Root words "man", "mem", "sub", "pens" and "grad"

to set free: to lend a hand in freeing someone to release from someone's hands

• manuscript
• manacles
• maneuver
• emancipate

handcuffs

• manual
• manager
• manacles
• emancipate

The root man/manu means 

• foot
• hand
• together
• to do

an order of command placed in one's hands

• manacles
• manicure
• mandate
• emancipate

a person who has the upper hand; a person who is in charge of someone or something

• manuscript
• manufacture
• manual
• manager

to handily and skillfully go around something

• manual 
• emancipate
• mandate
• maneuver

a treatment for hands and nails 

• pedicure
• manicure
• maneuver
• manufacture

to skillfully operate by hand

• manuscript
• manufacture
• manipulate
• manacles

to make by hand or by machine; to change raw material into a new product

• manufacture
• manuscript
• manicure
• manager

When mom is in a __________ mood, she does not share her thoughts readily.

• pendulum

• pensive

• appendix

• suspend