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- `sui`: one's own (e.g. suicide)
- From Latin sui "of oneself" (genitive of se "self")
- `swim`: swim
- `syl`: the same as `syn` (e.g. syllogism)
- `syn`: to place together, organize, form in order (e.g. synergy, syntactic)
- `syl`: the same as `syn` (e.g. syllogism, syllabus)
- `syn`: with, to place together, organize, form in order (e.g. synergy, syntactic)
- From stem of `synistanai`
- `sys`: the same as `syn` (e.g. system)
- `tact`: the same as `tag` (e.g. contact, tactual, tactile, intact, tactless,
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- `vall`: valley (e.g. )
- `vamp`: patch up, repair (e.g. revamp)
- `van`: the same as `vac` (e.g. vanity, vanish, evanish, evanesce)
- `vanc`: the same as `vant` (e.g. advance, vanguard, vanward)
- `vant`: front, forehead (e.g. vantage, advantage)
- `void`: the same as `vac`
- `vas`: a tube, duct, or conduit for conveying blood, lymph, semen, etc.
(e.g. vasopressor, vasoconstriction)
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- `a`: off, of, away from; emphatic (e.g. away, apart, ascribe, atom, abandon,
apply, apathy, avenue, accede, acentric)
- From Latin
- `ab`: away from, off from, down (e.g. abuse, abduct, abstain, abscess)
- `ab`: away from, off from, down; to (e.g. abuse, abduct, abstain, abscess)
- `ac`: the same as `ad` (e.g. account)
- `acu`: cusp (e.g. acupressure)
- `ad`: to (e.g. advocate, admit, adduce, adjourn, admix)
- `ad`: the same as `ab` (e.g. advocate, admit, adduce, adjourn, admix, advance)
- `aero`: air (e.g. aerostat, aerobatics)
- `af`: the same as `ad` (e.g. affinal)
- `an`: the same as `un` (e.g. anarchy)
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- `us`: noun (e.g. exodus, humerus, rectus, stimulus, genius, literatus, locus)
- `ute`: verb or noun (e.g. institute)
- verb is same as `-ate`
- `ward`: adverbial suffix expressing direction, toward (e.g. inward, onward,
upward, award, backward, downward, eastward, vanward)
- `y`: verb (e.g. portray)
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