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mfortnow on May 1, 2012
Description:
Ms. Jaurez 2012 Quarter 4
Classes:
Edgewood Middle School, Juarez 5/6 2012
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69 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 thanatos | death |
| opia | sight |
| vac | empty |
| luc | light |
| ize | make |
| sed | sit |
| fug | flee |
| pusill | small |
| nepo | nephew |
| viv | life |
| spir | breathe |
| syn | together |
| man | hand |
| ism | system |
| sub | under |
| ine | nature of |
| anim | mind |
| bon | good |
| ous | full of |
| thanatopsis | view of death |
| vacuous | stupidly empty of ideas |
| lucubration | late studying |
| ex cathedra | from the throne |
| legerdemain | sleight of hand |
| suspiration | deep sigh |
| nepotism | favoritism to relative |
| synoptic | general in view |
| lionize | treat as a celebrity |
| assiduous | preserving |
| subterfuge | evasive dodge |
| bon vivant | indulger in luxury |
| saturnine | sad and gloomy |
| sedentary | sitting |
| pusillanimous | small-minded |
| pre | before |
| gen | origin |
| jur | swear |
| sopor | sleep |
| ped | foot |
| lin | line |
| tomy | cut |
| tort | twist |
| sesqui | one and a half |
| nec | kill |
| post | after |
| son | sound |
| demo | people |
| inter | between |
| cracy | government |
| phan | appearance |
| dicho | in two parts |
| sui | self |
| partheno | virgin |
| pluto | wealth |
| a priori | from theory |
| a posteriori | from observation |
| parthenogenesis | unfertilized birth |
| assonance | vowel repetition |
| Objurgation | rebuke |
| demotic | of the common people |
| soporific | sleep-inducing |
| internecine | mutually destructive |
| sesquipedalian | very long words |
| sui generis | unique |
| plutocracy | government of wealthy |
| delineate | to outline |
| dichotomy | two-part division |
| epiphany | revelation |
| tortuous | twisting |
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