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WP 1-3
Study guide
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Egotist | A selfish, self-centered person |
| Bigamy | The criminal offense of marrying one person while still legally married to another. |
| Misanthrope | One who hates or mistrusts humankind. |
| Misogamist | Hatred of marriage. |
| Gauche | Lacking social polish; tactless. |
| Altruist | someone who makes charitable donations intended to increase human well-being |
| Monogamy | The practice or condition of having a single sexual partner during a period of time. |
| Ambivert | A personality trait including the qualities of both introversion and extroversion |
| Misogynist | One who hates women. |
| Philanthropist | The effort or inclination to increase the well-being of humankind, as by charitable aid or donations. |
| Polygyny | The condition or practice of having more than one wife at one time. |
| Ascetic | a person who practises great self-denial and austerities and abstains from worldly comforts and pleasures, esp for religious reasons |
| Polyandry | The condition or practice of having more than one husband at one time. |
| Adroit | 1. skilful or dexterous 2. quick in thought or reaction |
| Dexterity | Skill and grace in physical movement, especially in the use of the hands; adroitness. |
| Sinister | threatening or suggesting evil or harm |
| Egocentric | Holding the view that the ego is the center, object, and norm of all experience. |
| Egomaniac | Obsessive preoccupation with the self. |
| Mania | An excessively intense enthusiasm, interest, or desire; a craze |
| Ego | the self of an individual person; the conscious subject |
| Gyne | female reproductive organ |
| Andros | island, largest of Bahama |
| Ambi | both |
| Dexter | relating to or situated on the right |
| Alter | to become different |
| Monos | one; single |
| Intro | the inside, inwardly, within |
| Bi | SAme |
| Extro | outward |
| Centrum | more at center |
| Anthropos | for human or man. |
| Gamos | marriage |
| Asketes | Hardworking |
| Polys | Short for. |