Suffix for people’s
[profession]
-ant
protestant
meaning: a person who protests or a Christian not of a Catholic or
Eastern church
Example: Are you a protestant or a
Catholic?
contestant
meaning: a person who takes part in a contest
Example: The age of contestant is
limited under 16.
applicant
meaning: someone who applies for something such as a job or admission to
a college
Example: He was the applicant who
submitted application.
attendant
meaning: an employee who serves or help customers
Example: The flight attendant was
confirmed with SARS infection.
-or
inspector
meaning: a police officer who is in charge of usually several precincts
and ranks below a superintendent
Example: The school inspector is
visiting next week.
-ist
novelist
meaning: a person who writes novels
Example: He is a very well- known novelist.
machinist
meaning: a person who makes, repairs or operates
Example: He is a machinist who lives
in America.
-ian
lesbian
meaning: relate to homosexuality between females
Example: She is a lesbian but she
doesn’t ashamed it.
magician
meaning: a person who has the power to make impossible things happen
Example: The magician suddenly disappeared in the smoke.
Vocabulary
ex: out
exorbitant
meaning: going far beyond
what is fair
Example: Exorbitant housing prices have caused an acute
shortage.
blend: mix,
mingle
blender
meaning: an electric
kitchen machine that is used to cut food and ice into very small pieces and to
make soft food into liquid
synchronize
meaning: to happen at the
same time speed
Example: synchronize the
watch
Phrase
be filled
with
Additional Supplement
WASP: White Anglo Saxon Protestant
It is an informal,
sometimes disparaging term for a group of high—statues and influential White
Americans of English Protestant ancestry. The term applies to a group believed
to control disproportionate social, political, and financial power in the
United States. It describes a group whose family wealth, education, status, and
elite connections allow them a degree of opportunity held by few others.
For Whom the bell Tolls
The author is Ernest Hemingway published
in 1940.
It tells the story of Robert Jordan, a young American in the
international Brigades attached to a republican guerrilla unit during the
Spanish Civil War. As a dynamiter, he is a assigned to blow up a bridge during
an attack on the city of Segovia. The novel is regarded as one of Hemingway’s
best works.
The Waste Land
It is widely regarded as one of the most important poems of the 20th
century and a central text in Modernist poetry.
It’s the most wonderful time of the year—Nativity of
Jesus
Parade: a public celebration of a special day or event
that usually includes many people and groups moving down a street by marching
or riding in cars or on special vehicles
March: to move along steadily usually with a rhythmic
stride and in step with others
Demonstration: an event in which people gather together in order
to show that they support or oppose something or someone
The First Noel
Tower of babel: is an etiological myth in the Book of
Genesis of the Tanakh meant to explain the origin of different languages
Edgar Allen Poe
He was an American writer, editor and literary critic. He is best known
for his poetry and short stories, especially
his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre and is credited with
contributing to the emerging genre of science fiction.
Film
Indian Jones and the Last Crusade
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