ENGLISH - 9H Lessons 5 and 6
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 amicable | friendly |
| amity | friendship |
| enamored | in love with |
| inimical | harmful |
| odious | hateful |
| bibliophile | a lover of books |
| philander | to engage in casual love affairs |
| philanthropy | good will to fellow human beings |
| phobia | strong, irrational fear |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| hydrophobia | fear of water |
| xenophobia | fear of what is strange or foreign |
| appease | to calm |
| pacific | peaceful |
| pacify | to calm; to make quiet |
| antipathy | a hatred |
| apathy | lack of feeling |
| empathy | ability to understand others feelings |
| pathological | referring to pathology, the study of disease |
| pathos | a feeling of sympathy |
| misogamy | hatred of marriage |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| dysentery | severe diarrhea |
| dyslexia | a serious difficulty learning to read |
| covet | to crave or desire |
| cupidity | greed |
| complacent | self satisfied;smug |
| implacable | impossible to calm or appease |
| placate | to calm;to pacify; to appease |
| placid | showing calmness, peacefulness, or composure |
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