cit-, citat-

1. Pertaining to an interesting activity that is unpredictable.
2. A reference to making a person have a strong feeling or enthusiasm for something.

1. Increasing the activity of the circulation.
2. A reference to that which causes vascular changes.

1. To stir up feelings in someone or to provoke some kind of action: During the demonstration, Mark and Mike were inciting a riot in their neighborhood, so they were arrested and charged with criminal misconduct.

The news incited widespread fear and and hatred between the two countries over the killing of the boys.

2. To urge on and to cause someone to act in an angry, harmful, or violent way: The injured victim said he didn't do anything to incite the attacker.

The two groups of rival gang members were obviously incited by their leaders to attack each other.

3. Etymology: from Middle French enciter (14th century); from Latin incitare, "to put into rapid motion, to urge, to encourage, to stimulate"; from in-, "on" + citare, "to move, to excite". © ALL rights are reserved.
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1. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring someone or people to action.
2. An act of urging on, spurring on, or rousing to action: "They were charged by the police with incitement to violence."

1. Someone who causes others to do, or to feel something unpleasant or violent.
2. An instigator or provoker who causes violent or unpleasant actions to take place.

A disorder characterized by hyperactivity, talkativeness, flight of ideas, pressured speech, grandiosity, and, occasionally, grandiose delusions.

1. The act of reading or reciting in a public performance.
2. A very detailed account or report of something; a narration.
3. A public performance of music or dance; especially, by a solo performer.

1. The public reading aloud of something, or reciting of something, from memory; especially, poetry.
2. Material read aloud or recited from memory in public; especially, poetry.
3. The act of listing or reporting something.
4. The oral response by a student to questions about previously taught material.

1. To read something aloud or to repeat something rehearsed or memorized, either for an audience or in a class at school.
2. To give a detailed account of an occurrence or an event.

Someone who repeats from memory or who reads something out lout.

1. To revive or to restore consciousness; especially, to recover someone from an apparent death: Greg was able to resuscitate the drowned person so he could breath and become conscious again.

Shelby resuscitated the withered plants on her balcony with water and the leaves regained their natural appearance by the next day.
2. To revive a lack of interest in something: Marilyn resuscitated the members of the project so they would work in harmony and strive to complete the objectives given to them by their executive.
3. Etymology: from an earlier resuscit (about 1375), from Late Latin resuscitationem; from Latin resuscitatus, resuscitare. "to rouse again, to revive"; from re-, "again" + suscitare, "to raise, to revive"; from sub, "(up from) under" + citare, "to summon, to call".

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1. The restoration to life or consciousness of one apparently dead, it includes such measures as artificial respiration and cardiac massage.
2. Act of reviving a person and returning him or her to consciousness.

1. A breathing apparatus used for resuscitation by forcing oxygen into the lungs of a person who has undergone asphyxia or arrest of respiration.
2. Something that resuscitates, as an apparatus that forces oxygen, or a mixture of oxygen, and carbon dioxide into the lungs of a person who has undergone partial asphyxiation.

1. To try to get something by making insistent requests or pleas.
2. To plead with or to petition a person or group for something.
3. To attempt to draw someone into participating in illegal or immoral acts.

1. The act of enticing a person to do something wrong or immoral.
2. Request for a sum of money.
3. An entreaty (earnest or urgent request) addressed to someone of superior status.