First 1000 Word Families1

A

a

an

able

ability

abler

ablest

ably

abilities

unable

inability

about

above

accept

acceptability

acceptable

unacceptable

acceptance

accepted

accepting

accepts

accord

accorded

accordance

according

accordingly

accords

account

accounted

accounting

accounts

accountant

accountants

accountancy

accountable

accountability

across

act

acted

acting

action

actions

acts

active

actively

activities

activity

actor

actors

actress

actresses

actual

actually

add

added

adding

addition

additional

additive

additions

adds

address

addressed

addresses

addressing

admit

admission

admittedly

admits

admitted

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adopt

adopted

adopting

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adoptions

adopts

advance

advanced

advances

advancement

advancing

advantage

advantages

disadvantage

disadvantages

advantaging

advantaged

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adventure

adventures

adventurer

adventurers

adventurous

affair

affairs

after

afterwards

again

against

age

aged

ages

aging

agent

agency

agencies

agents

ago

agree

agreed

agreeing

agreement

agreements

agrees

agreeable

disagreements

disagree

disagreeable

disagreed

disagreeing

disagreement

disagrees

air

all

allow

allowance

allowances

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allows

almost

alone

along

already

also

although

always

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amongst

amount

amounted

amounting

amounts

ancient

and

animal

animals

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answer

answered

answering

answers

any

anybody

anyhow

anymore

anyone

anything

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appearance

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appearances

disappearances

disappear

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disappeared

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apply

application

applications

applied

applies

applicable

applying

applicant

applicants

applicability

appoint

appointed

appointing

appointments

appointment

appoints

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arise

arisen

arises

arose

arising

arm

armed

arms

unarmed

army

armies

around

arrive

arrival

arrivals

arrived

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art

arts

artist

artistic

artists

artistically

article

articles

as

ask

asked

asking

asks

associate

associations

association

associating

associates

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disassociate

disassociated

at

attack

attacked

attacking

attacks

attempt

attempted

attempting

attempts

august

average

averaged

averages

averaging

away

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back

backed

background

backing

backs

backbone

backgrounds

backwards

backward

bad

badly

badness

ball

balls

bank

banked

banker

bankers

banking

banks

bar

bars

barred

barring

base

based

bases

basic

basically

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basis

battle

battled

battles

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am

are

aren’t

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isn’t

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was

wasn’t

were

weren’t

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beings

bear

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bearings

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bore

born

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beauty

beautiful

beautifully

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become

became

becomes

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bed

bedroom

bedrooms

bedding

beds

before

begin

began

beginner

beginners

beginning

beginnings

begins

begun

behind

believe

belief

beliefs

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believes

believing

disbelief

belong

belonged

belonging

belongings

belongs

below

beneath

beside

besides

best

better

between

beyond

big

bigger

biggest

biggish

bill

bills

billed

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bird

birds

black

blacker

blackest

blackly

blacken

blackness

blacks

blackish

blood

bled

bleed

bleeding

bleeds

bloody

blow

blew

blowing

blows

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blue

blueness

bluer

bluest

board

boarded

boarding

boards

boat

boats

body

bodies

bodily

book

books

both

box

boxes

boy

boyhood

boys

branch

branches

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breaks

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unbreakable

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bridges

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brighten

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brightness

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brings

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broadly

breadth

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broadest

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brothers

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build-up

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buildings

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burned

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burnt

business

businesses

businessmen

unbusinesslike

businesslike

businessman

businesswoman

businesswomen

but

buy

bought

buying

buys

buyer

buyers

by

C

call

called

calling

calls

can

cannot

cans

canned

canning

capital

capitals

captain

captains

car

cars

care

cared

careful

carefully

careless

cares

caring

carelessly

carry

carried

carries

carrying

case

cases

castle

castles

catch

catches

catching

caught

cause

caused

causes

causing

centre

center

centerist

centerists

centers

centred

centered

central

centralization

centres

centrist

centrists

certain

certainly

certainty

uncertain

uncertainties

uncertainty

chance

chanced

chances

chancing

change

changed

changes

changing

unchanged

unchangeable

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character

characteristic

characteristically

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characterized

characterization

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characterise

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characterises

characters

charge

charged

charges

charging

chief

chiefs

chiefly

child

children

childish

childhood

childlike

choose

choice

choices

chooses

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chose

chosen

church

churches

circle

circled

circles

circling

circular

city

cities

citizen

citizens

claim

claimed

claiming

claims

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classed

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classifies

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classifications

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cleared

clearer

clearest

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clearings

clearly

clearness

clears

close

closed

closely

closeness

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coal

coast

coasts

coin

coins

cold

colder

coldest

coldly

coldness

colds

college

colleges

colony

colonial

colonies

colonials

colonize

colonization

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colonist

colonists

colour

color

colored

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colorless

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commons

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companies

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completions

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completeness

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concerned

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concerns

unconcerned

condition

conditional

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consider

consideration

considerations

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considers

reconsider

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contain

contained

container

containers

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content

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contentment

contents

discontent

discontentment

continue

continuance

continued

continuity

continues

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controlled

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uncontrollable

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cost

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council

councillor

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councils

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countless

counts

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countries

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courses

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courts

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crowns

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cry

cried

cries

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current

currently

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cuts

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D

danger

dangerous

dangerously

dangers

dark

darker

darkest

darkness

date

dates

dated

dating

daughter

daughters

day

daily

daylight

days

dead

death

deaths

deal

dealer

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dealings

deals

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dear

dears

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decide

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decidedly

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decision

decisions

decisive

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declaration

declarations

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deepen

deepened

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degree

degrees

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departments

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undesirable

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destructive

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details

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indeterminate

determinate

determines

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developers

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developments

develops

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differences

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differs

differing

differently

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difficulties

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directing

direction

directions

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directors

directs

indirect

indirectly

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discoveries

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discovers

discovery

distance

distances

distant

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distinguish

distinguished

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distinguishable

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districts

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divisions

undivided

do

did

didn’t

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doesn’t

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don’t

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doctors

Dr.

dog

dogs

dogged

dollar

dollars

door

doors

indoors

outdoors

doubt

doubted

doubtful

doubting

doubtless

undoubtedly

doubts

down

downwards

draw

drawing

drawn

draws

drew

dream

dreamed

dreaming

dreams

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dreamy

dress

dressed

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drink

drinks

drinker

drinkers

drank

drunk

drinking

drive

driven

driver

drivers

drives

driveway

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drove

drop

dropped

dropping

drops

dry

dried

dries

driest

dryer

drying

dryly

dryness

due

duty

duties

E

each

ear

ears

early

earlier

earliest

earliness

earth

earthy

earthquake

earthquakes

east

eastern

easy

easier

easiest

easily

easiness

eat

ate

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effected

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effective

effectively

effectiveness

effects

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ineffectively

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inefficient

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efforts

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eggs

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eighteen

eighteenth

eighth

eighties

eightieth

eighty

eights

either

elect

elected

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election

elections

elects

electors

electoral

eleven

elevens

eleventh

else

elsewhere

empire

empires

employ

employed

employee

employees

employer

employers

employing

employment

employs

unemployed

unemployment

end

ended

ending

endless

endlessly

ends

enemy

enemies

English

enjoy

enjoyed

enjoying

enjoyment

enjoys

enjoyable

enough

enter

entered

entering

enters

entrance

entrances

entries

entry

equal

equaled

equaling

equality

equalled

equalling

equally

equals

inequality

unequal

escape

escaped

escapes

escaping

even

evenly

evening

evenings

event

events

ever

every

everybody

everyday

everyone

everything

everywhere

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examples

except

exception

exceptional

exceptions

exchange

exchanged

exchanges

exchanging

exercise

exercised

exercises

exercising

exist

existed

existence

existing

exists

nonexistent

expect

expectancy

expectation

expectations

expected

expecting

expects

expense

expenses

expensive

experience

experienced

experiences

experiencing

experiment

experimental

experimentation

experimented

experimenting

experiments

explain

explained

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explanation

explanatory

explanations

express

expressed

expresses

expressing

expression

expressions

expressive

extend

extended

extending

extends

extension

extensions

extensive

extensively

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eye

eyes

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face

faced

faces

facing

fact

facts

factual

factory

factories

fail

failed

failing

fails

failure

failures

fair

fairer

fairest

fairly

fairness

unfair

unfairly

faith

faithful

faithfully

faiths

fall

fallen

falling

falls

fell

familiar

familiarity

unfamiliar

unfamiliarity

familiarly

family

families

famous

far

farther

farthest

further

furthest

farm

farmer

farmers

farms

farming

fast

faster

fastest

fastness

father

fathers

dad

dads

father-in-law

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favor

favorite

favourite

favourable

favourably

favoured

favouring

favourites

favours

fear

feared

fearful

fearing

fears

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feel

feeling

feelings

feels

felt

fellow

fellows

few

fewer

fewest

field

fields

fight

fighter

fighters

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fights

figure

figures

fill

filled

filling

fills

find

finding

findings

finds

found

fine

finely

fineness

finer

finest

finish

finished

finishes

finishing

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fired

fires

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first

firstly

fish

fished

fishes

fishing

fisherman

fit

fitness

fits

fitted

fitter

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five

fives

fifteen

fifteenth

fifth

fifthly

fifties

fiftieth

fifty

fix

fixed

fixes

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fixable

floor

floors

flow

flowed

flows

flowing

flower

flowers

fly

flew

flown

flying

flight

flights

flies

follow

followed

follower

followers

following

follows

food

foods

for

force

forced

forces

forcing

forceful

forcefully

foreign

foreigner

foreigners

forest

forests

foresting

forested

forget

forgets

forgetting

forgot

forgotten

unforgettable

form

formation

formed

forming

forms

former

formerly

forth

fortune

fortunate

fortunately

fortunes

unfortunately

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four

fours

forties

forty

fourteen

fourteenth

fourth

fourthly

fortieth

free

freed

freedom

freedoms

freeing

freely

freer

freest

fresh

freshness

fresher

freshest

freshly

Friday

Fri

Fridays

friend

friendly

friends

friendship

friendships

from

front

full

fuller

fullest

fullness

fully

furnish

furnishes

furnished

furnishing

furniture

future

futures

G

gain

gained

gaining

gains

game

games

garden

gardener

gardeners

gardens

gas

gases

gate

gates

gather

gathered

gathering

gatherings

gathers

general

generally

generals

generalise

generalisable

generalised

generalisation

generalisations

generality

generalizations

gentle

gentleman

gentlemen

gently

get

gets

getting

got

gotten

gift

gifts

gifted

girl

girls

give

gave

given

gives

giving

glad

gladder

gladdest

gladly

gladness

glass

glasses

go

goes

going

gone

went

god

gods

goddess

gold

golden

good

goodbye

goodbyes

goodness

great

greater

greatest

greatly

greatness

green

greener

greenest

greenness

greenish

ground

grounded

grounds

grounding

group

grouped

grouping

groupings

groups

grow

grew

growing

grown

grows

growth

H

half

halves

hand

handed

handful

handfuls

handing

hands

handwriting

hang

hanged

hanging

hangs

hung

happen

happened

happening

happens

happy

happier

happiest

happily

happiness

unhappy

hard

harden

hardened

hardening

hardens

harder

hardest

hardness

hardship

hardships

hardly

have

had

hadn’t

hasn’t

has

haven

haves

having

’s

’ve

he

him

himself

his

head

headed

heading

heads

hear

heard

hearer

hearing

hears

heart

hearts

heat

heated

heating

heats

heaven

heavenly

heavens

heavy

heavier

heaviest

heavily

help

helped

helpful

helping

helpless

helplessly

helps

helper

helpers

here

high

higher

highest

highly

highness

highway

highways

hill

hills

hillside

hilly

history

historian

historic

historical

histories

hold

held

holders

holding

holds

home

homeless

homes

honour

dishonour

dishonourable

honor

honorable

honorably

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honors

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hoped

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hopelessness

hopes

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horse

horses

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hotness

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hottest

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hours

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housed

housing

houses

how

however

human

humans

hundred

hundreds

hundredth

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husbands

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me

mine

my

myself

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ideas

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illness

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importance

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importantly

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inch

inches

include

included

includes

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inclusive

inclusion

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increased

increases

increasing

increasingly

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independent

independently

independence

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industrial

industrially

industries

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influenced

influences

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influential

instead

interest

interested

interesting

interests

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introduce

introduced

introduces

introducing

introduction

introductions

introductory

iron

it

its

itself

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January

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join

jointed

joined

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joint

disjointed

joints

jointly

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joyful

joyfully

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judge

judged

judges

judging

judgment

judgments

judgement

judgements

judgemental

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June

just

justly

unjust

unjustly

justice

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keep

keepers

keeping

keeps

kept

kill

killed

killer

killers

killing

kills

kind

kindly

kindness

kinds

king

kings

kingdom

kingdoms

know

knew

knowing

knowledge

known

knows

unknown

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lack

lacked

lacking

lacks

lady

ladies

lake

lakes

land

landed

landing

lands

landlords

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languages

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larger

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last

lasted

lasting

lasts

lastly

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lately

lateness

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laughs

laughed

laughing

laughable

laughter

law

laws

lawyer

lawyers

lawful

lawfully

unlawful

lawless

lay

laid

laying

lays

lead

leaded

leader

leaders

leadership

leading

leads

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learned

learner

learners

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learns

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leaves

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left

leftist

leftists

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lengths

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less

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lets

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letter

letters

level

levelled

leveller

levelling

levels

library

librarian

librarians

libraries

lie

liar

liars

lied

lies

lying

life

lifetime

lifetimes

lifelike

lifesize

lifelong

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lifts

light

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lighten

lighter

lightest

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lightly

lightness

lights

lightweight

lit

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liked

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unlike

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dislikes

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likelier

likeliest

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unlikely

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limitation

limitations

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unlimited

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lines

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lips

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listener

listeners

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literary

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littler

littlest

live

lived

liveliest

lively

lives

living

local

locally

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long

longer

longest

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lord

lords

lordship

lordships

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losers

loses

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lost

loss

losses

love

loved

lovely

loves

loving

lovable

lover

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lower

lowered

lowest

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machine

machinery

machines

main

mainly

make

made

maker

makers

makes

making

man

mankind

men

manly

manhood

manliness

manner

manners

manufacture

manufactured

manufacturing

manufactures

manufacturers

manufacturer

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march

marched

marchers

marches

marching

mark

marked

marker

markers

marking

marks

market

marketed

marketing

markets

marry

marriage

marriages

married

marries

marrying

mass

masses

master

masters

mastered

mastering

masterful

mastery

material

materialistic

materialistically

materially

materials

matter

mattered

mattering

matters

may

maybe

mean

meaner

meanest

meaning

meaningful

meaningless

meanings

meanly

meanness

means

meant

measure

measured

measurement

measurements

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measurably

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meet

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meetings

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member

members

membership

memberships

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memories

memorise

memorised

memorises

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memorize

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memorizes

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memorials

mention

mentioned

mentioning

mentions

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merely

merest

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metals

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mid

midnight

midst

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mightn’t

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milk

milky

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milks

milking

million

millions

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minded

minding

minds

miner

miners

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mining

mines

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ministers

minute

minutes

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