From the sentences below, can you fully trace the evolution of “Kate”s? How many words can you identify? To get you started, the 1st one is done for you:
- Cate imparts much information: communicate
- Cate is frail and gentle
- Cate believes in home life
- Cate is an eloquent pleader
- Cate kindly points the way
- Cate develops mental and physical powers!
- Cate seizes property of others
- Cate makes things difficult
- Cate never tells the exact truth
- Cate brings others into trouble
- Cate has an influence for evil
- Cate will die if deprived of air
- Cate takes leave
As always, answers can be entered below, but will remain masked a couple days to give everyone a chance, thanks
* Cate imparts much information: communicate
* Cate is frail and gentle: delicate
* Cate believes in home life: domesticate
* Cate is an eloquent pleader: pontificate/advocate
* Cate kindly points the way: indicate
* Cate develops mental and physical powers: educate
* Cate seizes property of others: confiscate
* Cate makes things difficult: obfuscate
* Cate never tells the exact truth: prevaricate/equivocate
* Cate brings others into trouble: implicate
* Cate has an influence for evil: ???
* Cate will die if deprived of air: sufficate
* Cate takes leave: vacate
Cate is frail and gentle: delicate
Cate believes in home life: domesticate
Cate is an eloquent pleader: supplicate
Cate kindly points the way: indicate
Cate develops mental and physical powers: educate (this was the best I could come up with for this one)
Cate seizes property of others: confiscate
Cate makes things difficult: complicate
Cate never tells the exact truth: obfuscate (probably the best word ever)
Cate brings others into trouble: implicate
Cate has an influence for evil: sophisticate (or maybe altercate?)
Cate will die if deprived of air: suffocate
Cate takes leave: vacate
In the process I thought up a whole mess of other “cate” words: predicate, dedicate, locate, abdicate, explicate, authenticate, intricate, syndicate, eradicate,…
I also liked this puzzle because it made me think of the Ben Folds Five song “Kate.”
Still missing 3!
* Cate imparts much information: communicate
* Cate is frail and gentle: delicate
* Cate believes in home life:?????
* Cate is an eloquent pleader: advocate
* Cate kindly points the way: indicate
* Cate develops mental and physical powers!:??????
* Cate seizes property of others: confiscate
* Cate makes things difficult: complicate
* Cate never tells the exact truth: prevaricate, equivocate, fabricate
* Cate brings others into trouble: implicate
* Cate has an influence for evil:?????
* Cate will die if deprived of air: suffocate
* Cate takes leave: vacate
My best guesses are:
communicate
delicate
domesticate
advocate
indicate
educate
confiscate
complicate
fabricate
{Cate brings others into trouble}
{Cate has an influence for evil}
suffocate
vacate
According to MerriamWebster.com there are 279 “cate” words. Many of these are obscure and only found in the pay per service unabridged dictionary. Several are just word forms of the same root word. Several are varying chemical forms of silicates. There are many “copy” words: replicate, duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate, quintuplicate, etc.
Upon my search I found to have an influence for evil to be: imprecate seems best, but close terms could be fabricate, implicate, deprecate, desiccate, intoxicate, eradicate, fornicate, .
Mental and physical powers: coeducate,
Here’s the best list IMHO:
* Cate imparts much information:
communicate
* Cate is frail and gentle:
delicate
* Cate believes in home life:
domesticate
* Cate is an eloquent pleader:
sophisticate
* Cate kindly points the way:
indicate
* Cate develops mental and physical powers:
educate
* Cate seizes property of others:
confiscate
* Cate makes things difficult:
complicate
* Cate never tells the exact truth:
prevaricate
* Cate brings others into trouble:
implicate
* Cate has an influence for evil:
imprecate
* Cate will die if deprived of air:
sufficate
* Cate takes leave:
vacate
Delicate
domesticate
Advocate
Locate
confiscate
fabricate
implicate
suffocate
vacate
supplicate, complicate, obfusticate, suffocate,