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| ethnic | Relating to a group of people that have the same distinctive racial, religious, or cultural background |
| malady | any unwholesome or desperate condition |
| mal | Prefix meaning bad, badly, or abnormal, abnormally |
| ary | Suffix meaning of or relating to; One that relates to or is connected with |
| antagonist | The character, force, or collection of forces in fiction or drama that opposes the main character and gives rise to the conflict of the story |
| derivative | Something obtained or produced by modification of something else |
| ive | suffix meaning -performing or tending toward a specified action |
| aud | Latin root meaning to hear |
| federal | Of or relating to the central government |
| inference | The act of reasoning from factual knowledge or evidence. |
| ob | Latin prefix meaning in the way of, against, toward, on account of |
| spect | Latin affix meaning look |
| obscure | confuse: make unclear, indistinct, or blurred |
| consistency | Compatibility or agreement among successive acts, ideas, or events. |
| expansionism | belief by some people in the late 1800s that the United States should bring much more of North and South America under U.S. control |
| cata | prefix meaning down, in accordance with, by |
| catatonic | characterized by a marked lack of movement, activity, or expression |
| irrational | not consistent with or using reason |
| systematic | characterized by order and planning |
| propaganda | information that is spread for the purpose of promoting some cause |
| catalyst | A substance that speeds up a chemical reaction, but is not itself changed during the reaction. |
| helio | means sun |
| hydra | means water |
| audible | a noise or sound that is cable of being heard |
