The Word Within the Word: List 36

List 36

Pre: before
Gen: origin
Jur: swear
Sopor: sleep
Ped: foot
Lin: line
Tomy: cut
Tort: twist
Ob: against
Sesqui: one and a half
Nec: kill
Post: after
Son: sound
Demo: people
Inter: between
Cracy: government
Phan: appearance
Dicho: in two parts
Sui: self
Partheno: virgin
Pluto: wealth

A priori: from theory
A posteriori: from observation
Parthenogenesis: unfertilized birth
Assonance: vowel repetition
Objurgation: rebuke
Demotic: of the common people
Soporific: sleep-inducing
Internecine: mutually destructive
Sesquipedialian: very long (words)
Sui generis: unique
Plutocracy: government of the wealthy
Delineate: to outline
Dichotomy: two-part division
Epiphany: revelation
Tortuous: twisting