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08/22/2012

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Term
A-
Definition
without

-amoral, atheist, atypical, anonymous, apathy, amorphous, atrophy, apartheid, anomaly, agnostic
Term
AB/ABS
Definition
off, away from, apart, down

-abduct, abhor, abolish, abstract, abnormal, abdicate, abstinent
Term
AC/ACR
Definition
sharp, bitter

-acid, acute, acerbic, exacerbate, acrid, acrimonious, acumen
Term
ACT/AG
Definition
to do, to drive, to force, to lead

-act, agent, agile, agitate, exacting, pedagogue, demagogue, synagogue, cogent, exigent
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AD/AL
Definition
to, toward, near

-adapt, adjacent, addict, admire, address, adhere, administer, adore
Term
AL/ALI/ALTER
Definition
other, another

-alternative, alias, alibi, alien, alter ego
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AM
Definition
love

-amateur, amatory, amorous, enamored, amity, paramour
Term
AMB
Definition
to go, to walk

-ambitious, amble, preamble, ambulance
Term
AMB/AMPH
Definition
around

-amphitheater, ambit, ambiance, ambient
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AMB/AMPH
Definition
both, more than one

-ambiguous, amphibian, ambivalent, ambidextrous
Term
ANIM
Definition
life, mind, soul, spirit

-unanimous, animosity, equanimity, magnanimous, pusillanimous
Term
ANTE
Definition
before

-ante, anterior, antecedent, antedate, antebellum, antediluvian
Term
ANTHRO/ANDR
Definition
man, human

-anthropology, android, misanthrope, philanthropy, androgynous
Term
ANNU/ENNU
Definition
year

-annual, anniversary, bianual, biennial, centennial, annuity, perennial, annals, millennium
Term
APO
Definition
Away

-apology, apostle, apocalypse, apogee, apocryphal, apotheosis, apostasy, apoplexy
Term
APT/EPT
Definition
skill, fitness, ability

-adapt, aptitude, apt, inept, adept
Term
ARCH/ARCHI
Definition
chief, principal

-architect, archenemy, archetype, archipelago
Term
ARCHY
Definition
ruler

-monarchy, matriarchy, patriarchy, anarchy, heirarchy, oligarchy
Term
ART
Definition
skill, craft

-artificial, artifice, artisan, artifact, artful, artless
Term
AUC/AUG/AUX
Definition
to increase

-auction, auxiliary, augment, august
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AUTO
Definition
self

-automatic, autopsy, autocrat, autonomy
Term
BE
Definition
to be, to have a certain quality

-belittle, belated, bemoan, befriend
Term
BEL/BELL
Definition
war

-rebel, belligerent, bellicose, antebellum
Term
BEN/BON
Definition
good

-benefit, beneficiary,beneficent, benefactor, benign
Term
BI
Definition
twice, doubly

-binoculars, biannual, biennial, bigamy, bilateral, biligyal, bipartisan
Term
BRI/BREV
Definition
brief, short

-brief, abbreviate, abridge, brevity
Term
CAD/CID
Definition
to fall, to happen by chance

-accident, coincidence, decadent, cascade, recidivism, cadence
Term
CAND
Definition
to burn

-candle, incandescent, candor
Term
CANT/CENT/CHANT
Definition
to sing

-chant, enchant, accent, recant, incantation, incentive
Term
CAP/CIP/CEPT
Definition
to take, to get

-capture, anticipate, intercept, susceptible, emancipate, recipient
Term
CAP/CAPIT/CIP
Definition
head, head-long

-capital, cape, captain, disciple, principle, principal, precipice, precipitate, precipitous, capitulate, capitalism
Term
CARD/CORD/COUR
Definition
heart

-cardiac, courage, encourage, concordance, cordial
Term
CARN
Definition
flesh

-carnivorous, carnival, carnal, carnage
Term
CAST/CHAST
Definition
cut

-caste, castigate, chastise, chaste
Term
CAUST
Definition
to burn

-caustic, holocaust
Term
CED/CEED/CESS
Definition
to go, to yield, to stop

-exceed, preceded, recess, concede, cede access, predecessor
Term
CENTR
Definition
center

-central, concentrate, eccentric, concentric
Term
CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT
Definition
to separate, to judge, to distinguish, to decide

-concern, critic, secret, crime, discreet, ascertain
Term
CHRON
Definition
time

-synchronize, chronicle, chronology, anachronism
Term
CIRCU
Definition
around, on all sides

-circumference, circumstances, circuit, circumlocution
Term
CIS
Definition
to cut

-scissors, precise, exorcise, incision
Term
CIT
Definition
to set in motion

-excite, incite, solicit, solicitous
Term
CLA/CLO/CLU
Definition
shut, close

-closet, conclude, claustrophobia, disclose, exclusive, recluse, cloister, foreclose
Term
CLAIM/CLAM
Definition
to shout, to cry out

-exclaim, proclaim, clamor, declaim
Term
CLI
Definition
to lean toward

-decline, recline, climax, proclivity, disinclination
Term
CO/COL/COM/CON
Definition
with, together

-connect, confide, conceded, coerce, cohesive, congenial, connubial, conjugal
Term
CRAT/CRACY
Definition
to govern

-bureaucracy, autocracy
Term
CRE/CRESC/CRET
Definition
to grow

-creation, increase, crescendo, accretion
Term
CRED
Definition
to believe, to trust

-incredible, credibility, credentials, credit, credence, credulity, incredulous
Term
CRYP
Definition
Hidden

-crypt, cryptic, apocryphal, cryptography
Term
CUB/CUMB
Definition
to lie down

-cubicle, succumb, incubate, incumbent, recumbent
Term
CULP
Definition
blame

-culprit, culpable, exculpate, inculpate, mea cupla
Term
COUR/CUR
Definition
running, a course

-occur, recur, current, courier, cursive, concurrent, incur, discourse, discursive, precursor, recourse, cursory
Term
DE
Definition
away, off, down, completely, reversal

-descend, detract, decipher, deface, defile, defraud, deplete, decry, delineate, deferential
Term
DEM
Definition
people

-democracy, epidemic, endemic, demagogue, demographics, pandemic
Term
DI/DIA
Definition
apart, through

-dialogue, diagnose, diameter, dilate, digress, dilatory, diaphanous, dichotomy, dialectic
Term
DIC/DICT/DIT
Definition
to say, to tell, to use words

-dictionary,dictate, abdicate, edict, dictum, malediction, indict, indite
Term
DIGN
Definition
worthy

-dignity, dignitary, dignify, deign, indignant, dcondign
Term
DIS/DIF
Definition
away from, apart, reversal, not

-disperse, disseminate, dissipate, dissuade, diffuse
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DAC/DOC
Definition
to teach

-doctor, doctrine, didactic
Term
DOG/DOX
Definition
opinion

-orthodox, paradox, dogma, dogmatic
Term
DOL
Definition
suffer, pain

-condolence, indolence, doleful, dolorous
Term
DON/DOT/DOW
Definition
to give

-donate, donor, pardon, condone, antidote, anecdote, endow, dowry
Term
DUB
Definition
doubt

-dubious, dubiety, indubitable
Term
DUC/DUCT
Definition
to lead

-conduct, abduct, seduce, induct, induce, ductile
Term
DUR
Definition
hard

-endure, durable, duress, dour, abdurate
Term
DYS
Definition
faulty

-dysfunction, dystopia, dyspepsia, dyslexia
Term
EPI
Definition
upon

-epidemic, epilogue, epidermis, epistle, epitome, epigram, epithet, epitaph
Term
EQU
Definition
equal, even

-equation, adequate, equivalent, equilibrium, equivocal
Term
ERR
Definition
to wander

-err, error, erratic, erroneous, errant, aberrant
Term
ESCE
Definition
becoming

-adolescent, obsolescent, iridescent, coalesce, quiescent, acquiescent
Term
EU
Definition
good, well

-euphoria, euphemism, eulogy
Term
E/EF/EX
Definition
out, out of, from, former, completely

-evade, exclude, extricate, exonerate, extort, exhort, exalt, exult, extenuate, egregious
Term
EXTRA
Definition
outside of, beyond

-extraordinary, extraneous, extrapolate
Term
FAB/FAM
Definition
speak

-fable, fabulous, affable, ineffable, fame, famous, defame, infamous
Term
FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY
Definition
to do, to make

-factory, facsimile, benefactor, facile, soporific, munificent, configuration
Term
FER
Definition
to bring, to carry, to bear

-offer, transfer, confer, referendum, infer, proffer, vociferous
Term
FERV/FERM
Definition
to boil, to bubble, to burn

-fervor, ferment, fervid, effervescent
Term
FID
Definition
faith, trust

-confide, confident, affidavit, diffident, infidelity, perfidy, fiduciary, semper fidelis, bona fide
Term
FIN
Definition
end

-final, finale, confine, define, infinitesimal
Term
FLAG/FLAM
Definition
to burn

-flame, flamboyant, flammable, inflammatory, flagrant
Term
FLECT/FLEX
Definition
to bend

-deflect, flexible, inflect, reflect, genuflect
Term
FLICT
Definition
to strike

-afflict, inflict, conflict, profligate
Term
FLU/FLUX
Definition
to flow

-fluid, fluent, affluent, fluctuation, influx, effluence, confluence, superfluous, mellifluous
Term
FOR
Definition
before

-foresight, foreshadow
Term
FORT
Definition
chance

-fortune, fortunate, fortuitous
Term
FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING
Definition
to break

-fracture, fraction, refraction, fractious, infraction, infringe
Term
FRUIT/FRUG
Definition
fruit, produce

-fruitful, frugal
Term
FUND/FOUND
Definition
bottom

-foundation, founder, profound
Term
FUS
Definition
to pour

-confuse, transfusion, profuse, effusive, diffuse, suffuse, infusion
Term
GEN
Definition
birth, creation, race, kind

-generous, generate, genetics, photogenic, genial, congenial, ingenuous, indigenous, miscegenation, sui generis
Term
GN/GNO
Definition
know

-ignore, ignoramus, incognito, agnostic, cognitive, cognizant
Term
GRAND
Definition
big

-grandeur, grandiose, aggrandize, grandiloquent
Term
GRAT
Definition
pleasing

-ingrate, ingratiate, gratuity
Term
GRAV/GRIEV
Definition
heavy, serious

-grace, grief, aggrieve, gravity, grievous
Term
GREG
Definition
herd

-congregation, segregation, aggregation, gregarious, egregious
Term
GRAD/GRESS
Definition
to step

-progress, graduate, gradual, degrade, retrograde, transgress, digress, egress
Term
HER/HES
Definition
to stick

-coherent, cohesive, adhesive, adherent, inherent
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ID
Definition
one's own

-idiot, idiom, idiosyncrasy
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IM/IN/EM/EN
Definition
in, into

-embrace, enclose, ingratiate, intrinsic, influx, incarnate, implicate, indigenous
Term
IM/IN
Definition
not, without

-inactive, indifferent, innocuous, insipid, indolence, impartial, inept, indigent
Term
INFRA
Definition
beneath

-infrastructure, infrared, infrasonic
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INTER
Definition
between, among

-interstate, interloper, interlude, intermittent, interplay, intersperse
Term
INTRA
Definition
within

-intramural, intrastate, intravenous
Term
JECT
Definition
to throw, to throw down

-inject, eject, project, trajectory
Term
JOIN/JUNCT/JUG
Definition
to meet, to join

-junction, adjoin, subjugate, juxtapose, injunction, rejoinder
Term
JUR
Definition
to swear

-jury, perjury, abjure, adjure
Term
LECT/LEG
Definition
to select, to choose

-collect, elect, select, predilection, eclectic, elegant
Term
LEV
Definition
lift, light, rise

-elevator, lever, alleviate, levitate, relevant, levee, levity
Term
LOC/LOG/LOQU
Definition
word, speech

-dialogue, eloquent, elocution, soliloquy, eulogy, grandiloquent, philology, loquacious
Term
LUC/LUM/LUS
Definition
light

-illustrate, illuminate, luminous, luminescent, elucidate
Term
LUD/LUS
Definition
to play

-illusion, ludicrous, delude, elude, interlude
Term
LUT/LUG/LUV
Definition
to wash

-lavatory, dilute, pollute, deluge, antediluvian
Term
MAG/MAJ/MAX
Definition
big

-magnify, maximum, magniloquent
Term
MAL/MALE
Definition
bad, ill, evil, wrong

-malfunction, malodorous, maladroit, malevolent, malfeasance, malefactor, malediction
Term
MAN
Definition
hand

-manual, manufacture, emancipate, manifest
Term
MATER/MATR
Definition
woman, mother

-matrimony, maternal, matriculate, matriarch
Term
MIN
Definition
small

-minute, diminution, miniature, diminish
Term
MIN
Definition
to project, to hang over

-eminent, imminent, prominent, preeminent
Term
MIS/MIT
Definition
to send

-transmit, emissary, missive, intermittent, remit, demise
Term
MISC
Definition
mixed

-miscellaneous, miscegenation, promiscuous
Term
MON/MONIT
Definition
to warn

-monument, monitor, summons, admonish, remonstrate
Term
MORT/MOR
Definition
death

-immortal, morgue, morbid, moribund, mortify
Term
MUT
Definition
change

-commute, mutation, mutant, immutable, transmutation, permutation
Term
NAM/MON/NOUN/NOWN/NYM
Definition
rule, order

-astronomy, economy, autonomy, gastronomy, taxonomy
Term
NAT/NAS/NAI
Definition
to be born

-natural, native, naive, cognate, nascent, innate, renaissance
Term
NEC/NIC/NOC/NOX
Definition
harm, death

-innocent, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious, internecine, innocuous, necromancy
Term
NOM/NYM/NOIN/NOWN
Definition
name

-synonym, nominate, pseudonyme, homonym, nominal, ignominy, denomination, renown
Term
NOV/NEO/NOU
Definition
new

-novice, novel, renovate, innovate, neologism, neophyte
Term
NOUNC/NUNC
Definition
to announce

-announce, pronounce, denounce, renounce
Term
OB/OC/OF/OP
Definition
toward, to, against, completely, over

-obese, object, obstruct, obstinate, obscure, obtrude, oblique, oblivious, obnoxious, obstreperous, obtuse, opprobrium, obsequious, obfuscate
Term
OMNI
Definition
all

-omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent
Term
PAC/PEAC
Definition
peace

-appease, pacify, pacifist, pact
Term
PAN
Definition
everywhere, all

-panorama, panacea, panegyric
Term
PAR
Definition
equal

-par, parity, disparity, disparate, disparage
Term
PARA
Definition
next to, beside

-parallel, paraphrase, parable, paradigm, paranoid, parapsychology
Term
PAS/PAT/PATH
Definition
feeling, suffering, disease

-apathy, sympathy, empathy, antipathy, sociopath
Term
PATER/PATR
Definition
father, support

-patron, patronize, paternal, paternalism, expatriate, patrimony, patriarch
Term
PAU/PO/POV/PU
Definition
few, little, poor

-poverty, pauper, paucity, impoverish, puerile, pusillanimous
Term
PED/POD
Definition
foot,

-pedal, podiatrist, expedite, expedient, impede, impediment, antipodes
Term
PEN/PUN
Definition
to pay, to compensate

-penal, penalty, punitive, repent, penance, penitent, impunity
Term
PEND/PENS
Definition
to hang, to weigh, to pay

-depend, dispense, expend, stipend, spend expenditure, suspense, compensate, propensity
Term
PER
Definition
completely, wrong

-persistent, perforate, perplex, perspire, peruse, peremptory, pertinacious
Term
PET/PIT
Definition
to go, to seek, to strive

-appetite, compete, perpetual, impetuous, petulant propitious
Term
PHIL
Definition
love

-philosophy, philanthropy, philatelist, philology
Term
PHONE
Definition
sound

-telephone, megaphone, euphony, cacophony
Term
PLAC
Definition
to please

-placid, placebo, placate, complacent, complaisant
Term
PLE
Definition
to fill

-complete. deplete, complement, plethora, replete
Term
PLEX/PLIC/PLY
Definition
to fold, to twist, to tangle, to bend

-complex, duplex, replica, ply, comply, implicit, implicate, explicit, duplicity, complicity, supplicate, accomplice, explicate
Term
PON/POS/POUND
Definition
to put, to place

-component, compound, deposit, dispose, expose, juxtapose, depose, proponent, repository, transpose, superimpose
Term
PORT
Definition
to carry

-import, portable, porter, importune
Term
POST
Definition
after

-posthumous, posterior, posterity, ex post facto
Term
PREHEN/PRISE
Definition
to take, to get, to seize

-surprise, comprehend, enterprise, apprise, apprehend, reprisal
Term
PRO
Definition
much, for, a lot
Term
PROB
Definition
to prove, to test

-probe, approbation, probity, opprobrium, reprobate
Term
PUG
Definition
to fight

-pugilism, pugnacious, impugn, repugnant
Term
PUNC/PUNG/POIGN/POINT
Definition
to point, to prick

-puncture, punctual, punctuate, pungent, poignant
Term
QUE/QUI
Definition
to seek

-acquire, exquisite, request, conquest, perquisite, querulous
Term
QUI
Definition
quiet

-disquiet, tranquil, acquiesce, quiescent
Term
RID/RIS
Definition
to laugh

-ridicule, derision, risible
Term
ROG
Definition
to ask

-interrogate, arrogant, prerogative, surrogate, derogatory, arrogate
Term
SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
Definition
to leap, to jump

-insult, assault, somersault, salient, resilient, desultory
Term
SACT/SACT/SECR
Definition
sacred

-sacrifice, sanctuary, sanctify, sacrament, sacrilege
Term
SCI
Definition
to know

-science, conscious, omniscient, prescient, nescient
Term
SCRIBE/SCRIP
Definition
to write

-scribble, prescribe, proscribe, ascribe, inscribe, conscription, scripture
Term
SE
Definition
apart

-select, separate, seduce, seclude, segregate, secede, sequester
Term
SEC/SEQU
Definition
to follow

-second, prosecute, sequel, inconsequential, obsequious
Term
SED/SESS/SID
Definition
to sit, to be still, to plan, to plot

-preside, sediment, dissident, obsession, residual, sedate, subsidiary, sedentary, sedulous
Term
SENS/SENT
Definition
to feel, to be aware

-resent, consent, dissent, sentinel, insensate, sentient, presentiment
Term
SOL
Definition
to loosen, to free

-dissolve, resolve, irresolute, solvent, dissolution, absolution
Term
SPEC/SPIC/SPIT
Definition
to look, to see

-perspective, aspect, spectator, specter, respite, specious
Term
STA/STI
Definition
to stand, to be in a place

-static, destitute, stagnant, stasis, status quo, apostasy
Term
SUA
Definition
smooth

-suave, assuage, persuade
Term
TAC/TIC
Definition
to be silent

-reticent, tacit, taciturn
Term
TAIN/TEN/TEN/TIN
Definition
to hold

-contain, pertinacious, tenacious, abstention, sustain, tenure, pertinent, tenet
Term
TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
Definition
to stretch, to thin

-tension, extend, tentative, contend, tendentious, contender, tenuous, attenuate, extenuating
Term
THEO
Definition
god

-apotheosis, theocracy, theology
Term
TOM
Definition
to cut

-tome, microtome, epitome, dichotomy
Term
TORT
Definition
to twist

-tort, extort, torture, tortuous
Term
TRACT
Definition
to drag, to pull, to draw

-tractor, attract, contract, detract, intractable, protract, abstract
Term
TRANS
Definition
across

-transparent, transport, transition, transitory, transient, transgress, intransigent
Term
US/UT
Definition
to use

-abuse, usage, utensil, usurp, utility, utilitarian
Term
VEN/VENT
Definition
to come, to move toward

-adventure, convene convenient, event, venturesome, contravene, circumvent
Term
VER
Definition
truth

-verdict, verify, veracious, verisimilitude, aver, verity
Term
VERS/VERT
Definition
to turn

-controversy, revert, subvert, invert, inadvertent, versatile, traverse, covert, overt, avert, advert
Term
VI
Definition
life

-vivid, vicarious, viable, vivacity, joie de vivre, bon vivant
Term
VID/VIS
Definition
to see

-evident, video, adviser, provident, visionary, visage
Term
VOC/VOK
Definition
to call

-vocabulary, vocal, provocation, advocate, vocation, vociferous, evocative, revoke
Term
VOL
Definition
to wish

-voluntary, volition, malevolent, benevolent
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