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CLassical roots 3an4
LA
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| pandemonium | uproar |
| panacea | cure-all for disease or troubles |
| omnipolent | having unlimited power/all-powerful |
| omnipresent | present everywhere |
| omnivorous | -feeding on both plants and meat -devouring everything/especially intellectually |
| catholic | -universal/including most things -referring to Roman Catholic church |
| holocaust | -a great destruction, especially by fire -murder by the Nazis of over 6 million Jews and millions of other people in WW2 |
| totalitarian | gov.-1 person or party has all control |
| Cloister | -covered walk inside of building looking out of a courtyard(usually) -monastery or similar place of religious seclusion |
| Preclude | to prevent/to make impossible |
| Recluse | a person who avoids mixing with people |
| inception | the beginning of something |
| incipient | in its early stages/beginning |
| annihilate | to destroy completely |
| nihilism | the total rejection if religious or moral beliefs |
| negate | -to disprove/to nullify -to rule out/to cancel/to repeal |
| renegade | -one who deserts a group, cause, faith, etc./an outlaw -like a renegade/traitorous |
| vacuous | empty, especially of meaning or purpose |
| vanity | -conceit, especially about ones apperence -something worthless or useless |
| vaunt | -to boast; to brag about -A boast |
| aperture | AN OPENING, ESPECIALLY ONE THAT ADMITS LIGHT |
| overt | done or shown openly |
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17hugher
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