by Dwane | Aug 27, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Ab initio: from the beginning; from the start. In law, ab initio may refer to the time a legal document becomes, well, legal. In science, ab initio points to first principles, or basic laws. Ab initio is a Latin phrase, meaning (you guessed it), from the beginning....
by Dwane | Aug 26, 2014 | Education, English, Greek, Latin, Vocabulary
Acre: a plot of land equal to 4,840 square yards. In Old English, an æcer was simply a “tilled field”. Later, the word described the amount of land plowed by oxen in a single day. This is an old word. Variations show up in many ancient European languages. In Latin,...
by Dwane | Aug 26, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Aversion: an intense dislike; opposition of mind; disinclination; reluctance; hatred. Derived from Latin ab (away) and vertere (to turn), the literal meaning of this word is: to turn away. Example: She had a deep aversion to broccoli.
by Dwane | Aug 25, 2014 | Education, Latin
I received this email recently: I’m totally confused. During the last school year I purchased Latin 1 and my son started to slowly work through it. (He just finished lesson 10.) At that point I didn’t have a teacher’s guide, tests, or vocabulary...
by Dwane | Aug 25, 2014 | Education
College, for me, was a waste of time. I naively did what I was told. I did what every high school graduate was supposed to do. I went to college. It was a four year delay of game. There is more information out there now. It is getting harder to keep the truth...
by Dwane | Aug 25, 2014 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abstraction: Dealing with ideas rather than events. Abstraction is also a state of mind occupied by abstract ideas. When we consider the branch of a tree by itself, or the color of leaves, as separate from their size or shape, the act is abstraction. When we...
