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CHAPTER 16: 1. Non sequitur (non SEK'-wa-tar)-\"it does not follow.\" 2. (a) Second-following· after the first. (b) Consecutive-following in proper order (c) Persecute-to follow (i.e., pursue) through and through; hence to annoy, harass continually for no good reason. (d) Prosecute-to follow before; hence to pursue (some- thing) diligently or vigorously in order to complete it successfully (prosecute a campaign); or to start, or en- gage in, legal proceedings against, especially in an of- ficial capacity. 3. (a) Superior. (b) Superficial. (c) Superfluous (sa-PUR'-fl.00-as). Noun: superfluity (s<X>'- par-FLOO'-a-tee). (d) Supernatural. (e) Supervise. 4. (a) Cadence (KAY'-dans)-fall and rise of the voice in speaking; hence inflection, rhythm beat, etc. of sound or music. Adjective: cadent (KAY'-dant). (b) Occidental (ok'-sa-DEN'-tal)-etymologically, falling. Hence relating to western countries, since the sun falls in the west; also, a native of such a country. Noun: Oc- cident (OK'-sa-dant). The sun rises in the east, so Latin orior, to rise, is the origin of the Orient, oriental, etc., and also of the verb orient (AW'-ree-ent'). To or- ient is to adjust to a place or situation; etymologically, to turn, or face, east. Noun: orientation. \"I'm finally oriented\" does not mean that I'm easternized or facing east, but that I have become familiar with, and comfort- able in, a place, job, situation, etc. So to diSorient (dis- AW'-ree-ent') is to remove (someone's) orientation, or to confuse or bewilder, especially in reference to locality, direction, etc. Noun: disorientation. 522

(c) Deciduous (d:i-SIJ'-oo-:is)-falling down (Latin prefix de-). This adjective refers to trees whose leaves fall (down) every autumn. (d) Incident-that which falls upon, befalls, or happens. (e) Accident-that which falls to (ac- is a respelling of ad-, to, toward) someone or something (by chance). (f) Coincidence-co- is a respelling of con-, together. A coincidence occurs when two things befall, or happen, together, or at the same time, and by chance. 5. Indolent (IN'-d:i-fant). Noun: indolence (IN'-da-Ians). 6. Dolores-from Spanish Marla de los Dol<>res, Mary of the Sorrows; hence, I guess, someone who is generally sorrowful, though the few Doloreses I have known do not live up to their etymology. Check your learning MEANING EXAMPLE PREFIX, ROOT - - - - - - - - n o n sequitur, second _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ persecute 1. sequor, secutus 2. per- --------prosecute 3. pro- --------superior 4. super- --------superfluous 5. fluo ________ cadence 6. cado 7. orior --------Orient 8. .dis- --------disorient 9. ad- (ac-) --------accident 10. doleo --------indolent 11. in- --------indolence KEY: 1-to follow, 2-through, 3-beforehand, 4-above, 5-to flow, 6-to fall, 7-to rise, 8-negative prefix, 9-to, toward, 10-to suffer, to grieve, 11-negative prefix 523

19 HOW TO KEEP ,BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY At commencement exercises, whether in elementary school, high school, or college, at Ie'ast one of the speakers will inevitably point out to the graduates that this is not the end-not by a long shot. It is only the beginning; that's why it is called \"commencement,\" etc., etc. Of course the speaker is right-no educative process is ever the end; it is always the beginning of more education, more learning, more living. And that is the case here. What has happened to you as a result of your reaction to the material and suggestions in this book is only the beginning of your development. To stop increasing your vocabulary is to stop your intellectual growth. You will wish, I am sure, to continue growing intellectually as long as you remain alive. And with the momentum that your weeks of hard work have provided, continuing wii~ not be at all difficult. Let me offer, as a summary of all I have said throughout the book, a recapitulation of the steps you must take so that your vo- cabulary will keep growing and growing. S1EP ONE. You must become actively receptive to new words. Words won't come chasing after you-you must train yourself to be on a constant lookout, in your reading and listening, for any words that other people know and you don't. 524

STEP 1WO. You must read more. As an adult, you will find most of the sources of your supply of new words in books and magazines. Is your reading today largely restricted to a quick perusal of the daily newspaper? Then you will have to change your habits. If your aim is to have a superior vocabulary, you will have to make the time to read at least one book and several magazines every week. Not just this week and next week-but every week for the rest of your life. I have never met a single. person who possessed a rich vocabulary who was not also an omnivorous reader. STEP THREE. You must learn to add to your own vocabulary the new words you meet in your reading. When you see an unfamiliar word in a book or magazine, do not skip over it impatiently. Instead, pause for a moment and say it over to yourself-get used to its sound and appearance. Then puzzle out its possible meaning in the context of the sentence. Whether you come to the right conclusion or not, whether indeed you are able to come to any intelligent conclusion at all, is of no importance. What is important is that you are, by this process, becoming superconscious of the word. As a result, you will sud- denly notice that this very word pops up unexpectedly again and again in all your reading-for you now have a mind-set for it. And of course after you've seen it a few times, you will know fairly accurately not only what it means but the many ways in which it can be used. STEP FOUR. You must open your mind to new ideas. Every word you know is the translation of an idea. Think for a few minutes of the areas of human knowledge that may possibly be unknown to you-psychology, semantics, science, art, music, or whatever. Then attack one of these areas methodi- cally-by reading books in the field. In every field, from the sim- plest to the most abstruse, there are several books written for the average, untrained lay reader that will give you both a good grasp of the subject and at the same time add immeasurably to your vo- cabulary. College students have large vocabularies because they 525

are required to expose themselves constantly to new areas of learning. You must do the same. STEP FIVE. You must set a goal. If you do nothing about your vocabulary, you wiII learn, at most, twenty-five to fifty new words in the next twelve months. By conscious effort you can learn several thousand. Set yourself a goal of finding several new words every day. This may sound am- bitious-but you will discover as soon as you start actively look- ing for new words in your reading, and actively doing reading of a more challenging type, that new words are all around you-that is, if you're ready for them. And understand this: vocabulary building snowballs. The results of each new day's search will be greater and greater~nce you provide the necessary initial push, once you gain momentum, once you become addicted to looking for, finding, and taking possession of new words. And this is one addiction well worth cultivating! 526

APPENDIX SOME ESOTERIC PHOBIAS {You will recognize many of th.e Greek roots on which these words are constructed) air: aerophobia everything: pantophobia animals: zoophobia eyes: ophthalmophobia beauty: callophobia fear: phobophobia birth: genophobia feces: coprophobia blood: hematophobia feet: podophobia breasts: mastophobia female genitals: eurotophobia burglars: scelerophobia filth: mysophobia burial alive: taphephobia fire: pyrophobia cats: ailurophobia fish: ichthyophobia change: neophobia fog: homichlophobia childbirth: maieusiophobia food: cibophobia · children: pedophobia foreigners: xenophobia colors: chromophobia \"freak.~: teratophobia crowds: ochlophobia frogs: batrachophobia darkness: nyctophobia . ghosts: phasmophobia death: thanatophobia hands: chirophobia depths: bathophobia hair: trichophobia disease: pathophobia l1ealers or healing: iatrophobia doctors: iatrophobia heat: thermophobia dogs: cynophobia heU: stygiophobia dying: thanatophobia horses: hippophobia emptiness: kenophobia insects: entomophobia 527

knives: aichmopbobia snakes: ophidiophobia_ knowledge: gnosiophobia snow: chionophobia large things: megalophobia solitude: autophobia; mono- light: pbotophobia lightning: astrophobia phobia males: androphobia sounds: acousticophobia many things: polyphobia speaking: lalophobia marriage: gamop~obia speaking aloud: phonophobia medicine: pharmacophobia speech: logophobia mice: musophobia spiders: arachneophobia mirrors: spectrophobia stairs: climacophobia mobs: ochlophobia stars: siderophobia motllerbood: metrophobia stealing: kleptophobia motion: kinesophobia stillness: eremiophobia nakedness: gymnophobia strangers: xenophobia needles: belonophobia strength: sthenophobia newness: neophobia study: logophobia night: nyctophobia sunlight: heliophobia oceans: thalassophobia tapeworms: taeniophobia odors: osmophobia taste: geumophobia old age: geraphobia teeth: odontophobia old men: gerontophobia thieves: kleptophobia pain: algophobia; odynophobia thinking: phronemophobia people: demophobia tllirteen (the number): triskaidek- plants: .botanophobia pleasure: hedonophobia aphobia poison: toxicophobia thirst: dipsophobia poverty: peniophobia thunder: brontophobia prostitutes: pomophobia time: chronophobia punishment: poinophobia togetherness: synophobia rain: ombrophobia travel: hodophobia red: erythrophobia ugliness: cacophobia rivers: potamophobia voices: phemophobia robbers: harpaxophobia vomiting: emetophobia sameness: homophobia walking: basiphobia sex: genophobia watching: scoptophobia sexual intercourse: coitophobia water: hydrophobia siuning: peccatophobia weakness: asthenophobia skin: dermatophobia wealth: plutophobia sleep: hypnophobia wind: anemophobia small things: microphobia women: gynephobia smotllering: pnigerophobia words: logophobia work: ergophobia writing: graphophobia 528

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