Flashcards: English Exam Vocab
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berniebrug1 on January 17, 2010
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Holton vocab for English Exam on the Odyessy books I- IV; Psyche,Pan and Pantheia; Mythology
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 psychedelic | whatever generates hallucinations, perceptual disorders |
| psychiatry | the medical practice that deals with disorders of the mind |
| psychic | those who claim to have the ability to engage in telepathy or who claim to be able to see events to which they were not a part |
| psychosomatic | a person who experiences bodily symptoms which are primarily caused by the workings of the mind |
| psychosis | a servere mental disorder that may or may not be real (organic in nature) |
| psychopath | a person suffering from a mental disorder |
| psyche | mind; soul |
| pan | all |
| panegyric | a praisworthy commendation, either spoken or written |
| panacea | a cure-all |
| pandemic | relating to all peple |
| panorama | all that lies in a person's field of vision |
| pantheism | belief that God is the sum of all natural forces or any religious belief that God and the universe are one |
| Pantology | the study of knowledge |
| panophobia | the dread, irrational fear of all things |
| panoply | a complete of array of something |
| pantheon | a temple dedicated to all of the gods |
| patheia | feeling; disease |
| apathy | indifference; absence of concern; no feeling one way or another |
| pathology | the study or science relating to the origin, nature and course of diseases |
| osteopathy | a therapeutic system based on the notion that restoration and maintenance of good healthy can best be achieved by mainpulating skeletal bones and muscles |
| hydropathy | the treatment of disease by the use of water, externally or internally |
| pathos | feeling |
| antipathy | a basic or habitual repugnance, an aversion |
| empathy | the projection of one's own personality into the personality of another in order to understand the person better: the ability to share in another's emotions, thoughts, or feelings |
| telepathy | communication between the minds by some means other than sensory perception |
| sympathy | sameness of feeling; affinity between persons or of one person for another |
| ordained | established by order or command |
| patrimony | an inheritance from a father or other ancestor |
| baleful | deadly, sinister |
| buffets | to strike against forcefully, batter |
| relent | to give in, as in influence or pressure |
| renown | being known and talked of; reputation from extensive praise of great achievements |
| retainers | a servant |
| din | a jumble of loud, usually discordant sounds |
| engendering | to bring into existence, generate |
| divining | to know by inspiration, reflection |
| divination | an indication of what is future or secret, prediction |
| sage | having or exhibting wisdom or wise judgment |
| lament | to express grief for or about, mourn |
| cunning | deceptiveness |
| shroud | a cloth used to wrap a body for burial |
| foreboding | to indicate the likelihood of, to predict |
| malice | a desire to harm others or see others suffer |
| insolent | disrespectful |
| precedence | priority claimed, or recieved b/c of superiority |
| hekatomb | a sacrifice to the ancient gods consisting of 100 cattle |
| stratagem | a military maneuvar designed to decieve or suprise an enemy |
| pacify | to ease the anger |
| rite | a ceremonial act or series of acts |
| mulled | to go over extensively in the mind, ponder |
| illustrious | well-known and very distinguished |
| lithe | flexible, limber |
| desolation | devastation |
| revel | to take great pleasure or delight, pull back |
| surfeit | overindulgence in food or drink |
| dissemble | to disguise or coneal behind a false appearance |
| clamor | to exclaim insistently and noisily |
| eurekaing | i have found (it) |
| Trojan Horse | a person of thing that destroys from within |
| amazon | a tall, powerful, aggressive woman |
| Spartan | sternly disciplined and rigorously simple, frugal or austere |
| bacchanalia | a riotous, boisterous festivity, a revel |
| iridescent | displaying a play of lustrous colors like those of the rainbow |
| labyrinthine | of or pertaining to a labyrinth, complicated, tortuous |
| martial | inclined or disposed to war, warlike; or associated with war or the armed forces; characteristic of or befitting a warrior |
| mentor | a wise and trusted counselor or teacher; an influential senoir sponsor or supporter |
| psyche | the human soul, spirit or mind |
| harp on | to dwell on persistently or tediously in speaking or writing |
| tantalize | to torment with the sight of something desired but out of reach; to tease |
| narcissist | someone in love with him or himself |
| achilles heel | a crucial weaknees; a vulnerable spot |
| Herculean | very powerful or courageous; having the great size, strength or courage of Hercules |
| mercurial | changeable |
| titanic | of enormous size, strength, power |
| aphrodisiac | something that heightens desire |
| odyssey | an extended adventorous voyage or trip |
| siren | a seductively beautiful or charming woman, esp. one who beguiles men |
| midas touch | the ability to turn something of little value into something of great value |
| muse | to think or meditate in silence on some subject |
| adonis | a very handsome young man |