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Word Meaning:
to charge with a crime or show guilt
Root: crim
Root Meaning:
crime or accuse
Related words: crime, criminology, criminologist, discriminate, indiscriminate,
recriminate
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Word Meaning:
one who cares for or supervises a museum or library
Root: cur
Root Meaning:
care
Related words: curate, procure, curious, accurate, sinecure, secure, insecure, cure
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Word Meaning:
to resist persuasion
Root: dur
Root Meaning:
hard or lasting
Related words: durable, endure, duress, duration, unendurable, during
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Word Meaning:
a feeling that something is about to happen
Root: sent
Root Meaning:
feeling
Related words: absent, essence, quintessential, present
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Word Meaning:
to focus on something without changing
Root: fix
Root Meaning:
to fix
Related words: fixture, prefix, suffix, affix, infix, crucifix
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Word Meaning:
a close companion you have known for a long time
Root: cron
Root Meaning:
time
Related words: cronyism, anachronism, chronometer, synchronized
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Word Meaning:
a poetry term; vowel sounds (a, e, i, o, u) in nearby words rhyme, or are the
same sound
Root: son
(as=to)
Root Meaning:
sound
Related words: sonic, supersonic, subsonic, transonic, dissonant, sonata
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Word Meaning:
broke, bankrupt, unable to pay the bills
Root: solv,
solu (in=not, ent=inclined to)
Root Meaning:
to loosen
Related words: solvent, dissolve, dissolution, resolve, irresolute
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Word Meaning:
1. training to improve the mind; 2. a subject or branch of knowledge; 3.
punishment; 4. control
Root: disci
Root Meaning:
learn
Related words: disciplinarian, self-discipline, undisciplined, disciple
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Word Meaning:
a legal wrong for which somebody can be sued
Root: tort
or tor
Root Meaning:
twist
Related words: torch, torture, torque, contortionist, contorted, extortion
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Word Meaning:
something you do to make up for something you did wrong
Root: tone
or ton
Root Meaning:
tone
Related words: monotonous, detonate, halftone, atonal, tonic, intone, undertone
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Word Meaning:
formal ceremony to install a person into a high position
Root: vest
Root Meaning:
garment
Related words: vest, vestments, investment, vested, divestment, reinvest,
transvestite, travesty
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Word Meaning:
the multicolored leaves of a plant
Root: vari
Root Meaning:
changeable, diverse, or speckled
Related words: variety, variant, variance, variable, vary
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Word Meaning:
clumsy or lacking physical coordination
Root: ward
(awk=wrong; left-handed)
Root Meaning:
direction; guard
Related words: warden, reward, ward
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Word Meaning:
sound beyond the upper limits of human hearing
Root: ultra
Root Meaning:
beyond
Related words: ultimate, penultimate, ultimatum, ultramicro
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