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Words for our modern age especially English words from Latin and Greek sources.

Word Unit: Abbreviations Frequently Encountered (shortened forms of spoken words or written symbols, or phrases, used chiefly in writing to represent the complete forms).

Word Unit: Alchemy, an ancient science + (how alchemists changed matter into useful applications).

Word Unit: allo-, alter- + (Greek: allos, other; Latin: alter, other).

Word Unit: ambul- + (Latin: ambulare, to walk, to go).

Word Unit: Ant-Entomology Terms + (terms restricted to the study of social insects; such as, ants and words that apply generally to entomology).

Word Unit: Anthropology Words + (anthropological key terms listed for a greater understanding of human beings, past and present).

Word Unit: arch- + (Greek: beginning; the first, the leader, the ruler; being first has two different, but often related, meanings: one meaning indicated first in time; another indicated first in importance).

Word Unit: Archeology, Archaeology + (a glossary of archeological terms particularly related to the field of research that can tell us about our origins and our remote past).

Word Unit: Astronomy; astronomical terms + (the science of the celestial bodies: the sun, the moon, and the planets; the stars and galaxies; and all of the other objects in the universe).

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