Etymological root

facere

Latin

# facere

**Type:** Etymological root
**Language:** Latin
**Slug:** facere

## Words From This Root
- defective - having a fault or imperfection; not working properly
- insignificant - too small or unimportant to be worth consideration
- counterfeit - made in imitation to deceive; a forgery
- efficacious - effective in producing a desired result
- quantifier - a word or symbol expressing quantity, such as 'all' or 'some'
- beneficent - doing or producing good; generous and kindly
- rectify - to put right; to correct something wrong
- effectual - producing the intended result; effective
- horrific - causing horror; shockingly dreadful
- ineffectual - failing to produce the intended effect; lacking force
- unification - the process of being united into a single whole
- benefactor - a person who gives help or financial support
- effectivity - the quality of being effective; the date a thing takes effect
- electrify - to charge with electricity; to thrill or excite intensely
- mortification - a feeling of deep humiliation; also the death of tissue
- munificent - larger or more generous than is usual or necessary
- affecter - one who puts on a pretense or affects a manner
- affectionateness - the quality of being warmly fond or loving
- affective - relating to moods, feelings, and emotions
- amplificatory - serving to enlarge, expand, or amplify
- defection - the act of abandoning a cause, party, or country
- defector - a person who abandons a country, cause, or party for an opposing one
- effectuate - to cause to happen; to bring about or accomplish
- efficacy - the ability to produce a desired or intended result
- exemplification - the act of illustrating or showing something by example
- facile - achieved with little effort, often superficially so
- factorial - the product of all positive integers up to a given number
- factual - based on or concerned with facts; actually true
- facultative - optional rather than obligatory; capable of but not bound to occur
- malfeasance - wrongdoing, especially misconduct by a public official
- nullify - to make legally void or cancel out the effect of
- pacifist - a person who opposes war and violence on principle
- pacify - to calm or soothe; to quell unrest or anger
- vivification - the act of giving life or vitality to something; animation
- artificer - a skilled craftsman or inventor of ingenious devices
- clarification - the act of making something clearer or easier to understand
- discomfit - to make uneasy or embarrassed; to thwart or defeat
- edificator - archaic term for a builder, or one who edifies morally
- edifier - a person or thing that instructs or improves morally or intellectually
- effector - an organ, cell, or molecule that produces a response to a stimulus
- exemplificator - one who exemplifies or illustrates something by example
- fashionably - in a manner conforming to current fashion
- identifier - a name or symbol used to mark or distinguish something uniquely
- inefficacious - failing to produce the intended effect; ineffective
- infective - capable of causing infection; communicating disease
- mythify - to make into or treat as a myth; to mythologize
- perfection - the state of being flawless or complete
- prettify - to make superficially attractive
- proficiency - a high degree of skill or competence
- proficient - competent or skilled in doing something
- sufficiency - an adequate amount; the condition of being enough
- affectable - capable of being affected or influenced
- affectedness - artificiality of manner; pretentious behavior meant to impress
- argufy - to argue or wrangle, especially fussily or to little purpose
- artefact - an object made by a human, especially one of historical interest
- artificiality - the quality of being contrived or not natural
- benefaction - a charitable gift or act of doing good
- beneficence - the quality of being kind, generous, or charitable
- codify - to arrange laws or rules into a systematic code
- confect - to put together or prepare, especially a sweet; a confection
- defeature - defeat or undoing; disfigurement (archaic)
- despecification - the removal or loss of specific detail or specification
- difficultness - the quality of being difficult or troublesome
- disaffect - to make discontented or disloyal
- disinfection - the process of cleaning something to destroy bacteria and germs
- diversified - varied; spread across different kinds to reduce risk
- edificatory - tending to instruct or improve morally (rare)
- edificial - of or relating to a building or edifice (rare)
- edifyingly - in a manner that instructs or improves morally
- edifyingness - the quality of being morally instructive or uplifting
- effectuation - the act of bringing something about or putting it into effect
- efficaciously - in a way that produces the intended result effectively
- facsimilize - to make an exact copy or reproduction of something
- factional - relating to a self-interested faction within a larger group
- falsify - to alter or misrepresent something so as to deceive
- featureless - lacking distinct features; flat and monotonous
- fetish - an object of irrational devotion, or an item believed to hold magic power
- gratify - to give pleasure or satisfaction to
- inefficient - not achieving maximum productivity; wasteful of time or resources
- insignificance - the quality of being unimportant or trivial
- magnification - the act of enlarging something in appearance or the degree of enlargement
- maleficiate - (archaic) to bewitch or harm by sorcery
- manufactory - a factory; an archaic term for a place where goods are made
- minify - to make smaller or reduce in size or importance
- misidentify - to identify wrongly or incorrectly
- modifiable - capable of being changed or altered
- modifier - a word or element that qualifies or limits the meaning of another
- morbific - causing or producing disease
- olfaction - the sense or action of smelling
- pacification - the act of bringing peace or suppressing hostility
- pacifism - the belief that disputes should be settled without violence or war
- prequalification - the process of determining eligibility in advance
- purification - the process of removing impurities or contaminants
- qualifier - a word or thing that limits or modifies the meaning of another
- refection - refreshment by food and drink; a light meal
- remanufacture - to rebuild a used product to like-new condition
- soporific - tending to induce sleep or drowsiness
- specifiable - able to be specified, stated, or precisely identified
- stupefaction - a state of being stunned into dazed astonishment
- stupefy - to make someone unable to think clearly; to astonish greatly
- verification - the process of establishing the truth or accuracy of something

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