ARCHY "rule", GEO "earth", "ground", PATH (PATHO, PATHY) "feeling", "suffering", "disease"
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 antipathy | aversion ("feeling against"); dislike |
| apathy | lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or excitement; indifference |
| empathy | complete understanding of another's feelings, motives, etc. |
| pathetic | arousing pity |
| pathos | quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness |
| sympathy | sharing of ("feeling with") another's trouble; compassion |
| telepathy | transference of the thoughts and feelings of one person to another by no apparent means of communication |
| homeopathy | treatment of disease with minute doses of a remedy that, if given in massive doses to healthy persons, would produce effects like those of the disease |
| osteopath | practitioner of osteopathy (treatment of diseases by manipulation of bones, muscles, nerves, etc.) |
| pathogenic | causing disease |
| pathological | due to disease |
| psychopathic | 1. pertaining to mental disease 2. insane |
| geocentric | measured from the earth's center; having the earth as a center |
| geodetic | pertaining to geodesy (mathematics dealing with the earth's shape and dimensions) |
| geography | study of the earth's surface, climate, continents, people, products, etc. |
| geology | science dealing with the earth's history as recorded in rocks |
| geometry | mathematics dealing with lines, angles, surfaces, and solids (literally, "measurement of land") |
| geomorphic | pertaining to the shape of the earth or the form of its surfaces |
| geophysics | science treating of the forces that modify the earth |
| geopolitics | study of government and its policies as affected by physical geography |
| geoponics | art or science of agriculture (literally, "working of the earth") |
| georgic | adj. agricultural |
| georgic | n. poem on husbandry (farming) |
| geotropism | response to earth's gravity, as the growing of roots downward in the ground |
| apogee | farthest point from its center in the orbit of a heavenly body; culmination |
| anarchy | total absence of rule or government; confusion; disorder |
| autarchy | rule by an absolute sovereign |
| hierarchy | body of rulers or officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it; pecking order |
| matriarchy | form of social organization in which the mother rules the family or tribe, descent being traced through the mother |
| monarchy | state ruled over by a single person, as a king or queen |
| oligarchy | form of government in which a few people have the power |
| patriarchy | form of social organization in which the father rules the family or tribe, descent being traced through the father |
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