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Chapter 8 Comparison and Contrast Metaphors. Many of our prefixes and suffixes occur in antithetical pairs. Evaluation: Eu-Mal, Bene-Mis Attitude: Pro-Con, Size: Maxi-Mini Position: Hyper-Hypo, Super-Sub, In-Trans Time: Pre-Post
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Chapter 8Comparison and Contrast Metaphors • Many of our prefixes and suffixes occur in antithetical pairs. • Evaluation: Eu-Mal, Bene-Mis • Attitude: Pro-Con, • Size: Maxi-Mini • Position: Hyper-Hypo, Super-Sub, In-Trans • Time: Pre-Post • Prefixes often assimilate to become more like the word they are attached to: Inelegant, Indecent, Impossible, Irreligious, Illegal, etc. 19
Vocabulary Plus: A Source-Based Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen By Don L. F. Nilsen And Alleen Pace Nilsen 19
!Interesting notes: • Premonition is related to mnemonic and amnesia. • Interminable is related to terminate. • Supercilious is raised eyebrows (L: cilium) • Anno Domini, Ante Meridian, Post Meridian, and Post Script are related to A.D., A.M., P.M., and P.S. 19
!Augmentative Suffix-ious (full of) • Capricious • Expeditious • Fortuitous • Fractious • Loquacious • Mendacious • Meritorious • Obsequious • Pugnacious • Specious • Supercalifragulisticexpealidocious (Nilsen & Nilsen 206) 19
Reference Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen. Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source Based Approach. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon, 2004. www.ablongman.com/nilsen 19