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| Class: | 20E 050 - Word Power: Building English Vocabulary |
| Subject: | Classics in English |
| University: | University of Iowa |
| Term: | Spring 2013 |
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Academy
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A school or learned society |
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Arcadian
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Simple, peaceful, rustic |
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Croesus
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a very rich man |
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Cynic
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one who sarcastically doubts human motives |
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Draconian
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Extremely severe |
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Epicure (epicurean)
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a person of refined taste in matters of food and drink |
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To cut the -Gordian- knot
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to solve a difficult problem by direct and drastic means |
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Laconic
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brief, pithy, concise |
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Mausoleum
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A large tomb |
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Meander
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to follow a winding course, the Greek-key design |
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Ostracism
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exclusion from society |
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Philippic
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A bitter denounciation |
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a Pyrrhic victory
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A victory won at too great a cost |
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Solecism
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A substandard usage of language, a social blunder/error |
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Sophistry, Sophism
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Clever but deceptive argumentation meant to mislead |
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Spartan
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Rigorous, austere, disciplined |
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Stoic
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Impassive |
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Sword of Damocles
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Constantly threatening danger |
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Sybarite
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One devoted to luxury and pleasure |
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-ast, -st
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"one who does" |
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Gymn-
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naked |
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Thus(i)- (theos)
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god |
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Ly-
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loosen |
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-t, -te
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"he who" "that which" |
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Poe-
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To make |
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Phe-
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To speak |
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Athle-
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To contend |
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Pira-
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To attempt |
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-y, -ia
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"quality of, state of, act of" |
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Agon-
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Struggle |
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Phil-
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To love |
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Anthrop-
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man |
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(h)em-
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Blood |
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All-
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other |
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Cac-
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Bad |
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Cau(s)-
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To burn |
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Cla-
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To break |
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Do-
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To give |
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Dyn(am)-
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force, power |
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Erg-, Urg-
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Work |
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Lat(e)r-
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worship excessively, be fanatically devoted to |
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Path-
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feel, suffer; disease |
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Phy-
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To grow |
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Physi-
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Nature |
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Sta-
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Stand, stop |
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The-
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to place, put |
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-ma, -m, -me
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Result of, thing that is the result of |
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Dra-
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to do, act |
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Ble-
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to put |
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De-
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To bind |
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The-
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to place |
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-sis, -se, -sy, -sia
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Act, State, Result Of |
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Gno-
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To know |
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Do-
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To give |
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Aut(o)-
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Self |
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Op-
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To see |
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Mne-
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To remember |
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Andr-
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Man, male |
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Kine-, Cine-
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To move |
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Gen(e)-
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Kind, Race |
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Gyn(e)-, Gyn(a)ec-
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Woman, Female |
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Idi-
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One's own, peculiar |
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Lith-, Lite-
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Stone |
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Mis-
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Hatred |
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Phe(m)-, Pha-
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To speak |
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Schiz-, Schis-
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To split |
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Stere-
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Solid, Three-dimensional |
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Typ-
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Stamp, Model |
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-logy
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Science of, Systematic study of |
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Bi(o)
The(o)
Astr(o)
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Life God Star |
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-nomy
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Science of, system of laws governing |
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Ec(o)-
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House, community |
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Agr(o)-
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Field |
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-cracy
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Rule by, type of government |
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Dem(o)
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People |
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Arist(o)-
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The best |
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Bureau-
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Office |
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-crat
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One who advocates or practices rule by |
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Aut-
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Self |
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Gastr-
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Stomach |
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Heli-
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Sun |
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Ide-
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Thought, idea |
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Manc-, Mant-
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To divine by means of |
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Micr-
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Small, one millionth part of |
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Necr-
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the dead, corpse, dead tissue |
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Pal(a)e-
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Old |
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Pseud-
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False |
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Psych-
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Mind |
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Trop-
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Turn |
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-archy
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Rule by |
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Mon-
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One |
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Matri-
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Mother |
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-arch
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One who rules |
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Angel
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messenger |
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Bishop
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Overseer |
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Tect
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Workman |
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-mania
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Madness about, passion for |
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Klept(o)
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Thief |
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Disp(o)
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Thirst |
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-maniac
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One having a madness of passion for |
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-phobia
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abnormal fear or hatred of |
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Claustr(o)-
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lock, bar |
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Agora-
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Place of assembly, market place |
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-phobe
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one who fears or hates |
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Angl(o)-
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English |
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Franc(o)
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French |
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Acr-
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Highest, the extremeties |
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Ego-
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I (self) |
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Hier-
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Sacred |
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Hydr-
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Water |
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Mega(l)
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large, a million |
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Olig-
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few |
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Patr-
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Father |
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Patri-
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family, clan |
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Soph-
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Wise |
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Tele-
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afar, operating at a long distance |
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Xen-
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Stranger, foreigner |
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Zo-
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Animal |
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-meter
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Measure, instrument for measuring, number feet in poetry |
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Penta-
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Five |
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-metry
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Art of science of measuring |
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Gon(o)-
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Angle |
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-graph
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Writing, instrument for writing |
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Phot(o)-
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Light |
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-graphy
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writing, art of science of writing |
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-gram
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Thing written |
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-scope
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instrument for viewing, to view |
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Bar-
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Weight, pressure |
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Cal(l)-, Kal(l)-
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Beauty |
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Is-
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Equal |
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Macr-
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Large |
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Ora-
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To see |
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Petr-
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Rock |
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Phot-
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Light |
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Top-
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Place |
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-ize
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To make, to do something with, to subject to |
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Agon-
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Struggle |
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Cri-
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To judge |
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Lab-, Lep-, Lem-
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To take, seize |
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Mes-
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Middle |
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Phra-
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To speak |
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Stroph-
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To turn |
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Hemi-
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Half |
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Prot-
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First, original, primitive |
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Di-, Dipl-
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Twice, Double |
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Dich-
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In two |
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Deuter
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Second |
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Tri-
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Three |
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Tetr(a)-
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Four |
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Pent(a)
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Five |
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Hex(a)
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Six |
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Hept(a)
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Seven |
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Oct(a)
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Eight |
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Dec-
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Ten |
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Hect-
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One hundred |
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Kilo-
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One thousand |
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Chore-
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Dance |
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Er(ot)
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Love |
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Glyph-
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To carve |
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Naut-
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Sailor |
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Nes-
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Island |
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Apostate
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One who renounces or abandons faith or loyalty |
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Metaphysical
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Supernatural, theoretical, abstract, reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses |
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Epithet
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Characterizing word accompanying or in place of the name of a thing/person, abusive word |
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Iconoclast
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A person who destroys religious images or opposes their veneration, attacks beliefs |
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Neophyte
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New convert, novice, beginner |
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Thermostat
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Automatic device for regulating temperature |
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Dynasty
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Succession of rulers or the same line of descent, powerful family/group that maintains its position for a considerable time |
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Kinesthetic
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Relating to a sense mediated by receptors located in muscles, tendons, joints, and stimulated by bodily movements |
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Anathema (two defs.)
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One that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority Intensely disliked or loathed |
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Apotheosis
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Elevate to a divine status, perfect example |
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Schism
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Division, separation, formal division in church, discord |
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Idiom
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Language for a people or district, dialect. Expression in the usuage of a language that is peculiar to itself grammatically or having a meaning that can't be derived |
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Heliotropic
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Phototropism (growing of a plant) in which sunlight is the orienting stimulus |
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Biopsy
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Removal and examination of tissue, cells, or fluids from the living body |
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Ideological
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Visionary theorizing, manner or content of thinking characteristic of a group |
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Microcosm
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A little world, especially the human race seen as an epitome of the world/universe, a community that is an epitome of a larger unity |
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Autonomy
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Quality or state of being self-governing, self directing freedom and moral independence |
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Autocratic
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System with an autocrat ruler; a person ruling with unlimited authority, one who has undisputed influence |
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Hierarchy
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grade or ranked series, division of angels, classification of a group according to ability/economy/social standings |
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Patronymic
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Name derived from that of the father or a paternal ancestor usually by the addition of an affix |
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Patristic
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Of or relating to the church fathers or their writings |
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Theosophy
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Teaching about God and the world based on mystical insight |
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Xenophobia
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Fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners (strange/foreign things) |
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Necrology
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Obituary, list of the recently dead |
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Patriarchal
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social organization marked by the supremacy of the father in the clan |
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Acromegaly
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disorder caused by excessive production of growth hormone by the pituitary and marked by progressive enlargement of hands, feet and face |
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Isotope
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any two or more species of atoms of a chemical with the same atomic number and chemical behavior but with different atomic mass and physical properties |
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Cyclorama
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Large pictorial representation encircling the spectator and often having real objects as a foreground, curved wall used a background of a stage set to suggest unlimited space |
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Petrography
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the description and systematic classification of rocks |
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Epigram
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Concise poem dealing pointedly and often satirically with a single thought or event and often ending with an ingenious turn of thought. Terse, sage, or witty and often paradoxical saying |
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Archiepiscopal
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Relating to
archbishop, bishop at the head of an ecclesiastical province or one of
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Orthography
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Art of writing words with the proper letters according to standard usage |
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Barometer
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Standard, test, instrument for determining the pressure of the atmosphere and hence for assisting in forecasting weather and for determining altitude |
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Holograph
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A document wholly in the handwriting of its author |
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Isobar
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An imaginary line or a line on a map or chart connecting or marking places of equal barometric pressure. One o two or more atoms or elements having the same atomic weights but different atomic numbers |
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Apostrophize
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To address an absent person or personified thing rhetorically |
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Parenthetical
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Interlude, an explanatory phrase inserted in a passage from which iti is usually set off by ( ) |
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Periphrasis
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Use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression, wordiness |
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Symbiosis
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Cooperative relationship between two, living together in intimate association of two dissimilar organisms |
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Monomania
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Mental illness or excessive concentration on a single idea or object |
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Monolithic
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Cast as a single piece, constituting a massive undifferentiated and often rigid whole |
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Decalogue
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Basic set of rules carrying binding authority |
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Protomartyr
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The first martyr in a cause or religion |
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Tetrarch
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Governor of the fourth part of a province, subordinate prince |
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Tritheism
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Doctrine that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are three distinct gods |
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Pathological
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Abnormal, being such to a degree that is extreme or markedly abnormal, study of nature of disease and the changes produces by them, caused by diseases |
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Petroglyph
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Carving or inscription on a rock |
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Aphasia
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loss or impairment of the power to use or comprehend words usually resulting from brain damage |
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Ataxia
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Inability to coordinate voluntary muscular movements that is symptomatic of some CNS disorders and injuries and not due to muscle weakness. Incoordination |
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Morphological
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Branch of biology that deals with the form and structure or animals and plants, study and description of word formation in language, study of structure, external structure of rocks |
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Calligraphy
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Ornamental, artistic, stylized, or elegant handwriting or lettering |
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