Showing posts with label Ashley Botham vocab week 2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ashley Botham vocab week 2. Show all posts

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Ashley Botham Vocab week 2

  1. Paradigm-

Description: Something that serves as a pattern or a fixed arrangement.

Part of Speech: Noun

Related Words: Model, Standard, and Archetype

Sentence: Denna Kastor is a paradigm for young female runners.

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  1. Philology-

Description: A study of written records in their original form.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: Learning, Literature, speech

Sentence: Philology was used to decode the ancient scrolls.

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  1. Phonology-

Description: The study of sounds and pronunciation.

Part of Speech: Noun

Related Words: Language, speech, accent

Sentence: Phonology is used when teaching students how to pronounce words when learning a foreign language.

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  1. Rhetoric-

Description: The effective use of language, being able to use language effectively.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: Balderdash, bombast, elocution

Sentence: The rhetoric of the speeches will have to be flawless this November during the presidential election.

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  1. Syntax-

Description: The study of rules for a grammatical sentence.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: alphabet, linguistics, structure

Sentence: The student was able to understand the syntax of the sentence.

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