1. angi: vessel (usually blood)

•angiology: study of vessels

•angiosperm: flowering plant in which the seed is contained in a vessel

•angina pectoris: chest pain due to insufficient bloodto heart muscles

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•The man suffered from angina pectoris, but had not actually had a heart attack._

2. bas: low

•basement: lowest place in a house

•bassoon: double-reed woodwind with low sound

•debase: to lower in character, quality, or value

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The prosecutor tried to debase the witness by bringing up his past crimes.

3. clud (clus): close, shut

•exclude: shut out

•preclude: avoid or prevent beforehand

•recluse: someone who shuts himself away from others

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Jane was excluded from the conversation because her friendswere mad at her.

4. corn: horn

•unicorn: one horned animal

•capricorn: goat horn

•cornucopia: horn of plenty

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My grandmother places a cornucopia on the mantle everyThanksgiving to symbolize our plentiful blessings.

5. crac (cract): government, rule, power

•democracy: government ruled by the people

•autocrat: one ruler with unlimited power

•theocracy: government based on god

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In a democracy, the citizens have a right to vote for their Candidates.

6. dom: house

•dome: house

•domestic: related to the house

•domicile: pertaining to the house

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Traditionally, women have been expected to carry out thedomestic duties, such as cleaning and laundry.

7. ev: time, age

•inevitable: without time to avoid

•medieval: related to the middle ages

•primeval: related to first time

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After John cheated on Elizabeth, their breakup was inevitable.

8. frater: brother

•fraternal: related to brother

•fraternity: state of brotherhood

•fratricide: act of killing brother

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In order to gain acceptance and make friends, many youngmen join fraternities when they go to college.

gymn: naked, nude

•gymnasium: place to exercise

•gymnosperm: naked seed

•gymnosophist: ancient Hindu sect of ascetics who contemplated in the nude

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•The gymnasium is used for sport today and is no longer associated with being nude.

10. hum: earth, ground

•humble: lowly, close to the ground

•humiliate: to make one feel lowly

•exhume: to take out of the ground

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In order to reopen the case and find new DNA evidence, theinvestigators had to exhume the victim’s body.

11. lud (lus): laugh, mock, play

•ludicrous: full of laugh

•collusion: act of playing together; conspiring for anillegal purpose

•prelude: play before

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The idea that Sarah might actually go out on a date with Timwas ludicrous.

12. mater (metr): mother

•maternal: related to mother

•matrimony: state of motherhood

•metropolis: mother city; largest or most important city

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Sometimes when a woman sees a baby, her maternal instinctcomes out.

13. meso: middle

•mesoderm: middle skin

•Mesopatamia: middle river; an ancient country of Southwest Asia between the Tigris and lower EuphratesRivers, included in modern Iraq

•mesozoic: related to middle animal

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•Animals from the middle era of evolution belong to the mesozoic period.

14. oo (ov): egg

•oogamy: marriage of egg; reproduction by union of eggAnd sperm

•ovicide: killing eggs of insects

•ovoviviparous: eggs that hatch internally

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•Ant killers that target the ant eggs are ovicides rather than pesticides.

15. ophthalm: eye

•ophthalmic: related to eye

•ophthalmologist: one who studies the eye

•ophthalmoscope: instrument for examining the eye

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In order to get prescription glasses, you must visit anopthalmologist for an examination.

16. pater (patri): father

•paternity: state of fatherhood

•patriarch: ruled by father

•repatriate: return to fatherland

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•The paternity test is often used in court to determine who is the father.

17. phag: eat

•esophagus: tube for food from pharynx to stomach

•dysphagia: condition of having trouble swallowing

•anthropophagous: cannibal

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People with really bad acid reflux or indigestion might beplagued with dysphagia.

18. platy: broad, flat

•plateau: flat

•platypodia: condition of being flat footed

•platitude: state of broadness; lack of originality

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The mountain leveled off at one point and opened up intoa big plateau.

19. polis (polit): city

•police: someone who watches over a city

•Acropolis: built at highest point in the city

•megalopolis: densely populated urban area, usually Including one or more major cities.

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The Triad, which includes Greensboro, High Point, and Winston-Salem is considered to be a megalopolis.

20. rod: gnaw

•rodent: that which gnaws

•corrode: gnaw together

•erode: gnaw out

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One indication that you have a rodent in your house is if youfind holes in any of your chip bags or pasta boxes.

21. soror: sister

•sorority: state of sisterhood

•sororal: like a sister

•sororocide: killing of a sister

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Many sororities have houses so that the girls can live togetherand bond.

22. term (termin): end, limit

•terminate: to cause the end

•interminable: not able to end

•terminology: words with limited or specialized meaning

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Due to John’s misconduct, he was terminated from his job.

23. test: witness

•testify: to verbally give witness in a court of law

•testimony: statement given as a result of witnessingsomething

•intestate: to die without a will

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Since Jan saw the whole accident, she could testifythat it was not Nick’s fault.

24. tut (tui): teach, guide, guard

•tutor: one who teaches

•tutelage: state of guarding

•intuition: knowledge from within that is not taught

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Some students go to Sylvan learning center to get tutoredin a subject that they have problems with.

25. vir: man

•virile: pertaining to or like man

•virility: state or condition of man

•triumvirate: group of three rulers

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•The man with the hairy chest and thick beard was very virile.