Sharp and Clean Cut Roots: cis, cise

This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root cise, meaning "cut."
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  1. concise
    expressing much in few words
  2. concision
    terseness and economy in writing or speech
  3. excise
    remove by cutting
  4. imprecise
    not sharply exact or accurate
  5. incise
    make a depression in by carving or cutting
  6. incisive
    demonstrating ability to recognize or draw fine distinctions
  7. precis
    a sketchy summary of the main points of an argument
  8. precise
    sharply exact or accurate or delimited
  9. precisely
    in a sharply exact manner
  10. precision
    the quality of being exact
Created on Tue Jun 10 16:26:41 EDT 2025 (updated Tue Jun 10 16:31:58 EDT 2025)

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