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

Word Unit: Poem: Thanatopsis (confronting death by William Cullen Bryant).

Word Unit: Poem: The Cremation of Sam McGee (an abnormal way of getting warm in the freezing conditions of a Canadian winter as expressed by Robert Service).

Word Unit: Poem: The Man Who Thinks He Can (thinking that you can be successful in achieving an objective is a vital mental condition, but thinking that you can not do it is almost a guarantee that you will not be successful as indicated by Walter Wintle).

Word Unit: Poem: The Raven (a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe).

Word Unit: Poem: Trees (an expression of admiration and appreciation for trees).

Word Unit: Poem: Words (Robert Service and E.B. de Vito, two logophiles, express their fondness for words).

Word Unit: Poems: Index (a list of special poems).

Word Unit: Poems: Richard Cory and The Rich Man (some things are not as obvious as we may think they are even with people who seem to be so well off, according to Edwin Arlington Robinson and Franklin P. Adams).

Word Unit: poen-, peno-, poino-, poin-, puni-, pain-, penal-, pent- (Greek > Latin: pain, punishment, penalty).

Cross references related to "pain, hurt; suffering, injury" word families: -agra; algesi-; algo-; angina-; dolor-; Masochism; noci-; odyno-; pono- (toil, work; pain); Sadism.


Word Unit: pogo-, pogono-, -pogon + (Greek: beard; referring to a beard or beard-like structures).

Word Unit: poikilo-, poikil-; poecilo-, poecil- (Greek: varied, irregular, mottled).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "another, other, different, alternating, varied, changing": ali-; allo-; alter-; allelo-; hetero-; mut-; reciproc-; vari-.


Word Unit: polem- (Greek: war, warlike, pertaining to war; battle).

Word Unit: polio- (Greek: gray; pertaining to the "gray matter" of the nervous system, brain, and the spinal cord).

Word Unit: polis-, polit-, poli- + (Greek: city; method of government; citizenship, government, administration).

Word Unit: pollaki-, pollaci-, pollach- (Greek: frequent, frequently; often, diverse).

Word Unit: pollen (Latin: fertilizing male elements of flowers; fine flour; milldust; spores; powder).

Word Unit: poly- + (Greek: many, much; too many, too much, excessive; abnormal).

Inter-related cross references, directly or indirectly, involving word units meaning "more, plentiful, fullness, excessive, over flowing": copi-; exuber-; hyper-; multi-; opulen-; ple-; pleio-; plethor-; super-; total-; ultra-; undu-.


Word Unit: -poly, -pole, -polism, -polist, -polists, -polistic, -polistically + (Greek: used as a suffix; sale, selling; one who sells; pertaining to selling, to sell; trade, barter).

Word Unit: Polygamy Sections (Polygamy Parts 1, 2, and 3).

Word Unit: Polygamy, Part 1 of 3 (marriage comes in a variety of formats).

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