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Lecture 24

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powerful, and beautiful vocabulary words. Just as importantly, we’ve

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words—the Latin and Greek DNA that runs throughout English vocabulary.

And we’ve used many word-learning strategies that you can add to your

vocabulary toolbox. In this lecture, we will review several of the words

we’ve learned in previous lectures by relating them to some exemplary and

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z Back in Lecture 1, we learned the word procrustean and the story

of Procrustes, the son of Poseidon who had an iron bed on which he

forced his hapless guests to sleep, conducting a bit of amputation

for those who were too tall and stretching those who were too

short. Thus, procrustean means “tending to produce conformity

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