Unit3-Chapter5

• merge

But what happens when the real world and the world of the imagination start to merge?

Definition: to combine, to blend

From: Latin

ex: Three companies that provide home infusion services announced yesterdaythat they would merge.

n: mergence 

Chapter6

• got absorbed in

I got totally absorbed in my virtual world and forgot about the pain.

ex: I got absorbed in a book and did not hear your call.

• think of as

Many people think of virtual reality as a toy.

ex: Because they are thought of as different and inferior.

the notes in the novel

• contour [k'ɑnt,ʊr]

Twenty miles from the city a pair of enormous eggs, identical in contour and separated only by a courtesy bay....

definition:  the outline of a  figure or body

eg: Contour classifying method has been studied.

• domesticate [dəm'ɛstək,et]

....just out into the most domesticated body of salt water in the Western hemisphere, the great wet ....

definition: adapt to the environment

from: Medieval Latin

eg: Cats were domesticated by the egyptians.

a: domesticable n: domestication

• perpetual [pɚp'ɛtʃuəl]

...but their physical resemblance must be a source of perpetual confusion to hte gulls that fly overhead.

definition: continuing forever or indefinitely 

from: Late Middle English and Latin

eg: Television knows no night, it is perpetual day.

n: perpetualness adv: perpetually

sinister [s'ɪnɪstɚ]

...though this is a most superficial tag to express the bizarre and not a little sinister contrast between them.

definition: 

The notes in class

• ac-:

1. acknowledgme

2. aclain  

3. accept

4. acquire

• con-: before

1. content

2. conprehand

• tale-: far

1. television 

2. telephone 

3. telescope

• se-: apart from

1. sequence

2. select

3. seclusion

• vir/ver-: make it true

1. virtual