There are still many poor families in Taiwan that are dependent on the government for a _____ existence.
(A) substance
(B) subsistence
(C) subsidence
(D) subsequence
Dex Shih 高三上 (2013/07/30) These ROOT-WORDS are STA, STIT, SIST & STETmeaningSTAND. The reason for these various spellings is simply that the related Latin and Greek roots have varied spellings - stare, sister, stiti, steti, status.