Chapter11wp Flashcards
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Who is Martinet
Was a french inspector general of the infantry during the reign of king Louis XIV
Sykon is
Greek for FIG
What is Sycophant
Person will adulate the wealthy or powerful.
What is dilettante
Superficially pursues one of the fine arts painting , writing
What is virago
Describes a woman that is masculine in personality ( aggressive, loud)
Chauvinist
Believes anything they own or that belongs to them is better. Their religion, political party neighborhood, car their own sex
Monomaniac
Has developed An abnormal obsession in respect to one thing. The obsession can be a hobby, business, profession, husband, wide , children
Monos
One
Vir
Is latin for man
Kleptomania
A morbid compulsion to steal. The motive is jot for any economic motive, but simply because the urge to take another’s possessions is irresistible .
Pyromania
A morbid compulsion to set fires for the thrill of it
Monotheism
A belief in one god
Atheis
Does not believe there is god
Iconoclast
Is violently against established beliefs reverted to traditions
Diagnosis
Is a knowing through examination or testing
Prognosis
A knowing before hand. A doctor give a forecast of prediction of development or trend of a disease because he/she knows from previous similar cases what to expect
Chondiros
The greeks believed that morbid anxiety about ones health arose in the abdomen
Hypochrondiact
Thinks they are gravely ill, however a doctor cannot find a cause for the ailment
Pater,patris
Latin for father
Someone proud of and devoted their country
Mater, matris
Mother
Soul mother
Almamater
The school or college one graduated
Cide
Killing
Soror
Sisters
Homo
Human