Word Root: acious

full of
From Latin: acious
Sample words for the root acious: gracious, spacious, vivacious, voracious, rapacious, audacious, tenacious, capacious, fallacious, loquacious, sagacious, inefficacious, mendacious, perspicacious, pertinacious, salacious. Each word has meanings and examples. Click their buttons to get sentences selected from classic works and modern media.

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 Words of acious
1 audacious   Speak  
a. fearlessly, often recklessly daring; bold
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2 capacious   Speak  
a. capable of containing a large quantity; spacious or roomy
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3 fallacious   Speak  
a. false; tending to mislead; deceptive
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4 gracious   Speak  
a. beneficent; merciful; disposed to show kindness or favor
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5 inefficacious   Speak  
a. not effective; unable to produce the desired result
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6 loquacious   Speak  
a. talkative; given to continual talking; chattering
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7 mendacious   Speak  
a. lying; habitually dishonest; speaking falsely
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8 perspicacious   Speak  
a. having keen insight; mentally perceptive; astute
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9 pertinacious   Speak  
a. stubbornly or perversely persistent; unyielding; obstinate
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10 rapacious   Speak  
a. excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
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11 sagacious   Speak  
a. perceptive; shrewd; having insight
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12 salacious   Speak  
a. lustful; suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
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13 spacious   Speak  
a. wide, generous, or large in area or extent; sizable
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14 tenacious   Speak  
a. sticking together; stubbornly unyielding; holding together firmly
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15 vivacious   Speak  
a. animated; lively; vigorous and active
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16 voracious   Speak  
a. ravenous; excessively greedy and grasping; devouring or craving food in great quantities
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