Definition & Meaning: Ex Root Word
The root word Ex means ‘out’. This again is a root word having its origin from a Latin word.
For instance, excavate means to dig out.
Exhale is to breathe out and when you extract something, you mean to pull out.
Words Based on the Ex Root Word
Following are the words based on the Root Word Ex :
1. Exit: Go ‘out’
2. Extend: Stretch ‘out’
3. Exceed: Go ‘out’
4. Exclude: Shut ‘out’
5. Expunge: You expunge something you completely remove it or do away with it.
6. Excoriate: if you excoriate someone you express very strong disapproval of something he or she did.
7. Expedite: When you expedite an action or process you make it happen more quickly.
8. Exclusion: Exclusion is the act of shutting someone out of a group or an activity.
9. Execrate: When you execrate someone you curse him to show your intense dislike or hatred of him.
10. Exhalt: When you exalt another person you either praise him highly or promote him to a higher position in an organization
11. Exponent: An exponent of a particular idea or cause is one who supports or defends it.
12. Extemporaneous : Something that is extemporaneous such as an action
13. Expirate: If you extirpate something you completely destroy it because it is unpleasant or unwanted.
14. Exonerate: When someone is exonerated from guilt, a task, or a responsiExlity, he or she is set free or excused from it.
15. Excise: When you excise something you remove it by cutting it out.
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