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(Greek: struggle, a contest, to contend for a prize; also, to lead, set in motion, drive, conduct, guide, govern; to do, to act; by extension, pain)
(Greek: unequal; by extension: unsymmetrical, uneven; dissimilar, unlike)
(Greek: stiff, unmovable; adhesion; by extension, "bent, hooked, crooked, curved, looped")
(Greek: lower extremity of the windpipe; by extension, extremity of the heart, the great artery)
(Latin: to be dry; lacking enough water for things to grow, dry and barren; by extension, not interesting, lifeless, dull)
(Greek: deep, depth; the fauna and flora of the bottom of the sea; sea bottom; depth [by extension, this element includes lake, river, and stream bottoms])
(Latin: a storeroom, a chamber, a closet; by extension, of or pertaining to a cell, a microscopic protoplasmic mass made up of a nucleus enclosed in a semipermeable membrane)
(Greek: on the ground, low; by extension, "dwarf-like")
(Greek: kheima, winter, frost, winter weather, winter-flowing; by extension, cold, freezing)
(Latin: curl, ringlet; tuft of hair, fringe; by extension, filament, tendril)
(Greek: hidden, secret, secrets, secret writing; by extension, applied to secret code or ciphers)
(Greek > Latin: dragon; a kind of serpent; snake; a kind of fish; by extension, a festering sore)
(Greek: oak tree; by extension, "tree")
(Greek ελυτρον > Modern Latin: covering, wrapping; sheath, casing; by extension, vagina)
(Latin: to plug up or to cram, to stuff; by extension, practical joke, sham; fiasco)
(Latin: to blow, a puff of wind or air; by extension, accumulation of gas in the stomach or bowels)
(Greek: phorbe, fodder, from pherbein, to graze; by extension: fodder, food; any herb other than grass, a broadleaf herb; a weed)
(Latin: rein, bridle, a bit (as in a horses mouth); by extension, a medical term for a connecting fold of membrane in the body)
(Latin: helmet, helmet shaped, to cover with a helmet; cap; used primarily in zoology and botany with phases of sense development that seem to have been: weasel, weasel's skin or hide, leather, and then a helmet made of leather; by extension, it also means "cat, cats" in some words)
(Greek: tongue; by extension, "speech, language")
(Greek: carve, carving, engraving; to hollow out; by extension, a form of writing)
(Greek: youth, pubescence, puberty [the period during which the secondary characteristics of maturity begin to develop; by extension, a young man])
(Greek: spiral, coil; twisted, bent; spiral-shaped; a coil; by extension, "snail")
(Greek: fluid [distinct from blood] that flows through the veins of the gods; by extension, "watery part of blood or milk," used in the sense of "thin, serous or sanious fluid, especially from a wound or sore")
(Greek: equal; by extension: same, similar, alike; normally used as a prefix)
(Greek: a suffix; inflammation, burning sensation; by extension, disease associated with inflammation)
(Latin: wash, washing; bathe, bathing; by extension, clean, cleaning)
(Greek: ridge; crest, tuft; by extension, hill top)
(Latin: loin; by extension, the lower back)
(Greek: sparse, thin, rare; slack, loose; by extension, "gas, vapor")
(Greek: winding; from a winding river; by extension, curving, walking around slowly, drifting, wandering, roaming, going around aimlessly)
(Greek: apple; by extension, "cheek")
(Greek: a meadow; a pasture; an abode; a place for eating; by extension, "distribution of an acute, necrotizing ulcerative process involving mucous membranes of the mouth or genitalia")
(Greek: sell, for sale; by extension, buy, purchase, pay for, invest money into)
(Greek: wash, a washing; washtub, basin; by extension, irrigate, irrigation)
(Latin: healthy, whole; by extension: cure, heal, take care of; sound in mind and body)
(Latin: to climb; to mount; by extension, a ladder)
(Latin: tallow, suet, fat, fatty; grease; by extension, "pertaining to a suetlike secretion of the body")
(Greek: ball, round, around; globe, global; body of globular form; by extension, circular zone, circular area)
(Latin: thorn, prickle; by extension, "backbone", the spinal cord)
(Greek: covering, covered, to cover; roof; by extension, secret, secret writing, applied to a secret code, codes, or ciphers that are hidden)
(Latin: tickle, tickling; by extension, light scratching)
(Latin: love, loveliness, beauty, attractiveness, charm; by extension, "reverence; to worship")
(Latin: to beat, to strike; to drive, to force back; from verber, whip, lash, rod; by extension, to make sounds or noises or those sounds and echoes that are thrown back again or repeatedly)
(Latin: wound, wounding, woundable; from vulnus, "wound"; by extension: hurt; injure, injury; tear, gash; damage)
(Greek > Latin: formless matter; especially from Greek, gulf, chasm, abyss, the rude unformed mass; and by extension, "confusion and disorder")
(Latin: son, and by extension, "daughter; offspring" or "family member")
(Latin: insect in its grub stage; from Latin larva, "mask" and by extension, "ghost", the idea being that an insect in its grub stage is merely a ghost of its future self and bears no resemblance to its future form)
(Latin: literally tongue; and by extension, speech, language)
(Latin: fat, adipose tissue; and by extension, caul, intestines)
(Latin: feather, feathers; by extension in some situations, wing, wings)
(Latin: a literary thief; "plunderer, oppressor, kidnapper" [one who "abducts the child or slave of another"]; then by extension, to take and use the thoughts, writings, etc. of someone else and represent or claim them as one's own)
(Latin: sole of the foot; to tread down with the sole or the flat bottom or the underside of the foot; and by extension, to level the ground for sowing seeds)
(Greek: with, together with; also by extension: united; same, similar; at the same time)
(Greek: foreign, foreigner; alien; different; extraneous; strange, stranger; and by extension, guest)