{"id":655,"date":"2011-06-10T01:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-06-10T05:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-115-wordy-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2015-08-14T21:47:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-15T01:47:06","slug":"day-115-wordy-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/day-115-wordy-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"day 115: wordy wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Now that we know how to spell the word Wednesday, we are going to add a new feature to Language Lady 365. If you desire to increase your vocabulary for professional or personal reasons; are preparing for standardized testing or college; or want to help your kids learn vocabulary better, you won\u2019t want to miss Wordy Wednesdays! (Yesk I know it’s Thursday–I didn’t get this up last night!)<\/span><\/div>\n
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Wordy Wednesday will be a vocabulary-building day each week. Sometimes I will introduce a \u201cword that everybody should know\u201d type of word from test preparation or collections with these types of lists. Other times we will focus on prefixes, suffixes, and roots. Basically, all types of vocabulary learning\u2014your weekly \u201cshot\u201d of wordsmith learning!<\/span><\/div>\n
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At the beginning of the year, I described the importance of roots and affixes in helping our children learn vocabulary: \u201cDiscussing words (roots, affixes, etc.) should be a part of our daily discussion with our kids. Even if our kids go to school, we have to look at ourselves as our children\u2019s first teachers. There are so many things that we can teach them casually\u2014homeschoolers or not.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Not long ago in literature class, our son (Joshua, one of our TFT<\/stockticker> teachers) asked the students what words they knew that contained the prefix \u201cpro,\u201d meaning \u201cfor.\u201d He got the usual answers\u2014pro-life; prolific; pro-football, etc. And then his clever \u201clittle brother,\u201d Josiah, said, \u201c\u2019Propane\u2019—means that we are \u2018for pain\u2019!\u201d Have fun with vocabulary building\u2014and your kids will not forget it, for sure (nor will you)!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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So today, we will start with a common root\u2014a root that can help you unlock the meaning of many other words: gen.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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GEN is a root meaning birth, race, or kind.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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From this root, we get many common words that most of us are familiar with, including, but not limited to, the following list:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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  1. Generous<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Generate<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Generation<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Genealogy<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Gender<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Genocide<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Generic<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
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    But roots are not limited to the beginnings of words\u2014they are found buried within longer words as well. Consider the following words with gen somewhere in them. How does the meaning of gen\u2014birth, race, or kind\u2014fit into the meanings of these words:<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    1.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Agency<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    2.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Intelligence<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    3.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Resurgent<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    4.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Agenda<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    5.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Allergen<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    6.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Pathogen<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    7.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Oxygen<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    8.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Carcinogen<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    9.    <\/span><\/span><\/span>Divergent<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    10. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Emergency<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    11. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Degenerate<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    12. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Negligence<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    13. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Legends<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    14. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Estrogen<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    15. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Homogenate<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
    16. <\/span><\/span><\/span>Ingenuity<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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