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{a/an} = |
without, not |
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{epi/ep} = |
upon |
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{anti/ant} = |
against, opposite |
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{syn/sym} = |
with, same, together |
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{ana} = |
up, back, again |
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{dia} = |
through, between |
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{cata} = |
down |
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{peri} = |
around, near |
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{ec/ex} = |
out |
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{hyper} = |
above, excessive, too much |
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{en/em} = |
in, within |
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{hypo} = |
under, too little |
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English' Seven Coordinating Conjunctions? |
FANBOYs = For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, & So |
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Difference between Pi and Phi? |
P & Ph (sounds like f) |
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Difference between Tau and Theta |
T & Th |
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Difference between Kappa and Chi |
K and Ch (as in Chiasm) |
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Nucleus |
Latin word meaning kernel, - part of a nut. Greek morpheme Kary/Cary |
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Eu |
Good, Well, Genuine |
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Kary/Cary |
Nut |
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Ote |
A single example of a taxonomic group whose name ends in ota |
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Gam |
Marriage |
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Examples of Interjections |
Gosh! Jeez! Darn! Jiminy Cricket! Yikes! |
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Blank recognized the allusion to Hamlet in this scene? |
Who |
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With blank did you get into an altercation? |
Whom |
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Blank adapted the novel Moby Dick into a screenplay? |
Who |
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Blank did the evil tyrant except from punishment? |
Whom |
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From blank did you accept that bribe? |
Whom |
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Blank will this innocuous practice harm? |
Whom |
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The child, blank continaully asked the most ingenuous questions, charmed us all. |
who |
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We will have to inoculate against tetanus all volunteers blank participate in the clean up of the river. |
who |
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The members blank we chose for the ad hoc committee were all elderly |
whom |
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The president, blank was the de jure head of the government, could take no actions without the permission of the general, who was the de facto leader of the country. |
who |
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According to the statute, recidivists blank a court ssentences for violent crimes shall not be granted parole. |
whom |
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Martha, blank serendipitously discovered a cheap apartment in San Francisco, was paying only six hundred dollars a month in rent. |
who |
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The minister, blank the deacons found lying prone in a pool of his own vomit, was forced to resign. |
whom |
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John, blank claimed to know nothing about the accounting erros, was clearly being disingenuous with us. |
who |
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The philanthropist from blank I was to get my grant money has gone bankrupt! |
whom |
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The woman in blank we placed our greatest trust has failed us! |
whom |
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Be able to transliterate Greek words correctly as from Worksheet #3 |
Do it! |
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What is inflection? |
An alteration of the form of a word to indicate grammatical features such as number, person, mood, or tense. Singular or plural? 1st, 2nd, or 3rd person? Indicative mood or imperative mood? Present tense or future? |
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What are some highly inflected languages? |
Latin and Greek |
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Is English highly inflected? |
No! |
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What does Latin inflection allow? |
Rich possibilities of nuanced word order! |
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Know which principal parts of Latin verbs produced English allomorphs! |
Know it |
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Differences between how English and Latin works |
English relies on word order.! |
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Meanings of all Morphemes from Unit 4 |
Check |
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Therefore, you should also know all the resulting words... |
Check |
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Paraphernalia |
Greek, beyond dowry (it was the small other items the bride would bring along with her), the articles used in a particular activity |
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Robots |
Czech, Servitude or Forced Labor, you know what a robot is! |
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Cynic |
Greek, doglike, a person who believes all people are motivated by selfishness |
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Cynosure |
Greek, dog's tail, an object serving as the focal point of attention or admiration |
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Calculate |
Latin, small stone used in reckoning, to ascertain by computation |
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Elementary/Alimentary |
"It's elementary, my friend."/Connected with food |
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Post mortem |
After death/Autopsy |
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Vice Versa |
To turn position/In the opposite way |
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In toto |
As a whole, in all |
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Casus belli |
Beautiful opportunity, war occasion - an act that provokes or is used to justify war |
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Per capita |
Per head, per person |
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Why is "between you and me" grammatically correct? |
Because "me" is the object of the preposition between! |
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History |
To inquire, inquiry |
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Story |
Same root, but came to mean levels of floors also because there were "stories" painted on the walls |
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"Rich as Croesus" |
Wealthy king of LydiaCroesus would tell visitors to leave with as much gold as they could carry on their body!` |
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"Sword of Damocles" |
He envied the privileges of Dionysius II 4th Century BCE tyrant of siciliy. With great fortune & power comes great responsibility. When he sat in the throne he realized that. |
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Marathon |
The Hellenes (Greeks) defeated the Persians and ran 26 miles to tell their fellows in Athens that they won |
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Laconic |
Brief, pithy, concise |
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Spartan |
Rigorously self-disciplined, austere, frugal. We use this word to mean laconic. |
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Draconian |
From Draco, the Athenian law-giver. The law code he wrote for the Athenians was very harsh! |
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Democracy |
Rule by the people, demo = people, cracy = power/rule. Latin populus = people |
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Republic |
Public business, the people's business. Power is with the people & they are ruled by elected leaders |
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Empire |
United & ruled by a central authority either by a monarch or oligarchy. Dominion, sovereignty |
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Vote/Vow |
A solemn promise, a vow, a votive offering, a desire, wish, or prayer |
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Suffrage |
Who has a right to vote & who is prevented. The right to have a ballot to vote. |
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Know annals, chroncles, and histories |
Annal goes year by year, histoires from inquiry goes along a path place to place, a chronicle is a historical account of facts and events ranged in chronological order as in a timeline, equal weight given to important historical events and local events |
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When do Latin & Greek combining vowels drop out? |
When a prefix that ends with a vowel is put before a word that begins with a vowel, the prefix typically loses its last vowel. Ana and odos becomes Anode. |
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Anti/Ant |
Anth |
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Epi/Ep |
Eph |
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Ana |
An |
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Cata/CAt |
Cath |
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Dia |
Di |
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Hypo/Hyp |
Hyph |
