WEEK 05 字源筆記

1. extension of quiz for Unit one 

despondent : hopeless     (all negative)
a. sensible : careless           b. popular : friendless
c. generous : donation         d. fortunate : lucky

collaborate : teammates   ( ← )
a. fight : pacifists                  b. watch : listen
c. compete : rivals                d. bark : cats
                    enemy, foe

2.  prefix, root and suffix

equi- : equal    voc- : to call                 eg. equivocate
equivocate (v.) means to avoid making a clear statement by saying something that has more than one possible meaning 

peck :  moves bird's beak quickly forward to hit or bite something
                                                            eg. impeccable, henpecked
impeccable (adj.) means flawless and perfect in every way
henpecked  (adj.) means criticized and given orders all the time by a wife or female partner

pre- : before                                         eg. predisposed
predisposed (adj.) means tending toward or open to something beforehand

pro- : in favor of                                    eg. propensity
propensity (n.) means a natural tendency to behave in a particular way 

spect : to look                                       eg. inspector, perspective, spectator
inspector (n.) means a senior police officer

  

 3. extra information

a. Rip Van Winkle 

 
"Rip Van Winkle" is a short story by American author Washington Irving published in 1819 as well as the name of the story's fictional protagonist.The story of Rip Van Winkle is set in the years before and after the American Revolutionary War. Rip Van Winkle is a colonial British-American villager of Dutch ancestry. He has a nagging wife. To escape his wife, he wanders off to the mountains with his dog and meets strange men playing ninepins.He begins to drink some of their moonshine and soon falls asleep. He awakes to discover shocking changes. His musket is rotting and rusty, his beard is a foot long, and his dog is nowhere to be found. Van Winkle returns to his village where he recognizes no one. He discovers that his wife has died and that his close friends have fallen in a war or moved away.Rip learns he has been away from the village for at least twenty years. Other henpecked men wish they could have shared in Rip's good luck and had the luxury of sleeping through the hardships of the American Revolution.

connected with the additional vocabulary " henpecked"



b. Go Dutch

"Going Dutch" is a term that indicates that each person participating in a group activity pays for themselves, rather than any person paying for anyone else, particularly in a restaurant bill. It is also called Dutch date, Dutch treat (the oldest form) and "doing Dutch".