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Martinet (n):- someone who demands exact conformity
to rules and forms.
Syno- discipliner, enforcer, taskmaster
e.g. :- The prison's warden was a cruel martinet.
Noun- martinetism

adj- martinetish
 MARTINET

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 SYNO- FIG Phanein- to show

Sycophant (n):- a person who tries to please someone

in order to gain a personal advantage.
Syno- crawler, lackey, toady
e.g. :- The Prime Minister is surrounded by sycophants.
Noun- sycophantic
sycophancy
SYCOPHANT
 DIA- THROUGH Phanein- to show

Diaphanous (adj):- so light and fine that you can almost

see through it

Syno- gauzy, gossamer,

e.g. :- The little light fades the immense and

diaphanous shadows.
Diaphanous
 DILETTARE- TO DELIGHT Phanein- to show

Dilettante (adj):- doing or something without being

serious about it and not having much knowledge
Syno- amateur, dabbler, hobbyist
Anto- professional, specialist
e.g. :- I know that I will always be a dilettante by
comparison.
Dilettantish
Dilettantism
DILETTANTE
Tyro (n):- a person who has little or no experience of
something

Syno- apprentice, babe, beginner

Anto- old-timer, vet, veteran
e.g. :- House of Tyro will take you to the moonlight
heaven.
TYRO, NOVICE
Virtuoso (n):- a person who is extremely skilful at doing
something, especially playing a musical instument
Syno- expert, fiend, geek
Anto- amateur, inexpert, nonexpert
e.g. :- His handling of the meeting was quite a virtuoso
performance.
Virtuosi
VIRTUOSO
 VIR- MAN

Virago (n):- a woman who is aggressive and tries to tell

people what to do
Syno- harpy, harridan, shrew
e.g. :- His wife a virago.
Termagant
Harridan
Virago
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER

Patriotic (adj):- inspired by love for your country.

Syno- nationalist, nationalistic
Anto- unpatriotic
e.g. :- I'm not very patriotic.
Chauvinism (n):- activity indicative of belief in
the superiority of men over women.

Syno- jingoism, nationalism, superpatriotism

e.g. :- Betty had no idea what male

chauvinism was.
Chauvinist(n)- a person with a prejudiced
belief in the superiority of his or her own kind
CHAUVINISM
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER

Patrimony (adj):- an estate inherited from one's father or

ancestor
Syno- heritage, inheritance, legacy
e.g. :- His grandfather left the patrimony to him
Adj- patrimonial
PATRIMONY
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER Onyma- name

Patronymic (n):- a name derived from that of the

father or a paternal ancestor usually by the
addition of an affix

e.g. :- No one calls you by your patronymic ?

 ANTI- AGAINST Onyma- name

Antonym (n):- a word that expresses a meaning

opposed to the meaning of another word

e.g. :- Two antonyms of 'light' are 'dark' and 'heavy'.

 HOMOS- THE SAME Onyma- name

Homonym (n):- two words are homonyms if they are

pronounced or spelled the same way but have different
meanings.

e.g. :- 'No' and 'know' are homonyms.

Bat, Tie, Sink, fly
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER

Paternity (n):- the quality or state of being a father

e.g. :- The paternity of the child is in dispute.

Adj- paternal
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER

Paternalism (n):- the attitude (of a person or

a government) that subordinates should be
controlled in a fatherly way for their own
good.

e.g. :- Such programs are often mistaken for

corporate paternalism.
Adj- paternalistic
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER Archein- to rule

Patriarch (n):- a man who is older and higher in rank

than yourself.

e.g. :- He is its founder, leader and patriarch

Adj- patriarchy
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER CIDE- KILLING

Parricide (n):- the murder of your own father or mother.

e.g. :- Fear and greed expose the spaceship

crew to an alien parricide parasite .
 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER

Matriarch (n):- a female head of a family or tribe

Syno- dame, dowager, grande dame, matron

e.g. :- Robyn Erbesfield is a matriarch of modern sport

climbing.
 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER

Maternity (n):- the state of being pregnant

Syno- motherliness

e.g. :- The contract gives a female executive

maternity leave rights.
 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER

Maternal (adj):- of, relating to, belonging to, or

characteristic of a mother

Syno- mother, motherly

e.g. :- Her maternal grandfather was Mayor of Karachi.

 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER

Matron (n):- a woman who supervises women or

children

Syno- dowager, grande dame, matriarch

e.g. :- The matron bore down upon the terrified nurses.

 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER Alma- soul

Alma mater (adj):- a school, college, or university which

one has attended or from which one has graduated

e.g. :- I visited my old alma mater last week.

 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER

Matrimony (n):- the ceremony or sacrament of marriage.

Syno- marriage, match, wedlock

e.g. :- They were joined together in holy matrimony

 MATER, MATRIS- MOTHER CIDE- KILLING

Matricide (n):- one that murders his or her mother

e.g. :- A crime such as matricide is inconceivable.

 CIDE- KILLING Sui- one self

Suicide (n):- a person who kills himself intentionally.

Syno- self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter
e.g. :- The number of suicide has increased.
 Frater, fratris-
CIDE- KILLING
brother
Fratricide (n):- a person who murders their brother

e.g. :- The Very Model of a Man is at is best when Cain

justifies his fratricide with this lethal logic.
 CIDE- KILLING Soror- sister

Sororicide (n):- a person who kills his sister

e.g. :- Carol aids a pair of troubled sisters
she secretly taught to use weapons, and after
one commits sororicide, Carol is
forced to execute her.
 CIDE- KILLING Homo- person

Homicide (n):- a killing of one human being by another

e.g. :- The jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide.

 CIDE- KILLING rex, regis- king

Regicide (n):- the act of killing a king.

e.g. :- Some of the regicides were

sentenced to death.
 CIDE- KILLING Uxor- wife

Uxoricide (adj):- a man who murders his wife

e.g. :- The risk of uxoricide increased

with greater age difference between partners.
 Maritus-
CIDE- KILLING husband
Mariticide (adj):- one that murders or kills her spouse

e.g. :- Overall, rates of uxoricide are

much higher than rates of mariticide
 CIDE- KILLING Infantis- baby

Infanticide (n):- a person who murders

an infant

e.g. :- At places where infanticide

occurred, the age distribution is more
uniform, corresponding to full-term
infancy.
 genos- race,
CIDE- KILLING
kind
Genocide (n):- systematic killing of a racial or cultural
group

e.g. :- The military leaders were accused

of genocide.
 PATER, PATRIS-FATHER CIDE- KILLING

Parricide (n):- the murder of your own father or mother.

e.g. :- Fear and greed expose the spaceship

crew to an alien parricide parasite .
 FRATER- BROTHER

Fraternize (v):- be on friendly terms with someone, as if

with a brother, especially with an enemy.
Fraternal
Fraternity
Syno- associate, chum, company
e.g. :- Soldiers who fraternize with the enemy will be
punished.
FRATERNIZE
 SOROR- SISTER

Sorority (n):- a social club

for female undergraduates.
e.g. :- A sorority member
offered
a rushee a cigarette
 UXORIOUS- WIFE

Uxorious (adj):- excessively fond

of or submissive to a wife
e.g. :- There are those who
regard him as the uxorious
spouse of a beautiful wife.
Adj– uxorial
Adv- uxoriously
Noun-uxoriousness
 MARITUS- HUSBAND

Marital (adj):- of or relating to the state of marriage.

Syno- conjugal, connubial, married
Anto- nonmarital
e.g. :- Could I ask you about your marital status?
 MARITUS- HUSBAND Pre- before

Premarital (adj):- relating to events before a marriage

e.g. :- Perhaps, premarital Westerners tended to be

more people living nature.
 REX, REGIS- KING

Tyrannosaurus (n):- large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur

having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations

e.g. :- Tyrannosaurus rex was a large carnivore.

 REX, REGIS- KING

Regal (adj):- belonging to or

befitting a supreme ruler.
Syno- kingly, monarchal

e.g. :- He sat with such regal

dignity.
Noun- regality
 REX, REGIS- KING

Regalia (adj):- belonging to or befitting a supreme ruler.

e.g. :- He sat with such regal dignity.

 MANIA- MADNESS Monos-one

Monomaniac (n):- mental illness especially when limited

in expression to one idea or area of thought

e.g. :- The monomaniac is unbalanced in just one area

on everything else except his own pet and particular
delusion he may be completely normal.
Adj- monomaniacal, maniacal
MONOMANIAC
 MANIA- MADNESS Dipsa- thirst

Dipsomania (n):- an uncontrollable craving for alcoholic

liquors

e.g. :- I hope he is not a dipsomania.

Adj- dipsomaniacal
DIPSOMANIAC
 MANIA- MADNESS Klepte- thief

Kleptomania (n):- an irresistible impulse to steal in the

absence of any economic motive.

e.g. :- Kleptomania is a mania for stealing things.

Noun- kleptomaniac
Kleptomania
 MANIA- MADNESS Pyros- fire

Pyromania (n):- an irresistible impulse to start fires

e.g. :- A pyromaniac doesn't throw away the

last three matches.
noun- pyromaniac
PYROMANIA
 INCENDO,INCENSUS - MADNESS

Incendiary (adj):- designed to cause fires

e.g. :- Five incendiary devices were found in her house.

 INCENDIARY

लाक्षागृह
 ARDO, ARSUS- TO BURN

Arsonist (n):- a criminal who illegally sets fire to

property.

e.g. :- The arsonist may harbour a grudge against the

company.
ARSONIST
 Megas- great,
MANIA- MADNESS
big
Megalomania (n):- a psychological state characterized
by delusions of grandeur, obsession with the exercise of
power.

e.g. :- The dictator was suffering from megalomania.

Adj- megalomaniacs
MEGALOMANIA
 MANIA- MADNESS Nymphe- bride

Nymphomania (adj):- excessive sexual desire by a

female

e.g. :- Lucia was a known nymphomaniac in Paris in

the Thirties.
 MANIA- MADNESS Satyros- satyr

Satyromania (adj):- excessive sexual desire by a male

Adj- satyriasis
 CLAUSTRUM- ENCLOSED Phobia- fear

Claustrophobia (n):- a morbid fear of being closed in a

confined space.

e.g. :- He suffers from claustrophobia so he never

travels on underground trains.
Adj- claustrophobic
CLAUSTROPHOBIA
 AGRORA- MARKET PLACE Phobia- fear

Agoraphobia (n):- a morbid fear of open spaces

e.g. :- She had agoraphobia and never wanted to go

out of the house.
Adj- agoraphobic
 AKROS- HIGEST Phobia- fear

Acrophobia (n):- abnormal dread of being in a high

place : fear of heights

e.g. :- Many people suffer from very serious

acrophobia.
Adj- acrophobic
Acrophobia
 EIKON- A RELIGIOUS IMAGE Klaein- to break

Iconoclast (n):- a person who attacks or criticizes

cherished beliefs or institutions, a destroyer of images
used in religious worship.
Syno- bohemian, boho, counterculturist, deviant, enfant
terrible, loner, nonconformist
Anto- conformer, conformist
e.g. :- A wanderer, an iconoclast, whose mind had only
been matched by his eccentricity.
ICONOCLAST
 A- negative
THEOS- GOD
prefix
Atheist (n):- someone who denies the existence of god

Anto- theist
e.g. :- He openly declared himself as an atheist.
Adj- atheistic
 A- negative
GNOSTOS- KNOWN
prefix
Agnostic (n):- a person who claims that they cannot
have true knowledge about the existence of God (but
does not deny that God might exist).
Syno- agnostical, doubter.
e.g. :- You grew up in an agnostic household and have
never been able to bring yourself to believe in God.
Adj- agnosticism
 GNOSIS- KNOWLEDGE Dia- through

Diagnosis (n):- the art or act of identifying a disease

from its signs and symptoms
Diagnostician
Syno- award, call, conclusion, decision
e.g. :- The diagnosis was devastating. She had cancer.
Verb- diagnose
 GNOSIS- KNOWLEDGE Pro- before

Prognosis (n):- a prediction of the course of a disease.

prognostication
Syno- auguring, augury, bodement
e.g. :- The prognosis after the operation was for a full
recovery.
Verb- prognosticate
 THEOS- GOD Monos- one

Monotheism (n):- belief in a single God.

e.g. :- We are acquiring an understanding of the history

of monotheism.
MONOTHEISM
 THEOS- GOD Poly- many

Polytheism (n):- belief in multiple Gods.

e.g. :- It may be very colloquial and the voices are often

distorted.
 THEOS- GOD Pan- all

Pantheism (n):- worship that admits or tolerates all gods

e.g. :- This is not a plea for New Age pantheism by the

back door.
 Logos- science,
THEOS- GOD
study
Theology (n):- the rational and systematic study of religion
and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
theologian
Syno- conversational, informal
Anto- bookish, formal, learned, literary
e.g. :- According to Muslim theology there is only one God.
Adj- theological
 LECHIER- TO LICK

Lecher(n):- man with strong sexual desires.

e.g. :- He is thinking of women all day. What a lecher.

Adj- lecherous
LECHEROUS
 LIBIDO- PLEASURE

Libidinous (adj):- driven by lust

Syno- concupiscent, goatish, horny

Anto- frigid, undersexed
e.g. :- Powell let his libidinous imagination run away
with him.
 LASCIVIA- WANTONNESS

Lascivious (adj):- preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful

desires

Syno- coarse, crude, dirty

Anto- clean, decent
e.g. :- The lascivious person was put in prison
 LUBRICUS- SLIPPERY

Lubricious (adj):- having a smooth or slippery quality

Syno- concupiscent, goatish, horny
Anto- frigid, undersexed
e.g. :- Their words fluttered between them like
lubricious little doves.
 LICERE- TO BE PERMITTED

Licentious (adj):- behaving in a way that is considered

sexually immoral

Syno- concupiscent, goatish, horny

Anto- frigid, undersexed
e.g. :- It may be very colloquial and the voices are often
distorted.
 LEWED- VILE

Lewd (adj):- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness

Syno- impure, indecent
Anto- nonobscene, wholesome
e.g. :- Ignore him - he's being lewd.
 LUST- DESIRE

Lustful (adj):- excited by lust

Syno- concupiscent, goatish, horny

Anto- frigid, undersexed
e.g. :- I do not think Tony was a lustful man.
 PRURIO- RICH

Prurient (adj):- having or showing too much interest in

things connected with sex

e.g. :- He read the gossip written about them with

prurient interest.
Adj- pruritic
Adv- pruriently
Prurient
 HYPOS- UNDER

Hypochondria (n):- A state in which somebody worries

all the time about their health and believes that they are
sick

e.g. :- It shows frequent symptoms of

hypochondria and neurasthenia.
Adj-hypochondriac, hypochondriacal
HYPOCHONDRIA
 HYPER- OVER

Hypercritical (adj):- meticulously or excessively critical

Syno- faultfinding, judgmental, overcritical

Anto- uncritical
e.g. :- He is hypercritical of the local political system.
HYPERCRITICAL
 HYPER- OVER

Hypertension (n):- a common disorder in which blood

pressure remains abnormally high

e.g. :- Obesity correlates with increased

risk for hypertension and stroke.
Adj- hypertensive