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Word Unit: Story Translation: My Encounter with Iktho (another way to improve one's Latin-Greek-English vocabulary).

Word Unit: Story Translation: The Grand Panjandrum (words with Latin and Greek origins and from other sources).

Word Unit: Story Translation: The Lupus and the Tragas (a story told with an emphasis on Latin and Greek roots and affixes).

Word Unit: Story Translation: The Lupus and the Tragas translation (translation of "The Lupus and the Tragas" story).

Word Unit: Story Translation: Tired Feet (learning English words from Latin and Greek elements).

Word Unit: Story Translations Listed (varieties of mostly Latin-Greek based story translations).

Word Unit: Story: The Emperor and his New Clothes ("The Emperor's New Clothes" by Hans Christian Andersen is a fable about the pitfalls of political self-aggrandizement and the fear of people to face reality even when they know that the reality of the situation is untrue).

Word Unit: stratio-, strati-, strato-, strat- stratus (Latin: horizontal layer; "stretched, spread out"; layer, cloud layer; to strew).

Word Unit: strato- (Greek: army).

Word Unit: streph-, strepho-, strep- + (Greek: to twist, to turn).

Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn": diversi-; diverticul-; flect-, flex-; gyro-; meand-; -plex; stroph-; tors-; tropo-; verg-; vers-; volv-.

Word Unit: strepi-, strep- (Latin: noise, to make noise; to rattle, to roar).

Word Unit: strepto-, strepsi- (Greek: a twisting, to twist; easily bent or twisted, like a chain).

Word Unit: stri-, strio- + (Latin: furrow, furrowed; groove, grooved).

Word Unit: stridu-, strid- + (Latin: creaking, making a creaking sound; a shrill sound; a harsh sound).

Word Unit: string-, strict-, strain-, -stringence, -stringency, -stringe, -stringent (Latin: draw tight, to bind, to compress).

Word Unit: stroph-, -strophy, -strophe, -strophical, -strophism, -strophic, -strophes, strepto-, strept- (Greek: turn, twist).

Inter-related cross references involving word units meaning "bend, curve, turn": diversi-; diverticul-; flect-, flex-; gyro-; meand-; -plex; streph-; tors-; tropo-; verg-; vers-; volv-.

Word Unit: stru-, struct-, -structure, -struction, -structive (Latin: to build, to build up; to pile; to construct, to place together, to arrange).

Related "together" units: com-; greg-; inter-.

Word Unit: strum-, strumo-, strumi- + (Latin: tumor, swollen gland, goiter).

Word Unit: stud-, studi- (Latin: eagerness, to be eager; to be diligent; to be pressing forward).

Word Unit: stulti-, stult- (Latin: foolish, foolishness, folly, silliness).

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