopedia
child, education
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PED/POD
pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede
foot
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PEN/PUN
penal, penalty, punitive, penance
to pay; to compensate
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PEND/PENS
depend, stipend, compensate, appendix
to hang; to weight; to pay
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PER
persistent, perflex, peruse, perfunctory
completely
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PERI
perimeter, periscope, peripatetic
around
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PET/PIT
appetite, compete, petition, centripetal
to go; to seek; to strive
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PHIL
philosophy, philadelphia, bibliophile
love
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PLAC
placid, placebo, implacable
to please
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PLE
complete, deplete, supplement, plethora
to fill
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PLEX/PLIC/PLY
complex, replica, implicit, duplicity
to fold, twist, tangle, or bend
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PON/POS/POUND
component, expose, juxtapose, repository
to put; to place
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PORT
import, export, portable
to carry
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POST
posthumous, posterior, posterity
after
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PRE
precarious, premonition, precedent
before
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PREHEND/PRISE
surprise, reprehensible, comprise
to take; to get; to seize
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PRO
prolific, profuse, prodigal, provident
much, for, a lot
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PROB
probe, approbation, opprobrium, reprobate
to prove; to test
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PUG
pugnacious, impugn, repugnant, pugilist
to fight
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN
point, puncture, compunction
to point; to prick
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QUE/QUIS
acquire, conquest, query, prequisite
to seek
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QUI
quiet, tranquil, acquiesce, disquiet
quiet
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RID/RIS
riddle, derision, risible
to laugh
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ROG
interrogate, arrogant, surrogate
to ask
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SACR/SANCT/SECR
sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, execrable
sacred
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
insult, somersault, salient, resilient, exult
to leap, to jump
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SCI
conscious, conscience, omniscient
to know
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SCRIBE/SCRIP
scribble, describe, ascribe, conscription
to write
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SE
select, seduce, segregate, secede
apart
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SEC/SEQU
second, prosecute, sequence, non sequitur
to follow
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SED/SESS/SID
preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual
to sit; to be still; to plan; to plot
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SENS/SENT
sense, sensory, sentiment, resent
to feel; to be aware
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SOL
dissolve, soluble, dissolution, absolution
to loosen; to free
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SPEC/SPIC/SPIT
perspective, speculation, suspicious, spectrum
to look; to see
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STA/STI
static, destitute, obstinate, constitute
to stand; to be in place
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SUA
suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage
smooth
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SUB/SUP
submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle
below
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SUPER/SUR
surpass, supersede, supercilious
above
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TAC/TIC
reticent, tacit, taciturn
to be silent
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
detain, pertain, tenacious, tenure
to hold
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
tension, tentative, contentious
to stretch; to thin
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THEO
atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis
god
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TRACT
tractor, attract, contract, abstract
to drag; to pull; to draw
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TRANS
transaction, transparent, transition, transgress
accross
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US/UT
abuse, usage, usurp, utilitarian
to use
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VEN/VENT
convene, venturesome, intervene
to come or to move toward
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VER
verdict, veracious, verity
truth
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VERD
verdant, verdure
green
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VERS/VERT
controversy, revert, diverse, aversion
to turn
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VI
vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity
life
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VID/VIS
evident, video, adviser, survey
to see
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VIL
vilify, revile, vile
base, mean
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VOC/VOK
vocabulary, advocate, equivocate, vociferous
to call
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VOL
voluntary, malevolent, benevolent
to wish
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VOR
voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous
to eat
