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30 Cards in this Set
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The surroundings within which something begins or develops
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matrix
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A society ruled or controlled by women
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matriarchy
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To register as a student at a college or university
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matriculate
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1. The male head of a family or tribe
2. An Old Testament Ancestor 3. A founding father or wise man |
patriarch
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A family inheritance
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patrimony
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1. Support, encouragement
2. Business clientele, customers |
patronage
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1. To go to regularly
2. To treat someone as an inferior |
patronize
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Name derived from a paternal ancestor
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patronymic
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Pertaining to brothers, brotherly
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fraternal
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1. To be friendly with
2. To socialize with an enemy population |
fraternize
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Like an uncle
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avuncular
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Having to do with the family
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familial
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Dominated by one's wife
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uxorious
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Marriage to two mates
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bigamy
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Marriage to a single mate
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monogamy
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Childish, immature
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puerile
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Branch of medicine treating disorders of the skeletal system and tissues related to movement
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orthopedics
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A teacher
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pedagogue
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1. A person who pays excessive attention to learning rules rather than to understanding
2. A scholarly show-off |
pedant
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Something that has a real or independent existence
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entity
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1. A person or thing of no importance
2. Something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
nonentity
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1. The basic element; the indentifying characteristic
2. A substance in concentrated form obtained from a plant or drug 3. A perfume |
essence
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About to die or end
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moribund
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1. To shame
2. To discipline oneself by denial |
mortify
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1. An examination to determine the cause of death; an autopsy
2. An analysis of something that is over |
postmortem
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The act of pailessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing
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euthanasia
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Possessed at birth; inborn
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innate
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1. Childlike; unsophisticated
2. Gullible |
naive
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Emerging; coming into existence
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nascent
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1. A rebirth; a renewal
2. A revival of humanism in fourteenth-century to six-teenth-century Europe |
renaissance
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