Vocabulary for the Week of 5.21.07

Mor/mort — “To die” or “death”

• Immortality
• Moribund
• Mortician
• Mortify

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Nec/nic/nox — having to do with death and dying. Also from nekros “corpse.”

• Internecine
• Necrosis
• Noxious
• Pernicious

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Mythology – The study of myths

• Aeolian harp
• Cynosure
• Laconic
• Mnemonic
• Platonic
• Sapphic
• Socratic
• Solecism

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