9/12 Notes

‧What should we think about when we have a first glance at the top total of an article?

→What is that? What is it for? What does it care?

‧月份名稱來源

http://blog.roodo.com/lilyhsiuworldtravel/archives/2993461.html

The Stories of the Months and Days

‧How to learn vocabulary in right and fast way?

→Focus on etymology.(roots, prefix, suffix)

*for example

pre: word-forming element meaning "before," from Old French pre- and Medieval Latin pre-, both from Latin prae (adverb and preposition) "before in time or place," from PIE *peri-(cognates: Oscan prai, Umbrian pre, Sanskrit pare "thereupon," Greek parai "at," Gaulish are- "at, before," Lithuanian pre "at," Old Church Slavonic pri "at," Gothic faura, Old English fore "before"), extended form of root.

e.g.: presentation, precent, precede

Vocabulary

‧catholic (adj.)

a. broad or wideranging in tastes, interests, or the like; havingsympathies with all; broad-minded; liberal.

b. universal in extent; involving all; of interest to all.

c. pertaining to the whole Christian body or church.

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Words of a day

‧veteran(n.)

a. Old soldier or long-serving member of any group.

b. US ex-serviceman or servicewoman.

‧bores(n.)

a.      Tiresome or dull person or thing

‧appeal(n.)

a.      Attractiveness

b.      Request for public support, esp. financial.

c.       Law referral of a case to a higher court.

‧mediocre(adj.)

a.      Indifferent in quality.

b.      Second-rate.

‧heartthrob(n.)

a.      Person for whom one has romantic feelings.