Etymology 2: Your turn again.

Select 5 words from the Antigone Lesson 2 Vocabulary Sheet and create a short narrative or ANECDOTE (short account of interesting, humorous incident) which will help you would remember what the word means. Use the meaning of the word's root, prefix, or suffix in your story.

Submit your assignment on the Antigone Honors Lesson 2 Assignment Sheet.

Here's an example:

Word = DEFLECT

As a kid in church on Sundays, I used to pass the time watching how different people GENUFLECTED (to touch the knee to the floor, esp. in worship) as they entered the PEW (bench for sitting). I thought the word GENUFLECT strange. Also strange, and entertaining too, were the various attempts at knee-bending; from the quick "can't-be-bothered" faintly perceptible dip to the deep, painstaking, reverential descent and return, I could fathom a lot about a person from his/her GENUFLECTION. As I discovered later, the word GENUFLECT is a combination of the Latin words for "knee" (genu) and "to bend" (flectere), so when I saw the word DEFLECT, I knew there was a bend, or bending involved. Sure enough, add the Latin prefix "DE" meaning "away" and there it is, a bending away from, DEFLECT.

The Online Etymology Dictionary may be a good reference site.