Homework:
Sections 4 and 5 should look up the origins of words 1-10 unit 8 or copy the origins from below.
Sections 3 and HB have copied the origins below on a sheet. They are to copy the definition from the book next to these origins.
All classes should have made pictionaries for words 1-10 unit 8 for tomorrow.
There will be vocab homework this week. Please see my calendar for the assignments.
Here are the notes we discussed in class:
Unit 8 Word
origins/prefixes/roots/suffixes
(Write short
definition and draw a pictionary. Yes,
even you who own the book. Due
tomorrow.)
1.
Abnormal- (ab =
away from) normal
a.
Definition
b.
Pictionary
2.
Capsize- Spanish
capuzar ‘sink (a ship) by the head,’
3.
Catastrophe- from kata- ‘down’ + strophē ‘turning’ (from strephein ‘to
turn’).
4.
Decrease-
from de- ‘down’ + crescere ‘grow.’
5.
Disputatious- from dis- ‘apart’ + putare ‘reckon.’
6.
Eject- from e- (variant of ex-)‘out’
+ jacere ‘to throw.’
7.
Flourish- based on Latin florere, from flos, flor- ‘a flower.’
8.
Incentive- from Latin
incentivum ‘something that sets the tune or incites,’
9.
Insubordinate- in= not sub=below from Latin sub- ‘below’ + ordinare ‘ordain.’
10.Legible- from late Latin legibilis, from legere ‘to read.’
