A Modern Approach to Verbal Reasoning

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mental detioration that generally marks very old

age

senescent-aging,growing old

senior-older

senate-originally a council of older,and

presumably wiser,citizens

Astron Star

Astronomer-is interested in the arrangement of

stars and other celestical bodies astrology-which

assesses the influence of planets and stars on

human events

Aster Is a star shaped flower

Asterisk-a star shaped symbol(*)is generally used

in writing (or)printing to direct the reader to look

for a footnote

astrophysics-is the branch of physics dealing with

heavenly bodies

Nomos Arrangement,law(or)order Autonomy-self law,self-government

Ge(geo) Earth

Geologist

geometry-branch of mathematics dealing with the

measurement and properties of solid and plane

figures,such as angles,

triangles,squares,spheres,primes etc.,

Bios Life

Biography-writing about someone’s life

autobiography-the story of one’s life written by

oneself

Botane Plant

Botanist

botany

Zoion Animal

Zoologist

zoology

Tome A cutting

Etomology-a cutting

appendectomy-the appendix

Dicha In two

Dichotomy-a splitting in two

dichotomous-thinking is the sort that divides

everything into two parts-good and bad

Kentron Centre

Eccentric-out of the centre,hence deviating from

the normal in behaviour attitudes

etc.,(or)unconventional odd,strange

A Not,negative Atom-one that could not be cut any further

Ana Up

Anatomy-originally the cutting up of a

plant(or)animal to determine its structure,later the

bodily structure itself

Epi On,upon Epitome-may refer to a summary,condensation

Logos Word,speech Philolegy-the love of words

Lingua Tounge Linguistics-the science of language

Philein To love Philanthrophy-the love of mankind
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