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