ACY (delicacy, fallacy, privacy); ATE (communicate, regulate, repudiate); ISM (communism, narcissism, skepticism); OUS (delicious, pretentious, vicious). Look For Short Words Some of your favorite word games might require you to form sentences once you’ve unscrambled letters. With that...
Sometimes, a contraction is a single word with some letters omitted (e.g., “talkin'”), but most commonly, it’s two or more words combined (e.g., “don’t,”“it’s,”“wanna”). Combining contractions like this differ from compound words, again, because they don’t include the...
Some root words can be used independently, while others need to be combined with a prefix (i.e., letters at the beginning), a suffix (i.e., letters at the end) or another root word (e.g., -logue) to form a standalone word. Root wordMeaningExamples act to do react, action, act...
What particularly resonated with me this week, however, was Cameron’s insightful conversation on calling things by their right names. Being told I wasn’t lazy lifted a weight I hadn’t known I was carrying until I realized that my undone projects had little to with my drive.[§]This sec...
We can say, for all intents and purposes, when reformers—including classicists—were right and when they were wrong. They were wrong when their reforms did nothing to aid communication, such as asserting pseudo-proper spellings with silent letters onto straightforward phonetic spellings in English...
InGreek and Latin Roots(2008), T. Rasinski et al. definerootas "asemanticunit. This simply means that a root is a word part that means something. It is a group of letters withmeaning." Etymology From the Old English, "root"
by the letters forming the name of the person, Onomancy^, Nomancy; by the features, Anthroposcopy^; by the mode of laughing, Geloscopy^; by ventriloquism, Gastromancy^; by walking in a circle, Gyromancy^; by dropping melted wax into water, Ceromancy^; by currents, Bletonism; by the...
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I informed him he’d be going by Dumptruck for the rest of the semester. The nickname stuck. Good ol’ Dumptruck. I miss the snippets of conversations they’d bring in from the hallways, the valence of all their young dramas, all juiced up with youth and lust and shame and anger. ...
“Language is derived from intentionality and not conversely” (Searle1983, p. 5). “Words are also deeds” (Wittgenstein1958, Part I, § 546), that is, words are charged with wants. See also Wood (2016) on Empson’s intentions (against Wimsatt and Beardsley’s1946“intentional fallacy”...