Greek V - Review
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- philanthropist
- someone who shows a love of humankind in general
- symphony
- harmony of sounds
- archaic
- marked by the characteristics of an earlier period; antiquated
- eupony
- pleasing sound to the ear, a pleasant sounding or harmonious combination of words
- telemania
- excessive fondness for things in the far distant
- hemostatic
- Acting to stop bleeding or hemorrhage
- homogeneous
- of the same kind or nature; essentially alike
- telechronometer
- a watch that synchronizes itself from a source far away
- polygon
- many angles
- endoscope
- an instrument for examining visually the interior of a body
- anemia
- a deficiency of red blood cells
- sympathy
- harmonious agreement or feelings
- therapy
- the treatment of disease or disorders
- dynamic
- of or pertaining to force or power
- isochronous
- Occurring during the same time
- heliocentric
- measured or considered as being seen from the center of the sun
- asymmetrical
- . not identical on both sides of a central line
- megaphone
- a cone-shaped device to intensify and direct the human voice or sound
- monochrome
- a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color
- heterogeneous
- different in kind; unlike; incongruous
- teleology
- the study of final causes
- heliophobia
- a fear of sunlight
- isodynamic
- characterized by equality of force, intensity, or the like
- achromatic
- free from color
- theocentric
- having God as the focal point or center of thoughts, interests, and feelings
- polyphonic
- consisting of many voices or sounds
- misanthrope
- a hater of humankind
- monotheist
- a believer in one god
- phonics
- a method of teaching spelling based on sound
- theology
- the study of divine things, God or religious truth
- geology
- scientific study of the origin, history, and structure of the earth
- phonograph
- A machine that reproduces sound
- ergophobiac
- someone who has a fear of or aversion to work
- microscopic
- so small as to be invisible to the naked eye
- chromatic
- pertaining to color or colors
- geneaology
- a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group or race
- demarchy
- ruled by the people
- telescope
- an optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger
- symmetrical
- characterized by having well-proportioned in form, correspondence in size or measure
- diarchy
- government by two rulers
- polychrome
- being of many or various colors
- hemicycle
- a plane figure with teh shape of half a circle
- pathology
- the science or the study of the origin, nature, and course of diseases
- atheist
- someone who denies the existence of god
- polytheism
- the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods
- hemophilia
- a disease that causes uncontrolled bleeding
- genesis
- an origin, creation, or beginning
- bichrome
- having two colors
- archaeology
- the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts
- bibliomania
- excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books
- prognosticate
- to forecast or predict; to know
- pandemic
- a disease affecting all people throughout an entire country
- cacophony
- a loud harsh sound
- anarchy
- a state of society without government or law
- bathometer
- a device for measuring the depth of water
- hematology
- the study of the nature, function, and diseases of the blood and of blood-forming organs
- orthophonic
- reproducing sounds authentically, enunciating correctly
- antipathy
- a strong feeling of aversion or repugnance
- gynarchy
- government by women
- endemic
- relating to a disease present to a particular tocality or native to a certain region
- heliotherapy
- treatment of disease by means of sunlight
- diagnosis
- a determining or knowing the cause or nature of a problem or situation
- geography
- the study of the earth, its features and life on the earth
- energy
- the capacity to do work
- epidemic
- a disease affecting many people at the same time
- monogram
- A design composed of one or more letters, typically the initials of a name, used as an identifying mark
- aphonic
- without voice
- rheostat
- an instrument use to stop the flow of a current; esp. electricity
- diagonal
- connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line
- diameter
- a straight line passing through the center of a circle
- cacography
- bad handwriting; poor penmanship
- gynaeolatry
- the worship of women
- graphomania
- a passion or compulsive urge to write
- graphology
- the study of handwriting
- apathy
- lack of emotion or feeling
- cyclometer
- an instrument that measures circular arcs
- anthropophobiac
- afraid of people, esp. meeting people
- synergistic
- having the capacity to act together
- telegraphy
- communicating at ta adistance by electric transmission
- eulogy
- a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, esp. a set oration in honor of a deceased person
- perimeter
- the border or measurement around an area
- heliolater
- worship of the sun
- misogynist
- hatred, dislike, or mistrust of women
- bibliolatry
- extravagant devotion to or dependence upon books
- bibliophile
- someone who loves or collects books
- synchronize
- to indicate the same time, as one timepiece with another
- haematogenous
- concerned with the production of blood;spread by way of the blood
- homophone
- a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning
- bibliomancy
- divination by interpretation or a pasage chosen at random from a book, especially the Bible
- megalomaniac
- a person who is obsessed with grandiose or excessive things or actions
- macroscopic
- visible to the naked eye; pertaining to large units
- oligarchy
- governmetn by a few
- orthochromatic
- representing correctly the relations of colors
- static
- fixed or stationary; not moving
- periscope
- an optical instrument that provides a view of an otherwise obstructed field
- hemorrhage
- a profuse discharge of blood, as from a ruptured blood vessel; bleeding