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These ROOT-WORDS are the Prefixes EN & EM which mean INTO & IN. Before b, m and p, EN becomes EM. That’s right! They are the lip letters, the labials, and it is easier to pronounce a m before them than a n.
1. Encamp: EN camp (en kamp’) v.
Set up camp; as, on maneuvers
2. Encourage: EN courage (en kur’ ij) v.
Put heart into one; encourage with hope, spirit
3. Endanger: EN danger (en dane’ jer) v.
Put into danger
4. Enroll: EN roll (en rol’) v.
To enter; register
5. Enslave: EN slave (en slave’) v.
Put into slavery; make a slave of
6. Entrap: EN trap (en trap’) v.
To catch in a trap
7. Envenom: EN venom (en ven’ om) v.
To poison; as, by a snake bite
8. Environ: EN viron (en vie’ ron) v.
To put a ring around; to encircle
9. Environment: EN vironment (en vie’ ron ment) n.
The life that surrounds one; as, a neighborhood
10. Embark: EN bark (em bark’) v.
Get into a train or a ship for a journey
11. Embrace: EM brace (em brase’) v.
To take into one’s arms
12. Embitter: EM bitter (em bit’ er) v.
To make bitter
13. Employ: EM ploy (em ploy’) v.
To find a use for
14. Embody: EM body (em bod’ ee) n.
To give a body to something; as, a law must embody freedom
15. Employee: EM ployee (em ploy ee’) n.
One who works for wages from an employer
16. Employer: EM ployer (em ploy’ er) n.
One who hires others to work for him for wages
17. Employable: EM ployable (em ploy’ a b’l) adj.
Able to hold a job
18. Unemployable: un EM ployable (un em ploy’ a b’l) adj.
Not able to hold a job
19. Embroider: EM broider (em broid’ er) v.
To make fancy with stitching
20. Embellish: EM bellish (em bel’ ish) v.
To decorate; to make beautiful
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