Roots Flashcards
(180 cards)
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Ab/Abs
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Off, away from, apart, down
Abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal, abdicate, abstinence, abstruse
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A
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Without
Amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous, apathy, atrophy, anomaly, agnostic.
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Ac/Acr
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Sharp, bitter
Acid, acute, acerbic, acrid, acrimonious, exacerbate
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Act/Ag
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To do, to drive, to force, to lead
Agile, agitate, litigate, prodigal, pedagogue, synagogue
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Ad/Al
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To, toward, near
Adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address, adhere, adjoin, advocate
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Al/Ali/Alter
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Other, another
Alternative, alias, alibi, alien, alter ego, altruist, allegory
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Am
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Love
Amateur, amatory, amenity, amorous, enamored, amity, inamorata, amiable, amicable
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Amb
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To go, to walk
Ambient, ambitious, preamble, ambassador, ambulance, ambulatory, ambush, preambulator
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Ambi/Amph
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Both, more than one, around
Ambiguous, amphibian, ambidextrous
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Anim
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Of the life, mind, soul, spirit
Unanimous, animus, equanimity, magnanimous
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Annui/Enni
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Year
Annual, anniversary, annuity, perennial, annals
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Ante
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Before
Anterior, Antecedent, antedate, antebellum, antediluvian
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Anthro/Andr
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Man, human
Anthropology, android, misanthrope, philanderer, androgynous, androgen, anthropocentric
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Anti
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Against
Antibody, antidote, antiseptic, antipathy, antipodal
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Apo
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Away
Apology, apostle, apocalypse, apogee, apocryphal, apostasy
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Arch/Archi/Archy
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Chief, principal, ruler
Architect, archenemy, monarchy, anarchy, oligarchy
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Auto
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Self
Automatic, autocrat, autonomy
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Be
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To be, to have a particular quality, to exist
Belittle, bemoan, bewilder, belie
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Bel/Bell
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War
Antebellum, rebel, belligerent
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Ben/Bon
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Good
Benefit, benign, benediction,benelovent, bonus, bona fide.
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Bi
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Twice, double
Binocular, biennial, bilateral, bilingual, bipartisan
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Cad/Cid
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To fall, to happen by chance
Accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivist
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Cant/Cent/Chant
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To sing
Accent, chant, enchant, recant, incantation, incentive
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Cap/Cip/Cept
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To take, to get
Capture, anticipate, susceptible, emancipate, percipient, precept
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Card/Cord/Cour
Heart
Cardiac, encourage, concord, discord, concordance
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Cap/Capit/Cipit
Head, headlong
Capital, disciple, precipitate, precipice, capitulate, caption
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Carn
Flesh
Carnivorous, carnage, carnival, reincarnation, incarnation
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Cast/Chast
Cut
Cast, caste, castigate, chastise, chaste
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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, concentric, centifuge, centrist
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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crim
To separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide
Discrete, ascertain, certitude, discreet, hypocrite, criterion
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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
Decline, recline, climax, proclivity, disclination
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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, cursory
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Cre/Cres/Cret
To grow
Accrue, creation, increase, increment, accretion
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Cred
To believe, to trust
Incredible, ceredentials, credo, credulity, credit
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Crup
Hidden
Crypt, apocryphal, cryptology, crytography
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Cub/Cumb
To lie down
Cubicle, succumb, incubate, incumbent, recumbent
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Culp
Blame
Culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa
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Dac/Doc
To teach
Doctor, doctrine, indoctrinate, docile, didactic
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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, pandemic, demographics
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Di/Dia
Apart, through
Dialogue, diagnose, dilate, dilatory, dichotomy
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Dic/Dict/Dit
To say, to tell, to use words
Dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict
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Dign
Worth
Dignity, dignitary, deign, condign, disdain
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Dis/Dif
Away from, apart, reversal, not
Disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, diffuse
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Dog/Dox
Opinion
Orthodox, paradox, dogma
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Dol
Suffer, pain
Condolences, indolence, doleful, dolorous
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Don/Dot\Dow
To give
Donate, pardon, antidote, anecdote, endow
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Dub
Doubt
Dubious, dubiety, indubitable
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Duc/Duct
To lead
Abduct, conduct, conducive, induce, induct, produce
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Dur
Hard
Endure, durable duress, dour, duration
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Dys
Faulty, abnormal
Dystrophy, dyspepsia, dyslexia, dysfunctional
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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, epithet
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Equ
Equal, even
Equation, adequate, equidistant, iniquity
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Err
To wander
Err, error, erratic, arrant
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Esce
Becoming
Adolescent, obsolescent, incandescent, convalescent, reminiscent
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Eu
Good, well
Euphemism, eulogy, eugenics, euthanasia
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Extra
Outside, beyond
Extraordinary, extract, extradite, extrasensory, extrapolate
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Fab/Fam
To speak
Fable, affable, ineffable, 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, conflaguration
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Flect/Flex
To bend
Deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect
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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, refractory, infringe
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Fus
To pour
Profuse, fusillade, suffuse, diffuse, infusion
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Gen
Birth, creation, race, kind
Generous, genetics, gender, carcinogen, congenital, progeny, miscegenation
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Gn/Gno
Know
Agnostic, ignore, ignoramus, 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, Dhesive, 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, hypocritical, hypothesis
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Idio
One's own
Idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy
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Im/In/Em/En
In, into
Embrace, enclose, intrinsic, influx, implicit, incarnate, indigenous
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Im/In
Not, without
Inactive, innocuous, indolence, impartial, indigent
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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, abject
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Join/Junct
To meet, to join
Junction, adjoin, subjugate, rejoinder, junta
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Jur
To swear
Perjury, abjure, adjure
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Lav/Lut/Luv
To wash
Lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge, antediluvian, ablution
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Lect/Leg
Tpmselect, to choose
Collect, elect, select, eclectic, prelidection
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Lev
Life, light, rise
Relieve, alleviate, relevant, levee, levitate, levity
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Loc/Log/Loqu
Word, speech
Dialogue, elocution, prologue, eulogy, colloquial, grandiloquent, loquacious
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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, 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, malapropism, 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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Mis/Mit
To send
Transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission
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Misc
Mixed
Miscellaneous, miscegenation, promiscuous
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Mon/Monit
To remind, to warn
Monument, monitor, summon, admonishm remonstrate
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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, renaissance, nascent
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Nc/Noc/Nox
Harm
Innocent, noxious, obnoxious, innocuous
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Nom
Rule, order
Astronomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy, autonomy
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Nom/Nym/Noun/Nown
Name
Snonym, 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, noveau riche
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Ob/Oc/Of/Op
Toward, to, against, over
Obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous, obtuse, obfuscate, obsequious
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Omni
All
Omnibus, omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient
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Pac/Peac
Peace
Appease, pacify, pacifier, pact
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Pan
All, everyone
Panorama, panegyric, panoply, pantheon, pandemic
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Par
Equal
Par, parity, apartheid, disparage, disparate
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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, pathogenic
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Pau/Po/Pov/Pu
Few, little, poor
Poverty, paucity, pauper, impoverish, pusillanimous, puerile
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Ped
Child, education
Pedagogue, pediatrician, pedant, encyclopedia
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Ped/Pod
Foot
Pedal, pedestrian, expedite, impede, podium, antipodes
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Pen/Pun
To pay, to compensate
Penal penalty, punitive, penance, penitent
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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, pertinacious, perspicacious
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Peri
Around
Perimeter, periscope, peripatetic
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Pet/Pit
To go, to seek, to strive
Appetite, petition, centripetal, impetuous, petulant
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Phil
Love
philosophy, philatelist, philology, bibliophile
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Plac
To please
Placid, placebo, implacable, complacent, complaisant
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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
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Pon/Pos/Pound
To put, to place
| component, expose, juxtapose, respository
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Port
To carry
Import, export, portable, deportment, disport, importune
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Post
After
Posthumous, 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, compromise, reprisals, apprehend
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Pro
Much, for, a lot
Prolific, profuse, prodigal, prodigious, proselytize, propound, provident
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Prob
To prove, to test
Probe, approbation, opprobrium, reprobate, problematic, probity
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Pug
To fight
Pugnacious, impugn, repugnant, pugilist
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Punc/Pung/Poign
To point, to prick
Point, puncture, pungent, compunction, punctilious, expunge
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Que/Quis
To seek
Acquire, exquisite, conquest, inquisitive, query, querulous, perquisite
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Qui
Quiet
Quiet, disquiet, tranquil, quiescence
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Rid/Ris
To laugh
Riddle, derision, risible
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Rog
To ask
Interrogate, arrogant, abrogate, surrogate, derogatory, arrogate
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Sacr/Sanct/Secr
Sacred
Sacred, sacrifice, sanctify, sanction, execrable, sacrament, sacrilege
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Sal/Sil/Sault/Sult
To leap, to jump
Insult, assault, somersault, salient, resilient, insolent, exult, desultory
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Sci
To know
conscious, conscience, unconscionable, omniscient, prescient
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Scribe/Scrip
To write
Scribble, describe, script, postscript, proscribe, ascribe, 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, non sequitur
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Sed/Sess/Sid
To sit, to be still, to plan, to plot
Preside, resident, sediment, dissident, residual, subsidiary, insidious, assiduous
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Sens/Sent
To feel, to be aware
Sense, sensory, sentiment, presentiment, dissent, resent, sentinel, insensate
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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, conspicuous, specious
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Sta/Sti
To stand, to be in place
Static, destitute, obstinate, constitute, stasis, apostasy
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Sua
Smooth
Suave, persuade, dissuade, assuage
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Sub/Sup
Below
Submissive, subsidiary, subliminal, subtle, subterfuge, supposition
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Super/Sur
Above
Surpass, superlative, 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, tenable, sustenance, pertinacious
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Tend/Tens/Tent/Tenu
To stretch, to thin
Tension, tentative, tendentious, distend, attenuate, extenuating, contentious
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Theo
God
Atheist, theocracy, theology, apotheosis
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Tract
To drag, to pull, to draw
Tractor, attract, contract, detract, abstract, tractable, protract
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Trans
Across
Transaction, transparent, transition, transgress, transcendent, intransigent
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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, aver
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Verd
Greed
| 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
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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
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Vor
To eat
Voracious, carnivorous, omnivorous
