WORD CLUES REVIEW
OF SPRING FINAL EXAM
Pennell
BHS
2014
ANTHROP
ANTHROP
 Man; Mankind
CRIT; CRIS
CRIT; CRIS
 Separate, discern, judge
COSM
COSM
Order; world
ETHN
ETHN
Nation
ICON
ICON
Image; idol
BIBLIO
BIBLIO
Book
LOG
LOG
Study
POLY (WITHOUT THE DASH)
POLY (WITHOUT THE DASH)
Many
HELIO
HELIO
Sun
BIO
BIO
Life
-IT, IS
-IT, IS
Inflammation
One who has inflammation
Characterized by inflammation
METER
METER
measure
HAEM, HEM
HAEM, HEM
 Blood
DERM
DERM
 Skin
PATH
PATH
 Feeling
 Disease
ATHL
ATHL
 Prize
TOX
TOX
 Poison
ORNITH
ORNITH
 Bird
ET YM
ET YM
 True meaning
 Root meaning of a word
GAM
GAM
 Marriage
OPTHALM
OPTHALM
 Eye
NEUR
NEUR
 Nerve
THERM
THERM
 Heat
MORPH
MORPH
 Form
OD
OD
 Way
 Path
SKEPTICAL
(ADJECTIVE)
 Inclined to doubt or have faith in something
 Showing a doubt
GRAPHOLOGY
(NOUN)
 The study of handwriting.
TAXIDERMY
(NOUN)
 Preparing and preserving the skins of animals and of stuf fing
and mounting them in lifelike form.
SYNTAX
(NOUN)
 The study of rules for the formation of grammatical patterns
in language.
 The study of grammatical structures in language.
EUTHANASIA
(NOUN)
 Mercy killing.
ARCHET YPE
(NOUN)
 The original pattern or model from which all things of the
same kind are copied or on which they are based.
 Model; first form.
 Prototype
 (in Jungian psychology) a collectively inherited unconscious id
ea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in
individual psyches.
HETERODOX
(ADJECTIVE)
 not in accordance with established or accepted doctrines or
opinions, especially in theology; unorthodox.
DYNAST Y
(NOUN)
 A sequence of rulers from the same family, stock, or group.
EPITAPH
(NOUN)
 a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary
monument about the person buried at that site.
 A brief poem or other writing in praise of the dead.
HOLOCAUST
(NOUN)
 Any mass slaughtering or senseless destruction of life by fire.
PYROMANIAC
(NOUN)
 A person obsessed with setting things on fire.
ECCENTRIC
(ADJECTIVE)
 A person who behaves oddly.
 Someone who is peculiar, odd, erratic.
HELIOTHERAPY
(NOUN)
 A cure or treatment involving exposure to direct sunlight.
 Using the sun as a cure.
PROGNOSTICATE
(VERB)
 To forecast or predict from present indications or signs;
prophesize.
DEMAGOGUE
(NOUN)
 A person, especially an orator or political leader, who gains
power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and
prejudices of the people.
ATROPHY
(NOUN)
 A wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.
DENDROLOGY
(NOUN)
 The branch of botany dealing with trees or shrubs.
POLYGLOT
(NOUN)
 A person who speaks multiple languages.
HIEROGLYPHICS
(NOUN)
 Designating or pertaining to a pictographic script, particularly
that of the ancient Egyptians, in which many of the symbols
are conventionalized, recognizable pictures of the
things represented.
ECONOMICS
(NOUN)
 The science that deals with the production, distribution, and
consumption of goods and services, or the material welfare of
humankind.
ANTHOLOGY
(NOUN)
 A book or other collection of selected writings by various authors, usually in the same literary form, of the same period, or
on the same subject.
MONOPOLY
(NOUN)
 Exclusive control of a commodity or a service in a particular
market, or a control that makes possible the manipulation of
prices.
 There are vertical monopolies and horizontal monopolies in
markets.
 A vertical monopoly is when a company or person controls the
mining, acquiring, production, refining, distribution, and
selling of a single product or commodity. An example of a
vertical monopoly is Carnegie Steel.
 A horizontal monopoly is when a company or person controls
an entire layer of the mining, acquiring, production, refining,
distribution, or selling of a single product or commodity. An
example of this is Vanderbilt Oil Refineries in the United
States. If you had to refine oil, you had to go through
Vanderbilt.
CRITERION
(NOUN)
 A standard of judgment or criticism; a rule or principle for
evaluating or testing something.
MISONEISM
(NOUN)
 A hatred or dislike for what is new or represents change.