| A | B |
|---|
| monarchy | a government with one hereditary
ruler |
| monastery | a dwelling place for monks living
secluded from the world |
| monk | originally, one religious man living alone;
now a member of a religious brotherhood living in a monastery |
| monocle | an eyeglass for one eye |
| monogamy | marriage to only one person at a time |
| monolith | one single large piece of stone, as a monument or a statue |
| monolithic | like one single stone, hence solid, massive and uniform |
| monopoly | exclusive control by one group of a commodity or service |
| monosyllable | a word of on syllable |
| monotheism | the belief that there is only one god |
| monotone | having one tone; lack of variety in tone |
| monotonous | one tone; having no variation |
| amorphous | without definite form or shape |
| ectomorphic | characterized by a slender physical build developed from the outside layer of the embryo |
| endomorphic | characterized by prominence of the abdomen and other soft body parts developed from the inside layer of the embryo |
| mesomorphic | characterized by muscular or athletic build developed from the middle layer of the embryo |
| metamorphosis | change of form or shape |
| morpheus | in Greek mythology the god of dreams and of the forms that dream sleepers see |
| morphine | a drug used to bring sleep or ease pain |
| morphology | the branch of biology that makes a study of the form of animals or plants |
| panacea | a remedy for all ills or difficulties |
| Pan-American | including all of America, both North and South |
| panchromatic | sensitive to light of all colors |
| pandemonium | the home of all demons in Milton's paradise lost; a wild uproar |
| panoply | a full suit of armor; ceremonial attire |
| panorama | a view in all directions |
| pantheism | the doctrine that God is all the laws and forces of nature and the universe |
| pantheon | a temple of all the gods. Also, the place of the idols of any group, or the idols themselves |
| pantomime | a theatrical performance in which the actors play all the parts with gestures and without speaking |
| antipathy | a feeling against someone or something; a strong dislike |
| apathetic | without feeling; indifferent |
| apathy | a lack of feeling; indifference |
| empathy | a feeling as if one were in the other person's place; an understanding so intimate that one participates in another's feelings |
| pathetic | arousing feelings of pity |
| pathological | caused by disease |
| pathology | the study of suffering; the scientific study of the nature of disease, especially the structural and functional changes caused by disease |
| pathos | a quality, especially in literature, that arouses feelings of pity |
| psychopathic | suffering in the mind; mentally disordered |
| sympathy | a feeling together with someone or something; a feeling for another person |
| centipede | a wormlike invertebrate popularly supposed to have a hundred feet |
| expedient | foot out of an entanglement; advantageous; useful in getting a desired result |
| expedite | to get the foot out of an entanglement; to speed the progress of; to help along |
| expedition | freeing the foot; a journey for a definite purpose |
| impede | to get the foot in an entanglement; to hinder the progress of |
| impediment | entanglement of the foot; anything that hinders |
| pedal | a lever operated by the foot |
| pedestrian | one who goes on foot; also, commonplace or dull, as a pedestrian style of writing |
| pedigree | the foot of a crane, so called because the three-line diagram used to indicate descent looks like a crane's foot; a record of ancestry |
| quadruped | a four-footed animal |
| mono | one |
| morph | form |
| pan | all |
| path | feeling, suffering |
| ped | foot |
| laggard (noun) | a person that lags, someone who takes more time than necessary,
syn: lingerer, loiterer, straggler
ant: none |
| embody (verb) | to give a concrete form to; express, personify, or exempligy in concrete form, to collect into or include in a body
syn: actualize, concretize, demonstrate, reify
ant: disembody, exclude |
| lucid (adj) | easily understood
syn: clear, comprehensible
ant: unclear, vague |
| frugal (adj) | economical in use; not wasteful
syn: conserving, preserving
ant: uneconomical, wasteful |
