238538253 | -gyn; -gynec | woman; female | |
238538254 | a person who dislikes, hates, or distrusts women | misogynist | |
238538255 | kind; descent; origin; race | -gen; -gon | |
238538256 | progeny | a descendent or offspring; child, plant, animal | |
238538257 | -geo | earth | |
238538258 | the most distant point; claim | apogee | |
238538259 | human being | -anthrop | |
238538260 | misanthropist | a hater of human kind | |
238538261 | -gam | marriage | |
238538262 | marriage with one person at a time | monogamy | |
238538263 | life | -bio | |
238538264 | symbiotic | having an interdependent relationship | |
238538265 | -theo | God | |
238538266 | the manifestation or appearance of God to a person | theophany | |
238538267 | sun | -helio | |
238538268 | heliotrophic | turning or growing toward the light | |
238538269 | -phon | sound | |
238538270 | pleasant in sound; pleasing to the ear | euphonious | |
238538271 | people | -dem | |
238538272 | pandemic | a disease prevalent throughout an entire country, continent, or world | |
238538273 | -dyn; -dynam | power; strength | |
238538274 | an electric generator | dynamo | |
238538275 | color | -chrom; -chromat | |
238538276 | achromatic | free from color | |
238538277 | -chron | time | |
238538278 | constant; habitual | chronic | |
238538279 | heat | -therm | |
238538280 | thermophile | an organism that thrives under warm conditions | |
238538281 | -graph; -gram | write; draw | |
238538282 | any witty, ingenious, or pointed saying | epigram | |
238538283 | rule; govern | -arch | |
238538284 | matriarch | the female head of a family or tribal line | |
238538285 | the male head of a family or tribal line | patriarch | |
238538286 | -hydro | water | |
238538287 | hydrophobia | a fear of water | |
238538288 | book | -bibl; -biblio | |
238538289 | a lover of books and literature | bibliophile | |
238538290 | -cosm | world; order; universe | |
238538291 | cosmopolitan | belonging to all the world; not limited to one part of the globe | |
238538292 | light | -phot; -phos | |
238538293 | exhibiting a luminous appearance | phosphorescent | |
262631211 | -gno; -gnos | to know | |
262631212 | prognosticate | to forecast from present indications; to prophesy | |
262631213 | work | -erg; -urg | |
262631214 | the interaction or cooperation of 2 organizations | synergy | |
262631215 | -algia | pain | |
262631216 | analgesic | a remedy that relieves pain | |
262631217 | inflammation | -itis | |
262631218 | inflammation of the skin | dermatitis | |
262631219 | -iatry | treatment; heal; cure | |
262631220 | pediatrics | a branch of medicine concerned with the development, care, and disease of babies and children | |
262631221 | rule; government | -cracy | |
262631222 | gov't in which one person has uncontrolled or unlimited power over others | autocracy | |
262631223 | -clast; -clasm | break; destroy | |
262631224 | iconoclast | a person who attacks cherished beliefs, traditional institutes, etc. | |
262631225 | prophesy; divination | -mancy | |
262631226 | divination by forms appearing in fire | pyromancy | |
262631227 | -latry | worship; devotion | |
262631228 | zoolatry | the worship of animals | |
262631229 | loosening; dissolving | -lysis | |
262631230 | systematic structures of theories concerning psychological processes | psychoanalysis | |
262631231 | -machy | struggle; war | |
262631232 | logomachy | a foolish dispute concerning words | |
262631233 | madness; craving; abnormal preoccupation | -mania | |
262631234 | a symptom of mental illness marked by delusions of greatness and wealth | megalomania | |
263115210 | -polis; -polit | city; state; citizen | |
263115211 | politic | shrewd or prudent in practical manners; diplomatic | |
263115212 | place | -top | |
263115213 | detailed mapping or charting characteristics of the land | topography | |
263115214 | -crit; -cris | discern; judge; separate | |
263115215 | critique | any analysis of a work | |
276242888 | under; less than | hypo-, hyp- | |
276242889 | hetero- | other, different, unalike | |
276242890 | good; well | -eu | |
276242891 | homo- | same; equal; alike | |
276242892 | over; above; more than | hyper- | |
276242893 | amphi- | two; both sides | |
276242894 | not; without | a-; an- | |
276242895 | caco- | bad; poor; harsh | |
276242896 | self | auto- | |
276242897 | arche- | ancient; original | |
276242898 | off; from; away from | apo- | |
276242899 | acro- | height; tip end | |
276242900 | out; outside of; from | ex-; ec-; ecto- | |
276242901 | em-; en-; endo- | in; within | |
276242902 | on; upon; over; besides | epi- | |
276242903 | anti- | opposite | |
276242904 | up; against; back | ana- | |
276242905 | dys- | bad; impaired; difficult | |
276242906 | through; across | dia- | |
276242907 | cata-, cath- | down; away; complete; against | |
276253185 | hypothetical | highly conjectural; not well supported by available evidence | |
276253186 | different in kind; unalike | heterogeneous | |
276253187 | eulogy | a speech or writing in praise of a person or thing, especially a set oration of the deceased | |
276253188 | of the same kind or nature; composed of similar elements | homogeneous | |
276253189 | hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration | |
276253190 | living on both land and water | amphibious | |
276253191 | apathy | absence of feeling | |
276253192 | harsh discord of sound; dissonance | cacophony | |
276253193 | autonomy | independent of freedom, as the will of one's actions | |
276253194 | the original pattern/model from which all things are copied | archetype | |
276253195 | apostasy | total desertion of one's religious principals | |
276253196 | pathological fear of heights | acrophobia | |
276253197 | eclectic | selecting from various sources | |
276253198 | a disease regularly found among a particular people | endemic | |
276253199 | epithet | any word or phrase applied to a person to describe an attribute | |
276253200 | a direct opposite of an idea | antithesis | |
276253201 | anachronism | an error in chronology in which a person is assigned to a date/period other than the correct one | |
276253202 | a society characterized by human misery, disease, oppression, and overcrowding | dystopia | |
276253203 | diabolical | having the qualities of a devil; fiendish | |
276253204 | a descent of water over a steep surface | cataract | |
307508067 | ante- | before; prior to | |
307508068 | antecedent | proceeding; prior | |
307508069 | both; around | ambi- | |
307508070 | having mixed feelings | ambivalent | |
307508071 | ad- | to; toward; near; addition to | |
307508072 | alleviate | to make easier to endur, lessen, mitigate | |
307508073 | from; away; down | ab- | |
307508074 | departing from the right, normal, or usual course | aberrant | |
307508075 | bene-; bon- | good; well | |
307508076 | beneficent | doing or producing good; acts of kindness and charity | |
307508077 | between; among | inter-; intel- | |
307508078 | a person who take part in a conversation or dialogue | interlocutor | |
307508079 | in- | in; within; into; on; not | |
307508080 | inexorable | unyielding, unalterable | |
307508081 | outside of; beyond | extra- | |
307508082 | spending much more than is necessary or wise | extravagant | |
307508083 | en-; em- | in; within | |
307508084 | enjoin | to describe a course of action with authority or emphasis | |
307508085 | out of; from | e-; ex- | |
307508086 | requiring immediate action or aid | exigent | |
307508087 | dis- | apart; in a different direction; not | |
307508088 | disconsolate | without consolation or solace, hopelessly unhappy | |
307508089 | together; with | con- | |
307508090 | a feeling of uneasiness/anxiety | compunction | |
307508091 | de- | down, away from, reverse action of | |
307508092 | despondent | feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, or gloom | |
307508093 | against | contra- | |
307508094 | to come in conflict with; go or act against | contravene | |
307508095 | circum- | around; about; surrounding | |
307508096 | circumlocution | a roundabout way of speaking | |
307508097 | not; opposite | neg-; non- | |
307508098 | of no recognized kind | nondescript | |
307508099 | multi- | many | |
307508100 | multisyllabic | consisting of several syllables | |
307508101 | bad; ill; wrong | mal- | |
307508102 | a person who violates the law; criminal | malefactor | |
307508103 | magn- | great; large | |
307508104 | magnanimous | generous in forgiving an insult or injury | |
307508105 | within; inside of | intro-; intra- | |
307508106 | observation or examination of one's own mental state | introspection |
AP Lit Vocab 2
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