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A gray whale performs a pole dance.
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-poli/o (word root)-Gray and pole to remind you of word part
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King Arthur and his knights sit at the round table eating elbow macaroni.
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-arthr (word root)-King Arthur is the most famous arthr we know and elbow is to help you remember joints
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Abby Normal's arrow missed. Her injured brother cried, Oh, sis!
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-osis (suffix)-Abby Normal reminds you of the definition, while the brother's exclamation recalls the term
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A fish in a tank eats algae from the glass- with each bite, the algae screams in pain.
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-algia (suffix)-The word algae stands in for algia and the screaming of the algae reminds you that pain is involved
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A coal miner suffers from constipation.
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-col (word root)-The word coal to help you recall col while the coal miner's problem is to signify the colon
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A caffeinated child is increasingly wild.
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-hyper (prefix)-Hyperactive child to go with hyper prefix and increasing is used to recall the definition of hyper
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You lift a pirate's eyepatch. Your eye is swollen, you tell him. He nods. Aye, 'tis.
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-itis (suffix)-The swollen eye reminds you of inflammation and the pun helps you recall the suffix itis
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A rhinoceros has a human nose.
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-rhin/o (word root)-Rhino helps you remember this root and nose is mentioned to help you remember the meaning of the root word
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A salamander sings opera into a mushroom microphone.
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-myc (word root)-Mushroom microphone has 2 purposes because mic helps you remember the word root myc and mushroom helps you remember it deals with fungus
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A teary-eyed artist is painting a huge red heart fed by purple arteries.
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-arteri/o (word root)-Using the syllable art and tears to signify the syllable ter and he is painting a giant heart so it makes you think of arteries