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(Latin: a suffix; from agere to set in motion, to drive, to lead; to do, to act)


abnegate
To give up or to surrender.
abrogate (AB ruh gayt")
1. To abolish or to annul by authority; to nullify, to cancel: "Congress must abrogate the new tax law."
2. To repeal, to annul, or to abolish something formally and publicly; especially, a law.
aggregate
1. Collected together from different sources and considered as a whole.
2. Describes a mixture of minerals or rock fragments that resembles rock.
3. A total considered with reference to its constituent parts; a gross amount.
alligate
1. To tie together; to unite by some tie.
2. To attach; to bind.
arrogate (AIR uh gayt")
1. To claim, to take, to appropriate, or to assume for oneself without right; as when a person arrogates certain privileges to himself: "He arrogated to himself the powers of a General. Some Presidents have arrogated the power of Congress to declare war."
2. To assign or attribute to another person without justification: "He accused the woman of arrogating to herself the power to punish people."
bifurgate
To divide (or fork) into two branches.
bionavigate
To return to a given site without the use of landmarks, as some birds to their roosts, by means of instinctual abilities of some animals.
castigate
1. To inflict severe punishment on in order to correct someone.
2. To criticize or to severely rebuke someone or someone's behavior.
3. Synonyms: chasten, chastise, objurgate, correct.
4. Etymology: from Latin castigatus past participle of castigare, "to purify, to chastise"; from castus, "pure" + agere, "to do". Used in the sense of "to make people pure by correcting or reproving them."
circumnavigate
1. To sail or to fly around something; such as, the world or an island.
2. To go around; to circumvent.
A man is trying to circumnavigate a rock formation in an effort to avoid sharks.
A man is striving to circumnavigate a stone structure in an effort to get rid of the threatening sharks.
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congregate
1. To come together in a group, or to gather people or animals into a group, crowd, or assembly.
2. To collect or to separate people or things into an assemblage; to assemble.
3. To bring into one place, or into a crowd or united body; such as, to congregate humans or animals.

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