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facilitate (verb), facilitates; facilitated; facilitating
To make an action or a process easy, or easier, to accomplish: Bruce was in the kitchen while his mother was washing the dishes and offered to facilitate her work by helping her.
To render less difficult or to make easy.
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To assist or to facilitate an action.
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This entry is located in the following unit: fac-, facil-, fact-, feas-, -feat, -fect, -feit, -facient, -faction, -fic-, -fy, -ficate, -fication (page 11)
facilitate, felicitate
facilitate (fuh SIL i tayt") (verb)
To make easy or easier: Winning millions in the lottery may facilitate entering the world of high-class society.
felicitate (fi LIS i tayt") (verb)
1. To wish joy or happiness to: The parents of the bride wanted to felicitate the newly wedded couple before they left for their honeymoon.
2. To congratulate: Mr. Jones did indeed felicitate the student, a neighbor, for his graduation from college with a check and a written note in an envelope.

Linwood thinks that if he calls his friends instead of writing to them, it will facilitate his ability to felicitate them for their new baby.

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