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Roots of PLIC/PLEX, FAC/FIC and COGN/NOT 1. _____ Accomplice 2. _____ Diagnosis 3. _____ Facade 4. _____ Implicate 5. _____ Noticeable 6. _____ Notorious 7. _____ Personification 8. _____ Perplexed 9. _____ Prognosticate 10. _____ Replica 11. _____ Suffice 12. _____ Superficial

Match the twelve definitions below to the vocabulary words on the left a. - Attribution of a human nature or character to inanimate objects or abstract notions b. - Widely and unfavorably known; famous in a negative manner c. - A person who knowingly helps another person in a crime or wrongdoing d. - Being at, on or near the surface; shallow e. - To show to be involved, usually in an incriminating manner or way f. - To forecast from present signs or indications; to predict g. - An analysis of the nature of a problem or situation; an answer or solution h. - To be enough or adequate, as for needs or purposes; to satisfy i. - Attracting attention; capable of being noteworthy j. - A superficial appearance or illusion; the front of a Building k. - To cause to be puzzled or bewildered over what is not understood or certain l. - Any close copy or reproduction of a work of art

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