English Honors 9 Greek Lesson 13: Roots
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- plutocracy
- government by the wealthy
- ethnography
- descriptive antrhropology
- aristocratic
- one with tastes, meanners, wealth, etc. of the upper class
- synopsis
- a brief general review or summary
- misogamy
- one who hates marriage
- chronoscope
- an instrument for precise measurement of small time intervals
- endoscope
- an instrument for examining usually the inside of a hollow organ
- plutocrat
- one who's wealth is the source of control or influence
- myopia
- nearsightedness
- necropsy
- postmotrem examination
- ethical
- conforming to the professional standards of conduct
- aesth, esth
- sensation; feeling; perception
- phil
- love
- anesthesiology
- the specailization of giving anesthetics
- ethnic
- as of a group of people having common customs, characteristics, language, etc.
- thanatopsis
- meditation upon death
- hemophilia
- a hereditary disorder in which blood fails to clot normally
- misanthropy
- a person who hates or distrusts all people
- ethn
- nation; people
- microscopic
- so small as to be invisible or obscure except through a microscope
- eth
- character; custom; habit
- miso
- hate; hatred
- philology
- an old term used for linguistics
- bibliophile
- a lover and collector of books
- Philadelphia
- city and port in SE PA whose name means city of brotherly love
- op, opt, ops
- sight; view; eye
- philogyny
- love for women
- plut
- wealth
- scop, scept, skept
- look at; see; examine
- aristo
- best
- aristocracy
- a privledged ruling class
- philanthropic
- a desire to help mankind
- ethnology
- branch of anthropology that deals studies societies or language
- misogynist
- hatred of women
- philanthropy
- to engage lightly in love affairs
- anesthetic
- a drug or gas used to produce anethesia