9th Grade English 1H lesson 12
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- cosmopolitan
- common to or representative of all or many parts of teh world
- ecocide
- heedless or deliberate destruction of teh natural environment, as by pollutants or acts of war
- entomophagous
- feeding on insects: insectivorous
- zoophagous
- feeding on animal matter
- hypercritical
- too critical
- metropolis
- the city or an urban area regarded as the center of a specific activity
- agnostic
- one who believes it impossible to know if God exists
- acropolis
- the fortified hill in Athens on which Parthenon was built
- ichthyophagous
- feeding on fish
- ecology
- teh branch of biology that deals with the relations between living organisms and their environment
- gno, gnos
- to know
- zymurgy
- the branch of chemistry that deals with fermentation processes
- bibl, biblio
- book
- diagnosis
- the act of deciding the nature of a disease
- arch
- rule; govern
- erg, urg
- work
- topography
- the science of representing surface features of a region on maps and charts
- criteria
- a standard, rule, or test by which something can be tested
- phag
- eating; destroying
- crit, cris
- discern; judge; seperate
- pantophagous
- eating all kinds of food
- ectopia
- an abnormal location or position of a body part, occuring congenitally or as the result of injury
- bibliolatry
- extreme devotion or concern with books
- polis, polit
- city; state; citizen
- ec, eco
- house; enviroment
- top
- place
- synergistic
- used especially of drugs or muscles that their combined action is greater in total effect than the sum of the two
- bibliomania
- preoccupation with the ownership of books
- patriarchy
- a social system in which the father is the head of the family and men have the authority over women and children
- bibliophile
- a lover and collector of books
- gynarchy
- government by women
- ergograph
- a device for measuring teh device capacity of a muscle or group of muscles during contraction
- diarchy
- government by two joint rulers
- archives
- a place for keeping public records
- matriarchy
- a social system in which teh mother is the head of the family
- necropolis
- a cemetary, especially a large and elaborate one belonging to an ancient city
- megalopolis
- a vast, continuously urban area, including any number of cities
- ergometer
- an instrument for measuring the amount of work done by a muscle or group of muscles