Family Reunion

Each day brings sixteen words from four families of relatives. Each family has one English word.
Pick four that you think belong together and check them.
You can make four mistakes.

Look for patterns: where Latin and Greek have p, English often has f. The families are drafted and not yet checked against the dictionaries.

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