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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 ( 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. ...

Week 4 Charlotte’s Web ( Quiz 2 ) Charlotte’s Web Charlotte's Web   is a   children's novel   by American author   E. B. White   and illustrated by Garth Williams ; it was published in 1952 by   Harper & Brothers . The novel tells the story of a   pig   named Wilbur and his friendship with a   barn spider   named Charlotte. When Wilbur is in danger of being slaughtered by the farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising Wilbur (such as "Some Pig") in her web in order to persuade the farmer to let him live. Dramatic Structure Exposition Complication Climax Conflicts: 1. borrowing/ sharing (major conflict) 2. darkness 3. bad habits Falling action Resolution The elements of Fantasy Plot, theme, and setting Character Imaginative creature • Wilbur is a rambunctious pig, the runt of his litter, who loves life, even that of Zuckerman’...

1.        Indomitable ,  adjective : incapable of being subdued or overcome. Because of his strength and toughness as well as his constant attention to the welfare of his army, his soldiers affectionately called him Old Hickory. Hickory was as tough a substance as they knew, and General Andrew Jackson was, in their minds, indomitable. -- Robert V. Remini,  The Battle of New Orleans 2.        Argot ,  noun : a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a particular group. In the argot of geology, paleomagnetic specialists are sometimes called paleomagicians. -- John Mcphee,  Annals of the Former World 3.        Impugn ,  verb : to call in question; to make insinuations against. After hearing that her brother had been impugned by his political rivals, she also wrote a verse defense of his honor, entitled "Lines on reading an attack upon the political career of the ...