-acious

(Latin: a suffix that forms adjectives; inclined to, given to, tendency to be, abounding in)


alliacious
audacious
1. Bold, daring, or fearless; especially, in challenging certain assumptions or conventions.
2. Extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless: "My father was an audacious explorer."
3. Extremely original; without restriction to prior ideas; highly inventive: "The mayoral candidate had an audacious vision of the city's bright future."
4. Recklessly bold in defiance of convention, propriety, law, etc.; insolent; brazen.
5. Lively; unrestrained; uninhibited: "The actress had an audacious interpretation of her role in the drama."
6. Etymology: Formed from Latin audac-, the stem of audax, "bold", from audere, "to dare", from avidus, "eagerness" or "greed for something".
capacious
Able to hold much; roomy, spacious, wide.
ceracious
difficacious
efficacious
Capable of producing a desirable effect; effective.
extrafoliacious
fallacious
1. Containing fundamental errors in reasoning.
2. Misleading, deceptive.
fugacious
fumacious
Smoking; hence, fond of smoking; addicted to smoking.
gracious
inveracious
linguacious
Talkative, loquaciouis.
loquacious
Extremely talkative, gabby.
Blessed is the man who having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.
—George Eliot
loquaciousness
Excessive talking; talkative; chattering, babbling.

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