Comm Arts Final Vocab 1
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- Patronymic
- name derived from a paternal ancestor
- fraternal
- pertaining to brothers; brotherly
- fraternize
- to be friendly with
- avuncular
- like an uncle
- familial
- having to do with the family
- uxorious
- dominated by ones wife
- bigamy
- marraige to two mates
- puerile
- childish; immature
- pedagogue
- teacher
- pedant
- a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understand
- entity
- something that has a real or independent existence.
- nonentity
- a person or thing of no importance
- essence
- The bask element; the identifying characteristic
- moribund
- about to die
- postmortum
- autopsy
- nascent
- emerging; coming into existence
- amicable
- friendly; peaceable
- amity
- friendship; friendly relations
- enamored
- in love with; charmed by
- inimical
- harmful
- odious
- hateful; distasteful
- bibliophile
- a lover of books
- philanthropy
- goodwill to fellow human beings
- xenophobia
- fear or hatred of what is strange or foreign
- appease
- satisfy; calm
- antipathy
- a hatred or dislike
- apathy
- lack of feeling, energy or interest
- empathy
- indentifying with someones feelings and understands their situation
- pathos
- a feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness
- misogamy
- hatred of marraige
- dysentery
- severe diarrhea
- cupidity
- greed
- compiacent
- self-satisfies; smug
- implacable
- impossible to calm
- placate
- to clam/pacify/appease
- placid
- showing calmness, peacefulness or composure
- domineer
- to dominate; be bossy
- somnambulate
- to walk while sleeping
- somnolent
- sleepy
- ablution
- ritual of washing the body
- deluge
- a downpoar; flood
- divest
- to take away something belonging to someone especially a title, right, property
- investitive
- a ceremony in which a person formally recieves the authority and symbols of an office.
- travesty
- an absured or inferior imitation
- vestment
- a garment that indicates position or authority, especially the robes worn by clergy.
- vested
- a concern for something from which a person expexts to get personal benefit
- precocious
- unusual early development mentally
- voracious
- extrememly hungry; greedy
- mellifluous
- sweet as honey
- ROOT: SAL
- "salt"
- imbibe
- to drink; absorb
- potable
- fit to drink
- allude
- to make an indirect reference to it.
- collusion
- a secret agreement for a bad purpose; conspiring
- delusion
- a deception
- elude
- to baffle; escape detection
- ROOT:ANTHROPOS
- human
- HOMI, HOMIN
- human
- VIR
- man
- GYNE
- woman
- AUTOS
- self
- EGO
- I
- GIGNO, GIGNERE, GENUI, GENITUM
- to bear; bring forth
- UXOR
- wife
- GAMOS
- marraige
- PUER
- child
- PAIS
- boy;child
- SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUM
- to be
- NASCOR, NASCI, NATUM
- to be born
- AMO
- to love
- humane
- having the worthy qualities of human beings, such as kindness or compassion
- humanism
- a philosophy in which interests and values of human beings are of primary importance
- humanities
- branches of knowledge concernced with human beings and their culture
- anthropology
- The scientific study of the orgins , cultural development, and customs of human beings
- misanthrope
- a person who hates all people
- virile
- having certain characteristics traditionally associated with masculinity and assertiveness
- autocrat
- a ruler that has absolute or unlimited power
- automaton
- a person who behaves in a mechanical, routine matter; a robot
- autonomy
- the condition of being self-governing; independence
- geneology
- a record of decent from one's ancestors; the study of family records
- genocide
- the planned killing of a racial, political or cultural group
- genteel
- well-mannered; refined; polite
- gentile
- anyone not of jewish faith
- gentry
- aristocratic or well-bred people
- heterogenous
- having parts that are unrelated or different
- homogenous
- of the same kind or sort
- congenital
- existing at birth but not hereditary
- engender
- to give rise to; to bring into existence
- genesis
- a beginning or orgin
- indigenous
- occurring in or characterizing an area; native
- ingenious
- cleverly inventive and resourcful
- patronize
- to go regulary
- progenitor
- a direct ancestor; an originator of a line of descent
- matrix
- the surroundings within which something begins or develops
- matriarchy
- a society ruled or controlled by women
- matriculate
- to register as a student at college or University
- patriarch
- the male head of a family or tribe
- patrimony
- a family inheritance
- patronage
- support; encouragment