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32
4. Until the invention
of the microscope made them visible, the
existence of
5.
was
unknown.
Some teachers seem more concerned with the
of writing-whether an i is dotted or a tis crossed-than with what
students have to saY.
O. After turkey and all the trimmings,
we were
too
to eat any pumPkin Pie.
LESSON
Magna est usritas et þraeualct.
The truth is great and it will prevail.-nson'¡s
KeyWords
cgpy'
coProus
magnate
macrocosm
magnanirhous
magnitude
megalomania
polygamy
polygon
COPIA <1. "plenty"
1. copious (ko'pé es)
adj. Plenttful; in large amounts.
The copious correspondence of Modome de
Challenge.Word
cornucopra
Sévigné written to her doughter.gives o vivid
pictuie of her life in the court of Louis XIV'
copiously, adu.
Challenge Words
macrobiotic
macroscopic
macrostructure
MAKROS <G. "lorge"
2. macrocosm (mák're köz'em)
n. 7.The universe.
lkosmos
<G' "universe"]
Theoreticol physicists hove otTempfed to determine the size of the
mocrocosm.
2.
My
great whole
d
TESSONS 5 AND
ô: MORE OR IESS
33
Try to imogine your own fomily in relotion to the mocrocosm of the
humon fomily.
macrocosmic, ad,j.
Antonym: microcosm
MAGNUS <1. "greof"
3. magnanimous
(mäg nän'e mes) lanimus <L. "mind," "spirit"]
ad7. Noble and generous, especially in forgiving; not petty.
On her deothbed she mode the mognonimous gesture of forgiving oll
debts owed her.
Challenge Words
Magna Charta
magnascope
magniloquent
magnum opus
magnanimiff, n.; magnanim orusly,
ada.
4, magnate
n.
(mág'nãt, mäg'nit)
Awealthy, influential person, especially in
business.
Ezro Cornell, o lumber mognote, left his fortune to
found Cornell University.,
5. magnitude (mág'ni tood, mäg'ni
n.
tyood)
7. Greatness of importance or size.
Eorly explorers of the South Americon coost hod no ideo of the mognitude of the continent.
2. The degree of brightness of a star.
The constellotion Orion contoins iwo slors of the highest
mognitude, Betelgeuse ond Rigel.
FamìIiar Word
nrega¡rhone
Challenge Words
megacycle
megalith
megaton
megalopolis
MEGAS <G. "greot"
6. megalomania (mèg'e lo màn'e e, mëg'e lo mãn-ye) lrnania
<G. "madness"]
n. 1, Aform of mental illness in which a person has exaggeratecl
ideas of his or her own importance.
His megolomonio prevents him from recognizing his foults or opprecioting the tolents of others.
2.
An obsessive idea to do things on a grand scale.
Megolomonio drove the couple to build o swimming pool lorger thon
their modesl house.
megalomaniac, n.
VOCABUTARY FROM CLASSICAL ROOTS
4t
"par"
Both of the prefixe s d'emi and snni indicate "half or
dem'itasse'
or status" as in
tial.,, Demiusually -.urt, "less than full'size
s.emifficial' semif'nal'
in
snniþrmal'
as
a small ,up' Sr*limeans "ç)ztt,"
semiannual'
"
semicircl¿or
or semþreciolrs, otit can inåicate "half as-irt
NOTA BENE:
ChallengeWords
POIY <G. "mony"
7. polygamy (pe lig'e
me) lgamos<G"'marri"g.t:1.,more than one spouse at a flme'
having
i. fL,," system of
oncient Greece, the
Although polygomy wos. not generolly procticed in
would
rulers were
Ëlyg"máus to guorontee thoT lhey
"ff"*ä¿'i.-ü
hove heirs.
polygamou s, adj'; polygamously, ada'
8. polygon (pöt'ê gön)
lgonil'<G' "angle"l
with many straight sides'
". Ñn"tshãpe
Eoch of the five-poinled stors on the Americon flog
is o polygon.
polygonal, adj.; PolYgonal'dY, ada'
EXERCISE
óA
most nearly
circle the letter of the best s\ôtroN)llvl (the word or phrase
the same as the word in bold-faced type)'
1.
underestimate their magnitude a' weight
d. generositY e. great imPortance
b' strength c'
fame
2. a(ni po$goáulrhup. a' man¡-srded b' pretty c' bipartisan
d. attractive e' tenuous
3. to study polygamy a. the practice of having many wives b' the
environment c.' many-legfed creatures d. the effects of learning
many languages e. tire interaction of many cultures
most neqly
circle the letter of the best ANTONYM (the word or phrase
opposite the word in bold-faced type) '
magnate a' beggar b' attraction c' aristocrat
4.
become a(n)
5.
receive copiotls
6.
7.
d. invalid e.
recluse
praise a' eloquent b' minuscule c' long-winded
d. catholic e. omniscient
offer a' selfish b'
c. sweePing d. unilateral e' overt
a(n) magnanimous
unmistakable megalomania
d. vanitY e.
madness
excessively
proud
a' modesty b' vacuity c'
reclusiveness
TESSONS 5
AND ó: MORE OR IESS
EXERCISE óB
35
Circle the letter of the sentence in which the word in bold-faced type is
used incorrectly.
l. a. only a megalomaniac would build a fifty-room mansion in the
middle of the desert.
b. Her megalomania became so acute that she considered running
for president.
c.
was intensified by his popular success
d.
om trying to overcome deep-seated
2. a. Although his brothers had once deeply hurt his feelings,Joseph
3.
4.
EXERCISE ôC
magnanimously forgave them.
b. Her magnanimorfs criticism wounded him deeply.
c. Lincoln urged the North to show magnanimity to the defeated
South, "with malice toward none and charity toward all.,'
d My parents magnanimously let me borrow their new car, despite
the dents I had put in the old one.
a. Physicists believe the macrocosm to be expanding rapidly.
b. To understand global weather patterns, meteorologists must
consider the earth as a macrocosm, with all nations
interdependent.
c. Any neighborhood can serve as a macrocosm for the society as a
whole.
d. The laws of science are thought to be macrocosmic in their
application; we expect light to travel at the same speed in any
galaxy.
a. The magnitude of earthquakes is measured on the Richter scale,
with a I representing a minor rumble and anything over 7 a
major disaster.
b. We greatly appreciate your magnitude in making this generous
donation.
c. The Nobel Prize in literature goes to a writer who has created
works of the highest magnitude.
d. The twenty brightest stars are classified as being "of the first
magnitude."
Fill in each blank with the most appropriate word from Lesson 6. use
word or any of its forms only once.
l.
a
At its height the empire of william Randolph Hearst, the newspaper
included more than 100 ptrblications
2. In some
societies the greater the
number of wives, the greater is a man's social status
VOCABUI.ARY FROM CLASSICAL ROOTS
3ó
3,4
can have as few as three sides or as many as
can be calculated.
amounts of water when you have
4. Drink
a fever.
5.
Modern science has led us to see the
a vast interrelated system offorces.
as
drove them to buy a limousine,
though they could not even afford repairs or gasoline, m uch less a
chauffeur.
6. Their
7, The new prime minister
political opponents
I
to
join in the new administration.
appointed her