cabbage | ||||||
café |
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[coffee][house] | ||||
cake | ||||||
calendar | ||||||
California |
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state symbols: [bear][republic] + [gold] | ||||
calf |
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calf, shin |
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astrology: [Aquarius]+[lower body] | ||||
call | ||||||
calcine |
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astrology: [Cancer]+[chemical process] | ||||
can | ||||||
Canada |
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national symbols: [maple leaf] | ||||
candle | ||||||
capacitor | from electrical diagrams. | |||||
capital |
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capital city |
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[maps: capital][city] | ||||
captain |
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[military insignia: two bars][battle] | ||||
capitol |
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car | ||||||
card | ||||||
careful |
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[see][danger] | ||||
carpet | ||||||
carrot | ||||||
carry | ||||||
case, instance | ||||||
cashier |
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[charge][person] | ||||
castle | ||||||
cat | ||||||
catch |
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compare with [drop] | ||||
cathedral |
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[chess: bishop][church] | ||||
cattle |
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[hieroglyphics: cattle] [runes: cattle] | ||||
cauliflower | ||||||
cause | ||||||
cave | from orienteering. | |||||
celebrate |
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cellar |
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[under][ground][room] | ||||
center | ||||||
century |
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certainly | ||||||
chain | ||||||
chair | ||||||
change |
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charge |
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compare with "pay" and "spend" | ||||
cheap |
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compare with "expensive" | ||||
check | ||||||
cheek | ||||||
cheese | ||||||
chemistry | ||||||
cherry | ||||||
chest | ||||||
Chicago |
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chicken | ||||||
child (offspring) | ||||||
child (young person) | ||||||
chin | ||||||
China |
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[middle][land] | ||||
Chinese (language) |
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Chinese (person) |
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chocolate | ||||||
Chongqing |
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chong="again" qing="celebrate" | ||||
choose |
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Christ |
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Christian |
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Christianity |
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[Father][Son][Holy Ghost] | ||||
Christmas |
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compare with "yule" | ||||
church | ||||||
cigarette | ||||||
cinema | ||||||
city | ||||||
clean | ||||||
clear | ||||||
client |
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cliff | from orienteering. | |||||
clock |
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close | ||||||
clothes | ||||||
cloud | ||||||
club | ||||||
coat | ||||||
coffee |
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coffin | ||||||
coin | ||||||
cold |
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collar | ||||||
colonel |
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[military insignia: eagle][battle] | ||||
color | ||||||
column | ||||||
comb | ||||||
come | ||||||
comet | ||||||
come back |
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comedy |
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Communism | ||||||
company |
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compare |
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comprehend |
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Latin: com- + prehendere: [together][grasp] | ||||
computer | ||||||
comrade | ||||||
conclude |
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Latin: con- + claudere: [together][close] | ||||
concord |
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Latin: con- + cor: [together][heart] | ||||
concur |
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Latin: con- + currere: [together][run] | ||||
condition |
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Latin: condicio, terms of agreement, fr. con- + dicere: [together][say] | ||||
condolence |
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Latin: con- + dolere: [together][grief] | ||||
confuse |
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congeal |
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astrology: [Taurus]+[chemical process] | ||||
connection | ||||||
conquer |
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consider |
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Latin con- + sidus, sider-: to observe the stars | ||||
considerable | ||||||
continent |
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Latin continere: [together][hold] | ||||
continue | ||||||
cook | ||||||
copper |
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astrology: [Venus]+[metal] | ||||
copy | ||||||
cord | ||||||
core | ||||||
corn | ||||||
corner | ||||||
corporal |
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cost |
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cotton | ||||||
count | ||||||
country |
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[maps: border]+[land] | ||||
couple | ||||||
courage | ||||||
courthouse |
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court |
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cousin | ||||||
cow |
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[milk][cattle] | ||||
crane | ||||||
cream |
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[rich][milk] | ||||
create |
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Latin creare, crescere: [grow] | ||||
crime | ||||||
crop |
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crown | ||||||
cry, weep |
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cucumber | ||||||
culture | ||||||
cup | ||||||
cupboard | ||||||
curse |
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from cartoons | ||||
curtain | ||||||
customs | ||||||
cut | ||||||
cyclone | from weather |
Last updated Feb. 2006
Copyright © 2005-06 Matthew White