| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Anarchy | Absence of government |
| Autarchy | Rule by an absolute sovereign |
| Hierarchy | Body of rulers of officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it |
| Matriarchy | Mother rules the family or tribe |
| Monarchy | State ruled over by single person |
| Oligarchy | Form of government in which a few people have the power |
| Patriarchy | Father rules the family or tribe |
| Antipathy | Aversion, dislike |
| Apathy | Lack of feeling, interest, indifference |
| Empathy | The understanding of another's feelings |
| Pathetic | Arousing pity |
| Pathos | Quality in drama, speech, literature, music or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness |
| Sympathy | A sharing of feeling with another's troubles, compassion |
| Telepathy | Transference of the thoughts and feelings of one person to another by no apparent means of communication |
| Homeopathy | System of medical practice that treats disease by administering minute doses of a remedy which, if given to a healthy persons, would produce symptoms of the disease treated |
| 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 a mental disease 2) insane |
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