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This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.

If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Profound Word™, otherwise it is a Workaday Word™.

Use the following examples to find the rule.

Profound Word™ Workaday Word™
ABLATE DEFLATE
LOCATE EXTRICATE
DATE FORNICATE
NOMINATE PRELATE
INFINITE FINITE
IMPERATE PROSTRATE
INDICATE GESTURE

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Profound Word™,Workaday Word™
ABLATE,DEFLATE
LOCATE,EXTRICATE
DATE,FORNICATE
NOMINATE,PRELATE
INFINITE,FINITE
IMPERATE,PROSTRATE
INDICATE,GESTURE
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  • $\begingroup$ It is good that you cut in half the length of your puzzle, but If I may insist on removing the excel table, and, perhaps, the unnecessarily header, and how about instead keeping the text version only? $\endgroup$
    – Matsmath
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 20:24
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    $\begingroup$ @Matsmath I see nothing wrong with the image, but typically with these puzzles a text version is included. $\endgroup$
    – dcfyj
    Commented Dec 5, 2016 at 21:16

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A word is called a Profound Word™ if:

it is related to a grammatical case.
Ablate --> Ablative
Locate --> Locative
Date --> Dative
Nominate --> Nominative
Infinite --> Infinitive
Imperate --> Imperative
Indicate --> Indicative

They are called profound because:

These cases are used in Latin and Latin always sounds profound

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