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-eer a person who makes or does things (engineer, pamphleteer)
ef- same as ex- before f

em- same as en- before b, m, or p (emboss, empower)
en- 1. to cover or wrap (enrobe); 2. to cause to be or to make into
(endanger); in or into (encase)
end- same as endo- before a vowel
endo- within (endosperm, endocrine)

epi- on the outside (epidermis)
equi- equally (equiangular)
-er 1. a person having to do with or from somewhere (hatter,
writer, New Yorker); 2. forming the comparative (bigger)
-ery 1. a place for, or a place to be (eatery, winery); 2. the act of
(robbery)
-est forming the superlative (greatest, smallest)

ex- former (exwife)
exo- outside (exoskeleton)
-fy make; cause to become (liquefy, putrefy)

-gamy marriage (polygamy)
geo- of the earth (geology)
-gon having a certain number of angles (octagon)

-gram to write (diagram)
-graph something that writes, or is written (telegraph)

helio- relating to the sun (heliotropism)
hex- same as hexa- before a vowel
hexa- six (hexagon)

holo- entire, whole (holograph)
hom- same as homo- before a vowel

homo- same, equal, alike (homonym)
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