jthorp's Ancient Greek words

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• AGORAnounAncient Greek118 findersA place for gathering.
• ANGORAnounAncient Greek28 findersA Turkish Angora cat.
• DYSTOCIAnounAncient Greek14 findersA slow or difficult labour or delivery.
• GYROSCOPEnounAncient Greek399 findersAn apparatus composed of a wheel which spins inside of a frame (gimbal) and causes the balancing of the frame in any direction or position. In the form of a gyroscopic stabilizer,
• IAMBICadjectiveAncient Greek136 findersConsisting of iambs (metrical feet with an unstressed–stressed pattern) or characterized by their predominance.
• IDOLATRYnounAncient Greek218 findersThe worship of idols.
• IOTAnounAncient Greek133 findersThe ninth letter of the Greek alphabet (Ι, ι).
• JYNXESnounAncient Greek17 findersA bird, the wryneck, once thought a bird of ill omen (Jynx torquilla).
• MISOGYNISTnounAncient Greek135 findersOne who professes misogyny; a hater of women.
• OMEGAnounAncient Greek52 findersThe twenty-fourth letter of the Classical and the Modern Greek alphabet, and the twenty-eighth letter of the Old and the Ancient Greek alphabet, i.e. the last letter of every Greek
• OZONEnounAncient Greek66 findersAn allotrope of oxygen (symbol O₃) having three atoms in the molecule instead of the usual two; it is a toxic gas, generated from oxygen by electrical discharge.

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