Greek Lesson VIII
Terms
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- hypercritical
- inclined to judge too severely
- thalassic
- relating to the seas, especially smaller or inland seas
- idio-
- one's own; individual
- plutocrat
- someone who exercises power by virtue of wealth
- astronaut
- a person trained to travel in a spacecraft
- ideogram
- symbol that stands for a concept rather than a word
- crat, cras
- mix
- -crat
- one who rules
- idiosyncrasy
- a behavioral attribute that is distinctive and peculiar to an individual
- hypocrite
- a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he does not hold
- -polistic
- pertaining to selling
- auto-
- self
- crit, cris
- separate; discern; judge
- politics
- social relations involving authority or power
- cosm
- order; world
- ideo-, idea-
- idea
- -pole, -polist
- one who sells
- top
- place
- -cratic
- pertaining to rule
- plut
- wealth
- polit, polis
- city
- monopoly
- exclusive control or possession of something
- thalass, thalatt
- sea
- -cracy
- rule; government
- critical
- marked by a tendency to find and call attention to errors and flaws
- -poly
- sale; selling
- naus, nau
- ship
- cosmopolitan
- of worldwide scope or applicability
- autocracy
- a political theory favoring unlimited authority by a single individual
- crater
- a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite or bomb
- cosmos
- everything that exists anywhere
- topography
- precise detailed study of the surface features of a region