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Understanding Key Terms: From Pleonasm to Hippopotamus

This resource provides definitions and explanations of important terms across various fields. Learn about pleonasm, which denotes using excessive words for meaning; podiatrist, a medical expert in foot health; and sorority, a women's college club. Explore scientific concepts like value and paraphrase, alongside biological terms such as rhizoid and saprophyte. Discover the complexities of mental health with schizophrenia and get familiar with the magnificent hippopotamus. This guide serves as a concise reference for a wide range of vocabulary.

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Understanding Key Terms: From Pleonasm to Hippopotamus

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  1. 14A Stems ORANGE

  2. PLEO • Pleonasm - the use of more words than are necessary to convey meaning more

  3. POD • Podiatrist – a foot doctor foot

  4. SOROR • Sorority - a club of women especially at a college  sister

  5. -A • Bacteria – plural of bacterium What STEM is a synonym for –A? Data - facts about something that can be used in calculating, reasoning, or planning plural

  6. VAL • Value - the amount of money something is worth worth

  7. PARA • Paraphrase – a way of saying something again by using different words Instead of “shut up”, what is something much nicer to say? Paragraph – a short written article (as in a newspaper) complete in one section  beside, near

  8. DOM • Dominate - to have a commanding position or controlling power over Dominant - exhibiting genetic dominance http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/inheritance/activities/pdfs/Inherited%20Human%20Traits%20Quick%20Reference_Public.pdf rule

  9. ERG • Energy - the capacity for doing work Synergy – working together What STEM is a synonym for ERG? work

  10. RHIZ • Rhizoid - a structure that functions like a root in support or absorption root

  11. SAPRO • Saprophyte - a living thing that lives on dead or decaying plants rotten

  12. SCHIZO • Schizophrenia – affects how a person thinks and causes a divide/separation from reality divide

  13. HIPPO • Hippopotamus – (river horse) a very large mammal of Africa that spends most of its time in the water horse

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