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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 | 
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  | 
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  | 
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  | 
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  | 
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  | 
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  | 
Word Meaning:
  sound beyond the upper limits of human hearing 
Root: ultra 
Root Meaning:
  beyond 
Related words: ultimate, penultimate, ultimatum, ultramicro  | 
Sunday, May 24, 2020
Review words 106-120
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