hypo vocabulary
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Hypo/Hyp
Hypochondriac
• A person overly concerned with health and often suffering from delusions of physical disease
• Rick is such a hypochondriac; if his throat hurts, he all of the sudden thinks he has throat cancer and he wants to go to the hospital.
Hypocrisy
• The practice of professing beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not hold or possess; falseness.
• Iago’s hypocrisy is seen every time he is nice to Othello.
Hypothermia
• Subnormal temperature of the body
• I will not climb Mt. Everest because I am afraid of getting hypothermia.
Hypothetical
• Imagined for purposes of example
• John Lennon wrote about a hypothetical world in his song “Imagine.”Imagine no possessions I wonder if you canNo need for greed or hungerA brotherhood of manImagine all the peopleSharing all the world...
Hypodermic
• Characterized by the introduction of medicine under the skin
• When we were young, it was scary to see Nana treat her diabetes with a hypodermic needle.
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