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Ineffective [IH N IH F EH K T IH V] Alliteration | Wikipedia.com | Dictionary.com | Google.com | Images

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Infective

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Effective

3 Steps Apart

Defective
Infect
Infected
Invective

4 Steps Apart

Affective
Effect
Effected
Effective
Effectively
Effectiveness
Elective
Inactive
Indicative
Reflective
Vindictive

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Connective
Defect
Definitive
Detective
Directive
Disinfect
Effects
Evict
Festive
Incentive
Inductive
Ineffectiveness
Infest
Infinitive
Inflict
Inject
Insect
Instinctive
Interactive
Inventive
Kinetic
Uninfected

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Addictive
Adjective
Affected
Affecting
Cognitive
Confect
Corrective
Defector
Defensive
Deflect
Directive
Effected
Effected
Effectively
Effectiveness
Emetic
Extensive
Fixative
Inactivate
Inactivity
Inattentive
Incentive
Incorrect
Indebted
Indirect
Inflected
Initiative
Injector
Inoffensive
Inquisitive
Insectivorous
Insensitive
Inspect
Intellect
Intensive
Interactive
Invent
Invest
Investing
Narrative
Negative
Neglect
Pectin
Phonetic
Predictive
Reflect
Reflected
Reflecting
Respective
Sensitive
Synthetic
Unaffected
Victim
Vignette
Vintage

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Affinity
Attentive
Collective
Confetti
Congestive
Connected
Connectivity
Convict
Convict
Deceptive
Decorative
Deflector
Dejected
Derivative
Detected
Directed
Directive
Directive
Disaffect
Disaffected
Disincentive
Distinctive
Eclectic
Effectuate
Endicott
Ephedrine
Evocative
Excessive
Executive
Fayetteville
Festival
Frenetic
Genetic
Honorific
Inclusive
Inefficient
Inequity
Inexpensive
Infantile
Infection
Infectious
Infidel
Infidelity
Infinity
Informative
Inquest
Insensitive
Inspector
Instinctively
Instructive
Intellect
Interfere
Interject
Intersect
Intersecting
Introspective
Introspective
Intrusive
Intuitive
Intuitively
Inventor
Inverted
Investor
Invigorate
Inviting
Irrespective
Kinetic
Kitchenette
Klinefelter
Objective
Offensive
Phonetics
Preventive
Primitive
Quintet
Receptive
Redemptive
Reflector
Repetitive
Seductive
Selective
Significant
Undetected
Unreceptive
Vicinity
Vindictiveness
Visiting

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Activist
Activity
Afflicted
Baryshnikov
Benedict
Bifurcated
Calvinist
Conductive
Conflict
Conflict
Conflicting
Consecutive
Defection
Defending
Defensively
Degenerative
Dendritic
Descriptive
Dextrin
Diminutive
Disconnect
Disconnected
Disinfectant
Electron
Electronic
Energetic
Expensive
Expletive
Exploitive
Exploitive
Extended
Extensively
Fermenting
Festivity
Fetishist
Fugitive
Generative
Genetics
Imperative
Imperfect
Inactivation
Incorrectly
Indecisive
Indifferent
Indifferent
Indirectly
Infertility
Infirmity
Inflection
Inoperative
Intended
Intensify
Intensifying
Intensively
Interfering
Intifada
Inventiveness
Inveterate
Invigorated
Invigorating
Inviolate
Kinesthetic
Kinetics
Lymphatic
Magnetic
Manifesto
Nativist
Negatively
Neglectful
Nonevent
Perspective
Phonetically
Predictive
Preventive
Prophetic
Protective
Redemptive
Reflecting
Reflexive
Refractive
Reinvent
Respective
Respectively
Scientific
Selectivity
Sensitive
Sensitively
Sensitivity
Skinflint
Specific
Subjective
Symphonic
Tectonic
Tentative
Uncorrected
Undefeated
Unexpected
Venality
Vindicate
Vindicated
Virginity

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Acquisitive
Activated
Activism
Affectation
Affectionate
Alphabetic
Anaesthetic
Anesthetic
Arithmetic
Attentively
Benefactor
Certificate
Chauvinistic
Collectively
Collectivist
Collectivize
Competitive
Confederate
Confederate
Congested
Consenting
Contented
Counteroffensive
Deceptively
Defendant
Defensiveness
Deflection
Deliberative
Deliberative
Descendants
Destructive
Determinative
Differently
Difficulty
Disinfection
Distinctively
Distinctiveness
Divestiture
Eccentric
Econometric
Electrify
Electrifying
Electronics
Encrusted
Enveloping
Epileptic
Equivalent
Equivocate
Excessively
Expansive
Expressive
Extrinsic
Facultative
Fetishism
Figurative
Genetically
Identikit
Imaginative
Incivility
Inclement
Indefinite
Ineffectual
Inefficiently
Infatuated
Infestation
Infiltrate
Inflexibility
Infliction
Informatics
Infrequent
Inspectorate
Intensified
Interconnect
Interconnected
Interferon
Interferon
Interpretive
Intervening
Introspect
Intrusiveness
Invalidate
Invalidated
Invariant
Investigative
Investiture
Investment
Invitation
Magnetics
Mechanistic
Nativism
Negativism
Negativity
Objectively
Objectivity
Offensively
Phenotypic
Phlegmatic
Photogenic
Polyphonic
Polytechnic
Pontificate
Preventive
Prospective
Quantitative
Recuperative
Reflection
Reflexivity
Restiveness
Restrictive
Retroactive
Schizophrenic
Selectively
Significance
Significant
Significantly
Sycophantic
Tectonics
Telephonic
Unattractive
Unauthentic
Uncollected
Unconnected
Unforgiving
Unimpressive
Uninformative
Uninvited
Uninviting
Ventilated
Vindicator