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Mingle and Mix: Soci

This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root soci, meaning "companion, ally."
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  1. antisocial
    shunning contact with others
    In real life, I was nothing but an antisocial hermit. Ready Player One: A Novel
  2. associate
    keep company with
    I associated less and less with my classmates, for their talk was now full of the schools they planned to attend when the term was over. Black Boy
  3. association
    a formal organization of people or groups of people
    The tests we took were designed to determine our eligibility for Mensa, an international association for those with IQs of 132 or higher. Me Talk Pretty One Day
  4. prosocial
    relating to behavior that benefits a group of people
    A loving bond between parents and their children early in life significantly increases the child's tendency to be 'prosocial', and act with kindness and empathy towards others, research indicates.Science Daily
  5. sociable
    inclined to or conducive to companionship with others
    He was garrulous and sociable and loved to be at the center of attention, but at the same time he was extraordinarily guarded about his private life. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics
  6. social
    marked by friendly companionship with others
    He “was eminently engaging and social and he had a keen sense of humor,” his partners wrote. The Devil in the White City
  7. social class
    a group of people sharing similar wealth and status
    For people of European ancestry, social class divisions were certainly more fluid in the United States than they had been in Europe, but the United States was never an entirely classless society. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States
  8. social media
    websites and apps used to share or create online content
    At that moment, I’m kind of glad I don’t really do social media. Shine!
  9. socialite
    one who is well known or prominent in fashionable circles
    The visit was the brainchild of Mrs. Marie Mattingly Meloney, a New York socialite and magazine entrepreneur who had been shocked to learn that Madame Curies research was hobbled by a meager supply of radium. Big Science
  10. socialization
    the adoption of the behavior of the surrounding culture
    Teenagers crave structure and socialization, she says; schools offer both.The Washington Post
  11. socialize
    interact with others
    Humans socialize in the largest groups of all primates because we are the only animals with brains large enough to handle the complexities of that social arrangement. The Tipping Point
  12. societal
    relating to people in general
    We have powerful defense mechanisms—personal prejudice, shame, societal messages, and, yes, technology. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age
  13. society
    an extended group having a distinctive cultural organization
    The church was an integral part of British society, and it dictated the rules of the class-ordered society that they all lived in. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith
  14. sociological
    of or relating to human society
    As gangs and violence proliferated in the decades after "West Side Story" first hit screens, the cure for the Jets' self-diagnosis of "sociological sickness" has shifted from social work to suppression.Salon
  15. sociology
    the study and classification of human societies
    But race is not biology; race is sociology. Americanah
  16. sociopath
    a person with an antisocial personality disorder
    And he wasn’t a nutcase, he wasn’t a sociopath, he wasn’t an out-cast. Into the Wild
Created on Mon Feb 24 15:13:15 EST 2025 (updated Wed Feb 26 19:49:59 EST 2025)

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