Vocab from Classical Roots C Ch. 4
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 puerile | childish; immature |
| orthopedics | branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system & tissues related to movement |
| pedagogue | a teacher |
| pedant | a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding OR a scholarly show-off |
| entity | something that has a real or independent existence |
| nonentity | a person or thing of no importance OR something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| essence | the basic element; the identifying characteristic OR a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug OR a perfume |
| moribund | about to die or end |
| mortify | to shame OR to discipline oneself by denial |
| postmortem | an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy OR (informal) an analysis of something that is over |
| euthanasia | the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing |
| innate | possesed at birth; inborn |
| naïve | childlike; unsophisticated OR gullible |
| nascent | emerging; coming into existence |
| renaissance | a rebirth; a renewal OR (capitalized) a revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe |
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