| Term | Definition |
|---|
| MIS [MISS, MIT, MITT] | send |
| demise | death |
| emissary | person sent out on a mission |
| emit | send out, give off |
| intermittent | coming and going at intervals |
| missile | weapon, capable of being propelled to hit a distant object |
| missive | written message sent, letter |
| remisss | negligent, carless, sent back |
| remission | lessening, relieving or dissappearance, forgiveness, or cancellation |
| remit | send money due, forgive |
| LOCUT [LOQU] | speak, talk |
| circumlocution | roundabout way of speaking |
| colloquial | conversational, informal |
| elocution | art of speaking out or reading effectively in public |
| eloquent | speaking with force and fluency, movingly expressive |
| grandiloquent | using lofty or pompous words, bombastic |
| interlocutor | questioner, one who participates in a conversation |
| loquacious | talkative, garrulous |
| obloquy | speaking against, censure, reproach, bad repute |
| FER[ous] | bearing, producing, yeilding |
| coniferous | bearing cones, as the pine tree |
| odoriferous | yeilding an odor, usually fragrant |
| proliferous | producing new growth rapidly and extensively |
| somniferous | bearing or inducing sleep |
| vociferous | producing a loud outcry, clamorous, noisy |
| PHOBIA | fear, dislike, aversion |
| agoraphobia | fear of open spaces |
| xenophobia | aversion to foreigners |
| MIS | hate |
| misogyny | hatred of women |
| DYS | bad, ill, difficult |
| dysentery | inflammation of the large intestine |
| dysfunction | abnormal functioning, as of an organ of the body |
| EU | good, well, advantageous |
| euphemism | substitution of a 'good' expression for an unpleasant one |
| A [AN] | not, without |
| anhydrous | destitute of (without) water |
| anomalolus | not normal, abnormal |
| MONO [MON] | one, single, alone |
| POLY | many |
| monolithic | massive and rigidly uniform |
| polyglot | person who speaks several languages |
| BIO | life |
| symbiosis | living together in mutually helped association of two dissimilar organisms |
| TOMY [TOM] | cutting, operation of incision |
| dichotomy | cutting or division into two, division |
| tome | one volume, or 'cut' of a work into several volumes, scholarly book |
| POD | foot |
| antipodes | parts of the globe diametrically opposite to each other |
| HOMO | one and the same, like |
| HETERO | different |
| homogeneous | of the same kind, similar, uniform |
| hetergeneous | differing in kind, dissimilar, varied |
| heterodox | opposed to accepted beliefs or established doctrines, especially in religion, unorthodox |
| HYPER | over, above, beyond the ordinary |
| HYPO | under, beneath, less than the ordinary |
| hypertension | abnormally high blood pressure |
| hyperbole | extravagant exaggeration of statement |
| hypothetical | assumed without proof for the purpose of reasoning, conjectural |
| ENDO | within |
| EXTO | out of, outside |
| exoteric | known externally, readily understandable |
| ARCHY | rule |
| heirarchy | body of rulers or officials grouped in ranks, each being subordinate to the rank above it, pecking order |
| GEO | earth, ground |
| apogee | farthest point from the earth in the orbit of a heavenly body, culmination |
| PATH [PATHO, PATHY] | feeling, suffering, disease |
| antipathy | aversion, dislike |
| pathos | quality in drama, speech, literature, music, or events that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness |
| pathological | due to disease |
| MORPH | form |
| amorphous | having no definite form, shapeless, unorganized |
| metamorphosis | change of form |
| PERI | around, about, near, enclosing |
| peripatetic | traveling about, itinerant |
| peripheral | outside the boundary, outside or away from the central part, only slightly connected with what is essential, merely incidental |
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