Vocabulary 3 & 4
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- The surroundings within which something begins or develops
- matrix
- A society ruled or controlled by women
- matriarchy
- To register as a student at a college or university
- matriculate
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1. The male head of a family or tribe
2. An Old Testament Ancestor
3. A founding father or wise man - patriarch
- A family inheritance
- patrimony
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1. Support, encouragement
2. Business clientele, customers - patronage
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1. To go to regularly
2. To treat someone as an inferior - patronize
- Name derived from a paternal ancestor
- patronymic
- Pertaining to brothers, brotherly
- fraternal
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1. To be friendly with
2. To socialize with an enemy population - fraternize
- Like an uncle
- avuncular
- Having to do with the family
- familial
- Dominated by one's wife
- uxorious
- Marriage to two mates
- bigamy
- Marriage to a single mate
- monogamy
- Childish, immature
- puerile
- Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
- orthopedics
- A teacher
- pedagogue
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1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
2. A scholarly show-off - pedant
- Something that has a real or independent existence
- entity
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1. A person or thing of no importance
2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination - nonentity
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1. The basic element; the indentifying characteristic
2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug
3. A perfume - essence
- About to die or end
- moribund
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1. To shame
2. To discipline oneself by denial - mortify
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1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
2. An analysis of something that is over - postmortem
- The act of pailessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing
- euthanasia
- Possessed at birth; inborn
- innate
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1. Childlike; unsophisticated
2. Gullible - naive
- Emerging; coming into existence
- nascent
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1. A rebirth; a renewal
2. A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to six-teenth-century Europe - renaissance