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Stack #38286
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| MATERNITY | motherhood |
| MATERNAL | motherly |
| MATRON | an older woman, one sufficiently mature to be a mother |
| ALMA MATER | (soul mother) the school or college which one attended |
| MATRIMONY | marriage |
| MATRICIDE | the killing of one's mother |
| SUICIDE( SUI = of oneself) | the killing of oneself |
| FRATRICIDE( frater/fratis = brother) | the killing of one's brother |
| SORORICIDE(soror = sister) | the killing of one's sister |
| HOMICIDE(homo = person) | the killing of human being |
| MONSLAUGHTER | killing without intention |
| REGICIDE( REX/REGIS = king) | the killing of a king |
| UXORICIDE( UXOR = wife) | the killing of one's wife |
| MARITICIDE( MARITIUS = husband) | the killing of one's husband |
| INFANTICIDE( INFANS/INFANTIS = baby) | the killing of new born child |
| GENOCIDE( GENOS = race/kind) | the killing of a whole race or nation |
| PARRICIDE | the killing of either or both parents |
| TO FRATENIZE | to have a brotherly relationship (with) |
| FRATERNAL | brotherly; also designates non identical (twins) |
| FRATERNITY | brotherhood; men's organisation; any group of people with simliar intrest or profession |
| SORORITY | women's organisation |
| UXORIOUS | one who loves his wife too much |
| HENPECKED | one who is dominated by his wife |
| UXORIAL | pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a wife |
| MARITAL | pertaining to, characteristic of, or befitting a husband; but the meaning includes relationship of both wife and husband |
| MONOMANIAC(MONO = one + MANIA = madness) | abnormal obsession in respect to one particular thing, but is otherwise normal |
| DIPSOMANIA( DIPSA = thirst) | morbid compulsion to keep on absorbing alcoholic beverages |
| KLEPTOMANIA( KLEPTE = thief) | morbid compulsion to thief |
| PYROMANIA( PYROS = fire) | morbid compulsion to start fires |
| INCENDRIARISM( INCENDO/ INCENSUS = to set fire) | malicious and deliberate burning of another's property |
| ARSON(ANDRO/ARSUS = to burn) | setting fire to one's property for an improper purpose such as economic gain |
| MEGALOMANIA(MEGAS = great;big;large) | morbid delusions of grandeur, power, importance, godliness |
| NYMPHOMANIA(nymph = bride) | morbid, incessant, uncontrollable and intense desire, on the part of female for sexual intercourse |
| SATYROMANIA (SATYROS = satyr) | morbid, incessant, uncontrollable and intense desire, on the part of male for sexual intercourse |
| SATYR | was mythological Greek God, notorious for lechery |
| SATYRIASIS | more common name for satyromania |
| CLAUSTROPHOBIA( CLAUSTRUM = enclosed place + PHOBIA = morbid fear) | morbid dread of being physically hemmed in, of enclosed spaces, of crowds, etc. |
| AGROPHOBIA( AGORA = market place) | morbid dread of open space; reverse of claustrophobia |
| ACROPHOBIA(AKROS = highest) | morbid dread of high places |
| ICONOCLAST( EIKON = a religious image + KLAEIN = to break) | sneers at conventions and traditions |
| ATHEIST ( A- + THEOS = god) | doesnot believe in god |
| AGNOSTICISM( A- + GNOSTOS = known) | philosophy that claims god is unknowable |
| DIAGNOSIS( DIA- + GNOSIS) | (through + knowledge) knowing thru examination or testing |
| PROGNOSIS(PRO- = before+ GNOSIS) | prediction, generally but not solely as to the course of a disease |
| MONOTHEISM | belief in one god |
| POLYTHEISM | belief in many gods |
| PANTHEISM( PAN = all + THEOS) | " god is a combination of all forces of universe" |
| THEOLOGY | the study of god and religion |
| LECHER( LECHIER = to lick) | make sexual advances to everyone else's wife |
| LIBIDINOUS(LIBIDO ) | (pleasure) |
| LASCIVIOUS(LASCIVIA) | (wantonness) |
| LUBRICIOUS(LUBRICUS) | (slippery) |
| LICENTIOUS(LICERE) | to be permitted |
| ILLICIT | not permitted |
| LEWD(LEWED) | (vile) |
| LUSTFUL | (blank) |
| PRURIENT(PRURIO = to itch/ to long for) | describes someone who is filled with great sexual curiosity, desire, longing, etc. |
| PRURITIS | medical condition in which skin is very itchy |
| HYPOCHONDRIA(HYPOS + CHONDROS) | (under + cartilage of the breastbone) unceasingly and unhappily anxious about health |
| HYPER ( GREEK) | over |
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