[{"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, its English distribution paralleling that of Latin. The form originated as a suffix added toa-stem verbs to form adjectives (separate). The resulting form could also be used independently as a noun (advocate) and came to be used as a stem on which a verb could be formed (separate; advocate; agitate). In English the use as a verbal suffix has been extended to stems of non-Latin origin:calibrate; acierate."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a specialization of -ate1 ,used to indicate a salt of an acid ending in-ic, added to a form of the stem of the element or group:nitrate; sulfate."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a suffix occurring originally in nouns borrowed from Latin, and in English coinages from Latin bases, that denote offices or functions (consulate; triumvirate; pontificate), as well as institutions or collective bodies (electorate; senate); sometimes extended to denote a person who exercises such a function (magistrate; potentate), an associated place (consulate), or a period of or rule (protectorate). Joined to stems of any origin,ate3signifies the office, term of , or territory of a ruler or official (caliphate; khanate; shogunate)."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb", "List Items": ["simple past tense of eat ."]}, {"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["an Greek goddess personifying the fatal blindness or recklessness that produces crime and the divine punishment that follows it."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["equipment that makes a series of tests automatically."]}]