| A | B |
|---|
| frang | break |
| fragile | easily broken |
| frail | to be easily broken, as in a person |
| infraction | the act of breaking a law |
| refraction | the breaking of light rays |
| string | to draw tight |
| stringent | tight schedule or intense |
| strain | to pull |
| stricture | a tight place |
| distraught | upsest/uptight |
| restrict | to limit or to pull in |
| redistrict | to draw lines again to show wher someone lives or votes |
| ten | hold |
| tender | to hold gently |
| tenant | one who pays money to "hold" a place |
| attention | the act of holding people's thoughts |
| tenet | law or something you hold to be true |
| lieutenant | person who holds the place of a high offical |
| sal | jump |
| assault | to jump and attack, physically |
| salmon | a fish that jumps upstream to reproduce |
| assail | verbally jump on someone |
| pend | hang |
| pendant | something that hangs as in jewelry, a necklace |
| pending | ready to happen, "hanging" |
| suspense | the act of hanging, unsure of what may happen |
| depend | to put your trust on/in someone or something |
| pendulum | blade or something that hangs and swings |
| tract | to draw |
| tractor | equipment to draw things behind |
| retract | to draw back |
| contract | to draw up an agreement |
| traction | draw of the pressure on a surface |
| contraction | to draw muscles |
| attract | to draw towards |
| solv | to loosen |
| dissolve | to loosen by melting |
| solvent | a liquid that will dissolve something |
| soluble | able to be dissolved |
| cresc | increase |
| crescent | increasing shape |
| crescendo | the act of increasing in sound |
| recruit | to urge to join to increase numbers |
| accrue | to gain, increase |
| vert | turn |
| convert | to turn into something else |
| subversion | the act of doing something in a secret, underhanded way |
| vertebra | the bones that enable a skelton to turn or move |
| vertigo | an illness when a person feels dizzy and like turning |
| invert | to turn inside out |
| tort | twist |
| distort | to twist in weird ways |
| contort | to twist |
| torture | to twist and hurt to get information or to punish |
| extort | to "twist" mentally or get money, criminal act |
| tortilla | a round piece of corn meal that is twisted around food |
| flu | flow |
| influx | the flow of something into an area |
| fluid | a liquie that flows |
| fluctuate | to flow at differing rates |
| fluent | to do something well |
| affluent | to be wealthy, to have "flow" of money |
| cur | run |
| current | to run at the present time, water that runs fast |
| car | a vehicle that runs |
| corridor | a hallway where people "run" |
| recur | to run over and over |
| curriculum | the course work that runs and is available to take |
| occur | to run or happen |
