clud (close) exclude, included, preclude

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clud (close) exclude, included, preclude

• CLUD means close.
• To exclude is to close out to be included is to
  be admitted and to preclude something that might
  happen means to stop it, to close the possibility
  before it happens!
• Spanishincludido

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se (apart) separate, secede, sedition

• SE means apart.
• To separate is to put something apart to secede
  is to go apart, as the South did in the Civil
  War and sedition is exciting people to rebel
  against the government!
• Spanishsedición

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plu (more) plus, pluralism, nonplused

• PLU means more.
• A plus is an addition of more pluralism is the
  belief in a society of many different groups and
  to be nonplused is to be overwhelmingly confused,
  feeling like No more, tell me no more!
• Spanishpluralismo

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germ (vital) germ, germinate, germane

• GERM means vital.
• A germ is a tiny living organism to germinate is
  to become vital and grow and a germane idea is
  one that is vital to the conversation.
• Spanishgerminar

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FUS (pour) transfusion, infusion, fusillade

• FUS means pour.
• In a transfusion, blood pours from one person to
  another in an infusion of ideas, the ideas pour
  in from elsewhere and when warships unleash a
  fusillade, there is a great outpouring of
  gunfire.
• Spanishfusilería

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Advanced Word Preclude

• The verb preclude (pree-KLOOD) from the Latin
  praecludere, contains the stem pre (before) and
  clud (close) and refers to heading off something
  in advance, closing it off as a possibility,
  before it even happens. In 1911 in her novel
  Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton wrote that for the
  moment his sense of relief was so great as to
  preclude all other feelings.

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Caesars English II Lesson XIII

• Stem meaning example
• clud close exclude, conclude
• se apart separate, secede
• plu more plus, plural
• germ vital germinate, germane
• fus pour transfuse, profuse

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• PRECLUDE AVOID
• secede withdraw
• seed germinate
• exclude include
• blood transfusion

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• PRECLUDE AVOID
• secede withdraw
• seed germinate
• exclude include
• blood transfusion

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• GUNS FUSILLADE
• separate unify
• germane relevant
• exclude barriers
• tubes transfusion

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• GUNS FUSILLADE
• separate unify
• germane relevant
• exclude barriers
• tubes transfusion

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• Find the best opposite.
• NONPLUSED
• germane
• lucid
• infused
• precluded

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• Find the best opposite.
• NONPLUSED
• germane
• lucid
• infused
• precluded

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• SEDITION
• exclusion
• patriotism
• germination
• treachery

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• SEDITION
• exclusion
• patriotism
• germination
• treachery

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• After the insurrection, new ideas began to
  ___________.
• fusillade
• secede
• germinate
• include

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• After the insurrection, new ideas began to
  ___________.
• fusillade
• secede
• germinate
• include

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• No province was permitted to ____________ from
  the empire.
• renovate
• preclude
• germinate
• secede

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• No province was permitted to ____________ from
  the empire.
• renovate
• preclude
• germinate
• secede

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• In the panic of the barbarian assault, the legion
  commander was __________.
• nonplused
• separate
• germane
• transfused

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• In the panic of the barbarian assault, the legion
  commander was __________.
• nonplused
• separate
• germane
• transfused

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The Grammar of Vocabulary nonplused, an
adjective.

• When the generals refused, Caesar was
  completely nonplused.
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________
• ________________________________________

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Caesars Classic Words Challenge

• From Herman Melvilles Billy Budd
• Nothing especially __________ to the story
  occurred.
• separate
• precluded
• germane
• nonplused

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Caesars Classic Words Challenge

• From Herman Melvilles Billy Budd
• Nothing especially __________ to the story
  occurred.
• separate
• precluded
• germane
• nonplused

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• From Edith Whartons Ethan Frome
• His sense of relief was so great as to _________
  all other feelings.
• separate
• transfuse
• germinate
• preclude

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• From Edith Whartons Ethan Frome
• His sense of relief was so great as to _________
  all other feelings.
• separate
• transfuse
• germinate
• preclude

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• From Herman Melvilles Billy Budd
• He was ____________, evincing a confusion.
• germane
• nonplused
• included
• pluralistic

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• From Herman Melvilles Billy Budd
• He was ____________, evincing a confusion.
• germane
• nonplused
• included
• pluralistic