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General Vocab
Undergraduate 4
03/29/2010

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A
Definition
Without
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AB/ABS
Definition
Off, Away from, apart, down
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AC/ACR
Definition

Sharp/Bitter

ex. Acid,acute,acrid,

exacerbate: to increase bitterness or violence; aggravate

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ACT/AG

 

Definition

To do, to drive, to force , to lead

 

agile

agitate

litigate

pedagogue

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AD/AL
Definition

To, toward, near

 

adjacent

adhere

advocate

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AM
Definition

LOVE

amatuer,

amatory, amenity

enamorated

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AMB
Definition

To go, to walk with

ambient, ambitious, preamble, ambassador

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AMBI/AMOPH
Definition

Both, more than one, around

ambiguous, ambidextrious

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ANIM
Definition

of the life, mind, soul, spirit

unanimous: in complete accord, magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult.

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Annui/Enni
Definition
Year; annual,annuity: a specifies income payable at stated intervals
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ante
Definition
Before; anterior, antecedent: existing being or going before.
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Anthro/Andr
Definition
Man, Human ,misanthrope: one who deals with the origins of humankind
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Anti
Definition
Against; antibody; a protein naturally existing in blood serum
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Apo
Definition
Away; apology; expression of regret; sorrow, apogee: the highest or most distant point
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Arch/Archi/Archy
Definition
cheif, principal, ruler; archenemy: chief enemy
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Auto
Definition
Self: autocrat: self ruler
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Be
Definition
To Be; to have a particular quality; to Exist: belittle, bemoan: to express pity for; bewilder
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Bel:
Definition
War; antebellum: before the war; rebel: a person who resists authority; Tradition
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Ben/Bon
Definition
Good; benefit, bona fide: in good faith, without fraud, bonus
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Bi
Definition
Twice/Double
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Cad/Cid
Definition
To fall, to happen by chance; accident, coincidence, Recidivist
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Cant/Cent/Chant
Definition
To Sing
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Cap/Cip/Cept:
Definition
To take, to get; capture, suseptible, emancipate
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Cap/Capit/Cipit
Definition
Head, Headlong; Capital, disipline
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Card/cord/cour
Definition
Heart; encourage, concord: agreement; peace, amity
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Carn
Definition
Flesh
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Cast/Chast:
Definition
Cut; cast, chaste: free from obscenity
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Ced/Ceed/Cess
Definition
To go; to yield; to stop; predecessor: one who comes ahead
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Centr
Definition
Center
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Cern/Cert/Cret/Crim/Crit: to separate;
Definition
to separate; to judge; to distinguish; to decide; discrete: detached from others, ascertain: to determine
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Chron
Definition
Time; synchronize,
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Circu:
Definition
Around, on all sides
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Cis
Definition
To Cut: scissors, precise
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Cla/Clo/Clu
Definition
Shut, close: conclude, cloister: a courtyard bordered with covered walks
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Claim/Clam
Definition
To shout, to cry out; explain, proclaim, clamor
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Cli
Definition
To lean toward; decline, recline, climax, proclivity
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Co/Col/Com/Con
Definition
With, together; connect, coerce, collide
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Cre/Cresc/Cret: To grow
Definition
Accrue, increment, accretion
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Cred
Definition
To believe/ to trust; crudulity: to trust too readily
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Cryp:
Definition
Hidden: cryptography: procedures of making and using secret writing
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Culp
Definition
To Blame; culprit, culpability
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Dac/Doc
Definition
To teach, doctor, didactic: intended for instruction
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De
Definition
Away, off, dwn, completely, reversal
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Dem
Definition
People; democracy, demographics
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Di/Dia
Definition
apart, through dialogue
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Dign:
Definition
Worth; dignity, dignitary, deign: to think fit or in accordance with one's dignity
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Dis/Dif
Definition
away from, apart, reversal, not: disperse, disseminate: to scatter wastefully.
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Dis/Dif
Definition
away from, apart, reversal, not: disperse, disseminate: to scatter wastefully.
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Dic/Dict/Dit
Definition
dictionary, predict, verdict, interdict: to forid prohibit
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Dog/Dox
Definition
orthodox: sound or correct in opinion or doctrine, dogmal a system of tenets, as of a chuch
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Don, dot, dow
Definition
to give, donate, pardon, antidote, anecdote, endow
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dub
Definition
doubt, doubtful, doubtfulness, indubitable
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duc/duct
Definition
to lead, abduct, conduct, conducive, induce
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dur
Definition
hard: endure, durable, duress, dour, duration
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dys
Definition
faulty, abnormal: dustrophy, dyspepsia, dyslexia, dysfunctional
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E, ef, ex
Definition
out of, from , former, completely
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Epi
Definition
upon: epidemic, epilogue, epidermis
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equ
Definition
equal, even
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err
Definition
to wander, err, error, erratic, arrant
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Esce:
Definition
becoming; adolescent, obsolscent, incandescent, convalecent
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Eu
Definition
good, weel: euphemism( pleasant sounding term for something unpleasant),
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Extra
Definition
outside, beyond: extract, extradite: hand over person accused of crime.
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Fab/fam:
Definition
speak: fable, affavle, ineffable, famous, defame
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Fac/Fic, fig, fait, feit, fy
Definition
to do, to make: factory, faction, deficient, prolific, configuration
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Fer
Definition
To bring, to carry, to bear: offer, confer: to grant, bestow
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Ferv:
Definition
to boil, to bubble
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Fid:
Definition
faith, trust: confide, affidavit, fidelity, fiduciary, infidel
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Fin
Definition
End, infinite: boundless; endless
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Flag/Flam:
Definition
to burn; flammable, conflagration: a large destructive fire.
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Flect/flex
Definition
to bend, inflect, reflect, genuflect: to bend knee, esp. in worship
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flu, flux:
Definition
to flow: fluid, fluctuation, effluence: flowing out of light, electricity, etc., confluence: merging into one, mellifluous: pleasing, musical
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Fore
Definition
before:
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Fort
Definition
chance, fortuitous
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Fort
Definition
strength: fortify, fortissimo, forte
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Fra, frac, frag, fring:
Definition
to break
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Fus
Definition
To Pour: profuse, fusillade, suffuse, diffuse, infusion
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gen
Definition
birth, creation, race, kind: Congenital: exsisting as such from birth
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Gn, Gno
Definition
Know: ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uninformed, incognito
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Gn, Gno
Definition
Know: ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uninformed, incognito
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Grad/Gress
Definition
to step: egress: going out; way out, regress
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Grat
Definition
Pleasing, grateful, ingratiate( to bring oneself into favor)
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Her/HES
Definition
to stick: coherent, adhesive
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hetero
Definition
different
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Hom
Definition
same
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Hyper
Definition
over, excessive: hyperbole: purposeful exaggeration for effect
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Hypo
Definition
under, beneath, less than; hypodermic, hypocritical
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Idio
Definition
one's own, idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy
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Im, In, Em, En:
Definition
in, into: embrace, intrinsic, influx
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Inter
Definition
between, among
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Ject
Definition
To throw, to throw down: inject, abject: utterly hopeless, humiliating, or wretched
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Join, junct:
Definition
to Meet, to join
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Jur
Definition
To swear: perjury, abjure, adjure
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Lav/lut/luv
Definition
to wash: lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge: great flood, antediluvian: before the biblical flood; extremely old
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Lect/leg:
Definition
to select, to choose: to collect, elect, select, eclectic, predilection
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Lev
Definition
to lift, light, rise
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Lov/log/loqu
Definition
word, speech
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Luc/Lum/Lus
Definition
Light: illustrate, illuminate, illustrious, lackluster, lucid
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Mag/maj/max
Definition
Big: magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury
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mal/male
Definition
bad, ill, evil, wrong: malign: to slander, malady: a disorder/disease of the body
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man
Definition
Hand: manufacture, manual, emancipate
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min
Definition
Small
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min
Definition
To project/to hang over: eminent: towering above others; projecting imminent: about to occur; impending, minatory: menacing, threatening
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Mis/Mit
Definition
to sent: transmit, emissary, intermittent, remit, remission
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misc:
Definition
Mixed: miscellaneous, miscegenation: interbreeding of races
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Mon/Monit
Definition
to remind, to warn: monument, admonish: to warn against something; caution
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remonstrate
Definition
to say, or plead in protect, objection, or reproof
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Morph
Definition
Shape: amorphous, anthromorphism: attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals, or natural phenomena
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Mort
Definition
death: moribund; dying, decaying
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Mut
Definition
Change: mutation
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Nat/nas/nai
Definition
to be born; natural, native, nascent: starting to develop
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Nic/noc/nox
Definition
harm: innocent, noxious: injurious, harmful, obnoxious, innocuous
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Nom:
Definition
rule, order: astronomy, economy, gastronomy, taxonomy, autonomy
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Nom/Nym, Noun, nown
Definition
name; synonym, anonymous, nominal, nominate, nomenclature, acronym
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nounc/nunc:
Definition
to announce; pronounce, announce, renounce
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Nov/Neo/Nou
Definition
New: renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte, nouveau riche( one who has recently become rich)
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OB/OC/OF/OP
Definition
Toward, To, Against, Over: obese, obstinate, obstruct, oblique, obstreperous, obtuse
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Omni
Definition
All: an anthology of the works of one author or of writings on related subjects, omnipotent: all powerful
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Pac/Peac
Definition
Peace: appease, pacify, pacifier, pact
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Pan:
Definition
All, Everyone: panorama, panoply, pantheon, pandemic
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Par
Definition
Equal: apartheid: a system or caste that separates people according to race, etc.
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para
Definition
next to, beside: parallel, paragon: model of excellence, paranoid: suffering from a baseless distrust of others
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Pas/Pat/Path
Definition
Feeling, suffering, disease: sumpathy, dispassionate
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Pas/Pat/Path
Definition
Feeling, suffering, disease: sumpathy, dispassionate
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Pau/Po/Pov/Pu
Definition
Few/Little/Poor: pauper, poverty, pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution
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Ped
Definition
Child, Education: pedagogue, pedant, encyclopedia
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Ped/Pod
Definition
Foot: antipodes: places diametrically opposite each other on the globe, podium, expedite
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Pen/Pun
Definition
To pay, to compensate: penal, penalty, nunitive, penance, penitent
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Pend, pens:
Definition
to hang, to weight, to pay: compensate, indespensable, appendage
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Per
Definition
completely: persistent, perforate, perplex, peruse, perfunctory: performed merely as routine duty
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Peri
Definition
Around: peripatetic: walking or traveling about; itinerant
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Pet/Pit
Definition
To go; to seek; to strive: appetite: a desire for food or drink: petition, impetuous, petulant
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Phil
Definition
love
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Plac
Definition
to please: placid, placebo, implacable: unable to be pleased
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Ple
Definition
to fill: complete, deplete, supplement, implement, replete, plethora
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Plex/plic/ply
Definition
To fold, twist, tangle, or bend: complex, replica, implicit,implicate
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Pon/Pos/Pound: to put, to place: component: a constituent part, elemental ingredient, Juxtapose: to place together, side by side.
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Port
Definition
to carry: import, export, portable, deportment,disport
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Prehend/Prise:
Definition
To take, to get, to seize: reprisals: retaliation against an enemy.
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Pro
Definition
much, for, a lot: prolific; highly fruitful, profuse: spending or giving freely
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