Building a Better Vocabulary
z We can use the related-word strategy to remember tendentious. This word is related to tendency, which comes from the Medieval ...
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z Discursive is an adjective meaning rambling from topic to topic, aimless, or digressive. z Finally, turgid is an adjective m ...
/HFWXUH$0HGOH\RI1HZ:RUGV Word set: equivocal and tendentious. Someone who is __ is unlikely to give __ answers. Word s ...
%XLOGLQJ9RFDEXODU\WKURXJK*DPHV Lecture 33 T his lecture shares some ideas that will help you maintain and continue WRLPSURYH ...
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z The commercially published game Taboo is excellent for GHYHORSLQJYRFDEXODU\ÀH[LELOLW\WKDWLVXVLQJZRUGVLQQHZDQG cre ...
/HFWXUH%XLOGLQJ9RFDEXODU\WKURXJK*DPHV some of our strategies as lifelong vocabulary learners: thinking ÀH[LEO\PDNLQJF ...
z You might also mark unfamiliar words to look up later so that you GRQ¶WORVHWKHÀRZRI\RXUUHDGLQJ6HWDVLGHVRPHWLPHWR ...
/HFWXUH%XLOGLQJ9RFDEXODU\WKURXJK*DPHV Vocabulary Banks z A vocabulary bank is a list of high-utility words and phrases ...
Create a “Golden Lines” section in your vocabulary notebook and record some of your favorite lines from literature, speeches, o ...
/HFWXUH:RUGV(QJOLVK%RUURZHGDQG1HYHU5HWXUQHG :RUGV(QJOLVK%RUURZHGDQG1HYHU5HWXUQHG Lecture 34 U nlike some language ...
ZKLVNH\ was probably itself a loan translation from Medieval Latin aqua vitae. ż Banzai, NDUDRNH, and tycoon come from Japanese ...
/HFWXUH:RUGV(QJOLVK%RUURZHGDQG1HYHU5HWXUQHG z In German, zeit means “time,” and geist means “ghost” or “spirit.” Thus ...
z Weltschmerz can also denote the depression caused by feeling the world’s woes too sharply. Éminence grise (noun) A powerful ...
/HFWXUH:RUGV(QJOLVK%RUURZHGDQG1HYHU5HWXUQHG statesman. As The Merriam-Webster account relates, “Doubtless the writers ...
was too much of a mugwump to take a stand on any hotly contested issue.” z Interestingly, an apocryphal etymology of mugwump su ...
/HFWXUH:RUGV(QJOLVK%RUURZHGDQG1HYHU5HWXUQHG Poe uses the physical manifestation of the doppelgänger to explore the psy ...
Lindsay felt a thrill of _____ when the committee decided the case in her favor and against Jim; he had been her __ in the depa ...
Lecture 35: More Foreign Loan Words More Foreign Loan Words Lecture 35 A s we saw in our last lecture, English has borrowed many ...
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