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US/UT
TO USE
- abuse
- usage
- usurp: to seize and hold
- utilitarian: efficient, functional, useful
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VEN/VENT
TO COME OR MOVE FORWARD
- convene
- venturesome
- intervene
- contravene: ant- comply with
- adventitious: accidental
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VER
TRUTH
- veracious: habitually truthful
- verity: truthfulness
- verisimilitude: the semblance of truth
- aver: to affirm, declare to be true
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VERD
GREEN
verdure: fresh, rich vegetation
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VERS/VERT
TO TURN
- controversey
- revert
- diverse
- aversion
- introvert
- inadvertant: unintentional
- covert
- avert
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VI
LIFE
- vicarious: performed, exercised, received in place of another
- viable: capable of living
- **feasible, ANTONYMS impracticable.
- vivacity:quality of being lively
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VID/VIS
to see
- evident
- vista: view or prospect
- adviser
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VIL
- BASE, MEAN
- (base: adj without moral principles; ignoble)
- vilify: to slander, defame
- revile: to criticize with harsh language
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VOC/VOK
TO CALL
- avocation: something someone does in addition to a principle occpation
- vociferous: crying out noisily, vehement, clamourous
- convoke: to call together
- invoke:
- 1. to call on a diety, conjure (up).
- 2. cite, refer to, adduce, instance; resort to,have recourse to, turn to.
- 3 appeal to, pray to, call on, supplicate, entreat,solicit, beg, implore; literary beseech.
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VOL
TO WISH
- malevolent: malicious, baleful malign, malignant, rancorous, vicious,malefic, maleficent.
- benevolent
- volition: of one's own free will
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SUA
SMOOTH
- persuade
- assuage: to make less severe
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**expedient
- ADJ :a politically expedient strategy: convenient, advantageous,
- NOUN: a temporary expedient: measure, means, method, stratagem, contrivance, ploy, machination, dodge.
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artifice
- noun: in our trade, artifice is an asset:
- trickery, guile, cunning, artfulness, wiliness, craftiness, slyness, chicanery;
- fraud, fraudulence.
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SUB/SUP
BELOW
- submissive
- subterfuge:
- 1. an artifice or expedient used to evade a rule, guile, cunning,craftiness, chicanery, pretense, fraud, fraudulence.
- 2. a disreputable subterfuge: trick, hoax, ruse, wile, ploy, stratagem, artifice,
- supposition: the act of assuming
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SUPER/SUR
ABOVE
- surpass
- supersede
- supercilious: arrogant
- surmount: to get over or across, prevail
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TAC/TIC
TO BE SILENT
- reticent: disposed to be silent or not to speak freely
- tacit: ANT: explicit
- taciturn: uncommunicative
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TAIN/TEN/TENT/TIN
TO HOLD
- tenacious: holding fast
- tenure: the holding or possesing of anything
- tenable: capable of being held maintained or defended; ANTONYMS indefensible.
- sustenance: nourishment
- pertinacious: stubborn, determined, tenacious ANT: irresolute,tentative.
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TEND/TENS/TENT/TENU
TO STRETCH TO THIN
- tentative
- tendentious: having a predispoistion towards a point of view
- distend: to expand by stretching
- extenuating: making less serious by offering excuses,
- contentious: quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent, controversial
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THEO
GOD
- theocracy: a form of government in which a deity is recognized as the supreme ruler
- apotheosis:
- 1. glorification
- 2. culmination or climax
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TRACT
TO DRAG/ TO PULL
- attract
- detract
- tractable: easily managed or controlled
- protract: to prolong, draw out, extend ANT: curtail
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TRANS
ACROSS
- transgress: violate a law
- transcendent: going beyond ordinary limits, mystical, incomprabable
- intransigent: refusing to agree or compromise, obstinate, obdurate, ANTONYMS compliant.
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A
WITHOUT
- amoral
- atypical
- anomaly: irregularity
- agnostic: one who questions the existense of god
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AB/ABS
OFF, AWAY FROM, APART, DOWN
- abduct
- abhor
- abolish
- abnormal
- abstruse: hard to understand, secret, hidden
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AC/ACR
SHARP, BITTER
- acid
- acute
- acerbic: astringent in taste. harsh in temper
- acrid
- acrimonious:
- 1. caustic
- 2. rancorous, acerbic, scathing, sarcastic, acid
- 3. virulent, vicious, vitriolic, hostile, venomous, malign, malicious
- exacerbate: increase bitterness or violence
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ACT/AG
TO DO, TO DRIVE, TO FORCE; TO LEAD
- agile
- agitate
- litigate
- prodigal: wasteful or recklessly extravagant
- pedagogue: a teacher
- synagogue: a gathering or congregation of jews
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AD/AL
TO, TOWARD, NEAR
- adapt
- adjacent
- addict: to give oneself, as habit
- admire
- address
- adhere
- adjoin
- advocate
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AL/ALI/ALTER
OTHER, ANOTHER
- alternative
- alias
- alibi
- alien
- alter ego
- altruist
- allegory
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AM
LOVE
- amateur: engages for pleasure not professional gain
- amatory: of or pertaining to lovers
- amenity: agreeable ways or manners, facility
- amity: peaceful harmony, friendship
- inamorata: a female lover
- amicable: characterized by exhibiting good will; ANT unfriendly
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AMB
TO WALK, TO GO
- ambient: moving freely, circulating, of or relating to the immediate surroundings of something
- preamble
- ambassador
- ambush
- perambulator-one who males a tour of inspection on foot
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AMBI/AMPH
BOTH, MORE THAN ONE, AROUND
- ambiguous
- amphibian
- ambidextrous
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ANIM:
OF LIFE, MIND, SOUL, SPIRIT
- unanimous: in complete accord ANT: divided
- animosity: a feeling of ill will or enmity ANT: goodwill, friendship
- animus: hostile feeling or attitude, motivation to do something
- equanimity: mental or emotional stability, composure; ANT: anxiety
- magnanimous: generous in forgiving an insult or injury ANT: selfish
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ANNUE/ENNI
YEAR
- annual
- annuity: a specified income payable at stated intervals
- perennial: lasting for an indefinite amount of time
- annals: records of events, esp yearly record
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ANTE
BEFORE
- antecedent
- antedate: precede in time
- antediluvian: before the flood, out of date
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ANTHRO/ANDR
MAN/HUMAN
- andriod: robot mechanical man
- philanderer: one who carries on flirtations, womanizer
- androgen: any substance that promotes masculine qualities
- anthropocentric: regarding man as the central fact of the universe
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ANTI
AGAINST
- antibody
- antiseptic
- antipathy
- antipodal: on the opposite side of the globe
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APO
AWAY
- apology
- apostle: missionary, disicple
- apocalypse: the complete destruction of the work
- apostasy: a total desertion of ones religion or political belief
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ARCH/ARCHI/ARCHY
CHIEF, PRINCIPAL, RULER
- architect
- archenemy
- monarchy
- anarchy
- oligarchy: society ruled by a select grop
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AUTO
SELF
- automatic
- autocrat: an absolute ruler
- autonomy
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BE
TO BE; TO HAVE A PARTICULAR QUALITY; TO EXIST
- belittle
- bemoan: express pity for
- bewilder: to confuse or puzzle completely
- belie: misrepresent, contradict ANT: testify to, reveal
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BEN/BON
GOOD
- Benign
- bona fide: in good faith, without fraud
- bonus: something given over and above what is due
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BI
TWICE, DOUBLE
bilateral
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***profligate
- adjective
- 1 profligate local authorities: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift,improvident, prodigal. ANTONYMS thrifty, frugal.
- 2 a profligate lifestyle: dissolute, degenerate, dissipated, debauched promiscuous, licentious,libertine, decadent, abandoned, fast; sybaritic, voluptuary.ANTONYMS moral, upright.
- noun
- 1. he was an out-and-out profligate: libertine, debauchee, degenerate,dissolute, roué, rake, sybarite, voluptuary.
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CAD/CID
TO FALL, TO HAPPEN BY CHANCE
- accident
- decadent:
- Adjective 1. decaying, deteriorating, dissolute, licentious, profligate; sybaritic, hedonistic, pleasure-seeking, self-indulgent
- 2. the decadent empire: declining,, ebbing, degenerating,
- recidivist: one who repeatedly relapses, as into crime
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CANT/CENT/CHANT
TO SING
- accent
- recant: to disavow a statement
- incantation: the chanting of words purporting to have magical power
- incentive: that which invites actions
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CAPT/CIP/CEPT
TO TAKE; TO GET
- emancipate: free from restraint
- percipient: having perception, discerning
- precept:
- 1. the precepts of Orthodox Judaism: principle, rule, tenet, canon, doctrine, dictate, dictum, injunction, commandment; prescript
- 2. maxim, saying, adage, axiom,aphorism, apophthegm.
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CAP/CAPIT/CIPIT
HEAD, HEADLONG
- capital
- precipice: cliff with a vertical face
- capitulate: to surrender unconditionally, ANT: resist,
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CARD/CORD/COUR
HEART
- cardiac
- concord: peace, agreement, ANT: concord
- encourage: inspire wih confidence
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CARN
FLESH
- carnage: slaughter of a great number of people
- incarnation: being invested with a bodily form
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CAST/CHAST
CUT
- cast: to throw, hurl
- caste: social group limited to people of same rank
- chaste: free from obscenity, decent
- adjective
- 1 virginal,virgin, intact, maidenly,unmarried, unwed;
- celibate, self-denying,continent;
- innocent, virtuous, pure, unsullied, vestal. ANTONYMS promiscuous, immoral.
- 2 nonsexual, platonic, innocent. ANTONYMS passionate
- 3. plain, simple, bare, unadorned, unembellished, austere.ANTONYMS ostentatious.
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CED/CEED/CESS:
TO GO TO YIELD TO STOP
- antecedent
- concede
- 1. Admit ANT: deny
- 2. Surrender ANT: retain
incessant
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CERN/CERT/CRET/CRIM/CRIT
TO SEPARATE; TO JUDGE; TO DISTINGUISH; TO DECIDE
- Distcreet: judicious in ones conduct of speech; unobtrusive
- certitude: certainty ANT: doubt
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CLA/CLO/CLU
SHUT;CLOSE
- cloister: courtard bordered with covered walks, esp in religious institution
- 1. walkway, covered walk, arcade, loggia,gallery.
- 2 abbey, monastery, friary, convent, priory,nunnery.
- preclude: to prevent the presence, existence or occurrence of
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CLI
TO LEAN TOWARD
- decline
- proclivity: inclination, bias
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CO/COL/COM/CON:
WITH, TOGETHER
- conciliate: to placate, appease ANT: provoke
- commensurate:
- 1 equivalent, correspondent, comparable, proportionate,
- 2 appropriate to
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COUR/CUR
RUNNING, A COURSE
- recur: to happen again
- incursion: hostile entrance
- cursory: perfunctory, desultory ANT: thoroughly
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CRE/CRESC/CRET
TO GROW
- accrue
- accretion: increase by natural growth
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CRED
TO BELIEVE, TRUST
- credo: axiom, creed, tenet, canon
- credulity: tendency to believe or trust too readily
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CRYP
HIDDEN
- apocryphal: of doubtful authorship or authenticity, fictitious ANT: authentic
- crypt: tomb, ossuary
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CULP
TO BLAME
Mea culpa:through my fault
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CUB/CUMB
TO LIE DOWN
- cubicle: any office that is partitioned off
- incubate: Sit upon for the purpose of hatching
- incumbent: holding an indicated position
- recumbent: lying down, reclining, leaning
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DAC/DOC
TO TEACH
- didactic: intended for instruction
- docile: easily managed, malleable, biddable, deferential, ANT: disobedient, willful
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DE
AWAY OFF, DOWN, COMPLETELY, REVERSAL
- Descend: to move from a higher to a lower place
- decipher: to make out the meaning, interpret
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DI/DIA
APART/ THROUGH
- Dilatory:
- 1. inclined to delay, lazy. ANTONYMS fast, prompt.
- 2 stalling, temporizing,procrastinating, filibustering.
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DIC/DICT/DIT
TO SAY, TO TELL, TO USE WORDS
- interdict:
- 1. to forbid, prohibit ,proscribe, embargo, disallow, debar, Lawenjoin. ANTONYMS permit.
- 2 intercept, stop, ;obstruct, impede, block; detain. ANTONYMS facilitate.
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DIGN
WORTH
- dignity: nobility or elevation of character, propriety
- dignitary: a person who holds a high rank or office
- deign:
- 1. to think fit or in accordance with ones dignity;
- 2. condescend, stoop, demean oneself; consent, vouchsafe;
- condign: well deserved; fitting; adequate
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DIS/DICT/DIT
TO SAY TELL USE WORDS
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DIS/DIF:
AWAY FROM, APART, REVERSAL, NOT
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DOT/DOT/DOW
TO GIVE
- endow: provide with permanent fund
- antidote
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DUB
DOUBT
dubiety: doubtfulness
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DUC/DUCT
TO LEAD
Conducive: ANT unfavorable
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DUR
HARD
- duress: compulsion by threat, coercion
- dour: sullen gloomy, stern, austere; ANT cheerful
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DYS
FAULTY, ABNORMAL
- Dystrophy: faulty or inadequate nutrition or development
- dyspepsia: impaired digestion
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E/EF/EX
OUT OF, OUT, FROM, FORMER, COMPLETELY
efface: to rub or wipe out, surpass, eclipse, make oneself inconspicious
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EPI
UPON
- epithet: a word or phrase used invectively as a term of abuse, sobriquet, moniker, appellation, denomination.
- epigram:
- 1. witticism, quip, bon mot;
- 2. maxim, adage, aphorism, apophthegm, epigraph; informal one-liner, wisecrack, (old) chestnut.
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EQU:
EQUAL; EVEN
iniquity: gross injustice
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ERR
TO WANDER
- arrant: downright, thorough, notorious, utter
- errant:
- 1. offending ANT: innocent, lawabiding
- 2. traveling, itinerant, roving ANT: sedentary
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ESCE
BECOMMING
- Obsolescent: becoming obsolete, moribund
- convalescent: recovering from illness
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EU
GOOD, WELL
eugenics: the improvement of qualities of race by contro of inherited characteristics
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EXTRA
OUTSIDE BEYOND
- extradite: to hand over, deport, repatriate
- extrasensory
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FAB/FAM
SPEAK
- fable:
- affable: easy to talk to, nice, ANT unfriendly
- ineffable: unutterable, indescribable
- defame: attack of good name
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FAC/FIC/FIG/FAIT/FEIT/FY:
TO DO; TO MAKE
- faction: small dissenting group within a larger one
- deficient
- prolific: producing many offspring or much output
- ratify: confirm or accept by formal consent ANT: reject
- effigy: sculpture or model of person, likeness, image
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FER
TO BRING, TO CARRY TO BEAR
- confer: to grant, bestow; consult
- referendum: to vote on the political question open to the entire electorate, plebiscite
- proffer: to offer ANT: refuse, withdraw
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FID:
FAITH, TRUST
- affidavit: written statement on oath
- fiduciary: of a trust, held or given in trust, involving trust, esp. with regard to the relationship between a trustee and a beneficiary : heir
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FLAG/FLAM
TO BURN
- flambeau: a lighted torch
- flagrant: blatant, scandalous
- conflagration: a large destructive fire
- flag: banner; indicate; become weaker
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FLECT/FLEX
TO BEND
Genuflect: kneel in worship
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FLU/FLUX
TO FLOW
- Effluence: flowing out of (light electricity), or substance that flows out of something
- confluence: convergence
- mellifluous: pleasing, musical
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FORE
BEFORE
forthright: straightforward, outspoken decisive
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FORT
CHANCE
fortuitous: happening by luck
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FRA/FRAC/FRAG/FRING
TO BREAK
- fractious:
- 1. irritable, peevish ANT: contented, affable
- 2. wayward, recalcitrant, contumacious ANT: dutiful
- refractory: obstreperous, wayward, balky, froward ANT: obedient
- infringe:
- 1. contravene ANT: comply with
- 2. restrict, impair ANT: preserve
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FUS:
TO POUR
- profuse:
- 1. lavish, copious, effusive
- 2. riotous, teeming, rampant, luxuriant ANT: meager, sparse
- fusillade: continuous discharge of firearms or outburst of criticism, salvo, barrage
- suffuse: permeate, imbue
- diffuse:
- 1. to spread out, diasporic
- 2. verbose, periphrastic, maundering, digressive
- infusion
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GEN
BIRTH, CREATION, RACE, KIND
- congenital:
- 1. inborn ANT: acquired
- 2. inveterate, compulsive, persistent
- progeny: offspring, descendants
- miscegenation: interbreeding of races
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GR/GNO:
KNOW
ignoramus: a person lacking knowledge, uninformed
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GRAD/GRESS
TO STEP
- degrade: reduce to lower rank
- egress: going out
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GRAT
PLEASING
ingratiate: to bring oneself into favor, toady to
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HOMO
SAME
homonym: spelled and sound the same
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HYPO
UNDER, BENEATH, LESS THAN
hypothesis
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IDIO
ONE'S OWN
idiom: parlance, argot, patter, locution
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IM/IN
NOT, WITHOUT
- indolence: inertia; slothful, torpor, langour, hebetude, torpidity
- indigent: poor, insolvent, penurious, ANT: rich
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INTER
BETWEEN, AMONG
intermittent: stopping or ceasing for a time
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JECT
TO THROW, TO THROW DOWN
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JOIN/JUNCT
TO MEET, TO JOIN
junta: usually military) , clique taking power after a coup d'état
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JUR
TO SWEAR
- abjure: to renounce on oath, repudiate, abnegate,
- adjure: beg or command, urge request
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LECT/LEG
TO SELECT. TO CHOOSE
eclectic: selecting ideas, etc
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LEV
LIFT, LIGHT, RISE
levee: embankment against river flooding
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LOC/LOG/LOQU
WORD, SPEECH
- Grandiloquent: pompous inflated language
- elocution: art of clear and expressive speaking
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LUC/LUM/LUS
LIGHT
- illustrious:highly distinguished
- lackluster: lacking luster
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LUD/LUS
TO PLAY
- delude: to mislead the mind or judgement of deceive
- prelude: a preliminary to an action event etc.
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MAG/MAJ/MAX
BIG
magnate: influential person
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MAL/MALE
BAD, ILL, EVIL, WRONG
- malign: to speak harmful untruths about
- to slander
- malady: disorder disease of body
- malapropism: humorous misuse of a word
- malfeasance: misconduct or wrongdoing often committed by a public official
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MIN
SMALL
minutiae: small or trivial details
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MIN
TO PROJECT, HANGOVER
- imminent: about to occur, impending
- preeminent: superior to or notable above all others
- minatory: menacing, threatening
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MISC
MIXED
miscegenation: interbreeding of races
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MON/MONT
TO REMIND; TO WARN
- admonish: caution; counsel against something
- monitor: one that admonishes
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MORPH
SHAPE
anthropomorphism: attribution of human characteristics to inanimate objects, animals or natural phenomena
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MUT
CHANGE
permutation: complete transformation
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NAT/NAS/NAI
TO BE BORN
cognate: related by blood; having a common ancestor
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NOV/NEO/NOU
NEW
- neologism: newly coined word, phrase, or expression
- neophyte: a recent convert
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OB/OC/OF/OP
TOWARD/TO/AGAINST/OVER
- obstreperous: noisliy defiant, unruly
- obfuscate: to render indistinct or dim
- obscure,confuse, make unclear, blur, muddle, complicate, muddy, cloud,befog. ANTONYMS clarify.2 her work became more and more obfuscated by mathematics and jargon:bewilder, mystify, puzzle, perplex, confuse, baffle, confound,bemuse, befuddle, nonplus; informal flummox.
- obsequious: over submissive
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PAN
ALL, EVERYONE
- panegyric: formal or elaborate praise at an assembly
- panoply: a wide ranging and impressive array or display
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PAR
EQUAL
apartheid: any system that separates people according to race etc.
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PARA
NEXT TO, BESIDE
- parable
- parasite
- paragon: a model of excellence
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PAS/ PAT/PATH
FEELING, SUFFERING, DISEASE
pathogenic: causing disease
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PAU/PO/POV/PU
FEW, LITTLE, POOR
- paucity: scarcity, scantiness
- pusillanimous: lacking courage or resolution
- puerile: childish, i
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PED/POD
FOOT
- expedite:speed up process of
- podium
- antipodes: places diametrically opposite each other on the globe
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PEN/PUN:
TO PAY, TO COMPENSATE
- penal: of or pertaining to punishment, as for crimes
- punitive: serving for, concerned with or inflicting punishment
- penance: a punishment undergone to express regret for a sin
- penitent: contrite, remorseful
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PEND /PENS
TO HANG, TO WEIGHT, TO PAY
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PER
COMPLETELY
- perfunctory: performed merely as a routine duty
- pertinacious: resolute
- determined, tenacious,persistent, persevering, purposeful, resolute, dogged, indefatigable,insistent, single-minded, unrelenting, relentless, tireless, unshakable;stubborn, obstinate, inflexible, unbending. ANTONYMS irresolute,tentative.
- perspicacious: shrewd, astute
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PERI
AROUND
Peripatetic: walking or traveling about, itinerant
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PET/PIT
TO GO, TO SEEK, TO STRIVE
- appetite
- centripetal
- compete
- petulant: showing sudden irritation
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PHIL
LOVE
- philosophy
- philatelist: loves to collect postage stamps
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PLE
TO FILL
Deplete: to decrease seriously or exhaust the supply of
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PLEX/PLIC/PLY
TO FOLD, TO TWIST, TANGLE, BEND
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PON/POS/POUND
TO PUT TO PLACE
repository
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PORT
TO CARRY
- disport: to divert or amuse oneself
- importune: to urge or press with excessive persistance
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PRE
BEFORE
precocious: unusually advanced or mature in mental development or talent
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PREHEND/PRISE
TO TAKE, TO GET, TO SEIZE
- surprise: to strike with unexpected feeling of wonder or astonishment
- enterprise: a project undertaken
- reprehensible: deserving rebuke or censure
- reprisals: retaliation against an enemy
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PRO
- MUCH, FOR A LOT
- prolific: highly fruitful
- prodigious: extraordinary in size amount or extent
- proselytize: to convert or attempt to recruit
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PROB
TO PROVE, TO TEST
- approbation: praise, consideration
- opprobrium: the disgrace incurred by shameful conduct
- reprobate: wicked depraved person
- probity: honesty
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PUG
TO FIGHT
pugilist: a fighter or boxer
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PUNC/PUNG/POIGN
punctilious:strict or exact in the observance of formalities
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QUE/QUIS:
TO SEEK
- querulous: full of complaints
- perquisite: a gratuity a tip
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QUI
QUIET
quiescence: the condition of being at rest
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RID/RIS
TO LAUGH
risible: causing laughter
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ROG
TO ASK
- arrogate: to claim unwarrantably
- abrogate: to abolish by formal means
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SACR/SANCT/SECR
SACRED
execrable: abominable
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SAL/SIL/SAULT/SULT
TO LEAP TO JUMP
- exult: to show or feel triumphant joy
- desultory: at random, unmethodical
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SCI
TO KNOW
unconscionable: unscrupulous
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SE
APART
- sedition: incitement of discontent or rebellion against goverment
- secede
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SEC/SEQU
TO FOLLOW
- obsequious: fawning
- non sequitur: an interference or a conclusion that does not follow from the premises
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SED/SESS/SID
TO SIT, TO BE STILL, TO PLAN, TO PLOT
- dissident
- subsidiary: serving to assist or supplement
- insidious: intended to entrap or beguile
- assiduous: diligent,persistent, hardworking
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SENS/SENT
TO FEEL, TO BE AWARE
- sentinel: person or thing that stands watch
- insensate: without feeling or sensitivity
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SOL
LOOSEN, TO FREE
- dissolution
- absolution: forgiveness for wrongdoing
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SPEC/SPIC/SPIT
TO LOOK, TO SEE
- perspicacious: having keen mental perception
- conspicuous: easily seen or noticed, readily observable
- specious: deceptively attractive
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STA/SIT
TO STAND, TO BE IN PLACE
- Statis: state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces
- apostasy: renunciation of an object of one's previous loyalty
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