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PAN "all"
pandemonium (n) |
uproar
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Pandemonium broke out among the girls when Hannah Montana walked into the room with free tickets to her concert.
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PAN "all"
panacea (n) |
A cure-all for troubles or diseases
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akos - "cure"
Some parents see bribing their kids with gifts as a panacea for their behavior problems. |
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OMNIS "all"
omnipotent (adj) |
Having unlimited power; all-powerful.
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Voldemort dreamed of being an omnipotent wizard.
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OMNIS "all"
omnipresent (adj) |
Present everywhere
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Only God is omnipresent.
The smell of manure is omnipresent at the dairy farm. |
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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. |
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HOLOS "whole"
catholic (adj) |
Universal; including most things
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Her wide travels reflect her catholic tastes.
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HOLOS "whole"
Catholic (adj) |
Referring to the Roman Catholic church
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Spain is a predominantly Catholic country.
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HOLOS "whole"
holocaust (n) |
A great destruction, especially by fire
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kaustos - "burned"
After the great 1906 earthquake, a holocaust swept through San Francisco. |
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HOLOS "whole"
the Holocaust (n) |
Murder by the German Nazis of over six million Jews and millions of other people in World War II.
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kaustos - "burned"
The Nazis used large ovens in some of the concentration camps to dispose of the bodies of their victims. |
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TOTUS "whole"
totalitarian (adj) |
Referring to a form of government in which one person or party holds absolute control of everything.
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total
Under Joseph Stalin the Soviet Union became a totalitarian state. |
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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. |
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CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"
cloister (v) |
To seclude (hide away) as in a monastary.
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(close)
To protect their children from the Black Plague, the parents cloistered them in an isolated village. |
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CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"
preclude (v) |
To prevent, to make impossible
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(pre - "before")
Rain precluded our taking a walk. |
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CLAUDO, CLAUSI "to close"
recluse (n) |
A person who avoids mixing with people.
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(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. |