1. Greek lesson 13
Vocabulary
12 new words

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1. Anesthetic (noun) – a drug used before surgery, to produce an incapability of feeling or responding
Example sentence: Anesthetics administered for surgery present their own risks, and are a very important factor when unnecessary surgeries are considered.

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2. Ethical (adjective) – having to do with ethics or morality or conforming to moral standards
Example sentence: An ethical concern related to the issue of human cloning is that cloned individuals could be biologically damaged due to the inherent unreliability of cloning technology.

4. Lesson 13: vocabulary 3. Utopia (noun) – an imaginary or ideal country
Example sentence: Many people who join communes try to create their own utopia where the problems of modern society can’t touch them.

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4. Dystopia (noun) – an imaginary place which is depressingly wretched and whose people lead a fearful existence
Example sentence: The Hunger Games trilogy focuses on a futuristic dystopia called Panem, where 24 adolescents are plucked from the population to take place in a televised death match.

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5. Panoramic (adjective) – unlimited view in all directions, a sense or visual image
Example sentence: The hikers braved the journey up Mount Bromo to catch a glimpse of the stunning panoramic view of live volcanos.

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6. Mnemonic (adjective) – assisting or intending to assist memory
Example sentence: The acronym Roy G. Biv is a mnemonic device to remember the order of the colors of the rainbow.

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7. Amnesia (noun) – partial to total loss of memory caused by brain injury or by shock
Example sentence: The woman who had been in an accident was suffering from amnesia and didn’t recognize her family.

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8. Epitaph (noun) – inscription on tomb or gravestone in memory of the person buried there
Example sentence: When Robert Frost died his family had the last line from one of his poems inscribed on his gravestone epitaph.

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9. Sophomore (noun) – a student in their second year of college or secondary school
Example sentence: My sophomore year in college I changed my major to political science.

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10. Euthanasia (noun) – act or method of causing death painlessly so as to end suffering
Example sentence: The number of Dutch people killed by medical euthanasia has more than doubled in the 10 years since legislation was changed to permit it.

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11. Synopsis (noun) – a statement giving a brief or general review, condensed
Example sentence: The website SparkNotes provides a free synopsis of all the crucial points summarizing all of Shakespeare’s plays.

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12. Philosophy (noun) – according to the love of or pursuit of knowledge
Example sentence: Non-violence was a central concept in Gandhi’s philosophy of life which he used extensively in his approach to public action.