Vocabulary

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.