ACCEDE

PRONUNCIATION: (ak-SEED)

MEANING: verb intr.
1. To agree to a request, proposal, or demand, especially at the insistence of someone.
2. To assume a high office, such as a throne.
3. To become a party to an agreement, treaty, etc.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin ad- (to) + cedere (to yield). Earliest documented use: 1465.
________________________

ACEDE - what grows into aplant

TACCEDE - rolled down to the end of the runway prior to takeoff

ACC ODE - a poem extolling the benefits of the American College of Cardiology