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WORD-CLUES
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Anthrop | Man Mankinf |
| Phil | Love |
| Miso | Hate |
| Biblio-bibl | book |
| phone | sound |
| graph gram | write:draw:describe:record |
| scop,skept,scept | look at; examine |
| eu | good |
| caco | bab; ill |
| mega megalo | large; big |
| micro | small, usually length wise |
| macro | large; long , usually length wise |
| tele- tel- telo- | far;distant |
| teleo, tel, telio, telo | completion end;result |
| mania, maniac, maniacal, maniac, manic | one who has madness for and affected with madness for |
| phobia,phobia,phobe,phobist,phobic | one who has morbid fear of fearful of; dreading |
| Deritives | Learn em! |
| anthropophobiac | afraid of people, esp. meeting people |
| philanthropy | altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other sociallY. bill gates for example |
| misanthrope | a hater of humankind. |
| bibliomaniac | excessive fondness for acquiring and possessing books. |
| euphonious | pleasant in sound; agreeable to the ear; |
| cacography | bad handwriting; poor penmanship. |
| megaphone | a cone-shaped device for magnifying or directing the voice, chiefly used in addressing a large audience out of doors or in calling to someone at a distan |
| microscopic | so small as to be invisible or indistinct without the use of the microscope: microscopic organisms. Compare macroscopic. |
| macroscopic | visible to the naked eye. Compare microscopic |
| telegraphy | the art or practice of constructing or operating telegraphs. |
| bibliophile | a person who loves or collects books |
| symphony | an instrumental passage occurring in a vocal composition, or between vocal movements in a composition. harmony of sounds. |
| megalomaniac` | an obsession with doing extravagant or grand things. |
| skeptical | denying or questioning the tenets of a religion: |
| aphonic | mouthed but not spoken; noiseless; silent. |
| arch,archi | rule; govern |
| dem | people |
| ggen,gon | kind; race origin |
| gon | angle |
| gyn gyne gynauec gynec | women |
| log | idea;word;speech; discussion; resaon; study |
| archaei archa | ancient |
| hetero | various unlike |
| homo | same |
| olig | few |
| pan panto | all |
| poly | many |
| anarchy | a state of society without government or law. |
| archaeology | the scientific study of historic or prehistoric peoples and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts, inscriptions, monuments, and other such remains, especially those that have been excavated. |
| demography | science of vital and social statistics, as of the births, deaths, diseases, marriages, etc., |
| homogeneous | composed of parts or elements that are all of the same kind; not heterogeneous: a homogeneous population. |
| heterogeneous | different in kind; unlike; incongruous. |
| polygon | a figure, especially a closed plane figure, having three or more, usually straight, sides. |
| gynarchy | government by women. |
| oligarchy | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few. |
| epidemic | Also, ep·i·dem·i·cal. (of a disease) affecting many persons at the same time, and spreading from person to person in a locality where the disease is not permanently prevalent. |
| pandemic | (of a disease) prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or the whole world; epidemic over a large area. |
| endemic | natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways; countries where high unemployment is endemic. |
| misogynist | a person who hates, dislikes, mistrusts, or mistreats women. |
| geneology | a record or account of the ancestry and descent of a person, family, group, etc. |
| diagonal | having an oblique direction. connecting two nonadjacent angles or vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, as a straight line. b. extending from one edge of a solid figure to an opposite edge, as a plane |
| eulogy | a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration in honor of a deceased person. |
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