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Humanus
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<L Human being
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Humane
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Having the worthy qualities of human beings
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Humanism
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A Philosophy which humans are the most important
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Humanities
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Branches ofknowledge than pretain to human culture and fine arts
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Anthropos
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<G human being, man
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Anthropology
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The scientific study of human origins
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Misanthrop
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One who hates humans
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Homi, Hominus
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<L Man
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Homicide
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the killing of one person by another or a person who kills another
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Vir
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<L man
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Virile
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Having certon charactoristics associated with man such as strength
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Gyne
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<G Women
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Gynecology
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The branch of madicine associated with womens reproductive system
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Femina
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<L woman
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Feminism
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The belief in male/female equality
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Feminist
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One who believes in men/women equality
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Autos
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<G self
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Autocrat
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A ruler with absolute power
An arrogent dominating person |
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Automaton
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A robot or one who acts like one
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Autonomy
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Being self governed or indipendant
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Autopsy
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the examination of a corpse to determine the cause of death
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Ego
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<L I
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egoism
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Conceit
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Genos,Geneos
Gens, Gentis Genus, Gentris |
<G Race, family
<L Race, clan, family <L Birth, race, clan, tribe, kind |
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Genealogy
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A record of decent from ones ancestors, the study of ones ancestors
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Genocide
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The planned anniolation of a race, or political or cultural group
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Genre
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A class of fine art or litrature
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Genteel
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Well mannered, refined, polite
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Gentry
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Aristocratic or well bred people
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Hetrogenous
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Having completely unrelated parts
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Homogenus
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Having the same parts
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Gigno Gignere Genui Genitum
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<L to beget, to bear, to bring forth
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Congenital
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Existing at birth but not hereditary
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Engender
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to give rise to, to bring into existance
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Genesis
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a begining or origin
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Indiginous
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Native to an area
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Ingenious
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Cleverly inventive and resourceful
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Progenitor
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a direct ancestor
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Progeny
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a direct descendant
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Mater, Matris
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<L mother
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Matrix
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The surroundings in which something develops
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Matriarchy
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A society ruled by women
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Matriculate
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To register as a studant at a collage
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Pater, Patris
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<L father
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Patriarch
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The head of a tribe
An old testament ancestor A wise man |
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Patrimony
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A family inheritance
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Patronage
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Support
Customers |
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Patronize
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To go to regularly
To treat as inferior |
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Patronymic
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N A name derived from a maternal ancestor
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Frater, Fratris
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<L Brother
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Fraternal
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Brotherly
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Fraternize
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To be friendly with
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Avunculus, Avunculi
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<L Uncle
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Avuncular
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Like an uncle
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Famlia
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<L Family
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Familial
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having to do with family
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Uxor,Uxoris
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<L Wife
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Uxorius
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Dominated by ones wife
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Gamos
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<G Marrage
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Bigamy
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Marrage to two people
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Monogamy
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Marrage to a single person
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Puer
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<L A male child
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Puerile
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Childish, immature
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Pais Paidos
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<G Child, boy
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Orthopedics
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Branch of medicine treatind the skelatal system
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Pedagogue
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A teacher
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Pedant
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One who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than understanding
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Sum, Esse, Fui, Futurm
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<L To be
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Entity
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Something that exists independantly
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Nonentity
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Something of no importance
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Essence
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The basic element
A concintrated substance perfume |
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Morior, Mori, Mortuum
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<L To die
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Mortify
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To shame
To dicipline oneself by denial |
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Mortibund
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About to die or end
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Postmortum
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An autopsy
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Thanatos
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<G death
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Euthanasia
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Mercy killing
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Nascor, Nasci, Natum
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<L To be born
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Innate
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Possessed at birth
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Naive
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Childish, immature
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Nascent
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Emerging, coming into existance
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Renaissance
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A rebirth or renewal
A renewal of history in the 1800's |
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Amo, Amare, Amavi, Amatum
Amicus |
<L To love
<L friend |
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Amicable
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Friendly, peacable
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Amity
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Friendship
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Enamored
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Charmed by
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Inimical
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Harmful
Hostile |
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Odium
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<L Hate
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Odious
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hateful
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Philos
Phileo, Philein |
<G To love
<G To love |
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Bibliophile
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One who loves books
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Philander
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To engage in cassual love affairs (refers to men)
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Philanthropy
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Goodwill to all human beings
A charitable gift or act |
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Phobos
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<G Fear
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Phobia
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A strong irrational fear
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Acrophobia
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Fear of hieghts
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Hydrophobia
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Fear of water
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Xenophobia
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Fear of outsiders
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Pax, Pacis
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<L peace
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Appease
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To calm, or satisfy
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Pacify
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To calm
To end war or violence Pacifist |
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Pacific
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Peaceful, calm
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Pathos
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<G Suffering
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Antipathy
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A hatred or dislike
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Apathy
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Without feeling, indifferent
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Empathy
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The ability to identify with ones feelings
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Pathological
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Refering to the study of disease
Caused by disease Abnormal behavier |
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Pathos
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A feeling of sympathy
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Miso, Misein
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<G To hate
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Misogamy
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Hatred of marrage
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Misogyny
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Hatred of women
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Dys
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<G Diseased, difficult, faulty, bad
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Dysentary
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Severe diarrhea
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Dyslexia
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Severe trouble reading
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Cupio, Cupere, Cupivi, Cupidum
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<L To desire
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Covet
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To crave or desire
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Cupidity
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Greed; averice
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Placeo, Placere, Placui, Placitum
Placo Placare, Placavi, PlacAtum |
<L To Please
<L To soothe |
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Complacent
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Smug
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Implacible
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Impossible to please
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Placid
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Showing calmness
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Placate
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To calm
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Domus
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<L House
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Domicile
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A home
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Domestic
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Related to home
Tame Native |
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Dominus
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Lord, Master
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Domain
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Territory
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Domineer
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To dominate
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Dominion
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Area of influence
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Dormio, Dormire, Dormivi, Dormitum
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<L To sleep
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Dormant
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Asleep
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Somnus
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<L Sleep
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Somnolent
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Sleepy; drowsey
Causing sleep |
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Lavo, Lavare, Lavi, Lautum
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<L To wash
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Ablution
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The washing of the body as ritual purification
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Deluge
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A downpoor, a great flood
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Vestis
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<L Garment
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Divest
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To strip away, espetially a title, property, material possessions, or clothes
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Investiture
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A ceremony where one recieves authority and symbols of office
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Travesty
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An inferior immitation
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Vestament
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A garment that indicates position
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Vested
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A concetn for personal intrest
Dressed in vestaments Absolute |
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Coquo, Coquere, Coxi, Coctum
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<L To cook
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Concoct
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To mix ingredients
To devise |
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Cuisene
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A charactoristic style of cooking
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Precocious
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Showing unusually urgent mental development
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Voro, Vorare, Voravi, Voratum
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To devour
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Carnivourous
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Meat meating
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Herbivourous
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plant eating
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Vouracious
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Extremely hungery
Eager for some activity or intrest |
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Mel, Mellis
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<L Honey
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Melifluous
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sweet as honey
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Sal
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<L Salt
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Saline
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Having to do with salt
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Bibo, Bibere, Bibi, Bibitum
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<L To drink
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Imbibe
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To drink
To take in |
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Poto, Potere, Potavi, Potum
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<L To drink
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Potable
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Fit to drink
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Potion
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A liquid for drinking (used to discribe poisen or something with magical or medical use
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Ludo, Ludere, Lusi, Lusum
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<L To play
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Allude
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to make an indirect referance to
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Collusion
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A conspiricy
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Delusion
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A false belief or opinion held in spite of contradictory evedence
A deception |
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Elude
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To escape by cunning
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Caput, Captis
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<L head
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Capitalist
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A person who has invested personal wealth in buissness
A very wealthy person |
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Capitulation
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Surrender, ending resistance
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Decapitate
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To cut off the head of: to behead
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Precipice
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A very steep verticle cliff face
The edge of a dnagerous situouation |
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Precipitate
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To throw down from a great hieght
To make happen suddenly or quickly |
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Recapitulation
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The restatment of the main idea
A summery or precise review |
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Cerebrum
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<L brain
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cerebral
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Pretaining to the brain
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Cerebration
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Tha act of thinking
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Facies
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<L Face, Form Shape
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deface
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To mar or spoil the appearance of something
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Efface
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To wipe out: to obliterate
To make oneself inconspicuous |
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Facade
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The face of a building
The face of anything: espacially an artificial one. |
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Facet
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One of the many sides of a cut jewel or stone
An aspact of a situouation or tooth |
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Frons, Frontis
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<L Front, forehead, face
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Affront
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To insult intentionally: to offend or embaress
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confront
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To stand or come directly in front of
To face with defiance |
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effrontery
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Flippant or insulting boldness
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Supercilium
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<L Eyebrow
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Supercilious
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Disdainful: haughty and aloof
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Os, Oris
Oro, Orare, Oravi, Oratum |
<L mouth
<L To speak |
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inexorable
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Relentless, umyielding
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oracle
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A shrine where ancient greeks consulted a god for advice or property
A Prophacy made in this shrine A person who transmits prophacy from a deity A person or thing regarded as able to give wide guidance |
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oration
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an address or formal speach
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oriface
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A mouth or vent: an opening
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Osculate
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To kiss
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Dens, Dentis
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<L Tooth
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Indentation
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A cut or notch
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Indenture
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A written contract between 2 parties
An agreement binding an apprentice to work for a master |
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trident
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A long 3 pronged fork or weapon
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Odon, Odontos
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<G tooth
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orthadontist
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A specialist who corrects irregurely positioned teeth
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Gurges, Gurgetitis
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<L throat, whirlpool
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gorge
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A deep narrow passage with rocky sides enclosed between 2 mountins
Gluttonous eating a feeling of nausua |
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disgorge
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To expell from the throat or stomach: to vomit
To discharge violently |
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Gargantuan
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Of imminse size: collosal
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gargoyle
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a grotesque carved human or animal: especiallyone used as a rainspout for clear water
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regurgitate
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th cause to pour back or cast up partially digested food: to vomit
to rush or surge back |
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Caro, Carnis
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<L flesh
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carnage
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The killing of many people
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carnal
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Relating to the desires and appitites of the flesh
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carrion
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Dead and decaying flesh
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Incarnate
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Emboddied in human form
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Collum
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<L Neck
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accolade
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Any honer, award, or expression of approval
A cerimonial tap on the shoulder with the flat side of the blade |
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Decolletage
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A low necklie on a garment, a garment with a low neckline
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Corpus, Corporis
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<L Body
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Corporal
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relating to or having the effect on the human body
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corporial
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Charactoristic of or resembling the human body
Having material substance; able to be seen |
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corps
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A military orginization of officers or of officers and enlistees
An army unit A group of people having a common purpose or direction |
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Corpulent
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Excessivly bulky: Fat
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Corpus
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A body or collection of writings
A structure of special character in an animal |
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Cor, Cordis
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<L Heart
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Accord
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Harmony: agreement
To grant or bestow upon To agree |
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Cordial
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Hearty, warm, sencere
Stimulaing A Liquer |
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Concordance
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A state of agreement: Harmony
An Alphabetical index of all the words in a piece of text or collection of texts showing every occourance of a word |
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Os, Ossis
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<L bone
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ossify
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To turn into stone: to become bony
To become rigid |
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Derma
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<G skin
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Dermatology
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The scientific study of skin and its deseases
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epidermis
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The outer protective layer of skin or outer layer of various organisms
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Dorsum
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<L the back
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Dorsal
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Pretaining to the back
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Dossier
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A set of documents cointaining information about a person thing or event: a file
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Endorse
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To write ones signature on the back of a check or other document
To sign a contract To acknowledge receipt of payment To actively resort: to sanction |
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Gaster, Gasteros
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<G stomach
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Gastric
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Pretaining to the stomach
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Gastronome
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A person who is knowledgable about good food and drink: a gourmet
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Nervus
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<L sinew, nerve
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Enervate
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To deprive of strength: to weaken
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Sanguis, Sanguinis
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<L blood
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Sanguine
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Cheerful, Hopeful
Reddish or ruddy |
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Consanguinity
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Blood relationship
Any close relationship |
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Sedeo, sedere,sedi, sessum
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<L to sit, to settle
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Assiduous
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Unceacingly attentive: devoted
Persistant, Diligent |
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Dissident
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Differing, disagreeing
A person who disagrees |
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Seance
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A meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to raise the dead
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Sedantary
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Charactorised by much sitting
Remaining in one area: not migratory |
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Supersede
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To take the place of: to replace
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