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Word Unit: a-, ab-, abs- + (Latin: from, away, away from).

Word Unit: a-, an- + (Greek: a prefix meaning: no, absence of, without, lack of, not).

Word Unit: a, an: Grammatical Articles + (confusion exists about usage of "a" and "an" in front of other words).

Word Unit: a.k.a.; aka; AKA + (also known as).

Word Unit: ab- + (a prefix indicating electromagnetic units of the centimeter-gram-second system).

Word Unit: abacus + (Hebrew > Greek > Latin > Middle English: dust).

Word Unit: abdomin-, abdomino-, abdomen- + (Latin: belly, venter [the use of "stomach" is considered incorrect for this root word]).

Word Unit: -ability + (Latin: a suffix expressing ability, capacity, fitness, or "that which may be easily handled or managed" ).

Word Unit: -able (Latin: a suffix, expressing capacity, fitness to do that which can be handled or managed, suitable skills to accomplish something; capable of being done, something which can be finished, etc.).

Word Unit: Ablutions or Bathing, Historical Perspectives + (Latin: abluere, to wash away).

Word Unit: -ably (Latin: a suffix; able manner, capably).

Word Unit: abort-, aborti- + (Latin: miscarry, pass away, perish by an untimely birth).

Related "birth, born, childbirth, offspring" words: feto-; lochio-; nasc-, nat-; proli-; toco-, toko-.

Word Unit: aboulo-, aboul-, abulo-, abul- + (Greek: irresolution, indecision, loss or defect of the ability to make decisions).

Word Unit: About English Words (history of how, when, and why hundreds of words have entered the English language).

Word Unit: abysso-, abyss-, abys- + (Greek > Latin: Greek [abussoz], a-, "no" plus bussos, "bottom" through Latin [abyssus], "no bottom, bottomless").

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving the "sea" and the "ocean" bodies of water: Atlantic; batho-, bathy- (depth); bentho- (deep, depth); halio-, halo- (salt or "the sea"); mare, mari- (sea); necto-, nekto- (swimming); oceano-; pelago- (sea, ocean); plankto- (drifting); thalasso- (sea, ocean).

Word Unit: -ac (Greek > Latin: a suffix from French -aque, or directly from Latin -acus, from Greek -akos. This suffix was used to form names of arts and sciences in Greek and it is now generally used to form new names of sciences in English; meanings, "related to, of the nature of, pertaining to, referring to").

Word Unit: academ- + (Greek > Latin: [originally, Academus/Akademus, a name of a hero in Greek mythology; then it became a gymnasium near Athens where Plato taught]).

Word Unit: acantho-, acanth-, -acanth, -acanths, -acanthid, -acanthous (Greek: used either as a prefix or as a suffix; pointed appendages; spine, spiny; thorn, thorny).

Word Unit: acaro-, acar-, acari-, acarin- + (Greek > Latin: "tiny spider", mite[s] "itch"; ticks).

Cross references of word families that are related directly, or indirectly, to: "spider; arachnoidea": arachno-; arano-; mite, mites.

Word Unit: accipit- + (Latin: bird of prey, a hawk; hawk-like).

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