Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Wordsmith Wednesday

Root Word:

laboro - Latin (v) - to work, suffer, or be hard pressed

Derivatives:

laboratory (n) - a place of focused work

laborious (adj) - involving much hard work (laboriously, laboriousness)

labored (adj) - done with great effort; strained

belabor (v) - to work to excess

collaborate (v) - to work together (collaboration, collaborator, collaborative)

elaborate (v) - to work out with care and detail (elaborateness, elaboration)

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