voc. 21-25
Terms
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- hierarchy
- body of rulers or officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it; pecking order
- metamorphous
- change of form
- geodetic
- pertaining to geodesy (mathematics dealing with the earths shape and dimension)
- periphearl (n)
- device that can be attached to or used with a computer, such as a keyboard, monitor, printer, or scanner
- geocentric
- measured from the easth's center; having the earth as a center
- perigee
- nearest point to the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body
- perimeter
- whole outer boundary or measurment of a surface or figure
- endomorphic
- having a form deriving largely from the embryos inner layer; having a heavy body build
- peridontics
- branch of dentesry dealing with disease of the bone and gum tissues supporting the teeth
- osteopath
- practitioner of osteopathy (treatment of disease by manipulation of bones, muscle, nerves.)
- monoarchy
- stated rule over by a single person, as a king or queen
- periphrastic
- expressed in a roundabout way: circumlocutory
- patriarchy
- form of social organizations in which the father the family or tribe, descent being traced through the father
- peristalsis
- wavelike contractions of the walls of the intestine, which propels contents onward
- matriarchy
- form of social organizations in which the mothe rules the family or tribe, desecnt being traced throught the mother
- telepathy
- transference of the thoughs and feelings of one person to another by no apparent means of communication
- georgic (n)
- poem on husbandry (farming)
- peristyle
- 1. row of coulum around a building or court 2. the space so enclosed
- geomorphic
- pertainig to the shape of the earth or the form of its surface
- autarchy
- rule by an absolute soverign
- dimorphous
- occuring under two distint forms
- geography
- study of earth's surface,climate,continents,people, prouducts
- amorphous
- having no definite form; shapeless; unorganized
- georgic (adj)
- agricultural
- pathogenic
- casing disease
- goepolitics
- study of government and its policies as affected as affected by physical goegraphy
- goephysics
- science treating of the forces that modifys the earth
- pathological
- due to disease
- pathetic
- arousing pity
- peritonitis
- imflammation of the peritoneum( membrane linig the abdominal cavity and surrounding the organ within it)
- pariscope
- instrument perttaing those in a submarine a view of the surface
- pysychopathic
- 1. pertaining to mental disease 2. insane
- oligarchy
- form of govenment in which a few people have the power
- anarchy
- total absence of rule or government; confesion; disorder
- empathy
- complete understanding of feelings motives
- anthropomorphic
- attributing human fprm or characteristics to beings not human, especially
- pericardium
- mambranous sac enclosed the heart
- heteromorphic
- exhibiting diversity of form
- peripatetic
- traveling about; itinerant
- apogee
- farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenl body
- monomorphic
- having a single form
- homeopathy
- treatment of disease with minute doses of a remedy that, if given in massive doses to healthy person , would produce effects like those of the disease
- pathos
- quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events thatarouses a feeling of pity or sadness
- apathy
- lack of feeeling, emotion, inerest,excietment, indifferent
- geology
- science dealing with the easrth's history as recorded in rocks
- peripheral (adj)
- 1.on thr periphery (outside boundary) ; outside or away from the central part, as in periphearl vision 2. only slightly connected with what is essential ; merely incidental
- antipathy
- aversion (feeling against)
- sympathy
- sharing of (feeling with) another trouble, compassion
- goeponics
- art or science of agriculture
- perihelion
- nearest point to the sun in the orbit of a heavenly body
- geometry
- mathematics dealing with lines, angles, surfaces, and solids