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combustion
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    There is a danger of spontaneous combustion of these ingredients.
    combustion = burning
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    The can of tear gas sails toward us from the cops. It lands beside the patrol car. I jump off and pick up the can. Smoke whizzes out the end of it. Any second it'll combust.  (source)
    combust = start to burn
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    The mood around him was charged, combustible.  (source)
    combustible = excited
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    Such is the nature of combustion in pure oxygen.  (source)
    combustion = the act of burning
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    If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him.... Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of non-combustible data...  (source)
    combustible = burnable
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    It's the best acting performance of his life, because his heart is racing and there's so much adrenaline flooding his blood, he's afraid he'll spontaneously combust.  (source)
    combust = start to burn (figurative)
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    "Fire" meant gathering up a pile of sticks in a village that had already been gathering firewood for all the years since God was a child, picking its grounds clean of combustibles as efficiently as an animal combing itself for lice.†  (source)
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    That's copper powder combusting with oxygen!†  (source)
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    The scent of partially combusted oil suffused the air.†  (source)
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    In places where the trees still kept their leaves, they seemed to have undergone an alteration of their substance from the point at which they were touched by the sun's light, still, at this hour in the morning, almost horizontal, as it would be again, a few hours later, at the moment when, just as dusk began, it would flame up like a lamp, project afar over the leaves a warm and artificial glow, and set ablaze the few topmost boughs of a tree that would itself remain unchanged, a sombre incombustible candelabrum beneath its flaming crest.†  (source)
    incombustible = not easily burned up
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in incombustible means not and reverses the meaning of combustible. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    Soon enough the fire is burning fiercely with the sheaves of papers, as too much goes in at once, the flames nearly dying out from the smothering; but then in a combustive rush they begin leaping up and out, to lick the underside of the marble mantel.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    There seemed to be a problem with the gas lines that fed the building, for periodically the scent of uncombusted gas permeated the halls.†  (source)
    uncombusted = unburned
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncombusted means not and reverses the meaning of combusted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Mal'akh hurried now into the lab and retrieved the Pyrex jug of Bunsen-burner fuel—a viscous, highly flammable, yet noncombustible oil.†  (source)
    noncombustible = the quality of not burning easily
    standard prefix: The prefix "non-" in noncombustible means not and reverses the meaning of combustible. This is the same pattern you see in words like nonfat, nonfiction, and nonprofit.
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