transitivepr0's Ancient Greek words

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• ANAEROBICadjectiveAncient Greek129 findersWithout oxygen; especially of an environment or organism.
• ANALGESICnounAncient Greek158 findersAny medicine, such as aspirin, that reduces pain, especially without inducing a loss of other sensation.
• APOTHECARYnounAncient Greek122 findersSynonym of pharmacist: a person who sells medicine, especially one who made and sold their own medicines in the medieval or early modern eras.
• AXIOMATICadjectiveAncient Greek566 findersSelf-evident or unquestionable.
• CENOBITEnounAncient Greek43 findersA new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
• CHTHONICadjectiveAncient Greek243 findersDwelling within the underworld.
• DIAPHONYnounAncient Greek69 findersA form of harmony in which the parts proceeded by parallel motion in fourths, fifths, and octaves.
• DIASPORAnounAncient Greek247 findersThe dispersion of a group in a manner comparable to that of the Jews among the Gentiles after the Babylonian captivity (6th century BCE).
• ENCOMIASTnounAncient Greek8 findersA person who delivers an encomium or eulogy.
• ESCHATONnounAncient Greek184 findersThe apocalypse; the approach of Christ’s reign immediately preceding the end of the world; a conception of or circumstance pertaining to this era.
• EUDAEMONICadjectiveAncient Greek97 findersOf or pertaining to a eudaemon.
• EUPHORIAnounAncient Greek202 findersAn excited state of joy; a feeling of intense happiness.
• KINEMATICSnounAncient Greek37 findersThe branch of mechanics concerned with objects in motion, but not with the forces involved.
• ORGIASTICadjectiveAncient Greek85 findersRelating to an orgy; uncontrolled, wild.
• PHLEGMATICadjectiveAncient Greek637 findersNot easily excited to action or passion; calm; sluggish.
• SPONDEEnounAncient Greek106 findersA word or metrical foot of two syllables, either both long or both stressed.
• TOXALBUMINnounAncient Greek1 finderA protein which is toxic (i.e. organic and poisonous)
• TROCHEEnounAncient Greek129 findersA metrical foot in verse consisting of a stressed or heavy syllable followed by an unstressed or light syllable.
• XENOPHOBICadjectiveAncient Greek381 findersExhibiting or characterised by xenophobia, a fear or hatred of strangers, foreigners, or extraterrestial life.

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