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1. cant: sing
•Cantor: religious official who sings or chants
•Incantation: spell or verbal charm
•Recant: sing back
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2. Carp: fruit
•Acarpous: sterile; not bearing fruit
•Carpophagous: feeding on fruit
•Sarcocarp: fleshy fruit like apricot or cherry
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3. Caust: burn
•Caustic: corrosive; sarcastic
•Cauterize: to burn with a hot instrument
•Holocaust: total devastation by fire; a sacrificial offeringconsumed by fire
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4. Cephal: head
•Bicephalous: full of two heads
•Cephalopod: a marine mollusk that has a distinct headwith tentacles around the mouth and well-developed eyes,like the octopus and the squid
•Electroencephalograph: an instrument to record electriccurrents in the brain
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5. Chiro: hand
•Chirography: handwriting, penmanship
•Chiropractor: one who uses his/her hands to healBacks
•Chiromancy: palm reading
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6. De (div): god
•Deity: a god
•Deify: to make a god
•Divine: pertaining to god
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7. Em (emp): buy, take
•Example: from the latin exemire, to take out
•Peremptory: take thoroughly; ending all debate
•Caveat emptor: “Let the buyer beware!”
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8. Fil: line, thread
•File: a receptacle that keeps loose objects in line
•Filament: a thinly spun thread, fiber, or wire
•Filigree: delicate, intricate, ornamental work made from gold, silver, or other fine wire
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9. Gyro: circle, turn
•Gyration: act of turning
•Gyrocopter: a rotary-wing aircraft that is driven forward by a conventional propeller
•Gyrocompass: a navigational device containing a gyroscopewith a rotating axis parallel to the earth’s axis and thus pointing to true north instead of magnetic north
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10. Hibern: winter
•Hibernate: the act of holing up for the winter
•Hibernal: pertaining to winter
•Hibernaculum: a case, covering, or structure in which anOrganism remains dormant during the winter
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11. Journ: daily
•Journal: related to daily
•Journey: a day’s travel
•Journeyman: one who has completed his apprenticeship, ora day’s work
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12. Lumin: light
•Luminous: full of light
•Illuminate: to put light into
•Luminescence: beginning to be light
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13. My (myo): muscle
•Cardiomyopathy: disease of the heart muscle
•Myasthenia: abnormal muscle fatigue or weakness
•Myogenic: forming muscle tissue
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14. Pend (pens): hang, weigh
•Pending: characteristic of hanging
•Pensive: characteristic of weighing something in one’smind
•Depend: to hang down
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15. Phor: bear, yield, carry
•Euphoria: state of yielding something good
•Dysphoria: state of yielding bad things
•Carpophore: bearing fruit
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16. Put: think
•Compute: to think together
•Dispute: to think apart
•Reputation: what people think about someone
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17. Radic (radix): root
•Radical: characteristic of root
•Radish: root vegetable
•Eradicate: to get rid of completely; root out
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18. Rat (ratio): reason, think, determine
•Rational: characteristic of reason
•Ratify: to confirm or make settled
•Ratiocinate: to think methodically and logically
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19. Rid (ris): laugh, mock
•Ridiculous: laughable
•Deride: laugh down
•Ridicule: mock
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20. Scend: climb
•Ascend: climb to or toward
•Descend: climb down
•Transcend: climb across
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21. Spor: sow
•Endospore: spore formed within the cell membrane ofa parent cell
•Sporocide: an agent of killing spores
•Sporogenesis: formation of or reproduction by spores
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22. Stat (stasis): stand, stop, stable
•Static: inactive, not moving
•Thermostat: maintains a stable present temperature
•Hemostasis: stoppage of blood flow by natural or surgicalmeans
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23. the: put
•Photosynthesis: process of putting light together
•Epithet: put over or upon; a term, frequently abusive,Used to characterize a person or thing
•Antithesis: direct contrast; put against
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24. Trop: turn
•Tropic: circle at which the sun turns
•Trophy: a monument to victory when the enemy turns
•Heliotrope: turn toward the sun
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25. Ver: true
•Verify: make sure something is true
•Verdict: speak the truth
•Verisimilitude: state of being truly similar
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