cit-, citat- +

(Latin: talk, speak, say; to put into quick motion, to excite, to provoke, to call urgently; to summon, to summon forth, to arouse, to stimulate; used in the sense of "stimulating")


excitement
1. The state of being emotionally aroused and worked up.
2. The feeling or condition of lively enjoyment or pleasant anticipation: "She was finding it difficult to control her excitement about the trip."
3. The act or process of stimulating something.
4. Something that engages people's attention or emotions in a lively and compelling way.
exciter
1. A small auxiliary generator that provides current for the field structure of a larger generator.
2. Anything that brings a system to an excited state.
exciting
1. Creating or producing excitement: "His father was reading an exciting adventure story."
2. Calling or rousing into action; producing excitement; such as, exciting events; an exciting story.
excitingly
1. In an exciting manner.
2. A reference to making a person feel excited.
excitovascular
1. Increasing the activity of the circulation.
2. Causing vascular changes.
incite
1. To stir up feelings in, or provoke action, by someone.
2. To urge on and to cause someone to act.
3. To provoke, to urge on, and to give an incentive for action.
4. Etymology: from Middle French enciter (14th century); from Latom incitare, "to put into rapid motion, to urge, to encourage, to stimulate"; from in-, "on" + citare, "to move, to excite".
incitement
1. Something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action.
2. An act of urging on, spurring on, or rousing to action.
inciting
1. Encouraging someone to do, or to feel something unpleasant or violent.
2. Causing violent or unpleasant actions.
3. Giving an incentive for action.
manic excitement
A disorder characterized by hyperactivity, talkativeness, flight of ideas, pressured speech, grandiosity, and, occasionally, grandiose delusions.
recital
1. The act of reading or reciting in a public performance.
2. A very detailed account or report of something; a narration.
3. A public performance of music or dance; especially, by a solo performer.
recitation
1. The public reading aloud of something, or reciting of something, from memory; especially, poetry.
2. Material read aloud or recited from memory in public; especially, poetry.
3. The act of listing or reporting something.
4. The oral response by a student to questions about previously taught material.
recite
1. To read something aloud or to repeat something rehearsed or memorized, either for an audience or in a class at school.
2. To give a detailed account of an occurrence or an event.
reciter
Someone who repeats from memory or who reads something out lout.
resuscitate
1. To revivify; to revive; especially, to recover or to restore from apparent death; such as, to resuscitate a drowned person or to resuscitate withered plants.
2. To revive a waning interest in something; such as, a style or project.
3. To restore consciousness, vigor, or life to someone or to something.
4. Etymology: from an earlier resuscit (about 1375), from Late Latin resuscitationem; from Latin resuscitatus, resuscitare. "to rouse again, to revive"; from re-, "again" + suscitare, "to raise, to revive"; from sub, "(up from) under" + citare, "to summon, to call".
resuscitation
1. The restoration to life or consciousness of one apparently dead, it includes such measures as artificial respiration and cardiac massage.
2. Act of reviving a person and returning him or her to consciousness.

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "talk, speak, speech; words, language; tongue, etc.": clam-; dic-; English Words: Origins and Histories; fa-; -farious; glosso-; glotto-; lalo-; linguo-; locu-; logo-; loqu-; mythico-; -ology; ora-; -phasia; -phemia; phon-; phras-; Quotes: Language,Part 1; Quotes: Language, Part 2; Quotes: Language, Part 3; serm-; tongue; voc-.


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