1. Review, REVIEW! Happy New Year!

2. Use your Vocabulary! • BEN/BON: • EU: • MUT: • META: • MORPH: • BELLU, BELLI: • PRO: • GNOS/SCIEN: • IST: • IZE: • ITY: • PUG: • IN: • LOQ, LOG,LOC,LIX: • CRED: • GYN: • ANDRO: • DE: • EX: • GREG: • LUC, LUM, LUS: • AMBU: • CAP/CIP/CEPT: • GEN: • DIC/DICT/DIT: • SPEC/SPIC: • SUPER/SUR: • TEND: • TRANS: • DOC/DUC: • POST: • AN: • A: • CACO: • ANTE: • NE/MAL • IM: • SOP/SOM: • PHON/SON: • PATH: • PAC/PLAC: • PUG: • ETTE: • OUS: • IFY: • ATE: • ILLO:

3. New Words • Cap/Cip/Cept: (take) • Gen: (birth, kind) • Co/Con/Com: (with, together) • Vers/Vert: (turn) • Sen: (feel, sense) • Nom/Nam/Noun/Nown: (name, order, rule) • Cla/Clu/Clo: (shut, close) • Vo/Voc/Vok/Vow: (call) • Fra/Frag/Frac: (break) • Gress/Grad: (step) • Sec/Seq: (follow)

4. EXTRAS!!! Hard to understand • ABSTRUSE: • LEVITY: • INEPT: • TRIVIAL: • EBULLIENT: • VIVACIOUS: • PARSIMONIOUS: Frivolous, unimportant Clumsy, incapable Not important Bubbly happy Full of life Stingy

5. Try it out! Vocab Decode Troublesome, unruly • Fractious • Digress • Transgress • Inconsequential • Anonymous • Preclude • Nomenclature • Anomaly avoid from the main point tresspass Not important No name full of A pre-conclusion The process of naming Not normal

6. Vocab Tactics—Two Tricky Words! • Obsequious (two forms: ob = toward and against-a trick!) • Equivocate or equivocal (two equally weighed ideas-confusing) • So what is Unequivocal?

7. Essay Writing Tactics! • Examples • Do an Outline quickly first • Write essay ahead • Include good pick up line, three course meal and a goodbye kiss! • Some details can be made up if near accurate • Use personal experience if applicable

8. Sentence Completions! • Read the whole thing, then Read it again • Plug it in • Predict • Positive and Negative • Hard ones, have hard answers • Skip hard vocab ones

9. Connections… OPP • What do the following signify? • Although • Because • Nonetheless • But for • However • And • But • Or • Despite • While • Therefore SAME and CAUSE/EFFECT OPP OPP OPP SAME OPP OPP OPP OPP SAME and CAUSE/EFFECT

10. Find the hardest answer • & Look for important Clues that tell you what the blanks are: EXP: Acid rain is damaging lakes in ____ way, causing the virtually unnoticed ____ of these aquatic ecosystems. M • A. a manifest…eradication • B. a nefarious…polarization • C. an insidious…destruction • D. a methodical…amalgamation • E. an obvious…stagnation N M N N

11. Pos or Neg (Medium hard) + • The meal had ____ effect on the famished travelers: their energy was restored almost instantly. M A. A tonic B. A cloying C. An indefinite D. A debilitating E. An intemperate M N N M

12. Plug it In! • Many writers associated with the Harlem Renaissance were not originally from Harlem; drawn by the artistic community it provided, they _________ the place as home. • A. neglected • B. adopted • C. avoided • D. criticized • E. encountered N M N N M

13. Reading-New Tactics! • See handout