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

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So our position on this, Jake, is that when the Afghan leaders take steps to improve governance and root out corruption, then the President will say kind words.

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

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In other words, Relay picked a market where customers were bound to root for its success.

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So what were the lessons of the EU's emergency summit in Brussels which was to begin a 'root and branch examination' of relations with Russia, to use UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's words?

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