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| low "Basement, base" The base of a pyramid is where the most stress is focused. |
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take, seize
"Capture, capable, captor"
The man's captor cackled maniacally. "Your capture was easy!" he taunted. |
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believe
"Credibility, incredible"
While I would normally regard your story as incredible, I've known you a long time, and your credibility is very strong. |
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Speak
"Predict, dictation"
The lawyer who could see the future would predict it during his dictation to his secretary, which she copied down. |
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Lead
"Conduct, Induce"
In order to conduct the experiment, the doctor had to induce a coma in the patient first. |
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Make, do
"Manufacture, Facsimile"
The manufacturer of the product was very angry when he heard that facsimiles were being made in another plant across town! |
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Write
"Autograph, Cartographer"
The famous cartographer happily greeted the fans of his amazing maps, and signed many autographs for them. |
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Word, study of
"monologue, biology"
The teacher's monologue to the class about biology was so boring that no one spoke at all. |
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Die, death
"Mortal, mortician"
The mortician nodded towards the dead man on the exam table. "We are all mortal, after all," he said. |
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write
"Transcribe, superscript"
The clerk faithfully transcribed every word on the document, even the superscript written above the lines in tiny letters. |
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See
"Inspect, Retrospect"
When we took a look back at what had gone wrong, we realized the inspector had been right when he said he saw flaws. In retrospect, we should have listened to him. |
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touch
"Contact, Tactile"
When I reached out to make contact with the illusion, my hand passed right through it - it was fake, not tactile at all! |
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hold
"Tenacious, retention"
The boy's hold on the library book was tenacious - nothing would make him let go, even the threat of retention from the field trip if he didn't turn it in. |
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heat
"Thermometer, thermal"
The soldier took off his thermal vision in disgust. He couldn’t see anything with his goggles, because the thermometer said it was 110 degrees! |
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true
"Verify, Veritable"
The man looked at me and my form and said, "I had to verify that your parents really signed this, but they said they did. I guess we'll have to assume it's the veritable truth." |
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