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CRIT

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Separate, Judge

critical: inclined to judge severely; characterized by careful judgment
criterion: a standard on which a judgment can be made
critique: a critical review or commentary

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STRICT, STRING

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Tight, Drawn Together

stricture: keep within limits
constrict: squeeze or compress
restrict: to keep within limits
stringent: impose rigorous standards of performance

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CLAUD, CLAUS, CLOS, CLUD, CLUS

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Shut, Close

clause: a stipulation or provision in a document
exclude: keep out; reject; put out
recluse: person who lives in seclusion
occlude: cause to become close; obstruct

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FORT

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Brave, Strong, Chance

fortify: strengthen; reinforce
fortitude: quality that enables a person to face pain and suffering with courage
fortress: a large military stronghold

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FLECT, FLEX

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Bend, Turn

flexible: capable of being bent
reflex: bent or thrown back
deflect: bend or turn aside from a purpose
genuflect: to bend knee

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SPIR

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Breathe

respiration: breathing
aspiration: expulsion of breath in speaking
spirited: animated, courageous
aspire: hope or dream towards a goal or ambition

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LAUD

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Praise

plaudit: enthusiastic expression of praise or approval

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GLOSS, GLOT

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Language, Tongue

polyglot: speaker of many languages
glossolalia: fabricated and meaningless speech associated with trance states
glossary: list of words and their meanings, usually at the back of a book

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OPER

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Work

opera: musical work
operon: a group of genes that work as a unit
operative: functioning; working
operose: working hard

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POT

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Drink

potable: fit to drink

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VERB

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Word

verbatim: corresponding word for word
verbal: associated with words
proverbial: widely referred to
verbiage: an excess of words; wordiness

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BURS

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Purse, Money

reimburse: return money

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TREM, TREMU

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Tremble, Shake

tremendous: enormous; able to make one tremble
tremulous: marked by shaking or trembling
tremble: shaking involuntarily; quake; feel fear
tremor: a shaking movement

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AUTO, AUT

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Self

automatic: self-moving or self-active
autograph: person’s signature
autonomous: self-governing

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CULP

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Fault, Blame

culpable: deserving blame or censure

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NEC, NIC, NOC, NOX

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Kill, Death, Harm

internecine: deadly to both sides
pernicious: very harmful
nocent: causing injury
innocuous: not harmful
noxious: injurious to health

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ULTRA

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Beyond, Excessive, On the Other Side of

ultrasonic: relating to acoustic frequencies above the ear’s audible range
ultramodern: extremely modern in style or ideas ultraconservative: conservative to an extreme

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CLI, CLIN, CLIV

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Leaning, Inclined, Sloped
inclination: a tendency toward a certain condition disinclination: lack of inclination; reluctance
syn clinical: sloping downward from opposite directions and meeting in a common point
proclivity: tendency; inclination

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FAL, FALL, FALS

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Deceptive, False, Erroneous

false: untrue
fallacious: based on a false idea or fact; misleading falsify: state untruthfully; misrepresent
infallible: incapable of making an error

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HOL

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Whole

catholic: of broad or liberal scope, comprehensive

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OB, OC, OF, OP

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Toward, To, Against, Over

occlude: shut; block
obliterate: destroy completely
opprobrious: disgraceful; contemptuous
obfuscate: obscure; confuse

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SE

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Apart, Away

secede: withdraw from membership in an alliance
seclusion: act of keeping apart from social contact seduce: lead away form accepted principles; attract
sedition: incite rebellion

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VID, VIS

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See, Look

video: relating to televised images
visible: perceptible to the eye
supervisor: one who is in charge
vista: a distant view or prospect

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FATU

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Foolish

fatuous: foolish or silly, in a smug, self-satisfied way

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TEND, TENS, TENT
Stretch, Strive tension: act of stretching tight contend: strive in opposition; to struggle contention: act of striving in controversy tensor: a muscle that stretches a body part
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CYN, CAN
Dog | cynicism: attitude of scornful or jaded negativity
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SEC, SECT, SEGM
Cut sectile: relating to a mineral that can be cut smoothly by a knife dissect: cut apart secant: a straight line that intersects a curve at two or more points segmented: divided into parts
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SINU
Bend, Fold | sinuous: characterized by many curves or turns
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AMBI, AMPHI
Both, On Both Sides, Around ambiguous: open to various interpretations ambient: surrounding ambivalent: having conflicting feelings
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DI
Day | diurnal: daily
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ARCH
First, Chief, Ruler, Superior | patriarchy: family or community governed by men archetype: original model after which others are patterned
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EU
Well, Good eulogy: high praise euphoria: feeling of extreme happiness euhony: pleasant and harmonious sound euphemism: pleasant-sounding term for something unpleasant
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CERT
Certain certify: confirm formally as genuine certainty: state or fact of being certain certitude: state of being certain; sureness of occurrence ascertain: discovery with certainty
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LEG
Law illegal: prohibited by law legalese: abstruse vocabulary of the legal profession legitimate: in accordance with established standards; genuine; reasonable legislation: laws, decrees, mandates
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NIHIL
Nothing, None | nihilism: an extreme form of skepticism that denies all existence
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CIT, CITAT
Call, Start cite: mention as illustration or proof; to quote as an example citable: able to be brought forward as support or proof recite: say aloud before an audience something rehearsed recitative: having the character of a recital
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URB
City urban: related to a city urbane: refined, sophisticated, suave urbanologist: specialist in city life urbanite: city dweller
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OS, OSS, OST, OSTE(O)
Bone ossify: turn into bone osteitis: bone inflammation ostosis: formation of bone osteoma: bone tumor
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TACT, TANG
Touch contact: a coming together for touching tactus: sense of touch tactful: characterized by a sense of what is right and proper tangible: palpable; able to be touched
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ANTIQU
Old, Ancient antiquated: too old to be useful or fashionable antiquity: ancient times; an object form ancient times antiquarian: relating to the study of antiquities antiquate: make old-fashioned or obsolete
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META
Change, At A Later Time, Beyond metaplasia: change of one kind of tissue into another kind metanoia: spiritual conversion
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JUNCT, JUG
Join junction: the act of combining conjugal: relating to the relationship of spouses
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ERG
Work ergatocracy: government by workers ergonomics: science of the design of equipment for maximizing productivity erg: a unit of work synergy: working together
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VIL
Base, Mean | vilify: to slander
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CONTRA, CONTRO, COUNTER
Against, Opposite contrast: to set in opposition to emphasize differences contradict: speak against contrary: opposed contravene: act contrary to; to violate
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TRAN, TRANS
Across, Through transcend: rise above, go beyond transmute: change in appearance, shape or nature transmogrify: change into a different shape or form transgress: to violate a law, command or moral code
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VOLU, VOLV
Roll, Turn revolution: a turning around an axis volution: a turn of twist around a center evolution: process of developing gradually devolve: to degenerate or deteriorate
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E, EF, EX
Out, Former, Completely evade: to escape from efface: to rub or wipe out exonerate: to declare free from blame
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CENT
Hundred, Hundredth centurion: commander of a century in the roman army centenary: relating to a 100-year period centenarian: one who is 100 years old or more centennial: occurring every 100 years
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AEV, EV
Age, Era primeval: belonging to the earliest age medieval: belonging to the Middle Ages coeval: existing during the same era longevity: long life; long duration
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CRED
Trust, Believe credo: statement of belief or principle; creed credentials: evidence concerning one's right to confidence or authority credence: acceptance of something as true incredulous: skeptical; doubtful
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FRAC, FRAG
Break fractional: very small; being in fractions or pieces refract: deflect sound or light fractious: unruly; rebellious fragmentary: consisting of small disconnected parts
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SCI
Know scibile: something that is possible to know sciolism: conceited and shallow knowledge ability prescient: having foresight nescience: absence of knowledge; ignorance
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MEGA
Large, Great megalith: a very large stone used in various prehistoric architectures or monumental megaphone: device used to amplify the voice megalopolis: vast city megalophonous: having a loud voice
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MOLL
Soft | mollify: to calm in temper or feelings, to soothe
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A, AN
Not, Without agnostic: person who is doubtful about something anemia: deficiency in the part of the blood that carries oxygen atrophy: the wasting away of body tissue atypical: not typical
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PED
Child, Education pedantic: showing off learning pedagogue: teacher pedodontics: dentistry dealing with treatment of children's teeth pedant: one who displays learning ostentatiously
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PARA
Beyond, Related, Alongside paradigm: model, example; pattern paradisaical: heavenly; wonderful paramount: supreme; primary paragon: model of excellence
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NEUT, NEUTR
Not Either neutral: belonging to neither side in a war or controversy neutralize: make neutral neutrality: state of being neutral neuter: neither masculine nor feminine
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PHOS, PHOT
Light photosensitive: sensitive to light or radiant energy photophile: loving light photometry: measurement of the properties of light
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VER
Truth veritable: real; genuine verity: truthfulness veracity: accuracy, truthfulness verisimilitude: quality of appearing true or real aver: to declare to be true
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AM
Love, Liking amiable: friendly; likeable enamored: captivated amity: friendship amatory: inclined toward love
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SED, SESS, SID
Sit, Settle | assiduous: diligent, hardworking
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MULT, MULTI
Many multifarious: having a great variety, diverse multifaceted: made up of many parts multeity: state of being many
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PUB
The Public public: concerning the community or people republic: a political order in which a body of citizens has supreme power publicity: act of communicating information to attract people interest publish: announce; bring to the attention of the people
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ASTR, ASTER
Star asterisk: the sign * astral: relating to stars astronaut: person who travels in space astrology: study of the influence of the stars and planets on human beings
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CIRCU, CIRCUM
Around circuitous: roundabout, indirect circumvent: avoid; getting around circumflex: curving around circumlocution: indirect way of saying something
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APPELL
Name, Call Upon appellation: name or title appeal: earnest or urgent request appellant: relating to an appeal appellate: having the power to hear court appeals
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LUD
Play, Game allude: make an indirect reference to ludicrous: laughable; ridiculous elude: evade interlude: an entertainment between acts of a play
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TELE
Distance, Far telemetry: science of transmitting data from someplace remote to a distant receiving station telecommunication: science of communicating over distances by electronic transmission teleseism: tremor from a distant earthquake
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PAL, PALEO
Ancient paleoethnic: relating to the earliest races of man paleography: study of ancient writings paleology: study of antiquities paleogenetic: of past origin
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UN
Not, Reverse, Undo, Remove unfeigned: not feigned; not made up; genuine; real untenable: not viable; indefensible unequivocal: absolute, certain unfetter: free from restraints; liberate
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PET
Seek, Request, Assail petition: a request to an authority competition: the act of striving against others to attain a goal petulant: contemptuous; peevish repetitive: given to the act of repeating
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FID, FI
Faith fidelity: loyalty confidence: trust or faith in someone or something perfidious: faithless; disloyal; untrustworthy fiduciary: given or held in trust
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RECT, REG, REGN
King, Rule, Govern regal: of a monarch rector: an Anglican cleric in charge of a parish regime: a government in power regulation: a law to govern conduct
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TERM
``` End, Limit terminal: concluding; final; fatal midterm: middle of an academic term terminate: end interminable: endless term less: having no limits; unending ```
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PUG
To Fight | impugn: to charge as false
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CORP, CORS
Body corpse: a dead body corporeal: concerned with the body corpus: a large collection of writings incorporate: unite one thing with something else already in existence
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IT, ITER
Go, Repeat sedition: inciting rebellion iterate: to say or perform again, repeat
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OMNI
All, EVERY omnipotent: having unlimited power omnipresent: present everywhere omneity: state of including all things omniscient: having infinite knowledge
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DYS
Bad, Impaired, Abnormal dysfunctional: functioning abnormally dyslexia: learning disorder causing impairment of the ability to read dysentery: disorder of the lower intestinal tract dyspepsia: indigestion
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DOG, DOX
Opinion, Belief, Praise dogmatic: characterized by an authoritarian assertion of unproved principles orthodox: adhering to what is commonly accepted or traditional paradox: self-contradictory assertion based on valid deduction from acceptable premises heterodox: not in agreement with accepted beliefs
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AC, ACR, ACER, ACRI
Sharp, Sour, Bitter acute: sharp at the end; ending in a point acerbic: sour or astringent in taste, harsh in temper acerbate: annoy acrimonious: caustic, stinging, or bitter in nature
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RECT
Straight, Right rectitude: moral uprightness; righteousness erect: fix in an upright position erectile: able to be raised to an upright position rectilinear: bounded by straight lines recto: right-hand page of a book
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LEG, LEC, LEX
Read, Speak, Word lecture: An earnest admonition or reproof lexicon: dictionary lexicography: process of compiling a dictionary lexis: vocabulary; set of words in a language
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NOCT, NOX
Night noctambulant: walking in one's sleep noctivagant: wandering around at night noctilucous: shining at night nocturnal: relating to or occurring in the night
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CAP, CAPT, EPT, CIP
Hold, Seize, Take intercept: interrupt the course of captious: faultfinding; intending to entrap, as in an argument percept: principle that prescribes a course of action capture: take captive; to seize
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PECU
Money | impecunious: lacking money
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ARM, ARMA
Weapons armistice: truce; temporary stop to fighting armada: fleet of warships disarmament: reduction of a nation's weapons and military forces armadillo: burrowing mammal that has armor like long plates
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METER, METR
Measure perimeter: outer limits of an area ammeter: instrument that measures electric current in amperes metro logy: study of weights and measures
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PLEN, PLET, PLE
Fill, Full | replete: abundantly supplied
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ULTIM
Last | ultimatum: final statement or terms made by one party to another
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FUG
Flee | subterfuge: deceptive stratagem or device
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MON, MONIT
Warn monitor: maintain continuous observation of admonish: caution or reprimand premonition: forewarning; presentiment remonstrate: object or protest
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AQUA, AQUE
Water aquatic: relating to water aquarium: tank for holding fish and sea plants subaqueous: created or existing under water aquifer: underground rock formation that bears water; where water flows underground
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HELIO
Sun heliocentric: having the Sun as the center heliolatry: Sun worship heliotrop: kind of plant that turns toward the Sun heliotherapy: therapy based on exposure to sunlight
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UNI
One unique: one of a kind universal: characterizing or affecting all; present everywhere unipolar: having a single magnetic or electric pole unilateral: affecting only one side
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ECTO
Outside, External ectogenous: able to develop outside a host ectoplasm: outer part of the cytoplasm of a cell ectopic pregnancy: development of an ovum outside the uterus ectoderm: outermost germ layer of an embryo
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ANT, ANTE
Before antedate: precede in time antediluvian: extremely old; happening before the Flood anterior: placed before; earlier antler: bony growth on the head of a deer

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MAG, MAX, MAJ, MAS
Great, Big magnify: to increase the apparent size of magnate: powerful person magnitude: extent; greatness of size maxim: expression of general truth or principal
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VAL, VAIL
Strength, Worth valor: courage and boldness prevail: greater in strength or influence

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