| A | B | 
| cal, kal | beautiful | 
| cent(r) | center | 
| cephal | head | 
| drom | a running, a course | 
| ge | earth | 
| ly | to loosen | 
| morph | form, shape | 
| necr | the dead | 
| orth | straight, correct | 
| pseud | false | 
| therm | heat | 
| xen | stranger, foreigner | 
| anthropomorphic | seeing human traits in nonhuman things | 
| orthopedics | the correction or prevention of deformities of the skeleton | 
| egocentric | concerned only with oneself | 
| cataclysm | a sudden and violent change in the earth's crust | 
| calico | a cotton cloth with a brightly colored pattern | 
| pseudoscience | a theory that is concerned to be without scientific foundation | 
| geodesy | the scientific study of the size and shape of the earth | 
| necromancy | communicating with the spirits of the dead to predict the future | 
| cephalopod | any of various ocean mollusks having long tentacles around the mouth | 
| xenon | colorless, odorless gas that rarely reacts with substances | 
| thermocouple | a device used to measure very high temperatures accurately | 
| dromedary | one-humped camel widely used for riding and carrying heavy loads | 
| catharsis | cleansing | 
| metamorphosis | transformation | 
| calligraphy | handwriting | 
| analysis | investigation | 
| eccentric | quirky | 
| necrotomy | dissection |