Etymology L2
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- Heterogeneous
- Composed of similar or like elements
- Demagogue
- Leader who uses people fears and emotions to gain power
- Endemic
- Prevalent among certain group or in certain area
- Epidemia
- Rapidly spreading disease upon the people
- Genealogy
- Record table of familiar decent
- Generic
- Pertaining to or describing entire group of class
- Generate
- To bring into existence
- Genesis
- Origin or coming into being
- Eugenics
- Study of human improvement, usually by controlling breeding
- Engender
- To bring into being; to create
- Genocide
- Destruction of entire group
- Gonad
- Reproductive organ
- Congenital
- with birth; present at birth
- Progeny
- Offspring
- Gynecology
- Branch of medicine dealing with women’s disease
- Androgynous
- Neither either specifically masculine or feminine
- Monogamy
- Married to one person
- Bigamy
- Marriage to two people at once
- Polygamy
- Married to more than one person at the same time
- Gamete
- Reproductive cell (union)
- Logo
- Mark that identifies a company
- Logogram
- Symbol that represents an entire word
- Neologism
- A new word or new meaning of an existing word
- Heterodox
- Pertaining to beliefs different than those commonly held
- Heteronym
- One of two words with the same spelling but different pronunciation; different meanings
- Homogeneous
- The same in structure, qualities etc