rog-, roga-, -rogate, -rogation, -rogatory +

(Latin: ask, inquiry, request, beg; propose)


abrogate (AB ruh gayt")
1. To abolish or to annul by authority; to nullify, to cancel: "Congress must abrogate the new tax law."
2. To repeal, to annul, or to abolish something formally and publicly; especially, a law.
abrogation
1. An official or legal cancellation.
2. To formally end a law, agreement, or custom.
3. A repeal of authority of a legislative power.
arrogance
1. The state or quality of being arrogant; overbearing pride.
2. An offensive display of superiority or self-importance.
arrogancy
An attitude of superiority manifested in an overbearing manner or with presumptuous claims or assumptions.
arrogant
1. Feeling or showing self-importance and contempt, or disregard, for others.
2. Having or displaying a sense of overbearing self-worth or self-importance.
arrogantly
A reference to being marked by, or arising from, a feeling or assumption of one's superiority toward others.
arrogate (AIR uh gayt")
1. To claim, to take, to appropriate, or to assume for oneself without right; as when a person arrogates certain privileges to himself: "He arrogated to himself the powers of a General. Some Presidents have arrogated the power of Congress to declare war."
2. To assign or attribute to another person without justification: "He accused the woman of arrogating to herself the power to punish people."
arrogation
1. To claim, or to seize, without justification.
2. To unjustly assume rights, or privileges, to something of which someone does not have rights for or privileges to.
derogate (DER uh gayt")
1. To take away; to detract; for example, to derogate a person’s authority is to undermine it, and to derogate someone’s rights is to restrict them: "The queen felt that summoning a parliament would derogate from her royal authority."
2. To stray from a standard or expectation; to deviate: "He committed an intellectual error that will derogate from his reputation as a scholar."
derogation
1. A partial repeal, or abolition, of a law.
2. A deviation from a rule or law; especially, one which is specifically provided for.
3. An exemption from a law or ruling given to a state.
4. The act of belittling, or criticizing, someomne or something.
derogative
1. Tending to derogate or to be detractive.
2. Disparaging; derogatory.
derogatively
1. Disparaging, tending, or intending to be, belittling.
2. Pertaining to derogation; that which derogates (makes something seem inferior or less significant).
derogatory
1. An expression of criticism or a low opinion.
2. Tending to detract or to diminish.
3. Tending to lessen the merit or reputation of a person or thing.
interrobang, interrabang
A rarely used, nonstandard English-language punctuation mark (‽) intended to combine the functions of a question mark and an exclamation point.

The "bang" in interrobang is a printer's slang term for an exclamation point.

Interrobang symbol.

The typographical character resembles those marks superimposed one over the other. In informal writing, the same effect is achieved by placing the exclamation point after or before the question mark, e.g. "What?!" or "What!?".

A sentence ending with an interrobang either asks a question in an excited manner or expresses excitement or disbelief in the form of a question: "You forgot to put gas in the car?!"

interrogate
1, To question someone thoroughly, often in an aggressive or threatening manner and especially as part of a formal investigation; such as, in a police station or courtroom.
2. To transmit a request to a computer program, or device, for information; such as, to a printer for the status of a print job or to a database for specific data.

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