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121convincing — I (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Persuasive] Syn. impressive, swaying, moving, cogent; see persuasive . 2. [Believable] Syn. trustworthy, valid, reliable, credible, acceptable, reasonable, creditable, plausible, probable, likely, presumable, possible,… …
122Power — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Power >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 power power Sgm: N 1 potency potency potentiality Sgm: N 1 jiva jiva Sgm: N 1 puissance puissance might force energy &c. 171 …
123agent — [15] Latin agere, a verb of great semantic breadth (‘drive, lead, act, do’), has been a prolific source of English words. Its past participle, āctus, produced act, action, active, actor, actual, cachet, and exact, while other parts of its… …
124cachet — [17] Cachet was a Scottish borrowing of a French word which originally meant ‘seal affixed to a letter or document’. In the 19th century this developed into the figurative ‘personal stamp, distinguishing characteristic’, which, through its use in …
125squat — [13] Someone who squats is etymologically ‘forced together’ – and indeed the verb originally meant ‘squash, flatten’ in English (‘This stone shall fall on such men, and squat them all to powder’, John Wyclif, Sermons 1380). Not until the early… …
126cache — (n.) 1797, hiding place, from French Canadian trappers slang, hiding place for stores (1660s), a back formation from Fr. cacher to hide, conceal (13c., O.Fr. cachier), from V.L. *coacticare store up, collect, compress, frequentative of L.… …
127coagulate — early 15c., from L. coagulatus, pp. of coagulare to cause to curdle, from cogere to curdle, collect (see COGENT (Cf. cogent)). Earlier coagule, c.1400, from M.Fr. coaguler. Related: Coagulated; coagulating …
128cogency — 1680s, from COGENT (Cf. cogent) + CY (Cf. cy) …
