The Suffix -ic: The Suffix -ic, Part 2

A prophet is a divinely inspired messenger or someone who can tell the future.

Politics is the act of government. Politic describes someone who is cleverly diplomatic in their relationships, and therefore well-suited to politics.

The word devil comes from the Greek diabolos, and that's where we get diabolic as well.

A despot is a cruel leader who uses real or threatened violence to maintain power. It comes from the Greek despotis, meaning "lord" or "master of slaves."

To synthesize something is to make it in a laboratory, using chemicals, much the way a synthesizer can imitate almost any natural sound using electronic oscillators and filters.

In ancient Greek, xaos was the first state of the universe: formless, dark, a void. The sense of "great disorder and confusion" came later, in the Latin chaos.

Something ancient, or a word that's no longer in use, or anything that belongs to an earlier time can be called archaic, which means "old-fashioned" in Greek.

Irony can take several forms. It can resemble sarcasm, where you say the opposite of what you mean, it can be an instance of events turning out to be contrary to expectations — often humorously — or it can be a dramatic device in a story or film, where a character says or does something that the audience understands to have an extra layer of meaning unknown to that character.