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05/31/2010

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A

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Without

 

amoral, athesist, atypical

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AB/ABS

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Off, away from, apart, down

 

abstinence, abdicate, abnormal

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AC/ACR

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Sharp, bitter

 

acid, acberic, acrimonious

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ACT/AG

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to do, to drive, to force, to lead

 

agile, pedagogue

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AD/AL

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To, toward, near

 

adjacent, adhere, address

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AL/ALI/ALTER

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other, another

 

alternative, alias, alibi

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AM

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love

 

amatory, amorous, enamored

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AMB

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to go, to walk

 

ambient, ambulance, ambulatory

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AMBi/AMPH

 

 

 

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both, more than one, around

 

ambiguous, ambidextrous

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ANIM

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of the life, mind, soul, spirit

 

animosity, equanimity, magnanimous

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ANNUI/ENNI

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year

 

annual, anniversary, annuity

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ANTE

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before

 

anterior, antecedent, antedate

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ANTHRO/ANDR

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man, human

 

anthropology, android, androgen

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ANTI

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against

 

antibody, antidote, antipathy

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APO
Definition
away
apology, apostle, apogee
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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY
Definition
chief, principal, ruler
architect, archenemy, monarchy
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AUTO
Definition
self
automatic, autonomy
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BE
Definition
to be, to have a particular quality, to exist belittle, bemoan, bewilder
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BEL
Definition
war
antebellum, rebel, belligerent
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BEN/BON
Definition
good
benefit, benign, benediction
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BI
Definition
twice, double
binoculars, biennial, bilateral
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CAD/CID
Definition
to fall, to happen by chance
accident, coincidence, decadent
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CANT/CENT/CHANT
Definition
to sing
chant, enchant, incantation
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CAP/CIP/CEPT
Definition
to take, to get
capture, anticipate, emancipate
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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT
Definition
head, headlong
capital, precipice, caption
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CARD/CORD/COUR
Definition
heart
cardiac, encourage, discord, concordance
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CARN
Definition
flesh
carnivorous, carnage, reincarnation
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CAST/CHAST
Definition
cut
cast, caste, castigate
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CED/CEED/CEES
Definition
to go, to yield, to stop
concede, predecessor, cessation, incessant
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CENTR
Definition
center
concentrate, eccentric, concentric, centrist
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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT
Definition
to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide
discrete, ascertain, hypocrite, criterion
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CHRON
Definition
time
synchronize, chronology, chronic
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CIRCU
Definition
around, on all sides
circumference, circumstances, circuitous
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CIS
Definition
to cut
scissors, precise, exorcise, incision
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CLA/CLO/CLU
Definition
shut, close
conclude, claustrophobic, disclose
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CLAIM/CLAM
Definition
to shout, to cry out
exclaim, proclaim, disclaim
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CLI
Definition
to lean toward
decline, recline, disinclination
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CO/COL/COM/CON
Definition
with, together
connect, coerce, compatible, collaborate
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COUR/CUR
Definition
running, a course
recur, curriculum, excursion
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CRE/CRESC/CRET
Definition
to grow
creation, increase, crescendo
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CRED
Definition
to believe, to trust
incredible, credentials, credo
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CRYP
Definition
hidden
crypt, cryptology, cryptography
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CUB/CUMB
Definition
to lie down
cubicle, succumb, recumbent
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CULP
Definition
blame
culprit, culpable, inculpate, mea culpa
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DAC/DOC
Definition
to teach
doctor, indoctrinate, docile
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DE
Definition
away, off, down, completely, reversal
descend, defile, defame
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DEM
Definition
people
democracy, epidemic, pandemic
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DI/DIA
Definition
apart, through
dialogue, dilate, dichotomy
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DIC/DICT/DIT
Definition
to say, to tell, to use words
dictionary, dictate, predict
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DIGN
Definition
worth
dignity, deign, condign
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DIS/DIF
Definition
away from, apart, reversal, not
disperse, dissipate, dissuade
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DOG/DOX
Definition
opinion
orthodox, paradox, dogma
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DOL
Definition
suffer, pain
condolence, doleful, dolorous
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DON/DOT/DOW
Definition
to give
donate, endow, anecdote
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DUB
Definition
doubt
indubitably, dubious
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DUC/DUCT
Definition
to lead
abduct, conduct, induce
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DUR
Definition
hard
endure, durable, duress
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DYS
Definition
faulty, abnormal
dystrophy, dyslexia, dysfunctional
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E/EF/EX
Definition
out, out of, from, former, completely
evade, exclude, expire, efface
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EPI
Definition
upon
epidemic, epilogue,epidermis
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EQU
Definition
equal, even
equation, equidistant, iniquity
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ERR
Definition
to wander
err, error, erractic
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ESCE
Definition
becoming
adolescent, incandescent, convalscent
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EU
Definition
good, well
euphemism, eulogy, euphony
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EXTRA
Definition
outside, beyond
extraterrestrial, extract, extradite
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FAB/FAM
Definition
speak
fable, ineffable, defame
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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY
Definition
to do, to make
factory, prolific, configuration, counterfeit
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FER
Definition
to bring, to carry, to bear
offer, confer, proffer
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FERV
Definition
to boil, to bubble
fervor, effervescent
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FID
Definition
faith, trust
confide, affidavit, fidelity
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FIN
Definition
end
final, confine, infinite
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FLAG/FLAM
Definition
to burn
flammable, flagrant, conflagration
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FLECT/FLEX
Definition
to bend
deflect, inflect, flexible
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FLU/FLUX
Definition
to flow
fluid, fluctuation, confluence
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FORE
Definition
before
foresight, foreshadow, forestall
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FORT
Definition
chance
fortune, fortuitous
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FORT
Definition
strength
fortify
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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING
Definition
to break
fracture, fragment, refractory, infringe
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FUS
Definition
to pour
profuse, fusillade, diffuse
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GEN
Definition
birth, creation, race, kind
generous, genetics, gender, carcinogenic
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GN/GNO
Definition
know
agnostic, ignore, ignoramus
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GRAD/GRESS
Definition
to step
progress, degrade, digress
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GRAT
Definition
pleasing
grateful, ingratiate, gratuity
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HER/HES
Definition
to stick
coherent, adhesive, inherent
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(H)ETERO
Definition
different
heterosexual, heterodox
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(H)OM
Definition
same
homosexual, homogeneous, homonym
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HYPER
Definition
over, excessive
hyperactive, hyperbole
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HYPO
Definition
under, beneath, less than
hypodermic, hypochondriac, hypothesis
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IDIO
Definition
one's own
idiot, idiom, idiosycrasy
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IM/IN/EM/EN
Definition
in, into
embrace, enclose, intrinsic, implicit
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IM/IN
Definition
not, without
inactive, innocuous, indolence, impartial
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INTER
Definition
between,among
interstae, interim
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JECT
Definition
to throw, to throw down
eject, inject, dejected
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JOIN/JUNCT
Definition
to meet, to join
junction, adjoin, rejoinder
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JUR
Definition
to swear
perjury, abjure
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LAV/LUT/LUV
Definition
to wash
lavatory, dilute, antediluvian
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LECT/LEG
Definition
to select, to choose
collect, elect
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LEV
Definition
lift, light, rise
relieve, alleviate, levee
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LOC/LOG/LOQU
Definition
word, speech
loquacious, dialogue, elocution
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LUC/LUM/LUS
Definition
light
illustrate, illuminate, lackluster
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LUD/LUS
Definition
to play
allude, illusion, ludicrous
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MAG/MAX/MAJ
Definition
big
magnify, maximum, magnate
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MAL/MALE
Definition
bad, ill, evil, wrong
malfunction, malicious, malady
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MAN
Definition
hand
manual, manufacture
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MIN
Definition
small
minute, miniature, minutiae
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MIN
Definition
to project, to hang over
eminent, imminent, preeminent
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MIS/MIT
Definition
to send
transmit, emissary, remit
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MISC
Definition
mixed
miscellaneous, promiscous
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MON/MONIT
Definition
to remind, to warn
monument, monitor, premonition
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MORPH
Definition
shape
amorphous, metamorphosis
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MORT
Definition
death
immortal, morbid
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MUT
Definition
change
commute, mutation, permutation
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NAT/NAS/NAI
Definition
to be born
native, naive, renaissance
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NIC/NOC/NOX
Definition
harm
innocent, noxious, obnoxious
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NOM
Definition
rule, order
astronomy, economy, taxonomy
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NOM/NYM/NOUN/NOWN
Definition
name
synonym, nominate, acronym
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NOUNC/NUNC
Definition
to announce
announce, pronounce, renounce
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NOV/NEO/NOU
Definition
new
novice, renovate, neophyte
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OB/OC/OF/OP
Definition
toward, to, against, over
obese, obsruct
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OMNI
Definition
all
omnibus, omnipreset
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PAC/PEAC
Definition
peace
appease, pacify, pact
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PAN
Definition
all, everyone
panorama, pantheon, pandemic
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PAR
Definition
equal
par, parity, disparage
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PARA
Definition
next to, beside
parallel, parasite, parody
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PAS/PAT/PATH
Definition
feeling, suffering, disease
sympathy, compassion, sociopath, pathogenic
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PAU/PO/POV/PU
Definition
few, little, poor
poverty, pauper, pusillanimous
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PED
Definition
child, education
pediatrician, pedagogy
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PED/POD
Definition
foot
pedal, podium
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PEN/PUN
Definition
to pay, to compensate
penal, punitive, penance
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PEND, PENS
Definition
to hang, to weight, to pay
pendant, depend, compensate
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PER
Definition
completely
persistent, peruse,
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PERI
Definition
around
perimeter, periscope
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PET/PIT
Definition
to go, to seek, to strive
appetite, compete, petition
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PHIL
Definition
love
philosophy, bibliophile
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PLAC
Definition
to please
placid, placebo, implacable
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PLE
Definition
to fill
complete, deplete, replete
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PLEX, PLIC, PLY
Definition
to fold, twist, tangle, bend
complex, duplicity, pliable
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PON/POS/POUND
Definition
to put, to place
component, juxtapose, expound
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PORT
Definition
to carry
portable, porter, import
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POST
Definition
after
posthumous, postwar, posterior, post facto
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PRE
Definition
before
precocious, premonition, precedent
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PREHEND/PRISE
Definition
to take, to get, to seize
surprise, enterprise, apprehend
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PRO
Definition
much, for, a lot
prolific, prodigal, proselytize
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PROB
Definition
to prove, to test
probe, approbation, opprobrium
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PUG
Definition
to fight
pugnacious, impugn, pugilist
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN
Definition
to point, to prick
point, puncture, pungent, expunge
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QUE/QUIS
Definition
to seek
acquire, conquest, query
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QUI
Definition
quiet
quiet, disquiet, tranquil
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RID/RIS
Definition
to laugh
riddle, risible
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ROG
Definition
to ask
interrogate, arrogant, surrogate
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SACR/SANCT/SECR
Definition
sacred
sacred, sacrifice, sacrilege
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
Definition
to leap, to jump
insult, assault, somersault, resilient
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SCI
Definition
to know
conscious, omniscient, prescient
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SCRIBE/SCRIP
Definition
to write
scribble, describe, conscription
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SE
Definition
apart
select, separate, sequester
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SEC/SEQU
Definition
to follow
second, sequence, non sequitur
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SED/SESS/SID
Definition
to sit, to be still, to plan, to plot
preside, sediment, insidious
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SENS/SENT
Definition
to feel, to be aware
sense, sensory, presentiment, dissent
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SOL
Definition
to loosen, to free
dissolve, soluble, absolution
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SPEC/SPIC/SPIT
Definition
to look, to see
perspective, speculation, suspicious, circumspect
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STA/STI
Definition
to stand, to be in place
static, destitute, obstinate, stasis
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SUA
Definition
smooth
suave, persuade, assuage
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SUB/SUP
Definition
below
submissive, subliminal, subtle, supposition
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SUPER/SUR
Definition
above
surpass, supersede, superfluous
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TAC/TIC
Definition
to be silent
tacit, taciturn, reticent
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
Definition
to hold
detain, tenacious, tenure, pertinacious
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
Definition
to stretch, to thin
tension, tentative, distend, extenuating
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THEO
Definition
God
atheist, theocracy, theology
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TRACT
Definition
to drag, to pull, to draw
tractor, attract, protract
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TRANS
Definition
across
transaction, transparent, transition
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US/UT
Definition
to use
abuse, usage, utilitarian
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VEN/VENT
Definition
to come or to move toward
convene, intervene, contravene
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VER
Definition
truth
verdict, veracious, verity
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VERD
Definition
green
verdant, verdure
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VERS/VERT
Definition
to turn
controversy, revert, avert
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VI
Definition
life
vivid, vicarious, viable
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VID/VIS
Definition
to see
evident, visible, adviser
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VIL
Definition
base, mean
vilify, vile
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VOC/VOK
Definition
to call
vocabulary, convoke
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VOL
Definition
to wish
voluntary, volition
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VOR
Definition
to eat
voracious, carnivorous, omniovorous
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