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English- Lesson 16 Vocab

Terms

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Anglo?
English
Anglican?
Member of the church of England
Anglophile
One who admires England
Anglophobe
One who fears England
Ist-
one who
Anthropologist
One who studies man's culture
Sophist
Scholar, or skilled in argumentation
Funambulist
one who performs on tight ropes
saur-
lizard
Dinosaur
a "power" lizard
Pterosaur
Flying Lizards
Tyrannosaurus
carnivorous lizard
Stegasaurus
Herbivorous lizard
Plesiosaur
Marine reptile
pithec-
ape
pithecanthropus
ape like man
Australopithecus
Australian ape
calli
beautiful
calliope
instrument in the circus that plays "beautiful" music
callistetuis
"beautiful" organized excercise
Austro
south
Cephalopod
head footed creature
Hydrocephalic
baby born with water on the brain called
chiro
hand
Chiropody
barnch of medicine concerned with feet and hand
caust
burn
Holocaust
a "whole" "burning"
Cauterize
a way to stop bleeding using fire
Causitc
what acid is
terr
land
Mediterranean Sea
sea in the middle of the land
Terrain
Lay of the land
Subterranean
under the land
extra terrestrial
beyond the land
cata
down
cataracts
an eye problem' a growth that brings your sight "down"
jur
swear
prejure
when you tell a lie under oath
abjure
to renounce under oath
adjure
command on oath
flu
flow
transfluent
to let your ideas "flow" "into" someone else's mind
superfluos
flowing "over or above"; giving more than is necessary
here
to stick
adhere
to stick to
coherence
stick together
inherent
stays with you
incoherent
not understanding
superimpose
when you put one pictuer "over" another
transpose
To reverse or transfer the order or place of
mund
world
mundane
commonplace, ordinary
transmundane
across the world
intermundane
between the world
cracy
government
autocracy
self government
mania
madness
automania
self madness
kleptomania
urge to steal
megalomania
want to feel powerful
dipsomania
abnormal craving of alchol
antho
flower
analgesic
aspirin
arthalgia
pain in the joints
algophobia
afraid of pain
aglometer
measures pain
neuralgia
headache
sominex
sleep aid you can buy at the drug store
quadraplegic
someone who has lost movement in all four limbs
sinecure
without care, a job which earns a paycheck but has no responsibilities

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