Word Power

Question 1

egoist

Answer 1

someone who puts themselves ahead of others.

egoist and egotist are built on the same Latin root-the pronoun ego, meaning I. I is the greatest concern in the egoist’s mind the most overused word in the egotist’s vocabulary. (Keep the words differentiated in your own mind by thinking of the t in talk, and the additional t in egotist.)…If you are. An egocentric, you consider yourself the center of the universe-you are an extreme form of the egoist. And if you are n egomaniac, you carry egoism to such an extreme that your needs, desires, and interests have become a morbid obsession, a mania.” (33-34)

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Question 2

alter

Answer 2

other (alternate) “What’s the alternative” Bakery with only croissants. The other option?

Question 3

intro

Answer 3

inside (introvert)

Question 4

extro

Answer 4

outside (extrovert)

Question 5

ambi

Answer 5

both (ambidextrous)

Question 6

misein

Answer 6

hate (misogynist)

Question 7

antrhopos

Answer 7

mankind (misanthrope)

Question 8

gyne

Answer 8

woman (gynecologist)

Question 9

gamos

Answer 9

marriage (polygamy)

Question 10

asketes

Answer 10

monk (ascetic)

“a monk lives a lonely life-not for him the pleasures of the fleshpots, the laughter and merriment of convivial gatherings, the dissipation of high living. Rather, days of contemplation, study, and rough toil, nights on a hard bed in a simple cell, and the kind of self-denial that leads to a purification of the soul.” (42)

Question 11

centrum

Answer 11

center (egocentric)

Question 12

mania

Answer 12

madness (egomaniacle)

Question 13

dexter

Answer 13

right hand (dexterous - skill with hands, ambidextrous - able to use both hands)

Question 14

sinister

Answer 14

left hand

Question 15

gauche

Answer 15

left hand (gauche) “The French word for the left hand is gauche, and as you would suspect, when we took this word over into English we invested it with an uncomplimentary meaning. Call someone gauche and you imply clumsiness, generally social rather than physical.”

Question 16

droit

Answer 16

right hand (adroit)

Question 17

monos

Answer 17

one (monogamous)

Question 18

bi

Answer 18

two (bigamy)

Question 19

polys

Answer 19

many (polygamy)

Question 20

andros

Answer 20

male polyandry

Question 21

-ist

Answer 21

suffix for person who (anthropologists)

Question 22

-y

Answer 22

suffix for practice, attitude, etc. (anthropology)

Question 23

-ous/ic

Answer 23

adjective suffix (dexterous)

Question 24

-ity

Answer 24

quality, condition, etc. (noun suffix) (dexterity)

Question 25

ego (latin root)

Answer 25

pronoun meaning I

Question 26

egotist

Answer 26

someone who talks about themselves too much.

MD -egoist and egotist are built on the same Latin root-the pronoun ego, meaning I. I is the greatest concern in the egoist’s mind the most overused word in the egotist’s vocabulary. (Keep the words differentiated in your own mind by thinking of the t in talk, and the additional t in egotist.)…If you are. An egocentric, you consider yourself the center of the universe-you are an extreme form of the egoist. And if you are n egomaniac, you carry egoism to such an extreme that your needs, desires, and interests have become a morbid obsession, a mania.” (33-34)

Question 27

egocentric

Answer 27

an extreme form of an egoist

Question 28

egomaniac

Answer 28

And if you are n egomaniac, you carry egoism to such an extreme that your needs, desires, and interests have become a morbid obsession, a mania.

Question 29

ambivert

Answer 29

someone who is equally extroverted and introverted.

Question 30

verto

Answer 30

turn (introvert - turn inward)

Question 31

anthropos

Answer 31

mankind

ex. misanthrope

Question 32

gyne

Answer 32

woman

misogynist

Question 33

misein

Answer 33

hate

ex. misogynitst

Question 34

gamos

Answer 34

marriage

polygamy

Question 35

asketes

Answer 35

monk (ascetic - extreme self discipline and abstention from all forms of indulgence)

Question 36

Internus

Answer 36

(internist)

Question 37

paidos

Answer 37

boy, child (pediatrician)

Question 38

pedis

Answer 38

foot (pedestrian)

Question 39

agogos

Answer 39

leader (pedagogue)

Question 40

demos

Answer 40

the common people of an ancient greek state (demagogue) (democracy)

Question 41

derma

Answer 41

the skin (dermatologist)

Question 42

hypos

Answer 42

under (hypodermic - under the skin)

Question 43

opthalmos

Answer 43

eye (opthamologist)

Question 44

oculus

Answer 44

eye (monocle)

Question 45

opsis, optikos

Answer 45

sight, seeing (optician)

Question 46

metron

Answer 46

measure (optometrist)

Question 47

orthos

Answer 47

“straight”, “upright”, “right” or “correct”. (orthopedist - branch of medicine dealing with correction of deformisty of bonses or muscles) )

Question 48

odontos

Answer 48

teeth (orthodotnist)

Question 49

kardia

Answer 49

heart (cardiologist)

Question 50

logos

Answer 50

thought or reason (anthropologist)

Question 51

neuron

Answer 51

nerve, nerves (neurologist)

Question 52

algos

Answer 52

pain (Neuralgia - intense, typically intermittent pain along the course of a nerve, especially in the head or face)

Question 53

psyche

Answer 53

“the soul, mind, spirit, or invisible animating entity which occupies the physical body.” (psychiatrist)

Question 54

iatreia

Answer 54

healing (psychiatry - healing of the mind)

Question 55

geras

Answer 55

old age (geriatrics)