ANL 14961B

Here is the material you must record for the next class, Monday, September 15th.

 

  1. Read and record the word on the left, then the related one on the right. The accentuated syllables in the left-column words are in bold-face.

spastic

spasticity

demon

demonic

carnaval

carnavalesque

mountain

mountain

salubrity

insalubrious

leather

leatherette

insult

insultingly

gratis

gratuitous

translate

translator

harmony

harmonium

insulation

uninsulated

democracy

undemocratically

precocity

precocious

hypocritical

hypocrite

intricate

intricacy

possible

impossibility

 

B. Read and record the following.

 

Profound changes in values will be required before the individual citizen can be expected to impact significantly on the pollution problem. Only then will the citizenry's consumption patterns change enough for the impact on the environment to be lessened. However real the emergency, there is no other realistic solution. Obviously, the current environmental crisis is just one of several simultaneous planetary suicide attempts (including civil war, slavery, and Coca Cola). These will only stop when each and every human being's conduct and lifestyle becomes less suicidal. Change starts at the grass-roots level, in how you and I conduct our affairs. Historically, this is what has really worked, and is all that can be realistically hoped for.

 

C. Complete, read and record the bold-faced portions of the text. This requires that you reformulate the descriptions as compound adjectives.

1. My crazy cousin used to "go out" (!) with a fellow with a bald head.

She used to go out with a ____________________________ fellow.

2. He was always "hanging around" with friends who played the guitar.

He was always hanging around with his _____________ friends.

3. One of those boys used to wear old boots that had a really evil smell.

One of them had really _______________________________ boots!

4. When they came to the house, my aunt used to always serve them a big meal with twenty courses.

She always served them a _____________________________ meal.

5. She used to prepare the seaweed soup with very great care.

She served them ______________________________________ soup.

D. Read and record the following text, which is full of compounds and modified noun constructions. Notice that syllables in [bold-face] are more strongly accentuated than those in [normal] type, while those in [italicized bold-face] are even stronger, and those in [large italicized bold-face] are strongest of all.

The professionally-trained police-woman pulled out a thirty-ounce, silver-plated pocket-watch from the pickpocket's left hip pocket!