| Term | Definition |
|---|
| credence | belief; acceptance as true |
| credible | believable |
| credulous | believing to readily on too little evidence; gullible |
| miscreant | originally, an unbeliever in religion; now, and evildoer or criminal |
| concur | to run together; to agree |
| cursory | running over rapidly without attention to detail; hasty and superficial |
| precursor | a person or thing that runs before; a forerunner |
| CUR- | to run |
| CRED- | to believe |
| DEM- | people |
| democracy | people rule; government by representatives elected by the people |
| epidemic | upon the people; a disease or other abnormal condition spreading rapidly among many people |
| DICT- | to speak |
| contradict | to speak against; to assert the opposite of what someone has said |
| dictatorial | speaking and acting in a domineering or oppresive way |
| VIT-, VIV- | to live/ life |
| MORT- | death |
| AMBI-, AMPHI- | around, both |
| ANN-, ENN- | year |
| ANTE-, ANTI- | before |
| ANTHROP- | human |
| ANTI- | against, opposite |
| BENE- | good |
| AUTO- | self |
| BIO- | life |
| BI- | two |
| CHRON- | time |
| CEDE- | go, yield |
| CON-, COM-, COL-, COR- | together, with |
| CIRCUM- | around |
| EQU- | equal |
| equate | to represent as equal |
| equilibrium | a state of balance |
| equinox | equal night; the time of year when the sun crosses the equator and day and night are of equal length |
| DIS-, DI-, DIF- | not, away, apart |
| disconsolate | hopelessly sad |
| disparity | difference; unlikeness |
| dissent | to differ in opinion or feeling; to withhold approval |
| EU- | good, well |
| euphemism | to subsitution of a mild (good) word in place of a distasteful or unpleasant one |
| euphoria | a feeling of well-being |
| euthanasia | a good death; painless putting to death for merciful reasons, as with a terminal illness |
| EX-, ES-, E- | out |
| ebullient | bubbling out; overflowing with enthusiasm |
| eradicate | to tear out by the roots; to destroy |
| exonerate | to take the burden out; to free from charge or from guilt |
| fidelity | faithfulness |
| infidel | not faithful; a person who does not believe in a particular religion |
| infidelity | unfaithfulness, especially in marriage |
| genesis | the birth or coming into being of anything; origin; creation |
| genial | having a friendly and kindly manner |
| genocide | the systematic, planned killing of a racial, political, or cultural group |
| GEN- | birth, race, kind |
| FID- | faith |
| cardiogram | a written tracing showing the contractions of the heart |
| graffiti | crude drawings or writings scratched on public walls |
| seismograph | a instrument for recording the intensity and duration of an earthquake |
| GRAPH-, GRAM- | to write |
| hyperbole | a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect |
| hypercritical | extremely critical |
| HYPER- | overmuch, too far |
| LOG- | speech, word |
| analogy | resemblence in some particulars between things otherwise unlike |
| dialogue | speech between two or more people; a conversational passage in a play or narrative |
| epilogue | a speech directed to the audience at the conclusion of a play |
| monologue | a speech by one person |
| prologue | a speech before a play; an introductory event |
| LOGY- | study of |
| archeology | the study of ancient cultures based on artifacts and other remains |
| anthropology | the study of physical, social, and cultural development of human beings |
| astrology | a psuedoscience claiming to foretell the future by a study of the stars |
| ecology | the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment (home) |
| geology | the study of the history of the Earth |
| meterology | the study of the atmosphere, especially weather and weather conditions |
| ornithology | the branch of zoology dealing with birds |
| physchology | the study of mental processes and behavior |
| MAL- | bad |
| malevolent | wishing evil towards others |
| malice | active bad feeling or ill will |
| malignant | bad or harmful; likely to cause death |
| LOQU-, LOC- | to speak (2nd) |
| colloquial | the language used when people speak together informally; informal or conversational |
| loquacious | talktative |
| soliloquy | speaking alone to oneself, as in a drama, a monologue |
| ventriloquist | one who speaks from the stomach; one who speask so that the sounds come from somewhere other than the speaker's mouth |
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