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13234867327AgōnA contest (agony, antagonist)0
13234867328AllosAnother (allopathy, allegory)1
13234867329AngelosA messenger (angel, evangelist)2
13234867330AnthroposA man (misanthrope: "hates mankind", philanthropy)3
13234867331ArchoI begin, rule (Monarch, archaic, archbishop, archdeacon)4
13234867332ArithmosNumber (arithmetic)5
13234867333Aster or astronA star (astronomy, astrology, asteroid, disaster)6
13234867334AtmosVapour (atmosphere)7
13234867335AutosSelf (autocrat, autograph)8
13234867336BalloI throw (symbol, parable)9
13234867337BaptoI dip (baptism, baptist)10
13234867338BarosWeight (barometer, baritone)11
13234867339BiblosA book (Bible, bibliomania)12
13234867340BiosLife (biography, biology, amphibious)13
13234867341CheirThe hand (sugeon) (older form: chirurgeon)14
13234867342CholeBile (melancholy: "black liquid bile; moodiness", choler)15
13234867343ChrioI anoint (Christ, chrism)16
13234867344ChronosTime (chronology, chronic, chronicle, chronometer)17
13234867345DaktulosA finger (dactyl: "stressed, unstressed, unstressed", pterodactyl, date: "the fruit")18
13234867346DekaTen (decagon, decalogue, decade)19
13234867347DemosThe people (democrat, endemic, epidemic)20
13234867348Dokeo/doxa and dogmaI think/an opinion (doxology, orthodox, heterodox, dogma, dogmatic)21
13234867349DraoI do (drama, dramatic)22
13234867350DunamisPower (dynamics, dynamite)23
13234867351EidosForm (kaleidoscope, spheroid)24
13234867352EikonAn image (iconoclast: "someone who wants to breakdown icons/images; in the early church)25
13234867353ElectronAmber (electricity, electrotype)26
13234867354ErgoA work (surgeon, energy, metallurgy)27
13234867355EuWell (eucharist, euphony, evangelist)28
13234867356GamosMarriage (bigamy, monogamist, misogamy)29
13234867357GeThe earth (geography, geometry, geology)30
13234867358GennaoI produce (genesis, genealogy, hydrogen, oxygen)31
13234867359Grapho/grammaI write/a letter (graphic, grammar, telegraph, biography, diagram)32
13234867360HaimaBlood (haemorrhage, haemorrhoid)33
13234867361HaireoI take away (heresy, heretic)34
13234867362HecatonA hundred (hecatomb, hectometer)35
13234867363HeliosThe sun (heliograph, heliotype)36
13234867364HemiHalf (hemisphere)37
13234867365HierosSacred (hierarchy, hieroglyphic)38
13234867366HipposA horse (hippopotamus, hippodrome)39
13234867367HodosA way (method, period, exodus)40
13234867368HomosThe same (homeopathy, homogenous)41
13234867369HudorWater (hydraulic, hydrophobia)42
13234867370IcthusA fish (icthyology)43
13234867371IdiosOne's own (idiom, idiot, idiosyncrasy)44
13238493619IsosEqual (isochronous, isobaric: "of equal weight", isosceles)45
13238502764KalosBeautiful (caligraphy, kaleidoscope)46
13238509389KephaleThe head (hydrocephalus)47

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