Transcript Caesar`s English

Caesar’s English
Lesson 13
stem
meaning
examples
Bene
Son
Nov
Sangui
good
sound
new
blood
benefit, benediction, benefactor
Cogn
know
cognizance, incognito, cognoscenti
sonorous, dissonance, sonnet
novice, nova, innovation
sanguine, sanguinary,
consanguinity
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BENE means good
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A benefit is a good thing to receive, a
benediction is a blessing, and a benefactor is
a person who does a good thing!
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SON means sound
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Sonorous describes a full, loud sound;
dissonance is a clashing, harsh sound, and a
sonnet is a beautiful-sounding fourteen-line
poem!
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NOV means new.
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A novice is a beginner, a nova is a new star,
and an innovation is a new idea!
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SANGUI means blood.
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Sanguine means cheerful, (with rosy, bloodfilled cheeks!), sanguinary means bloody, and
consanguinity means realated by blood.
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COGN means know.
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Cognizance is knowing, incognito means in
disguise so unknown, and the cognoscenti are
the people who are said to know best!
Caesar’s Analogy
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NOVICE : PERSON ::
a.
b.
c.
d.
nova : star
beginner : expert
new : old
child : adult
Caesar’s Analogy
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NOVICE : PERSON ::
a.
b.
c.
d.
nova : star
beginner : expert
new : old
child : adult
Cognizance
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The word cognizance, (cog-nih-zance), from
the Latin cognoscere, is a noun and contains
the Latin stem cogn (know). It refers to the
condition of awareness, of knowing.
It can also be in the adjective form,
cognizant. Martin Luther King once wrote: “I
am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all
communities and states.”
Caesar’s Spanish
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Stem
meaning
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bene
son
Nov
sangui
cogn
good
sound
new
blood
know
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English/Spanish
benediction/bendicion
sonorous/sonoro
novice/novicio
sangine/sanguineo
cognizance/cognicion