Tranche 13

Question 1

What does the root OD- mean?

Answer 1

Route, path

Question 2

Define the term ‘period’.

Answer 2

A specific span of time determined by something

Question 3

What does the root ONYM- refer to?

Answer 3

Name

Question 4

What is a patronym?

Answer 4

Family name

Question 5

What is toponymy?

Answer 5

Study of place names, their etymology

Question 6

What is an antonym?

Answer 6

A word that has an opposite meaning

Question 7

What does anonymous mean?

Answer 7

Someone whose name is not known

Question 8

What does the root ORTHO- signify?

Answer 8

Straight, direct

Question 9

Define orthodontics.

Answer 9

Branch of dental medicine dealing with teeth misalignment

Question 10

What is orthodoxy?

Answer 10

Conformity to a dogma, to the doctrine of a religion

Question 11

What does orthogonal mean?

Answer 11

That forms a right angle

Question 12

What is orthography?

Answer 12

See GRAPH(O)-

Question 13

What does the root PAR(A)- mean?

Answer 13

Beside, partly

Question 14

Define paragraph.

Answer 14

A division in a piece of writing in which a new idea is introduced

Question 15

What is paralysis?

Answer 15

Loss of motor function in a part of the body

Question 16

What does paranoia refer to?

Answer 16

Mental disorder causing aggressive reactions

Question 17

What are paronyms?

Answer 17

Words that are almost homonyms

Question 18

What is a paroxysm?

Answer 18

The highest degree of a feeling

Question 19

What does the root PATH- indicate?

Answer 19

To be affected, moved

Question 20

Define pathetic.

Answer 20

Something that evokes intense emotion, often unpleasant; moving, poignant

Question 21

What is pathos?

Answer 21

Excessive pathetic tone in a speech or writing

Question 22

What is antipathy?

Answer 22

Instinctive, irrational aversion (opposite of sympathy)

Question 23

What does apathy mean?

Answer 23

Without energy, inactive, dull, unresponsive

Question 24

What does the root PATH(O)- refer to?

Answer 24

Disease

Question 25

Define neuropath.

Answer 25

Someone suffering from a nervous disease

Question 26

What is a psychopath?

Answer 26

Mentally ill person

Question 27

What does psychopathology study?

Answer 27

Study of mental disorders, foundational science of psychiatry

Question 28

What is a pathogen?

Answer 28

That can cause a disease