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 ORIGIN WHAT 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 defrost dis-* 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 Ship Naval 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.