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Voc list 4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Root Word (Mono) | one |
| Monogamy | Marriage to only one person at a time |
| Monopoly | Exclusive control by one group of a commodity or service |
| Monosyllable | A word of aone syllable |
| Monotonous | Having one tone;lack of variety variation |
| Root Word (Morph) | Form |
| Amorphous | Without definite form or shape, origanization |
| Anthropomorphism | Assigning human characterisitice or behavior to inanimate objects or animales |
| Metamorphosis | Change of form or shape. Changing from one ling thing to another |
| Morphine | A drug use to bring sleep or ease pain |
| Morphology | The branch of biology that makes a study of the form of animales or plants |
| Root Word (Pan) | All |
| Panacea | A remedy for all illness or difficulties |
| Pandemonium | Paradise lost; a wild uproar |
| Panoply | Any magnificent of impressive array; a full suit of armor;ceremonial attire |
| Panorama | a view in all directions |
| Pantheism | The doctrine that all god is all laws and forces of nature and the universe |
| Pantheon | A temple of all the gods also, the place of the idols of any group |
| Root Word (Path) | Feeling, or suffering |
| Antipathy | A feeling against someone of something; a strong dislike |
| Apathy | A lack of feeling; indifference |
| Empathy | A feeling as if one were in other person's place; an understanding so intimate that one participates in another's feelings |
| Pathological | Caused by a disease |
| Sympathy | A feeling together with someone or something; a feeling for another person |
| Root Word (Ped) | Foot |
| Expedient | Useful in getting a desired result |
| Expedite | To speed the process |
| Impede | To hinder the process |
| Impediment | Anything that hinderes |
| Pedestrian | One who goes on foot |
| Root Word (Phil) | To love |
| Philharmonic | Devoted to music; a symphony orchestra |
| Philosophy | The love pursuit of wisdom through reasoning |
| Philanthropist | One who loves people; Particulary one who gives money to benefits humanity |
| Root Word (Phob) | Fear |
| Claustrophobia | An excessive or illogical fear of high places |
| Phobia | An excessive or illogical fear of some particular thing or situation |
| Xenophobia | Fear of hatred of foreigners or strangers |
| Root Word (Phon) | Sound |
| Cacophony | Disagreeable or discordant sounds |
| Phonetics | The branch of language study dealing with speech sounds and their symbols |
| Polyphonic | Having of making many sounds;representing more than one sound |
| Symphony | A harmony of sounds |
| Root Word(Post) | After |
| Posterior | Located behind |
| Posterity | Those who come after; future generations |
| Posthumously | After the death of the father,as a child born posthumously |
| Post Meridiem | Abbreviated (P.M.)after noon |
| Postmortem | An examination after death; an autopsy |
| Perposterous | Contrary to nature,reason, or common sense; asurb ( the idea of flying to the moon is perposterous) |
| Root Word (Pre) | Before |
| Precedent | An act that goes before and may serve as an example for later acts |
| Precipitate | To hasten the occurrence of |
| Preclude | To make impossible by a previous action; to prevent |
| Precocious | Prematurely develope, as a precocious child |
| Predilection | To love before others; a prefrence |
| Prejudice | A judgement formed beforehand without Examination of the fact |
| Prerequisite | Something required beforehandk |
| Root Word (Pro) | Forward, before,for, forth |
| Proclivity | An inclination toward something; especially toward something objectionable |
| Procrastinate | To push task foward until tomorrow |
| Profuse | Pouring forth freely; generous |
| Propensity | A natural inclination( he has a propensity for putting things off |
| Proponent | one who argues in favor of something; an advocate |
| Protuberant | Bulging ( something polking out futher than anything |
| Root Word (re) | Back, Again |
| Recede | To go back as, a river recedes from its bank |
| Remit | To sens back as, to remit payment |
| Residue | The part that remains after part has been separated away, as the residue in the bottom of a vase |
| Retain | To hold back or keep in one's possession |
| Revive | To clause to live again |
| Recalcitrant | Obstinate, stubbonly rebellious |
| Recant | To renounce a belief formerly held especially in a formal or public manner |
| Recession | A period of a reduced economic activity |
| Recluse | One who lives shut back from the world |
| Resilience | The ability to recover quickly from illness, shange , or misfortune |
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