2015年10月22日 星期四

English Vocabulary and Etymology Week 6



1.audi=to listen

(1)audience
For example: The offending comment was in fact a heckle from an audience member.

(2)auditorium
For example: The teacher gathered all the pupils in the auditorium.


2.aquar
=water

(1)aquarium
For example: The aquarium has many tanks of fish
.

3.equ=same

(1) equator
For example: It is very hot near the equator.


4.mill=thousand

(1) millenium
For example:Shortly after the turn of the new millennium

5.ad=forward

(1)advantage
For example:I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.


(
2)advocate
For example:The group does not advocate the use of violence.

 

(3)advance
For example: It is a good idea to place your order well in advance.


6.tem=time

(1)temporal

For example: One is also able to see how specific acts are related to a temporal and spatial context.

(2)contemporary

For example: He is probably the most reviled man in contemporary theatre


7.pri=major
(1)primary
For example: It is nearly always women who are the primary care givers.


(1)primitive
For example: The conditions are primitive by any standards.


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Fable:
Fable
is a literary genre: a succinct fictional story, in prose or verse, that features animals, mythical creatures, plants, inanimate objects, or forces of nature that are anthropomorphized (given human qualities, such as verbal communication) and that illustrates or leads to an interpretation of a moral lesson (a "moral"), which may at the end be added explicitly as a pithy maxim.

Epic poetry:
An epic is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily concerning a serious subject containing details of heroic deeds and events significant to a culture or nation.













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