Lit Vocab
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DSSTShelby_P on October 20, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 ambi/ amphi | around or both |
| ambiguous | to drive around, uncertian or haveing two possible meanings |
| ambiguity | the quality of having two possible meanings |
| ambivalence | conficting |
| a/an | not, without,unsually,irragular |
| agnostic | one who does not know whether ther is a god |
| atheist | one who think there is no god |
| ante/ anti | before |
| anticipate | to relize before |
| antiquated | to no longer be useful |
| antiquity | ancient times |
| ann/ enn | year |
| annals | historical events in yearly order |
| annual | yearly |
| perennial | lasting many years |
| auto | self |
| autocracy | government by one person |
| automatic | opperating by its self |
| autonomy | the right of self government |
| anthrop | human |
| anthropomorphism | giving human attribues to unhuman things |
| misanthrope | one who hates people |
| misanthropic | hatered for people |
| autopsy | a seeing for ones self, examimation of a dead body |
| cede/ ceed | go, yeild, give away |
| precede | to come, go, or excists before |
| proceed | to continue |
| bio | life |
| biosphere | the part of the earth extending out into the atmosphere where living things exsist |
| symbiosis | living together in close union of two close orgamisms often to thier benefit |
| symbiotic | living together in a close relationship often to the benefit of both |
| circum | around |
| circumference | distance around a circle |
| circumnavigate | to sail around |
| circumspect | to consider possible concenquences |
| circumvent | to come around, to get around, or to over come by artful maneuvering, to prevent |
| chron | time |
| anachronism | out of its proper historical time |
| chronicle | inorder of time |
| synchronice | to keep time in unison |
| cred | to believe |
| credence | to accept as true |
| crediable | believeable |
| credulous | believe on too little evidence, gullable |
| miscreant | not believing in religion |
| com,con, col, cor | together, with |
| coherent | to have a ordily relation of parts |
| commiserate | to sympathisze |
| consummate | complete in ever way |
| bi | two |
| bigamy | marrying two people |
| bipartisan | supported by two parties |
| bisect | to cut in half |
| bene | well, or good |
| benevolence | a kind act |
| benevolente | wishing someone well |
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