English From the Roots Up Volume 1 pages 1-10
Terms
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- kinetic
- relating to movement of bodies
- photosynthesis
- a process of putting things together by using light
- Anglophile
- one who loves England
- telethon
- a telephone fund raiser which runs on non-stop
- hydrophobia
- disease which makes it difficult to swallow, thought to be fear of water
- philogynist
- one who loves women
- photometer
- a device which measures light
- metron
- measure
- synchronize
- to do things at the same time
- philia
- love, friendship
- philanthropist
- one who cares about his fellow man
- sym
- same, equal
- toxikos
- poison
- tropics
- the area of the earth from the equator north to the Tropic of Cancer and south to the Tropic of Capricorn
- symmetry
- measuring the same
- heliotrope
- a flower named for its tendency to turn towrd the sun
- phototropic
- turning toward light
- sophia
- wisdom
- phobia
- irrational fear
- Angli
- English
- cinema
- motion pictures
- syn
- with, together
- telepathy
- knowing how someone far away is feeling
- agoraphobia
- fear of open space
- synagogue
- place to bring people together
- agora
- field
- ago
- bring
- hologram
- a three-dimensional photograph of a whole object
- photophilia
- love of light
- television
- seeing distant things
- phonograph
- machine for writing or recording sound
- claustrum
- lock or bolt
- philosopher
- one who loves wisdom
- claustrophobia
- fear of closed places
- onoma
- name
- thesis
- a position taken in an argument supported by a set of reasons
- baros
- weight, pressure
- telegraph
- writing from far away
- telephoto
- light from far away
- synthesizer
- instrument which puts sounds together like real musical instruments
- philtre
- love potion
- thesis
- put, place, position
- tropical
- the climate of the earth in the tropics
- cinematographer
- motion picture photographer
- theme
- an essay or compostion on a certain subject with a statement and supporting reasons
- Francophile
- one who loves France
- autograph
- to write one's own name
- synonym
- two words with same meaning
- anemometer
- measures wind speed
- adelphos
- brother
- optometry
- measure eyesight
- telescope
- device for looking at distant objects
- lithograph
- drawing made on a stone
- photgraph
- picture drawn by light
- phobophobia
- fear of fear itself
- tele
- far away, distant
- diameter
- measuring across
- Philadelphia
- city of brotherly love
- photos
- lights
- parenthesis
- statement beside (or inside) a main sentence
- opsis
- sight
- barometer
- device to measure air pressure
- thermometer
- measure heat
- zoophobia
- fear of animals
- kinescope
- a machine which shows pictures of movement (old term for TV movies)
- phonogram
- written symbol for a sound
- gyne
- woman
- graphite
- black carbon used for drawing or writing
- geometry
- measurement of the earth
- thermotropism
- turning toward heat
- lumen
- light
- telephone
- sound from far away
- philologist
- one who loves words
- holos
- complete
- centimeter
- one hundredth of a meter
- phobos
- fear
- graph
- to write or draw
- anemos
- wind
- tropos
- turning
- kinesiology
- study of human movement
- tropophilous
- plants or trees which like a change or turning of seasons, hot and cold, wet and dry
- Francus
- France
- synthesis
- putting together
- kinesis
- movement
- photophobia
- fear or dislike of light
- anthropos
- man
- sympathy
- to feel with someone else
- Phobos
- a moon of the planet Mars
- symphony
- sounds that go together
- phillumenist
- one who collects match covers
- synthetic
- material made by putting chemicals together
- toxikophobia
- fear of poison
- meter
- unit of measure