archy, geo, path
Mr. Murray English 2 Honors Set3 LMSD
vocab for december 14
vocab for december 14
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- geopolitics
- study of government and its politics as affected by physical geography
- hierarchy
- a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority
- psychopath
- a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior
- geology
- science dealing with the earth's history as recorded in rocks
- archy
- rule
- geocentric
- having or representing the earth as the center, as in former astronomical system
- osteopath
- a branch of medical practice that emphasizes the treatment of medical disorders through the manipulation and massage of the bones, joints, and muscles
- anarchy
- total absence of rule or government; confusion; disorder
- empathy
- the complete understanding of another's feelings, motive, etc.
- matriarchy
- a form of social organization in which the mother rules the family or tribe; descent being traced through the mother
- pathos
- quality of drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness
- geotropism
- response to the earth's gravity, as the growing of roots downward in the ground
- sympathy
- feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune
- antipathy
- aversion; dislike
- pathetic
- arousing pity
- path, patho, pathy
- feeling, suffering; disease
- patriarchy
- a form of social organization in which the father rules the family or tribe; descent being traced through the father
- oligarchy
- a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution
- pathological
- due to disease
- georgic
- agricultural; a poem or book dealing with agriculture or rural topics
- homeopathy
- the treatment of disease by minute doses of natural substances that in a healthy person would produce symptoms of disease
- geo
- earth, ground
- apathy
- lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or excitement; indifference
- pathogenic
- causing disease