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20 Cards in this Set
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PUER
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L. a male child
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puerile
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adj. childish; immature
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PAIS, PAIDOS
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G. child, boy
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orthopedics
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n. branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
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pedagogue
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n. a teacher
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pedant
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n.
1)a person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding 2) a scholarly show-off |
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SUM, ESSE, FUI, FUTURUM
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L. to be
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entity
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n. something that has a real or independent existence
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nonentity
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n.
1) a person or thing of no importance 2) something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
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essence
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n.
1) the basic element; the identifying characteristic 2) a substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3) a perfume |
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MORIOR, MORI, MORTUUM
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L. to die
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mortify
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tr. v.
1) to shame 2) to discipline oneself by denial |
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postmortem
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n.
1) an examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy 2) (informal) an analysis of something that is over |
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THANATOS
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G. death
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euthanasia
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n. the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; 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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adj. possessed at birth, inborn
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naive
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adj.
1) childlike; unsophisticated 2) gullible |
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nascent
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adj. emerging; coming into existence
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renaissance
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n.
1) a rebirth; a renewal 2) [capitalized] a revival of humanism in the fourteenth-century to sixteenth-century Europe |