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Philanthropy |
a desire to help mankind, esp. as shown by gifts to charitable or humanitarian institutions; benevolence |
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Misanthrope |
a person who hates or distrusts all people |
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bibliomaniac |
book collector, book nut |
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euphonious |
characterized by euphony; having a pleasant sound; harmonious |
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microscopic |
so small as to be invisible or obscure except through a microscope; extremely small; minute |
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telegraphy |
the transmission of messages by telegraph |
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skeptical |
not easily persuaded or convinced; doubting; questioning |
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aphonic |
not pronounced, voiceless |
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anarchy |
the complete absence of government |
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demography |
the statistical science dealing with the distribution, density, vital statistics, etc. of human populations |
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oligarchy |
a form of government in which the ruling power belongs to a few persons |
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misogynist |
sexist, male chauvinist, celibate, misanthrope, woman-hater, bachelor |
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genealogy |
a chart or recorded history of the descent of a person or family from an ancestor or ancestors |
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eulogy |
speech or writing in praise of a person, event, or thing; esp., a formal speech praising a person who has recently died |
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polytheist |
belief in or worship of many gods, or more than one god |
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isodynamic |
of or having equal force |
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monochrome |
a painting, drawing, design, or photograph in one color or shades of one color |
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heliocentric |
calculated from, viewed as from, or belonging to the center of the sun |
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diarchy |
government shared by two rulers, powers, etc |
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symmetry |
similarity of form or arrangement on either side of a dividing line or plane; correspondence of opposite parts in size, shape, and position; condition of being symmetrical: the whole or the corresponding parts are said to have symmetry |
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eccentric |
deviating from the norm, as in conduct; odd; unconventional,not exactly circular in shape or motion |
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apathy |
lack of interest; listless condition; unconcern; indifference |
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pathology |
the branch of medicine that deals with the nature of disease, esp. with the structural and functional changes caused by disease |
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logorrhea |
excessive talkativeness, esp. when incoherent and uncontrollable |
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agnostic |
a person who believes that the human mind cannot know whether there is a God or an ultimate cause, or anything beyond material phenomena |
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monotone |
a single, unchanging musical tone |
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cephalopod |
any of a class (Cephalopoda) of marine mollusks having a distinct head with highly developed eyes, varying numbers of arms, with suckers, attached to the head about the mouth, and a saclike fin-bearing mantle, as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish |
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polyglot |
speaking or writing several languages |
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pachyderm |
any of certain large, thick-skinned, hoofed animals, as the elephant, rhinoceros, and hippopotamus, formerly classified together |
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hypodermic |
of the parts under the skin, stimulating or exciting, as though resulting from a hypodermic injection |
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biography |
an account of a person's life, described by another; life story |
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physiology |
the branch of biology dealing with the functions and vital processes of living organisms or their parts and organs |
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petrology |
the branch of geology that deals with the classification, location, composition, structure, and origin of rocks |
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iconoclast |
one who attacks and seeks to destroy widely accepted ideas, beliefs, etc |
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anonymous |
given, written, etc. by a person whose name is withheld or unknown |
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ethnologist |
the branch of anthropology that studies comparatively the cultures of contemporary, or recent, societies or language groups |
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cosmopolitan |
characterized by worldly sophistication; fashionable, urbane, etc |
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hypercritical |
too critical; too severe in judgment; hard to please |
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monopoly |
exclusive control of a commodity or service in a given market, or control that makes possible the fixing of prices and the virtual elimination of free competition |
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idiosyncrasy |
any personal peculiarity, mannerism, etc |
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sporadic |
widely separated from others, scattered, or isolated in occurrence; appearing singly, apart, or in isolated instances |
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entomology |
the branch of zoology that deals with insects |
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polygamy |
the practice of mating with more than one of the opposite sex |
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atrophy |
a wasting away, esp. of body tissue, an organ, etc., or the failure of an organ or part to grow or develop, as because of insufficient nutrition |
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ballistics |
the science dealing with the motion and impact of projectiles, such as bullets, rockets, bombs, etc. |
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allonym |
a work published under a name that is not that of the author |
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isotherm |
a line on a map connecting points on the earth's surface having the same mean temperature or the same temperature at a given time |
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caustic |
that can burn, eat away, or destroy tissue by chemical action; corrosive |
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pseudonym |
a fictitious name, esp. one assumed by an author; pen name |
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necropolis |
cemetery, esp. one belonging to an ancient city |
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epitaph |
an inscription on a tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there |
