| Flashcards: Latin Derivatives |
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enervate
to weaken, deprive of vigor
Some Ph.D. candidates, having breezed through the comprehensive written and oral exams, find writing a dissertation to be stressful and enervating. Those who never finish are called unofficially A.B.D.'s (all but dissertation).
Related English words: enervation, enervative, enervator
Latin root words: enervo, enervare, enervavi, enervatus - to weaken; enervis, enerve - powerless
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