Week 4: notes_ chap. 3-5/ quiz 1-5 (etymology)

Week 4
Chapter 3-5 (quiz 1-5)
Put your feeling into something
Em-: put into
e.g. Empathy
Detest
Dislike something very much
Be dismissed from

Omnipotent
Omni-: all
potent-: ability
Impotent
Useless
Incompetent
lacking necessary ability or skills
Omniscient God
All power
Omniscient point of view

Odor
Stink smell
Epilogue
What happen next
Telepathy
Tele-: far
pathy-: feeling
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倒數第三個音節重音)
How to take this kind of test?
3 elements
1. Part of speech
2. etymological information
3. contextual clue
Eugenic
優生學
Euphemism
Eu-: good
Polychromatic
Poly-: many
On and off

Syndrome
Syn-: with, together(念n嘴開)
Philanthropy
Phil-: love
anth-: human
Soph-: wisdom

Analogies
類比
Re-: again
e.g. Rectify, repair
Amendment
憲法增修條文
Consensus vs. Harmony
Deliver the similar message
Mock and ridicule
Make fun of someone
Crook
Lie
Prolific: fruitful
numerous: fertile
Many, much, in favor of

Dissipate: waste
Squander: misspend
Replicate: reproduce
Duplicate: recreate (do it again)
Inevitable: inescapable
Destined: unavoidable
Wiretapped
監聽
Investigated report

全美三大報
USA Today
NY Times
Washington Post
A picture is more than ten thousand words.

The Pulitzer Prize /ˈpʊlɨtsər/ is a U.S. award for achievements in newspaper and online journalism, literature, and musical composition. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of American (Hungarian-born) publisher Joseph Pulitzer, and is administered by Columbia University in New York City. Prizes are awarded yearly in twenty-one categories. In twenty of the categories, each winner receives a certificate and a US$10,000 cash award.The winner in the public service category of the journalism competition is awarded a gold medal.
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