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ROOTS (ACU means SHARP, POINTED, EXACT (ACULEUS---- A conical elevation of…
ROOTS
ACU means SHARP, POINTED, EXACT
ACULEUS---- A conical elevation of the skin of a plant, becoming hard and sharp-pointed
ACULEIFORM----Spine-shaped, like a prickle
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ACULEATED---- Pointed, sharpened to a needle-like point
ACULEATE---- Pointed, covered with sharp spines
ACUMEN---- Mental sharpness, intelligence, sagacity
ACUITY---- Acuteness, keeness, as of thought or vision, severity
ACCURATE---- (especially of information, measurements, or predictions) correct in all details, exact.
ACUPUNCTURE ---- a system of complementary medicine in which fine pointed needles are inserted in the skin at specific points along what are considered to be lines of energy (meridians), used in the treatment of various physical and mental conditions.
ACUTE---- Extremely severe and sharp; such as, an intense pain
ACUMINATE---- Pointed, tapering to a point or sharply pointed
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-ence, -ency + as a ROOT means action, process, state, quality, or condition of
BENEVOLENCE---- Disposition to do good, a desire to promote the happiness of others
BREVILOQUENCE----- Speaking briefly or concisely, laconic.
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ABSENCE ---- A situation in which someone, or something, is not available
ABSTINENCE ---- The action or process of voluntarily refraining from some behavior, or practice, self-control
ADHERENCE ---- A steady attachment, as of a person to a rule
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BELLIGERENCE ---- The quality of being hostile, ready to start a fight, or ready to go to war.
APO or APHO as a ROOT means away, off, separate, without, absent, loss, regret, lack.
APHOBIA----Fearlessness, a lack of fear.
APHONIC---- being without sound through injury or illness and thus incapable of all but whispered Speech.
APHONOUS---- Without a voice, voiceless.
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APOSEMATIC COLORATION---- conspicuous coloration or markings of an animal serving to warn off Predators.
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AMI or AMO means LOVE, MORAL, EASY TO TALK TO
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AMORET---- A love knot, love token, or love song.
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AMIABLE----friendly, pleasant, lovable
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FA or FESS means speak, quality, character
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DEFAME ---- to attack someone or someone’s reputation, character, or good name by making slanderous or libelous statements.
FESSED ----- confess, own up.
FABLE ---- a short story, typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral/ tell fictitious tales.
CONFESS ---- declare, admit that one has committed a crime or done something wrong.
FABULOUS ---- extraordinary (quality), especially extraordinarily large.
FAME ---- the state of being known by many people, quality.
FAMOUS ---- known about by many people, Fame.
PROFESS ---- claim, often falsely, that one has (a quality or feeling).
FUG as a ROOT means drive away, flee, fly, run away, cheat
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FUMIFUGIST ---- A person who, or something that, drives smoke or fumes away
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FUGACIOUS ---- tending to disappear, fleeting
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BEL or BELLI as a ROOT means WAR, FIGHT, RESISTANCE, OPPOSES
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BELLIGERATI---- Literary people, authors — literati — who promote wars of aggression.
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BELLICISM---- The policy or practice of resorting to war even when it is not necessary and is avoidable.
BELLICIST---- Adherent of bellicism, advocate of war, one who is war-centred or war-oriented.
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ERG as a ROOT means work, effect, disturbance, surprise, activity
FLABBERGAST------ surprise (someone) greatly, astonish.
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POLTERGEIST---- a ghost or other supernatural being supposedly responsible for physical disturbances such as making loud noises and throwing objects about.
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ERG ---- a unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one dyne when its point of application moves one centimetre in the direction of action of the force.
ALLERGY ---- a damaging (effect) immune response by the body to a substance, especially a particular food, pollen, fur, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive.
ERGOMETER ---- an apparatus which measures work or energy expended during a period of physical exercise.
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OLIG-, OLIGO- means little, meager, tiny, infrequent
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OLIGANDROUS --- in botany, having fewer than twenty or having very paltry numbers of stamens
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OLIGARCHIC ----- of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a small governmental organization
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lud-, ludi-, lus- as a ROOT means play, make sport of, jest, sportive, pastime, false
ALLUSION ---- an indication of something, a mention of, a hint, a suggestion
ALLUDE ---- to play with, to joke or to jest at, dally with, to touch lightly upon a subject
ALLUSIVE ---- to playing with words, punning
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COLLUDE ---- to act together secretly to achieve a fraudulent or deceitful purpose, to connive
COLLUSION ---- literally, a playing together or an agreement or understanding for purposes of trickery or fraud
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DELUDE ---- to fool the mind or judgment of someone, so as to cause what is false to be accepted as true
DELUSION ---- a false idea, belief, or opinion that is contrary to fact or reality
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luto-, lut-, luv-, lu- means wash, clean, washing of water against the shore, a flood
ALLUVIAL----- relating to or consisting of any material that has been carried or deposited by running water
ABLUVION----- a substance, or things, that are washed away
ABLUENT ---- a cleansing agent, a detergen
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ABLUTION ---- a washing or cleansing; such as, a religious ceremony of purification
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ABLUTOMANIA ---- an obsessional preoccupation with cleanliness, washing, or bathing, often accompanied by compulsive rituals
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ALLUVIAL AQUIFER ----- an underground water supply which comes from porous rock, sand, gravel, etc.
DOX as a ROOT means qualities opinion, praise, belief
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ORTHODOX —- following or conforming to the traditional or generally accepted rules or beliefs of a religion, philosophy, or practice
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UNORTHODOX —– contrary to what is usual, traditional, or accepted, not orthodox
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CAUST or CAUT means to burn, caution, careful
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CAUTERANT---- an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it.
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CAUSTICITY---- The quality of being physically caustic, burning, corrosive.
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HOLOCAUST----total devastation, especially by fire.
SYNONYMS----ACERBIC, BITTER, EROSIVE, MORDENT, MASS DESTRUCTION, UTTER CHAOS.
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ROOT ---- COGN, GNOS means TO KNOW, CONSCIOUS, UNDERSTANDING, FORECAST
AGNOSTIC ---- a person who believes that nothing is known or can be known of the existence or nature of God
COGNITIVE---- relating to or involving conscious intellectual activity, such as thinking, reasoning, or remembering
COGNIZANT ---- knowledgeable or understanding of someting, fully informed
DIAGNOSIS ---- investigation or analysis of the cause or nature of a condition, situation, or probem
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PROGNOSIS ---- a forecast or prediction usually associated with the prospect of recovery, such as from a disease
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ANIM as a ROOT means mind, life, spirit, anger
Animate ---- give (a film or character) the appearance of movement (life) using animation techniques.
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Animate ---- give (a film or character) the appearance of movement (life) using animation techniques.
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Animadversion ---- strong criticism, censure, and disapproval
Animadversive ---- Being critical, censuring, or making a censorious comment
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Animalist ---- A believer in, or a greater interest, in physical rather than in spiritual needs.
MACR as a ROOT means length, large
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BIOMACROMOLECULE---- Substance of large molecular weight; for example, protein, DNA, etc.
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MACRANDROUS---- A large male, although the term should properly be megandrous.
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MACRO---- Of great size, large.
MAL means bad, badly, evil
MALADY ---- Sickness, disease
MALAPERT--- Ill-bred, impudent
MALAPROPOS----- Inappropriate, not fitting
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MALCONTENT---- Rebellious, discontented, bad tempered
MALEDICTION ---- Slander, curse
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ROOT ---- tauto-, taut- + means same
TAUTEGORICAL ---- Expressing the same thing with different words, opposed to allegorical
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TAUTOCHRONISM ---- Occupying the same time; pertaining to, or having the properties of, a tautochrone
TAUTOCHRONOUS ----- Having the character of a tautochrone, occupying the same time, isochronous
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TAUTOLOGICAL ---- A reference to, characterized by, involving, or using tautology, that is, repeating the same word
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clud-, claud-, claus- as a ROOT means to close, to shut
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AQUICLUDE ---- An impermeable body of rock or stratum of sediment that acts as a barrier to the flow of groundwater
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CLAUSE ------ end of a sentence or a legal argument, - to close, to shut, to conclude
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EXCLUSIVE---- restricted to the person, group, or area concerned
ROOT ----LOCU, LOCUT ROOT means talk, speak, express
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INTERLOCUTORY----- of the nature of, pertaining to, or occurring in conversation
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ILLOCUTIONARY----- an act performed by a speaker by virtue of uttering certain words, as for example the acts of promising or of threatening,
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ANIM as a ROOT means mind, life, spirit, anger
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Animate ---- give (a film or character) the appearance of movement (life) using animation techniques.
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Animadversion ---- strong criticism, censure, and disapproval
Animadversive ---- Being critical, censuring, or making a censorious comment
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Animalist ---- A believer in, or a greater interest, in physical rather than in spiritual needs.
cresc-, -cret, -crease as a ROOT means rise, grow, solid
Crescendo ---- In music, a gradual increase or to grow in loudness.
Crescent ---- Increasing, as the light of the moon seems to increase in size during its first quarter.
Accretion ------ The growth or increase in size by gradual external addition, accumulation, fusion, inclusion, or the growing together of separate things.
Accretive ---- A reference to increasing by growth, growing.
Concrete ---- Existing in a material kor physical form, real or solid.
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Decrease ---- To grow or to cause something to grow gradually less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity.
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BREVETS ----- a temporary (for a short period of time) authorization for a person to hold a higher rank
SEMIBREVE ----- a short vertical stroke, as in the letters i, m, n, u
BREVETCIES----- short, brief
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BRIEF---- of short duration, not lasting for long
ABBREVIATE ----- shorten (a word, phrase, or text)
AUG, AUC as a ROOT means increase, many
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AUGER —– a tool resembling a large corkscrew, for boring holes in wood.
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dromo-, drom-, -drome means run, step, activity, produce
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Aerodromic --- Descriptive of a ground or field, especially, one equipped with housing and other facilities, used for flying purposes.
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Amphidromous ----- Fish which move between fresh and salt water during some part of their life cycles.
Anadromy ---- The migration of fish, such as, adults or sub-adults, that go from salt water to fresh water to spawn.
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BEL or BELLI as a ROOT means war, fight, resistance, opposes
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any growth stock that sells for 40percent of its earnings for upcoming year is dangerously high price. rule of thumb:
a stock should sell at or below its growth rate.ie: The rate at which it increases its earnings every year. Even the fastest growing companies can rarely achieve more that 25% growth rate and a 40% growth rate is a rarilty