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Bio Vocab 205 Chapters 11-20 (Greek Bases)

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Pha   to speak  
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Plan   wandering  
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Pleur   side, ride, pleura  
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Xen   host, stranger, foreigner  
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Lemm(a)   Sheath, husk  
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Kym, Cym   wave  
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Mit   thread  
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staphyl   bunch of grapes, uvula  
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Phrag   to block up, to wall in  
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Pneu(a), Pneust   breathing  
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Rhaph   to sew, to suture  
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Spa   to draw, to jerk  
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Hapl   single  
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Loph   crest, ridge, tuft  
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Lophi   small crest, lophron  
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Cyn   dog  
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Steth   chest  
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Pale, Palae   old, ancient  
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ornis, ornith   bird  
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phem   voice  
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gangli   mass of nerve tissue, small cyst or swelling  
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balan   acorn, the penis glans  
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Tok, Toc   child birth  
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In   fiber, muscle  
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Cleid   clavicle  
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Carp   Wrist  
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Cerc   tail  
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Zym   ferment, enzyme  
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Doch   to take or receive  
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Ech   Echo, repetition  
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Gli   glue  
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Camp(t),Campyl   bent  
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Bry   moss  
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Rhach(i), rach (i), Rrhach   the spine  
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Sphygm   pulse  
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Spondyl   Vertebra  
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Thel   Nipple  
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Stern   Chest, Breastbone  
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Tret(t)   to bore, to perforate  
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Chor(l)   fetal membrane (Chorion), tunic of the eyeball (Choriod)  
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clon(us)   muscle spasm  
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Not   the back  
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Adelph   Brother  
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Tel(e)   completion, end, purpose  
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Troch   wheel, disk  
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Xyl   wood  
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Opisth   behind  
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Phy   to grow  
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Pty   to spit  
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stig   pricking, mark, point  
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ec, oec, oek, oik, oic   house  
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colla   glue  
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spor   seed, spore  
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om   shoulder  
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por   passage, pore  
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rhabd   rod  
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ancon   elbow  
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ptyal   saliva  
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antr   cavity, sinus  
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condyl   knob, knuckle  
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alex   to ward off  
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ton   stretching, tension  
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trachel   neck  
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pyl(e)   gate, entrance  
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syring   pipe, tube  
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spir   coil  
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sphen   wedge  
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chy   to pour  
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goni   angle  
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hal   salt  
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corm   trunk of a tree  
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chalmyd   juice  
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bronch(i)   air tube  
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sperm(a), Spermat   seed, semen  
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Pali(n)   again, back  
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Ta   to stretch  
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Asc   bag  
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All   other, different  
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hemi   half  
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pyr, pyret   fire, fever  
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ede   to swell  
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myx   mucus, slime  
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Presby   old  
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Oxy, Ox   sharp, acid, oxygen  
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mes   middle  
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cly(s)   to wash  
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Lept   thin delicate  
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Poie   to make  
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cau, caus   to burn  
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cli, clei   to close  
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log   word, speach, reason  
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dolich   long  
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cleist   closed  
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brachy   short  
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cac, kak   bad  
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crot   pulse, beat  
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petr   rock  
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phon   sound voice  
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phot   light  
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kerat, cerat, ker, cer   horn, horny tissues, cornea  
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(H)apt   to touch  
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Kary, Cary   nucleus, nut  
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Onc, Oncus   tumor, swelling  
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Nos   disease  
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Pneum, Pneumat   air, gas  
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Nem, Nemat   thread  
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stere   solid, three dimensional  
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sten   narrow  
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Phylac(t)   to guard, to protect  
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sep   to rot, to purify  
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(H)aph   sense of touch  
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lepid   scale  
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sarc   flesh  
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splen   spleen  
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scler   hard  
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sit   food  
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phra   to speak  
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glauc   silvery, gray, green  
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Prophyr   Purple  
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Thall   young shoot  
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Pych, Pykn   thick, frequent  
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Poikil   varied, irregular, mottled  
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Xer   dry  
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Zyg   yoke  
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Thi   sulfur  
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Lei   smooth  
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Onym   name  
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Ont   being individual  
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Nyct   night  
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mis   hate  
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saur   lizard  
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phyl   race, class  
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splanchn   entrails, viscera  
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Phthi   to waste away  
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Pto   to fall  
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Schiz, Schis(t)   to split  
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Cente   to puncture  
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heli   sun  
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hom, home   same, similar  
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hol   whole, entire  
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malac   soft  
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mer   part  
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hypn   sleep  
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Ide   idea, mental image  
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cycl   circle, wheel, cilary body of the eye  
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dendr   tree  
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calypt(r)   hidden  
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carp   fruit  
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chord   cord  
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Pyg   buttocks  
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Rhiz, Rrhiz   root  
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Thorac   chest, thorax  
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Pyel   pelvis, especially of the kidney  
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salping   tube specifically "Eustachian or fallopian tube"  
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Pter, Pteryg(i)   wing, fin  
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Phleb   vein  
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Mel   limb  
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Ankyl   bent, stiff, adhesion of parts  
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tox   poison  
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Pen   deficiency, want  
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Pachy   thick  
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hipp   horse  
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oo   egg  
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tach(y)   swift  
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sapr   rotten  
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sthen   strength  
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platy(s)   broad, flat  
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micr   small, one millionth  
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macr   large, long  
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narc   stupor  
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gyr   circle, ring  
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pex   to fasten  
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pag   united  
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lep   to seize  
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trib, trip   to rub, to crush  
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stear, steat   fat, tallow  
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Ischi   hip  
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sial   saliva  
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laryng   larnyx  
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Omphal   naval  
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ur   tail  
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Leuk, Leuc   white  
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Xanth   yellow  
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Phyc   Seaweed, algae  
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cel(i), coel,   cavity, abdominal cavity  
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Hyal   glass, vitreous body of the eye  
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Gen(e),Gon   to be produced, to produce  
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Gon   seed  
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Pyrex   fever  
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Thym   mind, emotions  
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strept, stroph   turned, twisted  
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Trich, Thrix   hair  
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Chir, Cheir   hand  
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Branchi   gills  
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Brachi   arm  
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Prot   first, original, premitive  
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Mon   single, one  
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Di   twice, double  
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Kilo   one thousand  
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Dich   in two  
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Tri   three  
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Deut, Deutr   second  
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Tetra   four  
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Hexa   six  
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Penta   five  
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Octa   eight  
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Hept   seven  
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enne   nine  
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hect   hundred  
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deca   ten  
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