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Meaning of root:
ACT, PROCESS, OR INSTANCE OF
Examples:
1. Containment - the act of keeping something within limits
2. Contentment - the quality or state of being contented
3. Amendment - the act of amending something |
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Meaning of root:
CITY
Examples:
1. Metropolis - capital of a city
2. Police - people who work for the government to maintain order in a city
3. Politics - actions of a government |
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Meaning of root:
MANY
Examples:
1. Polygamy - marriage in which a spouse of either sex may have more than one mate at the same time
2. Polynomial - a mathematical expression of one or more algebraic terms
3. Polyhedron - a solid formed by plane faces |
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Meaning of root:
PLACE, PUT
Examples:
1. Position - when you place things in a certain order
2. Deposit - to place or drop something
3. Expose - to place out in the open for all to see |
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Meaning of root:
FIVE
Examples:
1. Quintuple - when things come in 5
2. Quintet - a composition for 5 voices or instruments
3. Quintessence - pure essence, base on the ancient philosophy that there was a fifth element that was present in all things |
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Meaning of root:
BACKWARD, BACK
Examples:
1. Retroperitoneal - situated behind the peritoneum
2. Retrospect - the remembering of past events
3. Retroactive - relating to something in the past |
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Meaning of root:
LAUGHTER
Examples:
1. Deride - to make fun of someone
2. Ridicule - to make fun or mock
3. Risible - capable of laughing |
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Meaning of root:
SIT, SETTLE
Examples:
1. Sediment - a bunch of stuff that sits on the bottom
2. Reside - be stationed
3. Session - an actual or constructive sitting of a body |
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Meaning of root:
SOUND
Examples:
1. Sonata - an instrumental musical composition
2. Resonance - the sound elicited on percussion of the chest
3. Consonant - a speech sound |
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Meaning of root:
FIRM, STANDING
Examples:
1. Stable - when someone is firm
2. Stagnant - standing still
3. Stationary - at a standstill |
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Meaning of root:
STATIONARY, CONTROL
Examples:
1. Static - lacking in movement, action, or change
2. Status - position or rank in relation to others
3. State - condition of being |
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Meaning of root:
HOLD, KEEP
Examples:
1. Tenure - the act of holding something
2. Tenant - one who holds or possesses real estate
3. Content - something contained |
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Meaning of root:
END, BOUNDARY
Examples:
1. Terminate - when things are ending
2. Determine - to find something out in the end of an investigation
3. Exterminate - to destroy or get rid of completely |
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Meaning of root:
CUT
Examples:
1. Anatomy - dividing into parts for detailed examination
2. Epitome - a typical or ideal example
3. Lobotomy - surgical severance of nerve fibers |
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Meaning of root:
TRUTH
Examples:
1. Verify - to know when something is the truth
2. Veracious - truthful, honest
3. Veracity - the truth |
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Meaning of root:
LIVE
Examples:
1. Revive - to bring back to life
2. Revival - the act of bringing back to life
3. Vivacious - high-spirited and full of life |
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Meaning of root:
STATE, QUALITY, ACT, OR PRACTICE OF
Examples:
1. Cheery - the act of being cheery
2. Cheesy - containing cheese
3. Beauty - the quality in a person that gives pleasure to the senses |
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Meaning of root:
OF OR PERTAINING TO, RESEMBLING, TOWARD, TO
Examples:
1. Hypochondriac - pertaining to a person who is often or always worried about his or her own health
2. Maniac - a person characterized by an inordinate enthusiasm for something
3. Acceptable - capable or worthy of being accepted |
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Meaning of root:
MAN, MALE, MASCULINE
Examples:
1. Android - an electronic man
2. Androgynous - being both male and female
3. Misandry - hatred towards men
4. Androcentric - emphasizing masculine interests |
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Meaning of root:
TAKE, SEIZE, HOLD
Examples:
1. Capable - having legal right to own
2. Intercept - to stop, seize, or interrupt in progress or course or before arrival
3. Anticipate - to give advance thought |
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