English Vocabulary and Etymology Week Ten

Test Discussion  

mock: make fun of, laugh at

mockery

meaning: a specific of scorn or ridicule

Example: The debate was a mockery.

                 Are you mocking me?

voc:to say            

provocative

meaning: tending or serving to provoke

Example: He is a provocative man who takes nothing whatever

for granted.

gro: large

grotesque: odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character

; bizarre

Example: The fat old man look grotesque in his tight pants.

Additional supplementary

John Donne

He was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England.

John Donne metaphysical conceit    

No Man Is An Island

“And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls”

bell:war

rebellion

meaning: resistance to or defiance of any authority, control ,or

tradition

Example: The government soon put down the rebellion.

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Ulysses ”

TO STRIVE, TO SEEK, TO FIND AND NOT TO YIELD

Ulysses complains that he is “idle” as a king, home with his elderly

wife, stuck passing enlightened laws for a “savage race” that sleeps

and eats but does not know him.

3D-danderous dirty difficult

Movie/Video

Skyfall: SkyFall M Poem Scene

London 2012:Queen delighted with James Bond role in opening ceremony

authority: an agency or body created by a government to perform a specific

function

-fend:attack

offend

defend/defence

-man:hand

manual job