Flash Cards (LA Lab) Week 1
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- ped-
- Prefix meaning foot
- cogn-
- Prefix meaning know
- phi-
- Prefix meaning love
- dem-
- prefix meaning people
- Anthro-
- prefix meaning man
- fin-
- Prefix meaning end
- Bio-
- prefix meaning life
- Carn-
- prefix meaning meat
- Dict-
- prefix meaning speak
- finale
- The last section of a musical composition
- finite
- Having limits
- Gen-
- kind, race or origin
- finalist
- A contestant at the end of a competition
- pedestal
- The support or foot (bottom) of a column
- pedestrian
- Going or done on foot
- pedal
- A lever pressed by the foot
- cognition
- The act or process of knowing, including both awareness and judgment
- cognizable
- Capable of being known
- cognoscente
- A person who is especially knowledgeable on a subject
- philosophy
- The love of wisdom
- philanthropy
- The love of people
- bibliophile
- A lover of books
- demographic
- The statistical characteristics of a human population
- democratic
- Relating to or favoring a government by the people
- demos
- The common people of ancient Greece
- Anthropology
- The study of humans
- Biology
- the study of living organisms
- Carnage
- the flesh of a dead animal
- Dictate
- to speak or act in a commanding manner
- Genocide
- the deliberate destruction of a racial, political or cultural group
- Anthropoid
- resembling human beings
- Biosphere
- the part of the earth and its atmosphere in which lving organisms exist
- Carnassials
- teeth that are adapted for cutting rather than tearing
- Dictum
- a noteworthy or important statement
- Generation
- all offspring that are at same stage of descent from common ancestor
- Anthropomorphism
- attributing or giving human form or qualities to animal, gods or things
- Antibiotic
- substance that destroys disease
- carnivorous
- eating or living on flesh
- diction
- manner of speaking and enunciation
- gentry
- well-born and well-bred people; upper or ruling class
- Chronic
- over a period of time
- Choronology
- the sequential order in which events occur
- synchoronize
- to do at the same time
- epidermis
- the outer layer of the skin
- dermatology
- the study of skin functions and diseases
- Hypodermic
- of or relating to parts beneath the skin
- Heliocentric
- having or regarding the sun as the center
- Heliolatry
- sun worship
- heliotrope
- a sunflower or other plant whose flowers turn to face the sun
- Manacle
- armor for the hand
- manicure
- treatment for the care of the hands and fingernails
- penmanship
- handwriting as a skill or art
- polygamy
- practice of having more than one wife
- polyglot
- knowing many languages
- polytheism
- belief in or worship of more than one god
- Chron-
- time
- Derm-
- skin
- Helio-
- sun
- Man-
- hand
- Poly-
- many
- Card-
- prefix meaning heart
- Metro-
- prefix meaning city
- Port-
- prefix meaning carry
- Pyro-
- prefix meaning fire
- Somn-
- prefix meaning sleep
- cardiology
- the study of the heart and its functions and diseases
- carditis
- inflammation of the heart
- cardiograph
- an instrument that registers and graphs the movements of the heart
- metropolis
- the largest city of a country, state or region
- metropolitan
- belonging to a large city or cities
- portable
- capable of being carried or moved
- portage
- the carrying or transporting of something
- porter
- a person who carries burdens
- pyrogenic
- producing or produced by heat
- pyrophoric
- highly flammable
- pyrotechnics
- the art of making and handling fireworks
- insomnia
- abnormal inability to sleep
- somnambulate
- to sleep-walk
- somniloquy
- the act or habit of talking while asleep
- somnolent
- sleepy, drowsy