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Unit 2 Flashcards

0
Q

A mental illness in which a person has a strong desire to steal things

A

Kleptomania

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Madness

Root word

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Mania-

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A person with an extreme and uncontrollable desire for alcohol

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Dipsomaniac

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A mental disorder marked by feelings of great personal power and importance

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Megalomaniac

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Someone who is extremely self centered and ignores the problems/concerns of others

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Egomaniac

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5
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Breath, life, soul

Root word

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Psych-

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Soul, personality, mind

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Psyche

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  1. Of or relating to a drug (LSD) that produces abnormal and extreme mental effects (hallucinations)
  2. imitating the effects of psychedelic drugs
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Psychedelic

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Caused by mental or emotional problems rather than by physical illness

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Psychosomatic

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One who treats mental or emotional disorder or related bodily ills by psychological means

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Physchotherapist

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Take, seize

Root word

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Cept

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  1. The act of recieving

2. A social gathering where guests are formally welcomed

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Reception

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12
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To stop, seize, or interrupt before arrival

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Intercept

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Noticeable or able to be felt by the senses

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Perceptible

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  1. Open to some influence; responsive

2. Able to be submitted to an action or process

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Susceptible

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15
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End or boundary

Root word

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Fin-

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  1. To keep within limits

2. To hold in a location

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Confine

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  1. Authoritative and final

2. Specifying perfectly or precisely

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Definitive

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Having definite limits

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Finite

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Extremely or immeasurably small

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Infinitesimal

20
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Throw or hurl

Root word

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Ject-

21
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To interrupt a conversation with a comment or remark

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Interject

22
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To guess

A

Conjecture

23
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An estimate of what might happen in the future

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Projection

24
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The curved path that an object makes in space, or that a thrown object follows as it rises and falls to earth

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Trajectory

25
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Drag or draw

Root word

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Tract-

26
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The friction that allows a moving thing to move over a surface without slipping

A

Traction

27
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  1. To pull back into something larger

2. To take back something said or written

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Retract

28
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Drawn out, continued, extended

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Protracted

29
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Not easily handled, led, taught, or controlled

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Intractable

30
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To lead

Root word

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Duc/duct-

31
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Tending to promote, encourage, or assist; helpful

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Conductive

32
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  1. Subtraction

2. The reaching of a conclusion by reasoning

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Deduction

33
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  1. Persuade, influence

2. Being about

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Induce

34
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  1. Temptation to sin, especially temptation to sexual intercourse
  2. Attraction or charm
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Seduction

35
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To follow

Root word

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Sequ-

36
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  1. Arranged in order or in a series

2. Following in a series

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Sequential

37
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Following in time, order, or place; later

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Subsequent

38
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  1. Resulting

2. Important

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Consequential

39
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A statement that does not follow logically from anything previously said

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Non Sequitur

40
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*Harmonious, ordered, rational, calm

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Apollonian

41
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Frenzied, orgiastic

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Bacchanalian

42
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Unclear, ambiguous, or confusing

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Delphic

43
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Frenzied, delirious

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Dionysian

44
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Jolly, good-natured

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Jovial

45
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Having rapid and unpredictable changes of mood

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Mercurial

46
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Lofty, superior, detached

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Olympian

47
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Having to do with sexual intercourse or diseases transmitted by it

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Venereal

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