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gen·o·cide
 genocide
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- pronunciation:
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- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Parts
part of speech: |
noun |
definition: |
the intentional attempt to exterminate all members of a certain race, nationality, or ethnic group.
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related words: |
carnage, holocaust, massacre |
adjective + (n.)genocide
accused, attempted, brutal, colonial, committed, continuing, criminal, cultural, guilty, halting, heinous, horrendous, international, ongoing, outright, racial, responsible, spiritual, systematic
verb + (n.)genocide
accuse,
advocate,
amount,
attempt,
charge,
coin,
commit,
condemn,
constitute,
convict,
declare,
define,
denounce,
depict,
equate,
flee,
halt,
ignore,
incite,
indict,
intervene,
label,
mastermind,
oppose,
plot,
practice,
precede,
prevent,
prohibit,
prosecute,
ratify,
stop,
tolerate,
trigger,
wage,
witness
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(n.)genocide
+ verb
accelerate, extinguish, inflict, justify, orchestrate, perpetrate, perpetuate, rape, reclaim, torture
noun + (n.)genocide
abortion,
act,
aftermath,
allegation,
anniversary,
attempt,
brutality,
charge,
complicit,
complicity,
conquest,
conspiracy,
definition,
famine,
horror,
incitement,
intervention,
midst,
murder,
perpetrator,
prevention,
propaganda,
prosecution,
rape,
refugee,
resolution,
slavery,
survivor,
term,
tragedy,
trial,
tribunal,
victim,
war,
widow
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derivation: |
genocidal (adj.) |
The word genocide
contains the following parts:
cis, cid1, -cide
Latin
root
that means to cut, to kill
  Example words:
bactericide, concise, decide, decision, decisive, ecocide, excise, fratricide, fungicide, genocide, germicide, herbicide, homicide, incision, incisive, incisor, infanticide, insecticide, matricide, parricide, patricide, precise, precision, regicide, suicide, tyrannicide, vermicide
gen, gener
Latin and Greek
root
that means birth, origin, race, kind
  Example words:
abiogenesis, acrogen, androgen, anthropogenesis, congenital, degenerate, disingenuous, eugenics, gender, gene, genealogy, general, generalization, generate, generation, generator, generatrix, generic, generous, genesis, genetic, genius, genocide, genteel, gentleman, gentry, genuine, hydrogen, indigenous, ingenious, ontogeny, oxygen, polygenism, progeny
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