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Latin/German 1 

G

L

G

L

folk	people	tame	domesticate
empty	vacant	eat	consume
crook	criminal	sight	vision
hug	embrace	grab	apprehend
start	commence	end	terminate

 

1. people, vacant; 2. sight; 3. commence; 4. hug; 5. consumed; 6. start; 7. empty; 8. domesticated; 9. folk; 10. vision; 11. end; 12. embraced; 13. grab; 14. eat; 15. tame; 16. terminate, apprehend, criminals

Latin/German 2

1a. put up with, b. tolerate; 2a. gone off, b. putrefying; 3a. put...up, b. accommodate; 4a. watch over, b. invigilate; 5a. Get off, b. dismount; 6a. pay...back, b. reimburse; 7a. join in, b. participate; 8a. made...up, b. fabricated; 9a. pick...up, go along, b. acquire, proceeded; 10a. run away, tipped...off, b. absconded, informed

scrib/scrip

1. describe; 2. scribbled; 3. inscription; 4. prescribed; 5. ascribed; 6. proscribed; 7. conscripted; 8. scriptures; 9. transcription; 10. subscribe

spic/spec

1. prospects; 2. respect; 3. inspection; 4. expectations; 5. circumspect; 6. aspect; 7. perspective; 8. conspicuous; 9. suspected; 10. introspective

cap/ceive/cept

1. inception; 2. perception; 3. exception; 4. deceived; 5. accepted; 6. concept; 7. captured; 8. precept; 9. received; 10. intercepted

duce/duct

1. deducted; 2. reduce; 3. production; 4. introduced; 5. inducement; 6. conduct; 7. seduce; 8. abduction; 9. deduce; 10. induction

fer

1. preference; 2. conference; 3. offer; 4. interfering; 5. suffer; 6. deferred; 7. transferred; 8. references; 9. proffered; 10. inferences

pone/pos

1. postpone; 2. exposure; 3. opposition; 4. imposed; 5. proposals; 6. composed; 7. deposed; 8. suppose; 9. disposal; 10. repose

quir/ques/quis 1

1. require; 2. request (n); 3. quest; 4. question (n); 5. requisition; 6. conquest; 7. sequester; 8. questionable; 9. requisite; 10. question (v); 11. request (v)

 

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