Week13

English Vocabulary and Etymology:

1.      Columns: A feature article that appears regularly in a publication, such as a newspaper.

2.      Politicians: One who is actively involved or skilled in politics, especially one who holds a political office.

3.      Parade: An organized public procession on a festive or ceremonial occasion.

4.      exo: out

ex. exorbitant, exogamy, exosphere

5.      -ant: 有「人」、「者」的意思。

ex. protestant, contestant, applicant

6.      有「人」意思的結尾：-er, -or, -ist, -ian, -ant

7.      WASP: White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) is an informal, sometimes disparaging term for a group of high-status and influential White Americans of English Protestant ancestry.

8.      Spring: A small stream of water flowing naturally from the earth.

9.      re-: again

ex. rejuvenate, repeat, recite

10.  Caesarian: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus.

11.  Edgar Allan Poe: an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of Romanticism in the United States and American literature as a whole, he was one of the country's earliest practitioners of the short story.

1849 "Annie" daguerreotype of Poe

12.  Fountain of Youth: a spring that supposedly restores the youth of anyone who drinks or bathes in its waters.

13.  Indiana Jones: the title character of the Indiana Jones franchise. George Lucas created the character in homage to the action heroes of 1930s film serials.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark

14.  syn-: with, together

ex. synchronize, syntactic, syntonic

15.  Merry go around:

16.  ten-: to hold

ex. tenuous, tenable, tent

17.  op-,ob-: 「反」的意思。

ex. opponent, obstacle, obtain

18.  bell: war

ex. belligerent, rebellious, antebellum

19.  T. S. Eliot: a British, American-born essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic, and "one of the twentieth century's major poets".

T. S. Eliot in 1934

20.  Journey of the Magi: a 43-line poem written in 1927 by T. S. Eliot. It is one of five poems that Eliot contributed for a series of 38 pamphlets by several authors collectively titled Ariel poems and released by British publishing house Faber and Gwyer . Published in August 1927, "Journey of the Magi" was the eighth in the series and was accompanied by illustrations drawn by American-born avant garde artist Edward McKnight Kauffer. The poems, including "Journey of the Magi", were later published in both editions of Eliot's collected poems in 1936 and 1963.

The cover of the poem's first publication, Faber & Gwyer's 1927 pamphlet

21.  de-: down, away from

ex. denunciation, depart, decrease

22.  dis-: 有「負面」的意思。

ex. dissipate, distraction, dismiss

23.  Scatter: To cause to separate and go in different directions

24.  Tower of Babel: an etiological myth in the Book of Genesis of the Tanakh meant to explain the origin of different languages.