Believe it
or not, according to one estimate, more than 150,000 words of English are
derived from Greek words!
Recently we
had a look at the book "How to sound clever: Master the 600 English words
you pretend to understand...when you don't" by Hubert van den Bergh and we
spotted that 117 out of the 600 words on this book are Greek.
Here is the
list with all of these words:
A
aphorism, aegis, anachronistic, anaemic,
anodyne, anomic, anthropogenic, anthropomorphise, apocryphal, apologist,
apostatise, Arcadian, archipelago, Augean, autocrat, autodidact, automaton
B
bacchanalian, bathetic, Byzantine
C
callisthenics, Cassandra, caustic, chimera, chrysalis,
climacteric
D
deleterious, Delphic, demotic, dialectic,
diaspora, dichotomy, didactic, Dionysian, diuretic, Doric, dyad, dyspeptic,
dystopia
E
elegiac, elliptical, emetic, endemic,
ephemeron, epithet, eponymous, ethereal, euphonic
G
gnomic
H
hagiography, halcyon, hamartia, harpy,
hegemony, heterogeneous, hubris, Hydra, hyperbole
I
ideologue, idiosyncratic
L
laconic, lard with (larinos), litotes,
logorrheic
M
metonym, miasma, microcosm, monoglot,
monolithic, myopic
N
nemesis, neologism
O
oxymoron
P
palimpest, panglossian, panoply, pantheon,
paradigm, parenthetical, parochial, paroxysm, pathetic fallacy, pathological,
peripatetic, phalanx, phlegmatic, physiognomy, plutocrat, polemic, polyglot,
polymath, polyphonic, priapic, Procrustean, proselytise, protean
R
rhapsodise about
S
sardonic, scatological, sclerotic, seismic,
semiotics, solecism, sophistry, splenetic, stentorian, symposium, synaesthesia,
synapse, synecdoche
T
tautology, teleological, theocrat, topography,
trope
U
utopia
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