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TRINH THANH TRUNG B.A. REFERENCE BOOKLET FOR ADVANCED LEARNERS INDEX OF PRESCRIPTIONS abduct 31 abjure 15 accompany 34 accomplice 34 acquiescent 18 acquit 18 act 23 adjure 15 agenda 23 agent 23 agile 23 agitate 23 agony 28 alien 12 ambiguous 23 antagonise 28 apply 35 apportion 40 attribute 19 avail 4 bad 22 cogent 23 cogitate 23 concomitant 27 come 27 company 34 complex 34* complicate 34 complicit 34 comply 35 comport 40 condemn 8 conduce 31 conduit 31 confound 20 conjure 15 consist 7 contribute 19 convoluted 21 correct 2 corrode 37 counterfeit 30" damage 8 dear 24 dearth 24 deduce 31 deploy 35 deport 40 deracinate 37 desist 7 devolve 21 display 35 dissolve 5 distribute 19 duct 31 duke 31 dumbfound 20 duplicate 35 educate 31 employ 35 eradicate 37 erode 37 establish 11 evaluate 4 evolve 21 exact 23 exist 7* explicate 35 explicit 35 exploit 35 export 40 expose 1* exsolve 5 fold 38 foreign 30 forest 30" forfeit 30° forum 30* found 20 front 17 fund 20 fundamental 20 funnel 20 globe 26 history 39 implicate 35 implicit 35 imply 35 port 40 important 40 lernity 8 injure 15 insist 7 introduce 31 ~ involve" 21, judge 15 juy 15 justice 15 language 32 linguist 32 local 33 locate 33 multiply 38 navigate 23 nose 3 opinion 24 opportune 40 oppose 1 parson 5 pause 1 perjure 15 perplex 34” persist 7 person 5 plait 35 pleat 35 pledge 35 plexus 34" pliable 35 pliant 35 plight 35 ply 35 popular 6* port 40 portion 40 portray 40" prejudice 15 prevail 4 produce 31 profound 20 proportion 40 protagonist 28 puberty 6" public 6* publish 6" purpose 1" quiet 18 quit 18 radical 37 rail 2 reach 36 read 10 rectangle 2 rectify 2 reduce 31 regal 30 regent 30 regime 30 region 30 regular 30 reign 30 replicate 35 reply 35 report 40 reproduce 31 requiem 18 requite 18 resist 7 resolve 5 retribution 19 revolve 21 riddie 10 right 2 rodent 37 root 37 royal 30 tule 30 seduce 31 solve 5 sovereign 30 speak 29 speech 29 spike 29 spoke 29 stable 11 stage M1 stay 1 subdue 31 subsist 7 superstition 11 support 40 surfeit 30° team 31° thread 16 throw 16 traduce 31 tranquil 18 transistor 7 transport 40 tribe 19 tribute 19 type 3 vale 4 valiant 4 valid 4 valour 4 value 4 vault 21 voluble 21 volume 21 wallow 21 wander 14” war 22 weather 14 wind 14° window 14* wise 39 wit 39 wither 14 worse 22 wort 37 write 9 * ExTRA PRESCRIPTIONS To mom and sister, for your support and forbearance. Worb FORMATION RESOURCE @ OVERVIEW [OPPOSE opponent, (umappased, opposing pansitional, : -nopauisal, menopause » POSE CM CORRECT | correction(a), comective a cet Gndcorrectnes oes tee DisatreOa Ce on eaith Cece ee Rieger aan e Tes Gee yu) geen! ee am aliant(\y), valoreus, uation, (de)val (Deel certia nur eG eat travail Ee a ree CM RESOLVE °e Han eee ee ea lets nee eat (aoeentsne ee ors aie masses Eau) Bees Sogn eerarenee an) a ue resistan © Eis e Tia Ee Wins qe cata Ce cera Geese Rian Po READ fear eee eee ect lc) ee yaa ere Sen nny roc Teese (de)stabilistion, Kose ainaeel ee blemate, stables), unstable, cea Pa facet Ete tee p OE LESTE US “ BLOGCHUVENANH. WORDPRESS.COM / TRINH THANH TRUNG B.A. Resource @ Overview Seen CB TRIBUTE Pye Ceorea ered Foie Cree There are many ways to form new words. First, you can join two or more existing words or word-parts together. If you join two words, you get a compound ~ for Pe ues u instance, hair and brush make the compound hairbrush, Ifyou add an affix to 2 word, you get a ‘derivative’ - for instance, un-+ pack becomes unpack There is also a particular sort of compound that hes become popular over the past 150 years, known as a blend. To make a blend, you join the front part of one word to the end of another ward - for instance, motor and hotel blended together to make motel. n)justifiable, (un)jus' The second way is to put an existing word to a new use. Mostly this just involves 2 change in meaning ~ for instance, buff ‘an enthusiast’ (as ina film buff’) comes from buf the name of a brownish-yellow colour (originally volunteer firefighters in New York, who needed to be very keen to do it for no pay, used to wear butf-coloured uniforms). But you can also put a word to anew grammatical use - for instance, you can use a noun as a verb (eg. to bicycle, to wolf). This process is generally known as conversion frontbe Mie Seon Cree iat Ce ieem A sice The third thing you can do is to shorten an existing word There are various ways of going about this. You can remove a part of the word (usually the end, e.g. exam, photo). This is known technically as clipping. One particular sort of shortening is to remove a suffix (eg destruct from destruction). This is called eu back-formation. An extreme form of shortening is to Ee EUG (cave only the first letter. A sequence of such letters is laibe2 ae al itialism (e.g. BBC, EU, YWCA). And if you ; a pronounce the sequence as an ordinary word, it equite, becomes an acronym (e.g. AIDS, NATO, ROM). Finally, a tiny proportion of new English words are simply made up out of thin air (e.g. nylon, gnome, hobbit, supercalifragilisticexpialidocious). “4 CChuveN De Woro Formation / Cou.ecTion 2 a Worb FORMATION RESOURCE @ Susuist @ Cae iene eet sitor, oppo: ee © Te Geass feet Semen enopause, stratopaus © iia Ba oe eee) fener eae eee Aue ightable a cen a myc cure headright, lefl-and: Greeters aCe est BioGCHuvenAns WorpPaess.Com / TRINH THANK TRUNG B.A. Tena justified, right-ustify, al, ano: ), bluenoseCd), (eee eee Cee een eee roe eras (eet ac hemor clics) fr ates evaluate ansvalu Prema Tess eerie eles eet rear teen c) iceva Fea Bese Moyne nme lent, CTs alence, electrc eee ae Cree ee erie Reena Breer ea} se) eee een antivalent Neen) oreo! ane (eee aie os r Sau a cats Peace time-resolved unresolute, unresoly undresolve(d(ness)), unres acid-soluble, Gnddissolubilit (oniecsiteies CHUYEN De Wor ForMamion / Cowection 2 eee enaaer te [PERSON Resource @ susuist @ See CTR pec Tegner Nhs yee) Tees eet Meet) Rear) os on a n(s), overpeople(d), Cad een! oracles femur itcae eas personalty, personem, person: eee eee) (aeueeecteas personifiebie orca persorologist, pe Meno rea ines (piecur Diesenass imac es lungersonCing), unperso oreo! eee eee eed eae en Sees ry eee ies ster parson-poet, parson-po Resource @ Susuist @ CBINsisT Saree Mn senn Serpette Eeaee cena aor cela een unresistance Poste wees Re erence Reisen Tae aca (2B DAMAGE |camagingly, fire-damages, indemnitier, i ere) Css tu coy CM write tie RenecMecueCg ais (eer aie ets miswrit Soya erent rae Eee ec Reinet esate) Woro-Parrs (item mca -written, write-once, iter-in-residence, writerly, words es Tae mee ate Recs cae alm-r eee eee raed eee Beare ader-friendly, readerly, re Bum fee ere eg ees ssponse, reader-writer eC Oacare as Gee rarer See) t-read(er), th Meee ntige coal iddleboard, riddle-me-ree, nee] Chee Ciena Words can be grouped together if they derive from the same root. You could say they are in the seme word family. For example, the words conduet, introduce, and produce all come from the Latin ducere ‘to lead’. ‘The words in bold all come from a Latin root that ‘means ‘to say’ and are missing some letters. Complete the words. @ Some patients choose not to take hormone replacement to avoid contra or experiencing hormonal side-effects. ‘We live in uncertain times when change has never been so rapid and un. © Allthese details were self-__and the theory of the alleged temple was totally inconsistent with these detais, © The non: part of cannabis has been used in Chinese medicine for many years. @ Raptors can play an important role as bi of habitat quality and pollution. () ‘The words in each group are missing the same letters. Complete the words, using with no more than six letters for each gap. @ bacteri___ bio____ eco___ ethno_ herbi homi___ regi__. urbi, ? carni__ detriti___ foli___, frugi herbi insecti___ loca__, omni apprentice___, cross-owner, distellow___, one-upman__, self-censor. brother___ felse___, hard knight. maiden___, man___ parent__, self__ © air___ skin____ steam-_up. water, weather. BLocCHuveNANH WoroPRess Com / Tritt HANH TRUNG B.A. © GEE. Oppose was formed from ob- ‘against’ and the irregular verb ponere 'to place’. From this we also receive other derivatives of pose, e.g. appose, (de/dis/re)compose, compost counterpose, depose, (in/pre)dispose, (over/under)expose, (re/super)impose, interpose, juxtapose, positive, postpose, postpone, posture, prepose, (contra/pre)position, propose, (re)purpose, repose, superpose, (pre) suppose, transpose; compound, ‘component, (semi-)deponent, exponent, expound, proponent, propound, etc. and their derivatives. Here are more derivatives for you to discover: entrepat, oviposit(or), oviposition(al), pr(a)epostor, provost. « This entry also includes derivatives of pause, which is from pausein ‘to stop’ - the same root as pose. Note that English has three words spelled post. The one meaning ‘2 long, sturdy piece of wood’, and 'to display a notice in a public place’ (from fastening it to a post) is from Latin postis ‘dooroost’. The ‘other tw, ‘the official service or system that delivers letters and parcels’ (as in post-haste), and'a position of paid ‘employment’, are both from Latin ponere ‘to place’. A fourth one is found in terms like posthumous, post mortem, and post-war, coming from Latin post ‘after’, Rectus ‘right, straight, ruled’ is the source of many English words including correct, direct, erect, rectangle, rectify, rectitude, rectum, right, etc. and their derivatives. Entry @ will provide derivatives of regal, regent, region, regime, regular, reign, royal, rule, etc, which come from regere ‘to govern, rule’ (ultimately rex, reg- ‘king’ - other forms of rectus). Here are more derivatives for you to discover: foreign, forensic, interregnum, rail, regicide, viceroy, (cyber)sovereign, half-sovereign ‘You might think that trains have no link to the classical world, but the word rail goes back to Latin regula ‘straight stick’, the source also of rule. Someone who compl bitterly is sometimes said to rail, this is, however, a completely different word, and goes back ultimately to Latin rugire ‘to roar’, also related to rut CHUVEN DE WoRrD FORMATION / COLLECTION 2 ¢ eS Resource @ Sustist @ « The Latin root of nose is nasus, also the source of nasal, ness, nostril, nozzle, etc. and their derivatives. The idea of a person being a ‘nose’, or ‘sticking their nose in’, is also found in words such as nark, snout and nosy. + Think how many words to do with noses begin with the letters sn-. Here are some words for you to discover: snitch, snivel, snoot(y), snore, snort, snot(ty), snuff(le) The Latin source valere ‘be strong’ gives avail, valiant, valid, valour, value, etc. and their derivatives. © RYE Words sharing the Latin source solvere ‘to loosen, unfasten’ are included in this entry, except absolve and its derivatives, © EREEEND tre Latin source of person is persona Se ‘human being’, from which come impersonate, parson, persona, personnel, etc. and their derivatives People, on the other hand, comes from the Latin populus ‘populace’ - the source of words such as populace, popular, populate, etc. and their derivatives. The blend of poplicus ‘of the people’ (from populus ‘people’) and pubes ‘adult’ gives publicus, a root shared by puberty, (re)publie, publish, etc, and their derivatives. |. From the Latin root sistere ‘to set, stand (stil), stop’ (reduplication of stare ‘to stand’) come assist, consist, desist, exist, insist, persist, resist, subsist, transistor, etc. anc their derivatives, all included in this entry, except assist and exist - The word solstice comes from sol ‘sun’ (the source of insolation, sun, solar, etc, and their derivatives), with the second half coming from Latin sistere ‘to stop’. ‘The word damage goes back to Latin damnum ‘loss or hurt’, which is also the source of condemn, indemnify, damn, ete. and their derivatives, all included in this entry, except the last stem. ‘The verb read and its variant rede go back to a Germanic root meaning ‘to advise, guess, interpret’ and riddle comes from the same root. 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