Lesson II
Terms
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- pandemic
- (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area
- heterogeeous
- different in kind; unlike; incongruous.
- homeneous
- same kind
- oligarchy
- few goverment officials
- polygon
- many angles
- gynarchy
- women in the government
- archaeology
- the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, esp. those that have been excavated
- endemic
- natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways; countries where high unemployment is endemic.
- diagonal
- Mathematics. a. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line.
- eulogy
- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person
- misogynist
- hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women.
- anarchy
- a state of society without government or law.
- domography
- the science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., of populations.
- genealogy
- a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc.
- epidemic
- Also, ep·i·dem·i·cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent.