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Adjective Word Bank

acrimonious

adj. Full of

bitterness

amorous

adj. Having a propensity for falling in love.

bleak

adj. Desolate.

bountiful

adj. Showing abundance.

callow

adj. Without experience of the world.

capacious

adj. Roomy.

comical

adj. Funny.

competitive

adj. characterized by rivalry.

despicable

adj. Contemptible.

eclectic

adj.

deriving ideas, style, or taste from a broad and diverse range of

sources.

Types of AFFIXES:what is an affix?

an additional element placed at the beginning or end of a

root word, or in the body of a word, to modify its meaning.

Prefix

:

an affix placed

before a word

,

base (root),

or another prefix

to modify a term's meaning

, as by making the term negative, as un- in unkind, by signaling repetition, as re- in reinvent, or by indicating support, as pro- in

prohibition.

Ex: Unpredictable,________________________________________________________

_______________________________________________________________________(5).

Suffix

:

an

affix

follows

the

element/ root word, to change its meaning

;

to which it is added, as -

ly

in

kindly.

Ex: Disseminating, _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________(5).

Root WORD/ Word OriginWhat is a root word?

The root word is the primary lexical unit of a word, and of a word family (root is then called base word), which carries the most significant aspects of semantic content and cannot be reduced into smaller constituents.

Etymology:

The word

etymology

is derived from the Greek

etumos

which means real or true. The ending

ology

(suffix), suggests

the study/science of something, as in biology or geology. And that is the etymology of etymology.

It is the study of the origins of words; how they evolved

.

Many words are derived from Greek or Latin words, and thus their etymology can be reduced by defining their roots

.

EX.

Pseudo

is a root word derived from the

Greek word meaning false

. In the case of the word

pseudonym

, the Greek for name is

nym

. Therefore, the word pseudonym means:___________________________.

Ex.

Malcontent

:

Latin root mal means bad

, and the word content comes from the Latin word

contentus

, meaning content or satisfied. Therefore, malcontent means:_______________________________________.

Let’s get our Affix on!!!(prefixes).

anti- against

antifreeze - de- opposite defrostdis-* not, opposite of disagree - en-

,

em

- cause to encode, embrace

fore- before

forecast - in-

,

im

- in infield

in-,

im

-,

il

-,

ir

-* not injustice,

impossible - inter-

between interact

mid- middle

midway -

mis

-

wrongly misfire

non- not

nonsense - over-

over

overlook

pre- before

prefix - re-

* again return

semi- half

semicircle - sub-

under submarine

super- above

superstar - trans-

across

transport

un-* not

unfriendly - under-

under undersea

Figure it out!

Identify

three (3) vocabulary words from the passage with your group, and use your

annotation strategy

to discern the meaning of the words by picking the best match. (

5-7 minutes)

Silvia has always been exceptionally talented, but as of lately she has been feeling (1)

disencumbered

when it comes to performing. Unfortunately, the (2)

relentlessly

tiring tour schedules for her jazz band has (3)

dissipated

her desire to play the trumpet. The fact that she was the only woman in her band only seems to be an ever compounding issue. What was she to do? Quit the band and move on to a solo career, or continue to (4)

enduring

her band mate’s (5)

disheartening

and rude behavior. Either way, she knew she has to make a decision, and at this injunction of her career, maintaining a stable income is the (6)

foremost

of her deciding factors.

What do You Mean?

We will be focusing on how words are used in the context of literature, by being able to identify the connotative and denotative of vocabulary words

.

Denotative

: adj. the established textbook, or dictionary definition of a word, without regard to its usage.

Ex.

Repugnant

: extremely distasteful; unacceptable, or in conflict with; incompatible with.

Connotative

:

adj. (of

a word or expression) signifying or

suggesting

of an associative or secondary meaning in addition to the primary

meaning:

Marline found most of Leslie’s jokes to be

repugnant

, but most of the other students found them rather hilarious.

In the context of the sentence above, what does repugnant mean?

__________________________________________________________________

Unsinkable ShipNaval architects never claim that a ship is unsinkable, but the sinking of the passenger-and-car ferry Estonia in the Baltic surely should have never have happened. It was well designed and carefully maintained. It carried the proper number of lifeboats. It had been thoroughly inspected the day of its fatal voyage. Yet hours later, the Estonia rolled over and sank in a

cold

, stormy night. It went down so quickly that most of those on

board

, caught in their dark, flooding cabins, had no chance to save themselves: Of those who managed to

scramble

overboard, only 139 survived. The rest died of

hypothermia

before the rescuers could pluck them from the cold sea. The final death toll amounted to 912

souls

. However, there were an unpleasant number of questions about why the Estonia sank and why so many survivors were men in the prime of life, while most of the dead were women, children and the elderly.