Vocab List 5 Flashcards
(25 cards)
Alternator (alter)
Produces the electrical needs of the car once the engine has started (other)
amiable (amat)
friendly (love)
disaster (astr)
catastrophe (star)
anachronism (chron)
something out of place in time (time)
cognizant (cogn)
aware (know)
contraband (contra)
illegal traffic, smuggled goods (against)
decathalon (dec)
ten sport event (ten)
Demography (demo)
Scientific study of human populations (people)
dynamism (dyna)
the quality of being characterized by vigorous activity and progress (power)
geothermal (geo)
Of, relating to, or produced by the internal heat of the earth (earth)
gryoscope (gryo)
A circular disk is located in the center of gyroscopic instruments. When it spins, it stays fixed in position relative to the Earth. (turn)
Heliocentric (helio)
sun-centered (sun)
Hyperbole (hyper)
exaggeration (over)
nihilism (ism)
nothing matters (doctrine/rules)
odometer (meter)
an instrument used to measure distance traveled (measure)
sublunar (luna)
under the moon (moon)
Octogenerian (Octa)
people in their eighties (eight)
horoscope (scope)
a prediction of someone’s future based on the relative positions of the planets (look)
Sonnet (son)
14 line poem (sound)
constellation (stell)
a group of stars (star)
Stereoscope (stereo)
A device for presenting one image to one eye and another image to the other eye (solid)
surplus (sur)
extra (over)
tetroxide (tetra)
a compound that has four oxygen atoms per molecule (four)
thermonuclear (thermo)
relating to or using nuclear reactions that occur only at very high temperatures. (heat)
