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Vocabulary Roots and Related Terms

The document defines and provides examples of word roots and how they combine to form related words. It examines Greek and Latin roots such as "anthrope" meaning mankind, "phil" meaning love, and "sophie" meaning wisdom. It also explores roots like "con" meaning coming together and how they join to create words like "consummate", "condone", and "congregate". Additionally, it lists and defines standalone vocabulary words along with examples of their usage.

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Vocabulary Roots and Related Terms

The document defines and provides examples of word roots and how they combine to form related words. It examines Greek and Latin roots such as "anthrope" meaning mankind, "phil" meaning love, and "sophie" meaning wisdom. It also explores roots like "con" meaning coming together and how they join to create words like "consummate", "condone", and "congregate". Additionally, it lists and defines standalone vocabulary words along with examples of their usage.

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Vocabulary

Root
Anthrope = mankind
Phil = Love

Related Words
* Philanthrope = Love of mankind
* Misanthrope = Hate Mankind
* Anthropology = Study of mankind

Root
Sophie= Wisdom
Andrew= Man

Related Words
* Philosophy (Phil + Sophie) = Love for Wisdom
* Philanderer (Phil + Andrew) = Man who flirts around
* Philologist = Love for study of languages

Root
Con= coming together
* Consummate (con+ summate) = somebody who is complete
addition
(“Mr. Manmohan Singh is a consummate economist”)

* Condone = To donate freedom

Donate

* Congregate= big crowd

Gregate = a kind of cloud


* Toddler= Child

* Ludicrous = Absurd

* Castration = Surgical removal of testis

* Sprawl = Wander from direct course

(“The girls sprawled over a forested hill”)

* Intimidation = Bullying

* Flax= a blue-flowered herbaceous plant that is cultivated for its seed


(linseed) and for textile fiber made from its stalks

* Deter= to prevent

* Doctor (as a verb) = Alter/Make impure/Temper

* Sleuths = detective

* Pilfer =Steal (typically things of relatively little value).

* Modus operandi = Procedure/Method

(“The volunteers were instructed to buy specific systems using our usual
modus operandi—anonymously and with cash”)

* Exhort= Encourage/Urge

* Guffaw= laugh loudly

* Unscathed = Not Injured

* Trove = The treasures of unknown ownership

(“The trove of materials collected from the compound in which Osama bin Laden was killed
includes 10 hard drives, five computers and more than 100 storage devices, ”)
* Secluded = Isolated

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