2017-11-07 TOEFL: word roots, reading vocab

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Word Roots (list 6) - With your partner, try to think of one or two words to explain the meaning of each root.
re = again/back
reg = rule
retro = backward (in space or time)
rupt = break (through)
scend = climb
scope/skep/spec = see/look/watch
scrib/script = write (or draw)
sect/seg = cut
semi = half (This is a Latin root. The Greek root is “hemi”.)
sol (solitude) = alone
sol (solar) = Sun (The Greek root is “helio”.)
soph = wisdom/knowledge
struct = build
sub = under (The Greek root is “hypo”.)
super = over (The Greek root is “hyper”.)
tele = far
term = end/limit
terr = land/Earth
therm = heat
trans = across
ultra = over (The opposite prefix is “infra”.)
uni = one
vac = empty
veri = true
viv/vit = life
vol = will (n)
xeno = strange/foreign/alien
zoo = animal (It’s really just “zo”, as in “paleozoic”, “azoic”, etc.)
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Reading Question Types:
- vocabulary
- fact/detail
- negative fact
- purpose
- reference
- inference
- paraphrase
- sentence insertion
- summarize
- organize/categorize
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DELTA p. 48 - Read the paragraph. In your own words, what do “cartography” and “depicted” mean?
cartography = mapmaking
depicted = drawn
p. 49-52 describe some clues you can use when trying to figure out what a word means
p. 50 clue 7: “Because of their similar teeth, [1] and [2] are believed to have evolved from the same ancestral groups as the [3], [4], and other mustelids.”
- You know these are animals, because they have teeth.
- “Mustelids” is a group of animals which includes [3] and [4], but not [1] and [2].
- Mustelids evolved from the same ancestors as [1] and [2].
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p. 56-57 - Choose the correct answers to the vocabulary questions 1-4 and identify how you know that (what clues are in the passage?).
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BREAK
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1 D
2 A
3 B
4 A
p. 58-59 - Take 6 minutes to answer the rest of the questions in 1.3.A. Then check your answers with your parter and try to convince them that yours are correct, if you disagree.
5 A
6 B
7 A
8 D (Even if you don’t know “hazards”, you should be able to eliminate the other answers.)
9 C
10 D
p. 59-61 - Take 7 minutes to answer all the questions in 1.3.B. Then check with your partner.
1 D
2 B (It has to be something that increases when the moon’s crescent grows.)
3 A
4 C
5 D (It’s a proces that can “remove most of the existing soil and hollow out lakes”.)
6 C
7 C
8 A
9 B
10 A
p. 62-63 - Take 6 minutes to do 1.3.C. Then check with your partner.
1 A
2 C
3 A
4 D
5 C
6 B
7 C
8 D
9 A
10 C
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invocation (n)
invoke (v) - Because in “invoce”, the ‘c’ would be pronounced /s/.
(This is also why we have past verbs like “panicked”, “trafficked”, and “picnicked”.)
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p. 64-65 - Take 5 minutes for 1.3.D. Then check with a partner.
1 A
2 C
3 D
4 A
5 B
6 B
7 A
8 A
9 C
10 D
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Homework: check your email