Vocabulary Book C Lesson 3 and 4

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matrix
the surroundings which something develops
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matriarchy
a society controlled by women
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matriculate
to register as a student at a college or university
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patriarch
the male head of family or tribe
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patrimony
a family inheritance
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patronage
support; encouragement
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patronize
to treat something inferiorly, to go to regularly
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patronymic
name from an ancestor
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fraternal
brotherly
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fraternize
to be friendly with
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avuncular
like an uncle
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familial
having to do with the family
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uxorious
dominated by ones wife
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bigamy
marriage to two mates
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monogamy
marriage to a single mate
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puerile
immature
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orthopedics
branch of medicine treating skeletal and movement issues
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pedagogue
a teacher
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pedant
one who doesn't look deeply into things, a scholarly show-off
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entity
real or independent existence
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nonentity
a person or thing with no importance
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essence
the basic element, a perfume
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moribund
about to die or end
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mortify
to shame, to discipline by denial
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postmortem
an autopsy, analysis of something thats over
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euthanasia
painlessly killing a suffering person or animal
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innate
born with
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naive
unsophisticated, gullible
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nascent
coming into existence
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renaissance
rebirth

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