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Vocab Lesson 18

In this vocabulary lesson, learn how to define words using context clues and understanding of word roots. Practice defining words in sentences and answer Word Within a Word mystery questions. Explore the concept of divergence, analysis, evaluation, intuition, and emotion.

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Vocab Lesson 18

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  1. Vocab Lesson 18

  2. Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding of the root, define the underlined words in the following sentences. 1. The atmometer measures the rate of evaporation of water. 2. The cardiologist studied the cardiac patient’s electrocardiogram. 3. The orbiting Soviet cosmonaut had cosmopolitan views and tastes. 4. The command was countermanded by his British counterpart. 5. The craniotomy was performed by a skilled brain surgeon. 6. The cyclone hurled the bicycle fifty yards. 7. Agnostics are not usually attracted to Gnosticism. 8. Over the years, his habits had ossified beyond the hope of change. 9. Zylophagous insects had eaten the antique xylophone. 10. The costermonger and the fishmonger shouted out prices to passersby. 11. September was the seventh month of the Roman calendar. 12. The flood of immigration stirred the xenophobia of the citizens. 13. The cardiovascular system responded gradually to the exercise.

  3. Using the context clues from the sentence and your understanding of the root, define the underlined words in the following sentences. 14. The storm forecast filled her with foreboding. 15. The smallish object had a faint, greenish tint. 16. Their assault on the mountain summit proved hopeless, bootless, and fruitless. 17. Some think that high fashion is a barometer for stock market trends. 18. The company geologist studied the ferrous rock with care. 19. The quasi-militaryoperation into Cambodia has failed. 20. We visited Polynesia, Micronesia, and Melanesia. 21. His uncontrollable narcolepsy made it hard for him to stay awake. 22. The booklet circulated through the hamlet. 23. The computation is made in less than a nanosecond. 24. There are a thousand picoseconds in one nanosecond. 25. The stubborn Chinese ideologue wrote his ideas in ideograms.

  4. Word Within a Word Mystery Questions #18 1. Are pine bark beetles xylophagous? 2. Is an ideologue an advocate of a certain body of ideas? 3. Is September the seventh month of the year? 4. Is a provincial, inexperienced person cosmopolitan? 5. Is the Statue of Liberty a monument to xenophobia? 6. Would a craniotomy give you a headache? 7. Is an agnostic a know-it-all? 8. Is a prognosis a disease? 9. Could a vasoconstrictor attack you on a jungle path? 10. Would a magnet attract a ferrous particle?

  5. DIVERGENCE: • What would be the attitudes and viewpoints of a person with a cosmopolitan outlook? • How many cogent arguments can you think of to help someone overcome xenophobia? • ANALYSIS: • How could you tell xylophagous and phyllophagous insects apart? • Analyze the word vasoconstrictor. • EVALUATION: • Is someone who believes in nuclear war a warmonger or a realist? • Did American astronauts conduct joint space missions with Soviet cosmonauts? • INTUITION: • You are sent through space in a craft that can travel at superluminous speeds to investigate a strange new phenomenon that is disrupting the principles of physics that regulate the cosmos. What is this strange phenomenon? • In a weird dream, you are shocked to find an article in an encyclopedia. What is the article about? • EMOTION: • What emotions could be considered causes of xenophobia? • How would you feel if told that your efforts were bootless? Or that your mind was xyloid? Or that your attitudes had ossified?

  6. diagnosis : prognosis ::mannish : masculine:: sickness: health effeminate: feminine analysis: forecast hero: heroine ideology: ideologue ideologue: dogma prediction: weather heterodox: orthodox bootless : feckless ::ferrous : auriferous :: useless: feeble metal: nonmetal barefoot: unlucky gold: ring shoe: vest iron: gold ossicle: ossify full of: lacking agnosticism : certainty ::balladmonger : poet :: costermonger: fruit stellar: quasi-stellar cosmonaut: cosmology claptrap: platitude diffidence: confidence literati: cognoscenti forecast: forethought sophistry: philosophy ferrite : picosecond :: idée fixe : monomania :: pyrite: gold megalomania: diffidence quartz: minute xenophobia: cosmopolitan ossuary: bone ethnocentrism: egalitarianism month: nanosecond cardiovascular: circulatory

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