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.
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