Word Root: ize

1 aggrandize     

v. increase the scope of; extend; intensify; make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation

2 antagonize     

v. provoke the hostility of; act in opposition to

3 apologize     

v. beg or pardon

4 authorize     

v. empower; give permission for

5 bowdlerize     

v. edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly

6 categorize     

v. classify; put people or things into groups with the same features

7 characterize     

v. distinguish; be characteristic of; be a distinctive trait or mark of

8 colonize     

v. migrate to and settle in; plant

9 commercialize     

v. make commercial; apply methods of business for profit

10 criticize     

v. find fault with; express criticism of; point out real or perceived flaws

11 crystallize     

v. assume crystalline form; cause to take on a definite and clear shape

12 demagnetize     

v. make nonmagnetic; take away the magnetic properties; erase

13 demobilize     

v. retire from military service

14 demoralize     

v. corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; lower someone's spirits; make downhearted; confuse or put into disorder

15 disorganize     

v. disarrange; disorder; destroy the organization; make less organized

16 dramatize     

v. represent something in a dramatic manner; add details to

17 economize     

v. save money or resource; cut back; be thrifty

18 emphasize     

v. stress; underscore; utter or pronounce with a particular stress of voice

19 energize     

v. give energy to; make forceful and active; supply with an electric current

20 fertilize     

v. enrich; make fertile; make fruitful or productive

21 fraternize     

v. associate with others in a brotherly or  friendly  way

22 galvanize     

v. stimulate by shock; stir up; spur to action

23 generalize     

v. reach a conclusion; become systemic and spread throughout the body

24 harmonize     

v. correspond; sing or play in harmony; go together

25 homogenize     

v. equalize; become similar, as by mixing

26 hypothesize     

v. speculate; suppose; believe especially on uncertain or tentative grounds

27 immobilize     

v. stabilize; cause to be unable to move

28 jeopardize     

v. endanger; imperil; put at risk

29 legalize     

v. make legal; allow something by law

30 lionize     

v. look on or treat a person as a celebrity; visit famous places in order to revere them

31 magnetize     

v. make magnetic; attract strongly, as if with a magnet

32 materialize     

v. come into being; become reality

33 memorize     

v. learn something to remember it exactly; commit to memory; learn by heart

34 mesmerize     

v. hypnotize; attract strongly, as if with a magnet; bring into a state of mesmeric sleep

35 minimize     

v. diminish; belittle; make small or insignificant

36 mobilize     

v. assemble, prepare, or put into operation for or as if for war; make mobile or capable of movement

37 monopolize     

v. dominate; occupy; have and control fully and exclusively

38 neutralize     

v. make neutral and thus inoffensive

39 organize     

v. make arrangements for something to happen according to a particular system

40 ostracize     

v. exclude from community or group; banish by popular vote

41 overemphasize     

v. place special or excessive emphasis on

42 patronize     

v. act as a patron to; support or sponsor

43 plagiarize     

v. steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own

44 polarize     

v. split into opposite extremes or camps

45 proselytize     

v. induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith

46 publicize     

v. broadcast; announce; make public

47 pulverize     

v. pound, crush, or grind to powder or dust

48 rationalize     

v. think in logical way; offer an excuse

49 recognize     

v. perceive the identity of; admit with a formal acknowledgment

50 reorganize     

v. organize anew, as after a setback

51 revolutionize     

v. completely change; dramatically change

52 rhapsodize     

v. speak or write in an exaggeratedly enthusiastic manner

53 satirize     

v. make object of satire; attack with satire; censure with keenness or severe sarcasm.

54 scrutinize     

v. examine closely and critically

55 seize     

v. take hold of; take or capture by force

56 sentimentalize     

v. look at with sentimentality or turn into an object of sentiment

57 socialize     

v. take part in social activities; interact with others

58 specialize     

v. study or work on a particular subject or skill more than any others; particularize

59 stabilize     

v. become stable or more stable

60 standardize     

v. normalize; cause to conform to a standard

61 sterilize     

v. make sterile or unproductive; impoverish, as land; exhaust of fertility.

62 stigmatize     

v. accuse; condemn; mark as wicked

63 subsidize     

v. support through finance; fund

64 summarize     

v. give a brief statement of the main points of something

65 symbolize     

v. represent; signify; stand for

66 synchronize     

v. happen at the same time; arrange or represent events so that they co-occur

67 synthesize     

v. integrate; compose; combine to form a new, complex product

68 systematize     

v. arrange according to a system

69 tantalize     

v. tease; torture with disappointment; bait someone by showing something desirable but leaving them unsatisfied

70 temporize     

v. act evasively in order to gain time, avoid an argument, or postpone a decision

71 urbanize     

v. make more industrial or city-like

72 utilize     

v. put into service; take advantage of

73 vaporize     

v. turn into vapor, steam, gas, or fog; decrease rapidly and disappear

74 verbalize     

v. express in speech;  speak or use words to express

75 visualize     

v. make visual, or visible; see in fancy; form a mental image of