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9th grade English Greek Flashcards

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Gam

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Marrige

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Monogamy

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Dating/married to one person

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Polygamy

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Married to multiple people

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Morph

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Shape

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Metamorphasis

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To change shape

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Amorphis

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Something that doesn’t have a clearly defined shape

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Techn

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Skill or ability

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Technique

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Made from skill

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Technology

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the use of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, and for solving problems

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Technocracy

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Society controlled by knowledgeable experts who have skill In certain fields

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Mim

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to imitate someone

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Mime

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someone who imitates someone else

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Mimic

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To mock someone

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Pantomime

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acting without words, using body gestures

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Crypt

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Hidden or secret

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Cryptic

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A hidden meaning

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Encryption

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To hide something’s meaning

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Phan/Phen

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To appear

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Phantom

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a ghost

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Epiphany

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finally realizing the answer to something

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Phenomenon

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Something that you know is there but can’t really see

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Aero

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High, top, end

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Acrobat

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Gymnast that does tricks high in the air

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Trop

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To turn into

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Entropy

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Something becoming worse

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Catastrophy

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event that causes negative change

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Troph

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nourishment or food

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Atrophy

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lack of nourishment

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Dystrophy

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Muscles are not formed correctly

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Clin

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Slant or lean

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Incline

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to favor something OR hill with a steep slope

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Decline

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to say no to something OR something getting worse

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Agog

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To lead

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Pedagogy

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leading students to knowledge

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Demagogue

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Political leader that makes emotional speeches

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Synagogue

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The place of worship for a Jewish congregation

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Bas

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short or low

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base

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the main foundation of something

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Baseness

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showing you don’t have higher values

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Holo

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Entire or whole

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Holocaust

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A burnt sacrifice offered whole to God

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Holograph

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A document hand written by its author

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Hologram

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Whole (three-dimensional) message

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Therm

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heat

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Thermometer

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an instrument that measures temperature

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Hypothermia

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When the body goes into shock when temperatures are too cold

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Thermos

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A flask that preserves the temperature of hot or cold drinks

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Thermostat

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A device that controls the temperature of the house

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Bar

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Weight or pressure

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Barology

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The study of gravity

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Baritone

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a deep male voice

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Barometer

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A device that measure atmospheric weather

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Phot/Phos

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light

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Photosynthesis

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process that plants use sunlight to get their food

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Photograph

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a picture made using a camera then printed onto film or other light-sensitive material

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Pyr

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fire

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Pyromaniac

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someone obsessed with fire

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Pyrotechnics

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The science and craft involving fire

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Aer

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air

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Aeronautics

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the science of machines that can fly

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Aerodynamics

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the study of how air moves

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Aerobics

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types of exercises that involves and improves breathing

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Ether

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the purest, highest, air; heavens

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Ethereal

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something that seems too perfect that it cant be touched or understood by this world

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Caust

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burnt or red hot

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Caustic

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unkind, critical or mocking remark (burnt)

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Cauterize

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burning a wound to close it up

68
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holocaust

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Holo=whole, caust=burning/burn

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Schis/Schiz

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split

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Schism

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a division, or splitting of a group of people

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Schizophrenia

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splitting of the mind, seeing hallucinations or hearing voices

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Od

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path or way

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Exodus

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mass departure of people, they leave their home and go somewhere else

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Pseudo

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false or fake

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pseudoscience

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fake, or bad science

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pseudo-intellectual

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a person who claims they are smart but they aren’t

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pseudonym

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when an author writes under a fake name

78
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Phoria

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a state of being

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Euphoria

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a state of intense excitement or joy

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Dysphoria

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a state of dissatisfaction or confusion

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