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PAN "all"
pandemonium (n)
uproar
Pandemonium broke out among the girls when Hannah Montana walked into the room with free tickets to her concert.
PAN "all"
panacea (n)
A cure-all for troubles or diseases
akos - "cure"

Some parents see bribing their kids with gifts as a panacea for their behavior problems.
OMNIS "all"
omnipotent (adj)
Having unlimited power; all-powerful.
Voldemort dreamed of being an omnipotent wizard.
OMNIS "all"
omnipresent (adj)
Present everywhere
Only God is omnipresent.

The smell of manure is omnipresent at the dairy farm.
OMNI "all"
omnivorous (adj)
1. Eating both plants and meat.

2. Devouring everything, especially intellectually (with one's mind)
Human beings are omnivorous, though some choose to be vegetarians.

She is an omnivorous reader.
HOLOS "whole"

catholic (adj)
Universal; including most things
Her wide travels reflect her catholic tastes.
HOLOS "whole"

Catholic (adj)
Referring to the Roman Catholic church
Spain is a predominantly Catholic country.
HOLOS "whole"

holocaust (n)
A great destruction, especially by fire
kaustos - "burned"

After the great 1906 earthquake, a holocaust swept through San Francisco.
HOLOS "whole"

the Holocaust (n)
Murder by the German Nazis of over six million Jews and millions of other people in World War II.
kaustos - "burned"

The Nazis used large ovens in some of the concentration camps to dispose of the bodies of their victims.
TOTUS "whole"

totalitarian (adj)
Referring to a form of government in which one person or party holds absolute control of everything.
total

Under Joseph Stalin the Soviet Union became a totalitarian state.
CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"

cloister (n)
1. A covered walk along the inside walls of a building.

2. A monastery or similar place of religious seclusion.
(closet)

The cloister of the counry hosue provided shady protection from the sun.

During the Reformation many cloisters were closed and their monks or nuns sent away.
CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"

cloister (v)
To seclude (hide away) as in a monastary.
(close)

To protect their children from the Black Plague, the parents cloistered them in an isolated village.
CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"

preclude (v)
To prevent, to make impossible
(pre - "before")

Rain precluded our taking a walk.
CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"

recluse (n)
A person who avoids mixing with people.
(re - "intensifier")

The recluse preferred the company of a dog and the his books to that of people.

The brown recluse spider tries to stay hidden.