Root and Variation

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Root noun - A point or place at which something is invented or provided.

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Variation is an antonym for root.

Nearby Words: rooted, rootless, rooter, rooting, rootlet

Variation noun - A distinct treatment of something (as a story or a play).

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Root is an antonym for variation in difference topic.

Nearby Words: variety, variable, varied, variance, variant

female	female root	female variation
special	special root	special variation
common	common root	common variation
small	small root	small variation
Other adjectives: real, blue, dark, fantastic, occasional.

We Puny Earthlings do, after all, refer to our nationality as being a variation on the root word of our country's name (technically it's often the other way around, linguistically).

Source: Named After Their Planet
In many languages the word for the mathematical operation opposite to differentiation is a variation of "integral", but not in Polish, where it's been translated to a word stemming from the root of "making something whole", as "integrating" is.

Source: Get Thee to a Nunnery

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