Quizlet Vocab Stewart

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  1. anthropology: scientific study of the origins, cultural development, and customs of human beings
  2. autocrat: ruler who has absolute or unlimited power
  3. automaton: person who behaves in a mechanical manner
  4. autonomy: condition of being self-governing
  5. autopsy: examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death
  6. avuncular: like an uncle
  7. bigamy: marriage to two mates
  8. congenital: existing at birth but not hereditary
  9. egoism: valuing everything according to one's personal interest
  10. engender: give rise to
  11. entity: something that has a real or independent existence
  12. essence: basic element
  13. euthanasia: act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal
  14. familial: having to do with the family
  15. feminism: belief that women should possess the same political and economic rights as men
  16. feminist: supporter of women's claims to the same rights and treatment as men
  17. fraternal: pertaining to brothers
  18. fraternize: to be friendly with
  19. genealogy: record of decent from one's ancestors
  20. genesis: beginning
  21. genocide: planned annihilation of a racial group
  22. genre: type, class, or category
  23. genteel: well-mannered
  24. gentile: anyone not of the Jewish family
  25. gentry: aristocratic
  26. gynecology: branch of medicine dealing with disorders and treatment of the reproductive system in women
  27. heterogeneous: having parts that are unrelated or completely different
  28. homicide: killing of one person by another
  29. homogeneous: of the same kind of sort
  30. humane: having the worthy qualities of human beings
  31. humanism: a philosophy in which interest and values of human beings are of primary importance
  32. humanities: branches of knowledge concerned with human beings and their culture
  33. indigenous: occurring in an area
  34. ingenious: cleverly inventive
  35. innate: possessed at birth
  36. matriarchy: society ruled or controlled by women
  37. matriculate: register as a student at a college
  38. matrix: surroundings within which something begins
  39. misanthrope: person who hates all people
  40. monogamy: marriage to a single mate
  41. moribund: about to die or end
  42. mortify: to shame
  43. naive: childlike
  44. nascent: emerging
  45. nonentity: a person or thing of no importance
  46. orthopedics: branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system
  47. patriarch: male head of family
  48. patrimony: family inheritance
  49. patronage: support
  50. patronize: to go to regularly
  51. patronymic: name derived from a paternal ancestor
  52. pedagogue: teacher
  53. pedant: person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
  54. postmortem: an examination to determine cause of death
  55. progenitor: direct ancestor
  56. progeny: children or descendants
  57. puerile: childish
  58. renaissance: a rebirth
  59. uxorious: dominated by one's wife
  60. virile: having certain characteristics traditionally associated with masculinuty