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STEMS w40
Term | Definition |
---|---|
agon | actor |
ambul | walk |
ana | up |
archy | government |
bene | good |
caco | bad |
centri | center |
circum | around |
dict | say |
fid | faith |
flu | flow |
fort | strong |
gno | know |
greg | group |
hetero | different |
ism | doctrine |
lat | sided |
lect | gather |
lith | rock |
loqu | talk |
luc | light |
magn | great |
mal | bad |
mega | large |
miss | send |
moll | soft |
mono | one |
mort | death |
omni | all |
per | through |
phag | eat |
phon | sound |
phyte | plant |
pond | weight |
pos | put |
post | after |
pre | before |
proto | first |
pugn | fight |
sacro | holy |
sanct | holy |
sarco | flesh |
sequ | follow |
sol | alone |
super | over |
sur | over |
tang | touch |
vale | farewell |
ven | come |
vid | look |
abase | to lower |
analects | selected writings |
apotheosis | raising to god status |
association name | metonymy |
bowlderize | censor prudishly |
cold blooded composure | sangfroid |
devotion of pleasure | hedonism |
disgraceful | ignominious |
division | schism |
emissary | messenger |
evasive dodge | subterfuge |
evil unbeliver | miscreant |
exculpate | free of blame |
exegesis | critical interpretation |
explanatory | expository |
farewell speech | valediction |
fortissimo | very loudly |
funambulist | tightrope walker |
gourmet or epicure | gastronome |
indifference to sensation | stoicism |
interdiction | prohibition |
interstice | small space |
lionize | treat as a celebrity |
lyssophobia | fear of insanity |
magnum opus | great work |
maladroit | clumsy |
moribund | dying |
narcissism | self-infatuation |
nepotism | favoritism of relatives |
obsession | idee fixe |
patrician | aristrocrat |
perplexed | nonplussed |
plutocracy | government of the wealthy |
protagonist | leading person |
putative | thought-to-be |
reiterate | repeat |
repetition of successive phrases | anaphora |
sanction | authorize |
speech to oneself | soliloquy |
stone coffin | sarcophagous |
study of the universe | cosmology |
stupidly empty of ideas | vacuous |
summary | synopsis |
supercilious | scornful |
tediously wordy | prolix |
unfertilized birth | partheogenisis |
unknown land | terra incognita |
unrealistically imaginary | surrealistic |
with necessary changes | mutatis mutandis |
word choice | diction |