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rootsnounpl. of root a point or place at which something is invented or providedhe insists that insecurity is the root of all jealousy cradles, fonts, fountainheads, fountains, origins, seedbeds, sources, springs, wells, wellsprings beginnings, commencements, dawns, day ones, geneses, get-goes(also git-goes), inceptions, incipiences, incipiencies, kickoffs, launches, mornings, nascences, nascencies, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholdsbaselines, first bases, ground zeros, square ones the source from which something grows or developsone would need to go back at least several hundred years to find the root of the entrenched hostility between the neighboring nations fountainheads, germs, origins, seed(or seeds), seedbeds fonts, fountains, springs, wellheads, wells, wellspringsbeginnings, births, commencements, dawns, geneses, inceptions, incipiencies, launches, mornings, onsets, outsets, starts, thresholdscreations, inaugurations, originations an immaterial thing upon which something else restsan implicit trust in the wisdom of the people is the root of democracy bases, bases, bedrocks, bottoms, cornerstones, footings, foundations, grounds, groundworks, keystones, underpinnings, warp and woofs, warps anchorages, beds, braces, bulwarks, buttresses, frameworks, infrastructures, mounts, props, shores, stays, substrata, substructures, supportsassumptions, justifications, premises(also premisses), presumptions, presuppositions, rationales, suppositions, theories, theses, warrantsbackbones, centers, cores, cornerstones, eyes, foci(also focuses), hearts, hubs, kernels, keystones, nuclei(also nucleuses), seatsessences, quintessences, souls, touchstones the central part or aspect of something under considerationat root, it's a question of the proper limits, if any, of free speech bottom lines, bull's-eyes, centerpieces, cores, cruxes(also cruces), essences, gists, hearts, kernels, keynotes, meat and potatoes, meats, nets, nubbins, nubs, nuclei(also nucleuses), piths, pivots, points, sums courses, directions, drifts, tenorsbodies, contents, substanceshypotheses, propositions, purports, subjects, themes, theses to set solidly in or as if in surrounding matterrooted the post securely in the dirt beds, embeds(also imbeds), enroots, entrenches(also intrenches), fixes, impacts, implants, ingrains(also engrains), lodges imbues, infuses, instillsbeats (into), drives (into)establishes, places, puts, settles, sticks dislodges, roots (out), uproots eliminates, eradicatesejects, expelsdetaches, disconnects, disengages, removes |