Slaying It: Cide, Cise

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This vocabulary list features words with the Latin roots cide and cise, meaning "cut, kill."
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  1. herbicide
    a chemical agent that destroys plants or inhibits growth
  2. homicide
    the killing of a human being by another human being
  3. insecticide
    a chemical used to kill bugs
  4. matricide
    the murder of one's own mother
  5. pesticide
    a chemical used to kill destructive insects or animals
  6. regicide
    the act of killing a king
  7. suicide
    the act of killing yourself
  8. concise
    expressing much in few words
  9. concision
    terseness and economy in writing or speech
  10. excise
    remove by cutting
  11. incise
    make a depression in by carving or cutting
  12. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  13. precise
    sharply exact or accurate or delimited
  14. precisely
    in a sharply exact manner
  15. precision
    the quality of being exact
  16. imprecise
    not sharply exact or accurate
Created on Mon Mar 03 13:43:11 EST 2025 (updated Tue Jun 10 16:19:25 EDT 2025)

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