acrop'olis (Gr. adj. ak'ros, high), a citadel.
cosmop'olite (Gr. n. kos'mos, the world), a citizen of the world.
metrop'olis (Gr. n. me'ter, a mother), the chief city of a country.
necrop'olis (Gr. adj. nek'ros, dead), a burial-place; a city of the dead.
29. RHE'O ('ρεω), I flow, I speak.
rhet'oric, the art of composition; the science of oratory.
rhetori'cian, one skilled in rhetoric.
rheu'matism, a disease of the limbs (so called because the ancients supposed it to arise from a deflection of the humors).
res'in, a gum which flows from certain trees.
catarrh', a discharge of fluid from the nose caused by cold in the head.