Yet the words fiction and figure come from the same Latin root.

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Umpteen words combine a Latin root with the Greek ending -ist.

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Brithenig is an answer to the question of what English might have sounded like as a Romance language, if vulgar Latin had taken root on the British Isles.

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In addition, unequal access to schooling lies at the root of Latin America's pervasive social inequality.

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Many Latin American countries are trying to root out corruption.

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The root of the word duty is the Latin verb "debere" - "to owe", or "to have to".

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Lastly, the third challenge is to pose strict limits on the processes of commodification of the environment which are at the root of the ecological damage that affects Latin America today.

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