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Week 14 (1I/28
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Daily 5 Student Checklist
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Slotion I
Stqtion 2
Stqtion 3
Reqd to Self (R)
Word Work (WW)
Grqmmor Pocks (G)
Lqtin Roots (tR)
Self-Evoluotion
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LESSON )O(
Crnssrc Wonos
English
epithet: a characteÅzing term
abject: miserable
eccentric: unconventional
imperious: overbearing
solicitude: concern
Spanísh
epíteto
abyecto
excéntrica
imperioso
solicítud
EPITHET
(EP-ih-thet)
The English noun epíthet comes from the Latin epitheton, which the Romans derived
from the Greek epithetos.An epithet is a word or phrase that we add to someone's name
to characterize him or her; it also can be an abusive word. The most famous epithets are
from Homer, as when he referred to gray-eyedAthena in The Odyssey. John F. Kennedy
wrote in Profiles in Courage that "Nine of twenty-two Democratic papers in the state are
unbounded in vilifying him with such epithets as traitor, apostate, scoundrel ." In All the
King's Men,Robert Penn'Warren wrote that "The juicy epithets had long since lost their
fine savor and a strident mechanical quality had crept into the rendering of the scene."
Kiplingused epithetinhis 1901 novelKim:"hecalleditaMoonof Paradise,aDisturber
of Integrity, and a few other fantastic epithets which doubled her up with mirth." InThe
Red Badge of Courøge,stephen Crane wrote, "This cold officer upon a monument, who
dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be ûner as a dead man, he thought." In
Walter Scott's lvanhoe,there is "the same slow pace and listless and indifferent manner
which had procured him the epithet of the Black Sluggard," and one character pleads,
"Bestow not on me...the epithet of noble.'
AB]ECT (AB-ject)
The Engiish adjecti ve abject comes from the Latinabjectus ,aformof the verb abicere,
to cast otr. Abjecl means miserable, thrown-down emotionally. Jack London, inWhíte
Fang,wrote that "\Mhite Fang crawled slowly, cringing and groveling in the abjectness of
his abasement and submission." In James M. Barrie's Peter Pan,we see o'Hook in their
midst as abject as if he heard the crocodile." Stephen Crane wrote in The Red Badge of
Courage that "Inwardly he was reduced to an abject pulp by these chance words." In
Frankenstein,Mary Shelley's monster feels himself reduced to "the lowest degradation, a
condition more abject than that of the blind mole or harmless worm." What do you think
Joseph Conrad meant in Lord Jimby "He commenced by being abjectly lachrymose"?
Here is a hint: lachrymose means tearful.
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ECCENTRIC (eck-SENT-rick)
'
The English adjective eccentric means unconventional, deviating from society's
established patterns. The Romans got their Latin word eccentricøs from the Greek
'ekkentros, out of the center. James Watson, who discovered DNA with Frances Crick,
.wrote in his autobiographical account The Double Helix that "Naomi was a sister of
England's most clever and eccentric biologist, J.B.S. Haldane." Neville Shute wrote in
ion the Beach that people behaved "with an eccentricity that verged on madness, born
the times they lived in." In To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee wrote that "we came
know Dill as a pocket Merlin whose head teemed with eccentric plans." In The Time
, H.G. Wells wrote that
"My pockets had always puzzled'Weena, but...she had
uded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration." And in George
's 1984, he wrote, "It would even have seemed slightly unorthodox, a dangerous
tricity."
ERIOUS (im-PEER-ee-us)
The English adjective imperious comes from the Latin imperiosus and refers to
though the imperious person
acting like an emperor. Toni Morrison wrote in Song of Solomon: "Now she held up her
imperiously, and silenced Hagar's whines." InThe Secret Garden, Burnett wrote,
that is commanding, domineering, overbearing
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as
the midst of it he had recovered himself and beckoned imperiously to Dickon." In
's The Wind in the Willows, we read that "Something up above was calling him
" and that "the wafts from his old home pleaded, whispered, conjured, and
y claimed him imperiously." InThe CalI of the Wild, Jack London described Buck:
Among the terriers he stalked imperiously." And in Black Beauty,Anna Sewell wrote,
an imperious voice she said, 'York, you must put those horses' heads higher, they
not fit to be seen."'
OTICITUDE
(so-LlSS-ih-tood)
:
The English noun solicitude means concern; it suggests the desire to protect. Its
ve form, solicitous, comes from the Latin sollícitus.In ProfiIes in Courage, John
Kennedy describes apolitician who pretends "extraordinary solicitude for the people."
The Yearling,Mafiorie Kennan Rawlings wrote that "the convalescence, the solicitude
his mother and his ,father, was definitely pleasant.'? A good example comes from
Huxley in Brave New World:'"'I say,' Helmholtz exclaimed solicitously, 'You
look ill, John!ll' In Charles Dickens's AThle of Two Cities, they "tended the wounded
with the gentlest solicitude.'? Charlotte Bronte wrote in Jane Eyre that Jane "felt a
ientious solicitude for Adele's welfare and progress." Can one feel solicitude for a
? ln The Last of the Mohicans , James Fenimore Cooper wrote that acharacter "lifted
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his rifle, and after regarding it a moment with melancholy solicitude, laid it carefully
aside." And in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice,"Elizabeth looked at her sister with
incredulous solicitude." What would incredulous solicitude look like?
Review Words from Caesar's English
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genial: kind
stolid: unemotional
palpable: touchable
austere: bare
furtive: stealthy
The Grammar of Vocabulary: øbject, an adjective.
Here is a sentence using the adjective abject, which means miserable, down-thrown.
Some barbarians lived
Parts
of Speech:
Parts
of Sentence:
adj.
n.
subj.
abject submission
v. prep. adj
n.
to
Rome
prep.
n
AVP
-------prep. phrase------ prep. phrase
Phrases:
Clauses:
in
one independent clause; a simple declarative sentence
Here the adjective abjecr modifies the noun submission What is
especially interesting about this sentence is the two prepositional
phrases after'the action verb; notice that there.is no direct object.
Neither the noun subrnissior¿ nor the nowRome canbe a direct object
because they are objects of prepositions. Objects of prepositions are
only objects of prepositions; they can't be direct objects or subject
complements.
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Caesar's Classic Words Challenge
If we want to get a feel for how words are used, we must see how great writers use
words.In each case below, one of the choices \ryas the word used by the author. For you,
this is a word game. Your challenge is to guess which word the author used. This is not
a test; it is a game because more than one word choice may work perfectly well. See if
you can use your sensitivity and intuition to guess which word the author used. You may
need a dictionary.
1. From George Orwell's 1984
Thought-criminals made
confessions of their crimes.
a. abject
b. eccentric
c. imperious
d. solicitous
2. From Robert Penn'Warren's AII the King's Men
She commanded me in a(n)
whisper
a abject
b eccentric
c solici tous
d imperious
3. From
Thomas Hardy's The Return of the Natíve
She glanced at him with furtive
a. abjection
b. eccentricity
c. solicitude
d. epithets
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Caesarts Usage
One of the secrets of advanced vocabulary is knowing how to alter words in order to
use them as different parts of speech. Pick one example from each column below, and
write a good sentence using it.
austere
abjectly
eccentrically
solicitously
genially
palpably
austerely
furtive
furtively
abject
eccentric
solicitous
genial
palpable
abjection
eccentricity
solicitude
palpability
austerity
furtiveness
From William Shakespeare's Julius Cøesør
In this quotation from Shakespeare's famous play, Caesar explains that he will not go
to the Senate because his wife Calphurnia has had a nightmare that portends his death:
Caesar,II.
ii
Calphurnia here, my wife, stays me at home.
She dreamt tonight she saw my statue,
Which,like a fountain, with an hundred spouts,
Did run pure blood, and many lusty Romans
Carne smiling and did bathe their hands in it.
And these does she apply for warning and portents
And evils imminent, and on her knee
Hath begged that I will stay at home today.
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to acquire
a quick, clever reply
able to be heard
charitable
gloorny
thoughtful
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profoundly humiliate
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torpid
great happiness
obsequlous
acquiescence
impending
equivocal
profane
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ambiguous
irrevocable
adjoining
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strong criticism
miserable
overbearing
livid
disgrace
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ill will
censure
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cry out
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passive compliance
about to happen
ambiguous
irreverent
incompatible
uncertain
unalterable
existing briefly
bruised or pale
a cha¡acterizing term
unconventional
concern
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