All Vocabulary (S1)
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- epidemic
- disease spread among citizens
- technology
- the study of how to do things
- demophobe
- one who fears people
- microbe
- tiny form of life
- asunder
- in separate parts; apart from each other in position
- beleaguer
- to surround or harrass
- patronymic
- a father's name adapted and given to his children
- phobos
- fear
- mega
- a slang term meaning a large amount of something
- autos
- self
- belittle
- to speak of or think of as unimportant; to put someone down
- artillery
- equipment for war
- contemporaries
- people who are alive at the same time (Your best friend is a contemporary of yours. George Washington is NOT.)
- TECHNE
- art, skill
- antibiotic
- medicine that fights living forms which invade the body
- . fraternal
- brotherly
- lithos
- rock
- mania
- craze
- chronograph
- a device to measure and record time
- connoisseur
- an expert, particularly in matters of art and taste
- graph
- write, draw
- DEMOS
- the people; the citizens
- archos
- chief father
- articulate
- the art of speaking clearly
- chronic fatigue syndrome
- a disease of the immune system usually charactrized by fatigue and flu-like symptoms
- tempo
- time in music; rate of speed at which a piece of music moves
- phone
- sound
- temporal
- pertaining to time
- fiche
- index card
- con
- together, with
- syn
- together, same
- chronic
- from time to time over a definite period
- paralegal
- one who works beside a lawyer as an aide
- patriarch
- chief father of a family or of a society
- metron
- measure
- archos
- chief
- cosmos
- world
- megameter
- a million meters
- vivid
- lively, animated, spirited
- mikros
- small
- viand
- food to support life
- matron -
- (1) a dignified, older, married woman who has an established social position (2) a woman who has charge of the domestic (cooking/cleaning) affairs of a hospital or prison.
- FRATER/FRATRIS
- brother
- intermediary
- one who acts as a mediator between persons.
- democracy
- power of the people
- interim
- the time between periods or events
- epi
- upon
- inert
- not skilled, inactive, sluggish
- PARA
- beside, along with
- re
- back, again live
- revive
- to come back to life
- histrionic
- overly dramatic
- archi
- chief, master
- intergalactic
- between or among the stars of the Milky Way; between galaxies
- vivacity - (vivacious)
- to be full of life
- temporary
- for a limited time
- thesis
- to place
- parable
- a story that is thrown in for comparison while teaching a lesson or moral
- matrimony
- the marriage ceremony
- sur/super
- over
- onyma
- name
- sect
- to cut
- megalomania
- crazy with delusions of grandeur or greatness
- logos
- word/study
- fiasco
- a complete and often ridiculous failure
- parallel
- lying along side of another line but not touching
- lament
- to express sorrow or regret
- fraternity
- brotherly association of men
- alma mater
- school from which one graduates
- anachronism
- anything out of its proper historical time
- allos
- other (think of parallel lines)
- technicality
- a detail that is meaningful to a specialist
- benevolently
- in a kind and well-meaning way
- biomedicine
- branch of science that studies the effects of the environment on the human body, especially during space travel
- ludus
- to play
- megalophonous
- having a big or loud sound or voice
- patrician
- a person born of nobility; a descendant of the founding fathers of Rome
- fraternize -
- to associate together on friendly or brotherly terms
- graph
- to write, draw
- philia
- love
- matriculate
- to enroll in a college or university for a degree
- arduous
- hard or difficult to do; tiring
- ago, actum
- to act, perform
- art
- the display or the application of a skill
- aloof
- describes someone who is reserved in manner; uninvolved.
- demography
- draw charts of information about the people - where they live, age, gender, number of children, etc. (known as demographic information)
- incongruous
- not appropriate; unsuited to the surroundings
- hirsute
- hairy
- VIVO/VICTUM
- live
- microcosm
- representation of the world on a small scale
- parenthesis
- a statement placed beside (or within) the main sentence
- in
- not
- extemporaneous
- to speak or act at the time without preparation (an extemporaneous speech)
- technician
- the one who is skilled in the details of an art or subject
- synchronize
- to do at the same time
- matrix
- the ground from which some thing/idea springs
- metron
- to measure
- gaudy
- bright and showy but sometimes in bad taste
- interaction
- discussion or action between or among people
- architect
- a master builder
- graph
- to write or draw
- ballein
- to throw
- logos
- word, study
- friar
- a member of a men's religious order
- convivial
- relating to feasting together
- patron
- one who acts like a father toward another, usually by giving financial support as a father would.
- alma
- nourishing, kind
- biosphere
- the part of the earth that extends from its crust out into the surrounding atmosphere and contains living organisms.
- ars poetica
- the art of poetry
- bionic
- life-like
- paragraph
- an editing mark beside a page of print to show needed indentation (must show this mark on the test)
- frere-
- French word for brother
- chronology
- relate events in time sequence
- interlude
- light entertainment in the midst of serious activities; a "break."
- international
- between or among nations
- forbear
- using patience to keep from doing something
- natio
- nation, race, kindred
- logos
- word, study
- patriotism -
- love for the fatherland
- cadere
- to fall
- milieu.
- your environment or surroundings
- paratroops
- soldiers who parachute down from the sky
- filmen
- thin skin
- encroach
- to intrude gradually upon the rights or possessions of another; to trespass
- coterie
- a circle of close associates or friends
- galactos
- milk
- malodorous
- having a bad smell
- carnage
- massacre or bloodshed
- survive
- to live over or beyond a threat or death
- chronometer
- device to measure time very accurately
- victual
- food to support life.
- interject
- to throw between
- MATER/MATRIS
- Mother
- maternal
- motherly
- technical
- pertaining to the art or skill involved in all kinds of work
- micrometer
- instrument for measuring small distances like the breadth of a hair
- prosaic
- dull, commonplace
- autobiography
- written life story of one's self
- op
- sight
- monia
- condition
- TEMPUS,TEMPORIS
- time
- jacio,jactum
- to throw
- PATER/PATRIS
- father
- bulwark
- something like a wall that serves as a principal means of defense
- paramedic
- one who works along with a doctor as an aide
- austere
- (1) acting in a stern manner (2) something that is severely simple and plain
- symbiotic
- living together in a close relationship that benefits both
- BIOS
- life
- demophile
- friend of the people
- biopsy
- examination of live tissues taken from the body
- anti
- against
- temporize
- to play for time; to stall
- chronicle
- a record of events in order of time
- megalopolis
- a huge, sprawling city such as New York or LA
- paraprofessional
- someone who works with one who is certified in a profession (Our instructional aides are paraprofessionals)
- inter
- between, among, amid
- matriarch
- woman who rules the family
- patronize
- (1) to give your financial support to something (2) to talk down to (belittle) someone.
- mega
- in the metric system, a million times
- microfilm
- tiny film for storing books, records, etc.
- micro
- small
- vivisection
- cutting into a living animal for scientific research
- intervene
- to come between
- polis
- city
- CHRONOS
- Time
- monia
- condition
- patrimony
- an inheritance from a father, usually money or land.
- parachute
- object that goes along with you as you fall and slows you down
- ex
- out
- contemporary
- something that is with the current time (computers, ipods, the movie Bionic Woman are all contemporary items)
- biodegradable
- destruction of organic material by a microorganism
- maternal grandparents
- parents of one's mother
- ARS, ARTIS
- art, skill
- biology
- study of life
- artiller
- equip
- kratos
- power
- microfiche
- sheet of microfilm containing a number of pages in reduced form. Libraries use this.
- venio, ventum
- to come
- chattel
- an item of personal, movable property; also, a slave
- jacio, jactum
- to throw
- con
- with, together
- megaphone
- device for making a sound larger/louder
- wafian
- wave
- sym
- together
- microwave
- a tiny electromagnetic wave between 1 and 100 centimeters long
- cerebral
- of or relating to the brain; an intellectual.