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- Greg Malivuk
- http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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- http://ed.ted.com/lessons/what-happens-during-a-heart-attack-krishna-sudhir
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- “No endothermic animals could live there.” = Endothermic animals can’t live there.
- “Non-endothermic animals could live there.” = Ectothermic animals could live there.
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- endotherm - noun, for the individual animal (can be pluralised to “endotherms”)
- endothermic - adjective, to describe these animals
- endothermy - noun, for the characteristic/temperature regulation technique
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- Word Roots 5 - With your partner think of words to explain the meaning of each root.
- morph = form
- multi = many
- nat = birth
- neo = new
- nom/nym = name
- nov = new
- nov = nine
- ob = in front of / in the way (If something is in front of you, it’s blocking you, which is the sense of many words with “ob”.)
- omni = all
- opt = best (This is usually “optim”, not just “opt”.)
- opt = sight/eyes
- paleo = old
- pan = all
- path = feeling (many words that start with “path” have to do with sickness and disease)
- ped = foot
- ped/paed = child
- peri = around
- phil = love
- phob = fear
- phon = sound
- photo = light
- pod = foot
- poly = many
- port = carry
- post = after
- proto = first
- pseudo = false
- psych = mind
- put = think
- pyro = fire
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- poly / multi are the Greek/Latin roots for “many”
- glot / ling are the Greek/Latin roots for “tongue” or “language”
- multilingual - the adjective for being able to speak many languages
- polyglot - the noun for a person who can speak many languages
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- pyro -> fire
- pod -> foot
- pater -> father
- quod -> what
- Grimm’s Law describes sound changes in Germanic languages (which includes English)
- Voiced stops lose voicing: b -> p, d -> t, g -> k
- Stops become fricatives: p -> f, t -> th, k -> /x/ or h
- quod -> hwaet -> what
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- http://www.etymonline.com - Online etymology dictionary that explains where words (and word roots) come from.
- http://corpus.byu.edu/coca/ - You can search for words that contain “path” by searching *path* (including the asterisks). You can then click on any word in the results to see 101 examples of that word used in sentences.
- https://books.google.com/ngrams - You can search books in English (or some other languages) to see how common different words or phrases are.
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- BREAK
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- ETS past tests (2) test 1 - Timed reading test
- Take 20 minutes to answer the questions after each reading.
- Total: 46
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