audacity
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
aud
A Word with Latin Root, Prefix or Suffix
audacity
the quality or state of being audacious (adventurous; intrepidly or fearlessly daring)
大胆, 厚颜
Dissection of audacity
audacity = aud (=avid, dare) + -acity (quality; or tendency);
audacity = the quality or state of being daring or being bold
Now Repeat my Dissection
audacity = the quality or state of being daring or being bold
Important roots for this word:
-acity
aud
Note: You may sometimes find that a vowel such as o is often inserted between two roots, as o inserted between phon and graph in phonograph = phon + o + graph, the reason is for easy pronounciation. Another example is archaeology = archae + o + logy
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