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LEAP Word Study

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LEAP Word Study

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  1. LEAP Word Study • Every other week, we will be doing what is called a LEAP word study. Each week we will look at four words: a Latin phrase, an Eponym, an Allusion, and a Pronunciation word, thus the phrase LEAP. Each of you will present a set of words once during the year, there will be two presentations each week on the weeks that you don’t have a vocabulary quiz. Each set of words will need to be researched thoroughly with the following questions considered (at a minimum; you may find other importing things to include):

  2. LEAP Word Study • For the Latin phrase, eponym, and allusion: how is it pronounced? what does it mean? where does it come from? why is it culturally significant? how would it be used in writing or speaking? • For the pronunciation word: how should the word be pronounced? is the word commonly mispronounced? are there multiple pronunciations? in what situation is each pronunciation appropriate?

  3. ipso facto • pronunciation: ip-sohfak-toh • etymology: from New Latin: by the fact itself. Appears in English in the 1540s • definition: adverb; by that very fact • usage: By getting a speeding ticket, Mr. Katzer became, ipso facto, a criminal.

  4. quixotic • pronunciation: kwik-sot-ik • etymology: “extravagantly chivalrous,” 1791, from Don Quixote, romantic, impractical hero of Cervantes' satirical novel Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605), in which the hero, Don Quixote (don is a Spanish title of honor), loses his wits from reading too many romances and comes to believe that he is a knight destined to revive the golden age of chivalry. A tall, gaunt man in armor, he has many comical adventures with his fat squire, SanchoPanza.

  5. quixotic • definition: adjective; 1. Caught up in the romance of noble deeds and the pursuit of unreachable goals; idealistic without regard to practicality. 2. Capricious; impulsive • usage: In the book, when Quixote finds no person to fight, he begins to fight windmills—to “tilt at windmills” is an idiom meaning to fight a meaningless battle. A person who is quixotic fights for things he can never achieve: Vanderbilt’s quixotic quest for an SEC football title always ends in disappointment.

  6. feet of clay • etymology: A failing or weakness in a person's character, as in The media are always looking for a popular idol's feet of clay. This expression comes from the Bible (Daniel 2:31-33—31 "You looked, O king, and there before you stood a large statue—an enormous, dazzling statue, awesome in appearance. 32 The head of the statue was made of pure gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, 33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of baked clay), where the prophet interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream of a statue with a head of gold and feet of iron clay.

  7. feet of clay • definition: noun; 1. a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person 2. any unexpected or critical fault. • usage: When the coach was arrested for drunken driving, his players realized that their hero had feet of clay.

  8. the • pronunciation: the pronunciation of the definite article the changes, primarily depending on whether the following sound is a consonant or a vowel. Before a consonant sound the pronunciation is [thuh] : the book, the mountain [thuh-book, thuh-moun-tn]. Before a vowel sound it is usually [thee], sometimes [thi]: the apple, the end [thee or thi-ap-uhl, thee or thi-end]. As an emphatic form (“I didn't say a book—I said the book.”) or a citation form (“The word the is a definite article.”), the usual pronunciation is[thee], although in both of these uses of the stressed form,[thee] is often replaced by[thuh], especially among younger speakers.

  9. Bibliography "don quixote." The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/don quixote>. "feet of clay." The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Houghton Mifflin Company. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feet of clay>. "feet of clay." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/feet of clay>. "ipso facto." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ipso facto>. "ipso facto." Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law. Merriam-Webster, Inc. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/ipso facto>. "quixotic." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quixotic>. "quixotic." Online Etymology Dictionary. Douglas Harper, Historian. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quixotic>. "quixotic." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quixotic>. "the." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 13 Sep. 2009. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/the>.

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