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Name That Phile

In "The Extreme Philes", we learned that "extremophiles" are creatures that like extreme environments. The suffix "phile" means "liking". There are lots of words out there that end in "phile." See if you can figure out what some of these "philes" like by looking at the roots of the words.

 

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