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Miss Durie's Roots/Bases/Prefixes/Suffixes

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Act   To do, drive  
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Alt   High  
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Ann, Enn   Year  
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Aqua   Water  
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Aster, Astro   Star  
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Aud   To hear  
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Biblio, Bibli   Book  
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Bio   Life  
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Cede   To go, yield  
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Cent   100  
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Chrono   Time  
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Circ, Circum   Around  
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Cred   To believe, trust  
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Dem   People  
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Dent   Tooth  
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Dic, Dict   To say, speak, or assert  
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Fin   End, limit  
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Gen   Race, family, kind  
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Geo   Earth  
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Graph, gram   To write, draw, record  
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Hab   To have, hold, or dwell  
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Hydro   Water  
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Med, Medi   Middle  
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Jur, Jus, Judic   Law, right, judgment  
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Leg   Law  
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Loc   Place  
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Logue, Logo   Idea, word, speech, reason  
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Hypo   Under, below  
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Meter, Metr   To measure  
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Mov, Mob, Mot   To move  
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Mono   One  
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Morph   Form  
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Noc, Nox   Night  
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Micro   Small  
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Phon   Sound, voice  
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Photo   Light  
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Pyr   Fire  
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Petr   Rock  
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Ped   Foot  
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Peri   Around  
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Port   To carry  
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Sign   Mark  
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Sci   To know  
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Scope   To see  
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Spec, spect   To see, look at, behold  
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Scrib, script   To write  
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Syn, sym   Together  
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Techn   Art, skill  
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Temp   Time  
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Therm   Heat  
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Dur   Hard, lasting  
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Tract   To pull, draw  
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Vis, Vid   To see, look  
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Ab-   From, away from  
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Ad-   To, motion toward, addition to  
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Aero-   Air  
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Amphi-   Both, around  
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An-   Not  
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Ante-   Before  
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Anti-   Against, opposite, reverse  
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Ap-   To, nearness to  
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Auto-   Self  
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Bene-   Good  
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Co-, Con-   Together  
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Contra-   Against  
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De-   Opposite of, away from, undo  
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Dis-   Opposite  
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Ex-   Out, beyond, away from, former  
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Extra-   Outside, beyond, besides  
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For-   Not  
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Fore-   Before  
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Hyper-   More than normal, too much  
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Il-   Not  
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Im-   Into, not  
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In-   Not, go into  
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Inter-   Among, between  
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Intra-   Within  
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Ir-   Not  
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Mal-   Wrong, bad  
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Mis-   Wrong, bad, no, not  
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Non-   Not, opposite of  
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Ob-   Against  
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Per-   Through  
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Post-   After  
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Pre-   Before  
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Pro-   Before, for, in support of, forward  
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Re-   Back, again  
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Retro-   Backward  
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Se-   Apart  
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Self-   Of the self  
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Semi-   Half, partly  
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Sub-   Under, beneath  
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Super-   Over  
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Sur-   Over, above  
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Trans-   Across, over  
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Ultra-   Extremely  
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Un-   Not  
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-able, ible   Able to be, capable of being  
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-ade   Action or process  
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-age   Action or process  
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-al, -ial   Of, like, relating to, suitable for  
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-ance   Act, process, quality, state of being  
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-ant   One who  
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-ary   Of, like, relating to  
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-ate   Characteristic of, to become  
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-cle, -icle   Small  
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-cy   Fact or state of being  
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-dom   State or quality of of  
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-ence   Act or state or being  
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-ent   Doing, having, showing  
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-er   One who, that which  
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-ery   Place for, act, practice of  
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-esque   Like  
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-ess   Female  
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-ful   Full of  
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-ic   Relating to, characteristic of  
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-ify   To make, to cause to be  
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-ion   Act, condition, or result of  
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-ish   Of or belonging to, characterized by  
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-ism   Act, practice, or result of, example  
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-ity   Condition, state of being  
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-ive   Of, relating to, belonging to, tending to  
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-ize   Make, cause to be, subject to  
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-less   Without  
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-let   Small  
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-like   Like, characteristic of  
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-logy   Study or theory of  
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-ly   Every, like, characteristic of, resembling  
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-ment   Action or process, state or quality of, product or thing  
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-ness   State or quality of being  
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-or   One who  
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-ous   Having, full of, characterized by  
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-ship   State or quality of being  
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-some   Like, tending to be  
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-tude   State or quality of being  
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-y   Characterized by  
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Bi-   Two  
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Cardio   Heart  
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Chromo   Color  
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Dec-   Ten  
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Derma   Skin  
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Di-/Dia-   Two  
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Duo-   Two  
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Dyna   Power  
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Dys-   Abnormal, bad  
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Equi-   Equal  
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Helic   Spiral, Circular  
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Hemi-   Half, partly  
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Hept-   Seven  
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Hex-   Six  
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Lat-   Side  
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Macro-   Large  
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Manu   Hand  
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Milli-   Thousand  
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Multi-   Many  
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Neo-   New  
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Mort   Death  
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Nov-   Nine  
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-onomy   Science of  
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Oct   Eight  
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Pent-   Five  
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Pan-   All  
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Phobia   Fear of  
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Omni-   All  
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Poly-   Many  
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Psycho   Mind  
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Quad-   Four  
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Quint-   Five  
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Sept-   Seven  
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Terra   Earth  
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Tetra-   Five  
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Tri-   Three  
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Uni-   One  
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Volve   Roll  
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