Vocabulary: Unit 2

1. Vocabulary: Unit 2

2. What does “voc” mean? ________________ How about “vociferous” __________________ Vocal/ Voice/ Vocalist

3. Need an Advocate? • What does an advocate DO? • Prefix ‘ad-’ means ‘to’. • So, advocate means to__________.

4. WORD TOWER:from the root ‘voc-’ meaning ‘speak or call’

5. “Don’t provoke me” Provoke: to cause someone to do or feel something. Ex) You could provoke someone to take action against lawn gnomes everywhere. Provoke:

6. Prefix ‘e-’ means ‘out’ • EVOKE: • A song might evoke feelings or images. • An evocative picture might make you weep. • What does ‘evoke’ mean?

7. Revoke: • ‘re-’ means: • So, revoke means: • What kinds of things can be revoked?

8. And, lastly, INVOKE: • Prefix ‘in-’ means “in” within most words, but it can also mean “upon” in several cases. • INVOKE: “to call upon”…usually for help. • Ancient poets invoked muses to inspire them. • After getting a flat tire, you might invoke help from a passing motorist. • You can invoke the Fifth Amendment in court.

9. Root: Fac • What does it mean? • To MAKE/DO

10. Word Tower!

11. Words to Know: Fac- • Facile—easy • Artifact—art made by humans. • Benefactor— “make good”—someone who gives a gift. Ex) tooth fairy, grandparent, etc. • Benefit—Good that was made. • Affect/Effect: Remember these? Make or feel change. These contain the fac- root.

12. Factitious: • I once had a kid tell me that when he was a small kid he was lifted by an eagle, who flew away, but came back and let him go after awhile. • He also told me he knew how to hotwire any vehicle on the road. • He was only in 3rd grade. • Probably, what he was telling me was facticious.

13. “The world needs dreamers and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.”

14. Too Many To’s… • When to “oo” and when to “o”.

15. “To be or not too be, that is the question.”

16. When you use “to”: • Never at the end of a sentence. • At the beginning of prepositional phrases, which show direction you are going or where something is being focused: • “to the fair” “to your party” • OR it starts an infinitive verb… • “to ride my moped” “to watch a movie”

17. Problems with Prepositions? Try this: “The mouse ran ___________ the box.: Most prepositions will fit into that blank.

18. How about TOO? • 1. Either you are modifying something by showing HOW MUCH/MANY: • “too many marshmallows in my mouth” • How many? TOO many! • “too much sleep” • How much? TOO much! • “too cold outside” • How cold? 54 degrees! Oh, I mean TOO cold!

19. OR “too can mean “ALSO” • I want to go too! • Flint Lockwood likes Jello too. • Often at the end of a sentence when used in this sense, but not always. • He too smelled the skunk.

20. A VISUAL REMINDER: • ‘To is used most often, BUT if you need to add something “also” or tell “how much or how extreme” , then you need the ‘O’ sidecar to turn it from ‘to’ to ‘too.’

21. Practice: http://www.spraz-ila.de/vocab/to1.htm OR http://english.clas.asu.edu/files/shared/enged/TooToandTwo.pdfhttp://english.clas.asu.edu/files/shared/enged/TooToandTwo.pdf

22. Agony

23. Origin • Greek “Agon” originally meant “one who leads” but changed to also refer to the Olympic games to see who would lead. • Now it has come to mean “one who leads/ struggles” or “struggle”

24. Word Tower: AGON-

25. Prot--comes from “protots”= “first” and “agonist” = leader, or one who is struggling. Protagonist

26. Antagonist Prefix “Ant” or “Anti” means ____________________ An antagonist is the force or person that the protagonist ________________. Name an antagonist that is a force, not a person. How about a short video? protagonist and antagonist