IELTS - Lesson 7 Exercise

Social Sciences

1. aberrant: deviating from what is normal or typical. It comes from the Latin aberrare (“to go astray”)

2. anthropomorphism: attributing human shape to gods, objects, animals. The Greek anthropo is a combining form that means “man” or “human”

3. archetype: model; original pattern; prototype. One meaning of the Greek prefix arch is “main” or chief.”

4. authoritarian: characterized by unquestioning obedience to authority. An authoritarian figure is one who rejects individual freedom of judgment and action.

5. cathedrals: the relieving of the emotions by art; the alleviation of fears by bringing them to consciousness. This Greek word has played an important role in theater, as well as in paychiatry.

6. demography: the science of vital statistics, as of births, deaths, population, etc. It comes from the Greek root demos (“the people”) and graph (“to write”)

7. epidemiology: the branch of medicine that investigates the causes and controls of epidemics. This word is composed of two Greek roots meaning “among the people”

8. euthanasia: method of causing death painlessly, mercy killing. In Greek, it means “happy death”

9. extrovert: a person who is active and expressive, a person who is outgoing. The opposite is introvert.

10. psychic: of the psyche or mind, beyond natural or known physical processes. All of our words that begin with psych comes from the Greek word pyschikos (“of the soul”)

11. psychopath: a person afflicted with a mental disorder. The Greek root path means “suffering” or “diseases”

12. psychotherapy: using forms of mental treatment to cure nervous disorders. Therapy comes from the Greek therapeia (“one who serves or treats medically”)

13. schizophrenia: a mental disorder characterized by delusions of persecution and omnipotence. Some victims of this disease are said to have a “split personality”

14. subliminal: below the threshold of apprehensions subconscious. Limen is a Latin word meaning “threshold”

15. traums: an emotional experience that has a lasting psychic effect. The Greek word trauma means “wound”

Exercises

I. Which word comes to Mind?

In each of the following, read the statement, then circle the word that comes to mind.

1. A nurse is suspected of having given an overdoes of drugs to a cancer-ridden patient

(subliminal, euthanasia, anthropomorphism)

2. Researchers examine the tissues of the corpses.

(epidemiology, psychotherapy, psychic)

3. Man bites dog

(aberrant, authoritarian, catharsis)

4. The government issues statistics on the ten fastest growing cities

(schizophrenia, extrovert, demography)

5. A citizen of Hiroshima continues to have nightmares

(archetype, trauma, psychopath)

6. The life of the party

(catharsis, extrovert, trauma)

7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

(schizophrenia, epidemiology, demography)

8. Commands from a dictator

(subliminal, psychic, authoritarian)

9. A family asks the doctors to “pull the plug”

(archetype, catharsis, euthanasia)

10. A Walt Disney show

(trauma, anthropomorphism, subliminal)

II. True or False?

In the space provided, indicate whether each statement is true or false.

__________ 1. Psychotherapy is used to treat muscles that have atrophied
__________ 2. Aberrant behavior is always welcomed by society.
__________ 3. Subliminal suggestions tend to be subtle ones.
__________ 4. Psychopaths and schizophrenics can be cured quickly today.
__________ 5. Jupiter throwing his lightning bolts across the sky is an example of anthropomorphism.
__________ 6. Her lawyer claimed that camp experiences led to Helen’s trauma.
__________ 7. Our family operates on democratic principles because Dad is an authoritarian figure.
__________ 8. The supermarket owners studied the neighborhood’s demography before building the new store.
__________ 9. Europe’s Black Plague is a fruitful study for epidemiologists.
__________ 10. Euthanasia deals with young people in China.

III. Fill in the Blank

Insert one of the new words in the proper space in each sentence below.

It was obvious to the emergency room doctor that the patient had undergone a serious _____________.
Concern over the so-called “mercy killing” led the clergyman to organize a symposium on _______________.
The classroom was run in an ______________ fashion because the teacher scorned democratic principles.
We were confounded by the _______________ results of the test in which the poorest students received the highest grades.
Study of our neighborhood’s projected _______________ will to help us to plan for the influx of new families.
We usually refer to people with multiple personalities as suffering from ______________.
The psychologist advanced the theory that the deranged murderer was a ________________.
As an uninhibited ______________. Larry was the life of the party.
Since I am dedicated to eliminating infectious diseases, I plan to major in ______________.
Following a _____________ in the final act, the playwright created a happy ending.

IV. What’s the Antonym?

Which of the new words is most nearly opposite in meaning to the one provided?

democrat _____________
normal _____________
conscious _____________
shy one _____________
poor example ______________

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1	Lesson-1	Jingoist, Lothario, Maverick, Nemesis, Philanderer, Philippic, Procrustean, Protean, Pyrrhic victory, Quixotic, Saturnine, Solecism, Spoonerism, Sybarite, Tawdry
2	Lesson-2	Acidulous, Baleful, Bellicose, Bilious, Bumptious, Captious, Churlish, Complaisant, Contrite, Convivial, Craven, Debonair, Dyspeptic, Lachrymose, Neurasthenic
3	Lesson-3	cabal, camaraderie, caste, cortege, detente, echelon, ecumenical, elite, esprit de corps, freemasonry, genealogy, hierarchy, hobnob, liaison, rapprochement
4	Lesson-4	adagio, andante, arpeggio, bravura, contralto, crescendo, falsetto, fortissimo, imbroglio, intaglio, largo, libretto, salvo, staccato, vendetta
5	Lesson-5	alienist, amanuensis, beadle, cosmetologist, dermatologist, entomologist, farrier, graphologist, internist, lapidary, ophthalmologist, ornithologist, osteopath, pharyngologist, physiologist
6	Lesson-6	Adonis, Bacchanal, Cassandra, Cornucopia, Erotic, Herculean, Hermetic, Hydra, Hymeneal, Iridescent, Narcissism, Odyssey, Olympian, Palladium, Phoenix
7	Lesson-7	aberrant, anthropomorphism, archetype, authoritarian, cathedrals, demography, epidemiology, euthanasia, extrovert, psychic, psychopath, psychotherapy, schizophrenia, subliminal, traums
8	Lesson-8	aficionado, barrio, bonanza, bravado, desperado, flotilla, grandee, hacienda, lariat, machismo, manana, palmetto, renegade, siesta, torero
9	Lesson-9	anachronism, anon, antebellum, antediluvian, atavism, augury, betimes, biennial, diurnal, eon, ephemeral, epoch, generation, score, tercentenary
10	Lesson-10	bane, deign, eke, knell, mete, moot, mulct, plumb, quail, roil, ruck, shunt, svelte, thrall, tryst
11	Lesson-11	abscess, aphasia, arteriosclerosis, biopsy, cadaver, carcinogen, comatose, etiology, malingerer, mastectomy, prosthesis, simian, therapeutic, tumescence, vasectomy
12	Lesson-12	bovine, equine, feline, hircine, leonine, lupine, ophidian, ovine, piscine, porcine, saurian, taurine, ursine, vixen, vulpine
13	Lesson-13	atonement, bicameral, Decalogue, decimate, dichotomy, double-think, millennium, nihilism, penultimate, primeval, protocol, quatrain, quintessence, tessellated, untrammeled
14	Lesson-14	adjudicate, appellate, collusion, deposition, equity, exhume, incommunicado, intestate, ipso facto, lien, litigation, perjury, pettifogger, tort, tribunal
15	Lesson-15	circumspect, demure, dispassionate, dolorous, edacious, effete, feisty, flaccid, flippant, florid, glabrous, imperious, ingenious, intractable, intransigent
16	Lesson-16	alchemy, arcane, conundrum, demonology, exorcise, inscrutable, pallor, phenomenology, polygraph, purloin, ritual, shamus, soothsayer, thaumaturgy, warlock
17	Lesson-17	archaeology, elfin, infinitesimal, Lilliputian, megalopolis, minimize, minutiae, palatial, peccadillo, picayune, simulacrum, soupcon, teeming, titanic, vista
18	Lesson-18	accolade, conclave, dirge, draconian, epicurean, gossamer, immolate, juggernaut, junket, ostracism, proletariat, rigmarole, rubric, Socratic, sycophant
19	Lesson-19	acrophobia, bibliophile, claustrophobia, Francophile, hydrophobia, misanthropy, misogyny, paranoid, philately, Philistine, phylogeny, philology, Russo phobia, triskaidekaphobia, xenophobia
20	Lesson-20	archaeology, cardiology, ecology, endocrinology, gerontology, gynecology, morphology, necrology, neurology, paleontology, pathology, rhinology, seismology, speleology, toxicology
21	Lesson-21	jejune, libidinous, licentious, mercurial, meretricious, minatory, mutable, niggardly, nonchalant, noxious, obdurate, obtuse, officious, omniscient, pusillanimous
22	Lesson-22	amicus curiae, arson, barrister, embezzle, extradition, habeas corpus, immaterial, incarcerate, indeterminate, larceny, litigious, miscreant, perpetrator, plagiarism, probation
23	Lesson-23	avant-garde, bete noire, bot mot, coup de grace, cul-de-sac, dues ex machina, fait accompli, fin de siecle, gauche, junta, laissez-faire, mot juste, non compos mentis, non sequitur, sine qua non
24	Lesson-24	coiffure, demarche, denouement, éclat, élan, entrepreneur, impasse, ingénue, malaise, mélange, repartee, sangfroid, tete-a-tete, tour de force, vignette
25	Lesson-25	acrid, addle, ado, alms, amulet, aperture, askew, bauble, bevy, bilk, blithe, careen, chary, nabob, onus
26	Lesson-26	antaean, argonaut, calliope, cyclopean, gorgon, harpy, Homeric, myrmidon, oracular, paean, plutonian, Promethean, stygian, terpsichorean, thespian
27	Lesson-27	pedantic, pertinacious, pontifical, pretentious, prolix, puerile, quiescent, recalcitrant, restive, ribald, sardonic, sedulous, sleazy, supercilious, voluptuous
28	Lesson-28	a cappella, ad hoc, bon vivant, de facto, gemutlich, leitmotif, nolo contendere, per excellence, parvenu, piece de resistance, postprandlal, quid pro quo, qui vive, savoir faire, sub rosa, vis-à-vis
29	Lesson-29	ambivalent, bucolic, crotchety, dilatory, disconsolate, dudgeon, froward, genteel, jocund, loquacious, splenetic, tendentious, truculent, vacuous, venal
30	Lesson-30	amorphous, gargantuan, iota, lissome, macrocosm, magnitude, magnum opus, microcosm, micrometer, scabrous, scintilla, serpentine, sinuous, smidgen, tenuous
31	Lesson-31	bathos, malapropism, metaphor, metonymy, onomatopoeia, oxymoron, panegyric, paradigm, paralipsis, pleonasm, polyglot, semantics, simile, synecdoche, threnody
32	Lesson-32	argot, aspersion, badinage, bombast, braggadocio, censure, countermand, gainsay, gobbledegook, guttural, harangue, jargon, mellifluous, resonant, sententious
33	Lesson-33	canon, hegemony, oligarchy, peonage, pharisaical, plebiscite, plenipotentiary, proxy, recession, regicide, renascent, reprisal, subversion, surrogate, votary
34	Lesson-34	antipodal, cartography, concierge, hegira, hustings, landmark, peripatetic, portmanteau, safari, tandem, transmigrate, traverse, trek, wanderlust, wayfarer
35	Lesson-35	a la carte, assuage, comestible, condiment, cuisine, culinary, gastronomic, gourmand, manna, palatable, piquant, refection, repast, subsistence, viands
36	Lesson-36	antic, beguile, bonhomie, dalliance, divertissement, euphoria, guffaw, insouciance, japery, regale, risible, roguish, roister, squib, waggish
37	Lesson-37	anarchy, bourgeois, bureaucracy, demagogue, ethos, gerrymander, imperialism, Machiavellian,. martial, muckraker, partisan, reactionary, schism, suffrage, totalitarian
38	Lesson-38	abnegation, abscond, affidavit, altercation, battery, bequest, cause celebre, caveat emptor, codicil, contiguous, contraband, contumacious, disenfranchise, injunction, jurisprudence
39	Lesson-39	aphorism, dogma, empirical, epistemology, eschatology, fallacy, hedonism, pragmatism, predestination, ratiocination, syllogism, teleology, tenet, theosophy, utilitarian
40	Lesson-40	agnostic, apocalyptic, apocryphal, apostate, apotheosis, benediction, blasphemy, deist, infidel, mantra, ontology, pantheism, sacrilegious, syncretism, theodicy