-ate (to do)

(Latin: a suffix; to do, to make, to cause, or to act upon; to do something with)

chalybeate

chelate

chlorate

Any salt of chloric acid.

chromate

collegiate

compassionate

1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic, kindhearted, pitying.
2. Affected with, characterized by, or expressing compassion; pitiful, sympathetic.

compensate

1. To make payment to; to make amends for; fore example, to pay compensation for work that has been done.
2. To adjust, to make up for, to do, or to give something to someone in return for services or for the use of something.
3. To counterbalance; to offset; to be equivalent to: "She compensated her lack of beauty with great personal charm and intelligence."
4. Etymology: from Latin compensatus, formed from the verb compensare, "to weigh one thing (against another)"; therefore, "to counterbalance"; from com-, "with" + pensare, a form of pendere, "to weigh".

concentrate

confederate

consulate

The political office or period of office of a consul, or the jurisdiction of a consul.

cyclamate

delicate

desolater, desolator

Someone who or that which makes desolate.

detoxicate

disloyally

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