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Here's a quiz for all you etymology buffs. Can you pick the words from the following list that come from the same Latin root?
A. redaction B. prodigal C. agent D. essay
E. navigate F. ambiguous
If you guessed all of them, you are right. Now, for bonus points, name the Latin root that they all have in common. If you knew that it is the verb agere, meaning to "to drive, lead, act, or do," you get an A+. Redaction is from the Latin verb redigere ("to bring back" or "to reduce"), which was formed by adding the prefix red- (meaning "back") to agere. Some other agere offspring include act, agenda, cogent, litigate, chasten, agile, and transact.
Examples of redaction in a Sentence
Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
Some have speculated OpenAI mentioned Meta as its biggest competitor due to the short size of the redaction.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2025
The law limits redactions to only those meant to protect someone’s reasonable expectation of privacy.
—Sierra Lopez, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Deploy enterprise-grade AI tools with SSO, audit logs and zero data retention (no training on your data), and route usage through an AI gateway that enforces redaction, allowlists and logging.
—Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
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“Redaction.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/redaction. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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