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An Elt Glossary: Word families
A word family is a group of words all derived from the same root word. For example : a) sad, sadness, sadden, sadly b) origin, originate, original, originally c) dictate, dictation, dictator, dictatorial, dictatorship Word families are thus one type of lexical set.