Word Within the Word List #36
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Created by:
phil1225 on November 2, 2010
Subjects:
english, stems, the word within the word
Description:
List #36 from Michael Clay Thompson's "The Word Within the Word Vol. 2"
Classes:
Ms. Elliott's seminar peoples!, The Word Within The Word
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36 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 pre | before |
| gen | origin |
| jur | swear |
| sopor | sleep |
| ped | foot |
| lin | line |
| tomy | cut |
| tort | twist |
| ob | against |
| 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 repitition |
| 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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