User:Takirul Islam

Applicant's Name : Takirul Islam

Father Name : Kamal Uddin

Mother's name : Rokeya Begum

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots

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Element From Meaning Examples

ace (cont’d) [sharp, bitter; vno

inegar] aci: aciform (needle-shaped; sharp) (forma shape)

acu:

acupressure (compression of a bleeding vessel by inserting

needles into adjacent tissue) (premere to press)

acupuncture (pungere to pierce)

acuo: acuology (the study of the use of needles for therapeutic

purposes, as in acupuncture) (logy study)

acut: acutangular (acute-angled) (angulus corner, angle)

DISGUISED ROOT:

accipiter (with pteron wing, a genus of hawks with a long tail)

aglet (the metal tip at the end of a cord or lace)

ague (from Medieval Latin febris acuta, violent or acute fever)

cute (aphetic of acute; clever; pretty or attractive, especially in

a lively, wholesome, or dainty way; artificial)

eager (feeling or showing keen desire; impatient or anxious to

do or get; ardent; SYNONYMS: 1

anxious, avid, hungry, intent,

keen; 2

enthusiastic, fervent, zealous) [do not confuse eager

with eagre, a high tidal wave in an estuary]

ear (of corn) [ear of one’s body is from Old English]

edge (SYNONYMS: border, brim, margin), edging, edgy

egg (with on; to give an edge to; to urge or incite)

eglantine (a European rose with hooked spines)

ocrea (in botany, a tubelike covering around some stems)

vinegar (Latin vinum, vine + Old English aigre, sour)

TRAILING DISGUISED ROOT COMPOUND: mediocre

(lit., middle of the peak; neither very good nor very bad; al-

so, not good enough) (oris, a peak; from acer, sharp)

FRENCH:

aiguille (a peak of rock shaped like a needle)

aiguillette (a gilt cord hung in loops hung from the shoulder in

certain military uniforms)

GRAMMAR: acute accent [a mark (´) to show the quality or

length of a vowel, as in French idée; also, primary stress, as

in type’writer]

INTERDISCIPLINARY: ACETABULUM [in medicine, the

cup-shaped socket in the hipbone that receives the head of

the thighbone; in zoology, any suction disc of flukes, leech-

es, cephalopods, etc. used to hold a host, prey, or surface; al-

so, the cavity into which an insect’s leg fits]

NOTE: Acme and acne, from akme, a point, top, are also de-

rived from the IE base of this family.

CROSS REFERENCE: amar, obel, ox, picr

ac(ea) Greek

akos

healing; medicine PREFIXED ROOT:

autacoid (a hormone; any of a group of natural biochemicals

that activate changes in the blood, nerves, etc., similar to

those caused by drugs) (autos self)

panacea (a supposed remedy or medicine for all diseases or

ills; cure-all) (pan all)

CROSS REFERENCE: cur2

, med1

, therap

acerv Latin

acervare

to heap up SIMPLE ROOT: acervate (in biology and botany, growing in

tight clusters or heaps, as irises), acervative

PREFIXED ROOT: coacervation (an aggregation of colloidal

droplets held together by electrostatic forces) (co with)

CROSS REFERENCE: cumu, sor