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Etymology: Greek Lesson 8
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Crat, cras
Mix
Cosm
Order; world
Polit, polis
City
Crit cris
Seporate; discern; judge
Top
Place
Thalass thalatt
Sea
Naus, nau
Ship
Plut
Wealth
Idio-
One's own
Ideo- idea-
Idea
Auto-
Self
-cracy
Rule; government; one who rules
-crat
One who rules
-cratic
Pertaining to rule
-poly
Sale; selling
-pole, -polist
One who sells
-polistic
Pertaining to selling
Crater
A large round hole in the ground made by the explosion of a bomb or by something falling from the
sky
Cosmos
The universe especially when it is understood as an ordered system
Cosmopolitan
A person who has lived in and knows about many different parts of the world
Hypercritical
Criticizing other people or things too strongly or too often
Topography
The art or science of making maps that show the height
Thalassic
Of
Astronaut
A person who travels in a spacecraft into outer space
Plutocrat
Government by the richest people
Ideogram
A picture or symbol used in a system of writing to represent a thing or an idea but not a
particular word or phrase for it
Autocracy
A form of government in which a country is ruled by a person or group with total power
Monopoly
Complete control of the entire supply of goods or of a service in a certain area or market
Politics
Activities that relate to influencing the actions and policies of a government or getting and
keeping power in a government
Critical
Expressing criticism or disapproval
Idiosyncrasy
An unusual way in which a particular person behaves or thinks
Hypocrite
A person who claims or pretends to have certain beliefs about what is right but who behaves in a
way that disagrees with those beliefs