Word Roots vocab 2
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- anthropomorphism
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n- the attributing of human form or characteristics to a god, animal, or inanimate thing
MORPHY- form - misanthrop
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n- one who hates people
MIS- to hate - philanthropic
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adj- chariable
PHIL-to love - philanthropy
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n- the effort to increase the well-being of humanity by charitable donations
PHIL- to love - antagonist
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n- a person one struggles against in a contest
AGON- struggle - antidote
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n- a medicine that counteracts (works against) poison or disease
-something that gives protection against injurious effects
-something that gives relief from against something else
DOT- to give - anticlimax
- n- a sudden drop from the important to the commonplace
- autocracy
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n- government by a single person
CRAC- to rule - automaton
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n- an apparatus that functions by itself; a robot
-also, a person who has lost all human qualities and acts mechanically
MAT- to act - autonomic
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adj- pertaining to the autonomic nervous system, which acts according to its oen (self) laws rather than through voluntary control. It regulates the heart, digestive system, and so forth.
NOM- law - benediction
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n- a blessing
DICT- to speak - beneficence
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n- kindness; charity
FAC- to do - benificiary
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n- a person who receives benefits. as from a will or an insurance policy
FAC- to do - benevolence
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n- an inclination to do good; a kind or charitable act
VOL- to wish - benign
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adj- having a kindly (good) attitude or disposition
-in medicine, mild in character; not malignant - bicameral
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adj- composed of two legslative chambers or brances
CAMER- chamber - bilaeral
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adj- having or involving two sides; binding on both parties (in contrast to unilateral, in which only one party has an obligation)
LATER- side - bipartisan
- adj- consisting of or supporetd bu two parties, especially two major political parties
- biodegradable
- adj- capale of being broken down bu living microorganism and absorbed by the environment
- biofeedback
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n- a technique for consciously regulating a bodily (life) function thought to be involuntary, as a heartbeat or blood pressure, by using an instrument to monitor the function and to signal changes in it
GRAPH- to write - symbiosis
- n- the living together in close union of two dissimilar organisms, often to thier mutual benefit
- ANTHROP
- human
- ANTI
- against, opposite
- AUTO
- self
- BENE
- good, well
- BI
- two
- BIO
- life