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Stack #37523
WPME - 3
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| CHEIR(GREEK) | hand |
| CHIROGRAPHY | expert in writing by hand |
| -mancy | foretelling; prediction |
| CHIROMANCY | who tells future seeing hands |
| PODIATRIST | another name for chiropodist |
| GRAPHIEN(GREEK) | to write |
| KALLOS(GREEK) | beauty |
| CALLIGRAPHY | beautiful writing |
| KAKOS(GREEK) | bad; harsh |
| CACOGRAPHY | bad, scrawly or illegible handwriting |
| GERON(GREEK) | old man |
| SENEX(LATIN) | old |
| SENILE | showng signs of physical and/or mental deioration that generally marks old age |
| SENESCENT | aging; growing old |
| ADOLOSCENT | growing into an adult |
| CONVALESCENT | growing healthy again |
| OBSOLESCENT | growing or becoming obsolete |
| SENATE | originally a council of older, and persumably wiser citizens |
| PYGE | buttocks |
| CALLIPYGIAN | having beautiful buttocks |
| PROPHECY | prediction |
| PROPHESY | predict |
| ASTRON(GREEK) | star |
| NOMOS(GREEK) | arrangement, law or order |
| ASTRONOMER | one who is interested in arrangement of stars |
| ASTROLOGY | study of influence of stars and planets on human events |
| NAUTES(GREEK) | sailor |
| ASTRONAUT | sailor among stars |
| KASMOS(GREEK) | universe |
| COSMONAUT | sailor among universe |
| NAUTICAL | relating to sailors, sailing, ships or navigation |
| NAUS(GREEK) | nautes is derived from naus meaning ship |
| NAUSEA | sea sickness |
| ASTER | star shaped flower |
| ASTERISK | star shaped symbol |
| DISASTER | against stars |
| AUTOS(GREEK) | self |
| AUTONOMY(AUTOS+NOMOS) | self law; self government |
| METRONOME | instrument that beginners at the piano use to guide their timings |
| GEOLOGY | earth + study |
| GEOMETRY(GEO + METRON) | branch of mathematics dealing wih measurement and proerties of solid and plane figures |
| ERGON(GREEK) | work |
| GEORGE | earth worker or farmer |
| BIOPSY(BIO +OPSIS) | (life + view) a medical examination, generally through a microscope of living tissue, frequently performed when cancer is suspected |
| AUTOPSY(AUTO + OPSIS) | seeing for oneself; (what was the cause of death?) |
| BOTANE(GREEK) | plant |
| ZOION(GREEK) | animal |
| ZODIAC | diagram used in astrology |
| ENTOMOLOGY( en- + TOME + LOGY) | (in + cutting + study) branch of zoology dealing with insects |
| INSECTS( in + SECTUS) | sectus means to cut |
| TOUNSILLECTOMY | cutting out of tonsil |
| APPENDECTOMY | cutting out of appendix |
| MASTECTOMY | cutting out of breast |
| HYSTERECTOMY | cutting out of uterus |
| PROSTATECTOMY | cutting out of prostate |
| ECCENTRIC | out of centre; deviating from normal in behaviour |
| ATOM | not to be cut |
| ana- (GREEK) | one of several meanings is UP |
| ANATOMY | cutting up of plant or animal to determine it's structure |
| DISCHOTOMY | ( in two + cut) technical word for splitting in two |
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