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For each of the following, find a word ending in ‘ *cate* ’

1. Suspend a student.
2. Cut the end of.
3. Make unclear.
4. Very detailed.
5. Highly sensitive.
6. Make a copy of.
7. Renounce throne.
8. Make completely dry.
9. Appease.

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1. Rusticate

2. Truncate

3. Obfuscate

4. Intricate

5. Delicate

6. Duplicate

7. Abdicate

8. Desiccate

9. Placate

Explanation:

"-cate" is a suffix and has no etymology and the suffix is just part of other words.

  1. Rusticate is a “Verb”, which means to suspend from school or university.
  2. Truncate is a “Verb”, which means “to shorten something by cutting off or removing a part or to make shorter”.
  3. Obfuscate is a "Verb", which means to make something difficult to understand.
  4. Intricate is a "Verb", which means “to involve”.
  5. Delicate is an "Adjective", which means frail, fragile, sensitive.
  6. Duplicate is an "Adjective and/or Noun", which means something that is same as something else .
  7. Abdicate is "Verb", which means to renounce formally .
  8. Desiccate is a "Verb", which means to preserve by drying .
  9. Placate is a "Verb", which means to calm someone down.