STEMS/BASES Flashcards
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ALIEN
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of another: alienation
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ART
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art, skill: artifact
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FIN
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end, limit: finale
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FIRM
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firm, strong: confirm
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FORT
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strong: fortitude
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GRAND
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great: grandiose
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GRAV [GRIEV]
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heavy: grave, grievance
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LINE [LIGN]
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line: align
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NIHIL/NUL(L)
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nothing: nihilism, annul
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PART
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part: particle, depart
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VERB
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word, verb: verbatim
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VEST
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garment: vest, vestment (VESTIG is a completely different base that means “trace”)
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CED, CESS
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to go, yield: concede, procession
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DUC, DUCT
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to lead: conduct, induce
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JUDIC
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judgement: judiciary, adjudicate
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JUR, JUST
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right, law; take an oath, form an opinion: jury, justice, conjure
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LEV
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light, to lift: levitate, levity, elevate
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LOQU, LOCUT
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to speak: loquacious seelie :), elocution
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LUD, LUS
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to play, mock: ludinus…., delude, illusion
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PREC
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to request, beg, prayer: precarious
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TRUD, TRUS
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to push, thrust: protrude, intrusion
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VEN, VENT [VENU]
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to come: venture, intervene, invention
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CRUC
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cross: crucify
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GREG
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flock, herd: congregate, segregate
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HAB, AB, (HIB)
to have, hold as customary: habit, inability
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PED
foot: pedicure, pedal, pedestrian
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PUNG, PUNCT
to prick, point: puncture, punctual
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SACR (SECR)
sacred: sacrament
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SANCT
holy: sanctify, sanctuary
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SENT, SENS
to feel, think: sensation, sentiment, consent
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TURB
disturb: turbulent, perturb
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VERT, VERS
to turn: revert, aversion, versatile
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VI(A)
way, road: previous
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CLUD, CLUS [CLOS]
to shut: exclude, disclose
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CUR(R), CURS, [COURS], [COR(S)]
to run, go: current, excursion
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GRAD, GRESS
to step, go: regress, graduate
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PEND, PENS
to hang, weigh, pay: depend, suspend, expense
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PLE, PLET, PLEN
to fill, full: plentiful, complete, implement
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SPEC, (SPIC), SPECT
to look: specimen, specter, spectacle
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UND, [OUND]
wave: undulate, abundant, abound
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VID, VIS, [VIEW]
to see: evident, visual, vista
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VOC, VOK
voice, to call: invoke, vocal
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SEMI
half, partly: semicircle
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UN
one: unanimous, unicycle
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PRIM
first: primary, primitive
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DU
two: duet, dual
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BI, BIN(before vowels)
two, twice: binary, binoculars, bicycle
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TRI
three: tricycle, triangle
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QUADR(U)
four, quadruped
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QUART
fourth: quartet, quarter
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QUINT
fifth: quintuplet
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SEXT
six, sixth: sextet
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SEPT(EM)
seven: september
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OCT, OCTAV
eight, eighth: octave, octagon
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DECI(M)
tenth: decimal, deciliter
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CENT
hundred: century, centimeter
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MILL
thousand: millennia
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ANIM
mind, feeling, life: animal, animated
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ANN(U), (ENNI)
year: annual, perennial
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BENE, BON
well, good: benefactor, bonus
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CANT, (CENT) [CHANT]
to sing: incantation, incentive
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CUR
cure, care: secure
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EQU, (IQU)
equal, even: equidistant, iniquity
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FER
to bear, carry: refer, conference, transfer
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LAT
to bear, carry: relate, translation
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MAGN
great: magnitude,
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MAL(E)
bad, malignant, malicious
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MULT
many: multiply, multitude
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OPTIM
best: optimum
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PLIC, PLEX, [PLY]
to fold, tangle, interweave: complicate, imply, complex
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AQU(A)
water: aquatic
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CORPOR, CORP(US)
body: corporeal
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OMN
all: omnipresent, omnivorous
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REG, (RIG), RECT
right, straight, to rule, stiffen: rectify, regular
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SIMIL, SIMUL
similar lol: simulate, simile
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TEMPER, TEMPOR
time, due season, set bounds: temperate, temporal
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TEN, (TIN), TENT, [TAIN]
to hold: pretense, tenant
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TEND, TENT, TENS
to stretch, strive: tendon, tense, pretense
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TENU
stretched, thin: tenuous, attenuate
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DOM(IN)
house, master: domicile, dominant
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FLAG(R), FLAM(M)
to burn, flame: flagrant, flammable
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FLAT
to blow: flatulence, inflate
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GEN, GENER
race, origin, kind: genus, generous
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GEN
to give birth to, produce: generate
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LATER
side: lateral
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LUC, LUMIN
shine, light: lucid, lumination
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PAR
to ready, bring forth, provide: prepare, separate
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SEN
old: senile, senior
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SERV
to serve, save: service
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CUMB, CUB
lie down: succumb, incumber
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FEDER
league, treaty: federation, confederate
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FID
faith: confident
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FIDEL
faithful: fidelity
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HER, HES
to stick: adhere, adhesive
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ORD(IN)
to put in order, arrange: order, ordinance
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POT, POSS
to be able, have power: possess, potent, possible
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SAL (SIL), SALT, SULT
to leap: insult, salient
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SED, (SID), SESS
to sit, settle: sediment, insidious, session
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TERR
land, earth: terraform
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CRED
to believe, or trust: credible
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DOC, DOCT
to teach: doctorate, indoctrinate
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FA(B), FAT, FESS, FAM
to speak, reveal: infant, confess, affable
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FALL, FALS, [FAIL], [FAULT]
to deceive: fallacy, false, failure, default
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MOD
measure: module, modest
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MUT
to change: mutant
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TANG (TING), TACT
to touch: tactile, tangent
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TRACT
to drag: traction, tractor
