PPT-Finding the True Meaning of a Word

Step 1 Identify the PIE for the following words Affidavit Witness Scientific Advisory Confirm Epidermis Fealty Spiritual Inspire Nice Finding the True Meaning of a Word Step 2 Find three cognates in various Indo European languages preferably Latin French English Germanic or Greek. ENERGIZER. 1. . a-. . ‘. alpha-privative’. (. a. phasia,. a. pa. -thy, . a. narchy). Answer:. Without. (negation) . 2.. acro. :. akros. . (. acro. nym, . acro. phobia,. acro. polis. ). Answer:. What do you usually do when you come to a word you do not know while reading. ?. a. ) look it up in the dictionary?. b) ask your teacher. c) ask a friend?. d) try to guess what it means. Advantages of . Lesson. 4. To clarify . the concept of meaning of life as the foundation for survival and flourishing.. Objective of this Lesson. Born in a time of peace and prosperity.. It focuses on what is right and good about people.. “. the communicative value an expression has by virtue of. . what it refers to. , . over and above its purely conceptual content” (Leech, 1974: 14) . For example, . the word ‘woman’ is defined conceptually by three properties ‘human’, ‘female’, ‘adult’. In addition, the word includes other psychological and social properties such as ‘gregarious’, ‘subject to maternal instinct’. Leech maintains that ‘woman’ has the putative properties of being frail, prone to tears, and emotional. (True;fa;b;cg)(False;fa;b;cg)(False;fa;bg)(True;fa;bg)(False;fa;cg)(True;fb;cg)(True;fa;cg)(True;;)(False;;)(False;fb;cg)(True;fbg)(True;fcg)(False;fcg)(False;fbg)(False;fag)(True;fag)ModelFormulasBas Formula Condition Answer Comment '=b true true '=a true true doesnotdependonandistherefore false false vacuouslytrueiniffistrue '=a^b false false doesnotdependon true;btrue true dependson :' istrue fa Semantics studies . the meaning of words and other parts of language, . it is . the systematic study of meaning. The study of meaning can be undertaken in various ways. Speakers of a language have an implicit knowledge about what is meaningful in their language and . FSA Reading . Targeted Standards Review. Definition: Context Clues. A . context clue . is a hint in the text that can help a reader figure out the meaning of an unfamiliar word. Where in the world is the context clue?. Quiz Review. What are the 4 context clues?. 1. . Synonym . 2. . Antonym. 3. . Example. Restatement. General Sense of the Passage. Use context clues to figure out the meaning of the word in bold.. New inventions make old ones . Story . #17. Nothing Happens on the Farm. hiatus . hi-a-. tus. embarked . em. -bar-ked. unimaginable . un-. im. -ag-in-able. extravagant . ex-. trav. -a-. gant. gourmet . gour. -met. throng . thr-ong. Work can mean a lot of different things to different people. The following items ask about how you see the role of work in your own life. Please honestly indicate how true each statement is for you Q1. . Embedded. (a) Dislodged. (b) Ingrained. (c) Nonintegrated. (d) Defenestrated. (e) Displaced. S1. Ans. (b) . Sol. Embedded means implanted. . Ingrained means firmly fixed or established; difficult to change. . Writers often use a synonym to make a sentence more effective. . For example:. After waiting for the bus for over an hour, Mandi felt annoyed, frustrated and infuriated!. Why do you think the writer here eventually chose the word . glu. . glue, agglutinate, conglomerate. l. ump, bond, glue. Root. . Meaning . Examples. . g. rad, . gress. . s. tep, go. grade. , gradual, graduate, progress, graduated, egress . Root. .