Greek and Latin

Let's have some practice time:
Words making includes Root words is known to us. Let us gather some more roots of the words.

1. a - in Greek means without - the word "abyss" means without bottom
Check with James Cameron's film with the same word as its title. An interesting film.

2. a- in Latin means on
Example words are: ashore means on the shore
afire - on fire; aside (means on the side)

3. aer- in Greek means air
eg: aerospace (means the air space), aerial (means related to air)

4. acro means top or height in Greek
acrobat means a high walker
acronym means a word formed from the first letters of a word
eg:AIDS is an acronym for "Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome".
Fear of heights is mentioned as "acrophobia"

5. act means to do in Latin
activity, react, interact

Let's meet with some more words in my next post.

See the Words

Yes dears!
See the words when you listen.
Feel the vision of it.
Attach a meaning through making a visual of it.

We love to have a sweet home, not a sweet house. What image comes to our mind when we listen to the word Sweet home, and what would you identify sweet house with? What is a house and what does it mean by a home?
See those words in mind, and a smile shine on your lips :)

Sweet home means a house where a family dwells and the family members enjoy a sweet bonding of belonging.
A sweet house (in our Indian context) is a place where the sweet savories are sold.
A house is a physical structure of concrete and bricks, where just the divisions of rooms exist.
When we listen, not only the ears, but also the mind should be involved.
When the word accompanies an image, a live one, then the word will have a longer mind-life to exist in our vocabulary.

We listen to each every word spoken by others.
We think of making a reply and say it. The listener receives it. This activity goes on in a mode of connectivity. This is what we call making a conversation. In spoken terms "we chat a lot. Chill with friends."

Brain-O-Metre

We had been through the journey of words. Brain, Mind and an attempt to understand the mechanism called Thinking. We need words to communicate. We learn new words faster during childhood. The child wants to compete with the world around. Looking at the rapid word flow of the elders, the child listens, remembers and practices them without fail. The joy of listening to a child is the best when they narrate stories or the rhymes or tidbits of their adventures.

Let's Enter the World of Vocabulary

Vocabulary in general means all those words known and used by an individual. Words are made and Languages are born.

Words are made in many ways. Many methods are there and the words thus formed are categorised accordingly. 

Here we discuss the first one Root Words. 

The word Vocabulary is formed from the Latine word Vocabulum (refers to the formation rather thn meaning),

In Latin the word "cred" means to believe. So we have the words - Credibility 

Credit - to give our acceptance to someone's invention or 

The credit card from the banks 

In Greek language "phone" means word

So we have the word Phonetics which means a branch of study of sounds in English. 

A Megaphone that we see in the hands of director who shouts "Action" and alerts the team to start the show of emotions. 

Prefixes like un-, dis-, re-, de-

Like - Unlike ( it means not similar and doesn't mean the facebookish unlike :))

Appear - Disappear (Here it formed the antonym.)

Report, Revision - such words add or change the meaning of the root word port and vision. 

Suffixes such as  -ment, -tion, -sion

appoint (verb) changed into a noun appointment

combine (verb) changed into a noun combination

conclude (verb) changed into a noun again - conclusion

So the formation of words changes not only the form but also the nature of the word from verb to noun. We need many words to serve the purpose of making others understand our point of view. So be ready to plunge into the world of Vocabulary dears!

Let's take a break from the dense world of words to refresh in some ideas, and here is a tailored nest of words to prove that we can stich our own garb of communication. Here I have taken the situation of students,exams and a third eye of a narrator. Literature is nothing but a nest of woven words around emotions. Choose your nest, pick the grass of emotions and weave the best!

Brain-O-Meter   

The halls are empty

The corridors clutter

 The tense teens fumble

For the numbers on the notice boards

The faces bear a nowhere look

The tools ready in the boxes to track

Pen, pencil, eraser gathered in the pouches

Tease the teens in secret!

The pride of finding the bench

Settle to smile at your neighbour

Respond with a lame vacuumed stare

Share your fortnight fear.

All Day is an Appointment with Alphabet

Some shrewd

Some crude

and rude too..

You and me call it

A Question Paper!

Bold letters of choice listed laugh at you

Generosity aplenty dear! 

There pops up an innocent sheet

white as snow!

You guessed it right

It’s the Answer Sheet.

A year's out pour

in three hours shrugs

Shrinks further for the score

till the bell strikes!

Bundled wisdom

Perched on the benches

The sages of teaching

Sanctify the alphabet

With a kind mark of red

All is not well under the roof

Eyes merged with fingered pain

The aching back troubles

The numerals tough to decide

One, or two, or three.

Or eight or nine or even a zero

Hail the decision maker!

There goes an empty bunch

of a mind speaking nothing in ink.

Here smiles a level headed script

With a wink in ink

Stands tall for a ninety!

They gather the brainstorm

Pick up the pen

and decide on

adding a NINE or a ONE!

There lay the minds of unseen innocents

Confident to receive the labels

First Class, Second Class or The Third

but praying not to be a failure!

The lamb named "student"

Anxious to search the print

The two figured outcome

is your brain-o-meter measured

Hail the Ruthless Judges!

Glory to the Education!

Both on a mission to

Vanish the Wisdom Possible!

by Jayashree Naidu

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