by Dwane | Mar 16, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Vocabulary
Hippocampus: a mythological creature. The hippocampus was part dolphin, part horse. Archaeologists have found paintings to the hippocampus in the ruins of Pompeii. Hippocampus may also refer to a genus of fish with a neck and head that look remarkably like a...
by Dwane | Mar 16, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Adduce: to bring forward, present or offer for consideration. To cite as evidence. The defense adduced a to prove the fact. Adduce comes from the Latin word adduco, meaning, I lead up to. Adduco derives from two Latin words. The preposition ad: to, or toward, and the...
by Dwane | Mar 14, 2015 | Ebook, Education, Greek, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
Hi there! At some point in the past few years, you joined an online Latin class with me. Or, perhaps it was a Greek class. I told you then that you could repeat the class for free. I am here to remind you that I was not kidding. You can repeat the class… for...
by Dwane | Mar 13, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Abstruse: hard to understand, difficult to comprehend. English is the clearest language I have ever studied. But, perhaps that is because I did not study English formally. English teachers, it seems, like to muddy the clear waters with their abstruse writing. ...
by Dwane | Mar 12, 2015 | Education, English, Latin, Vocabulary
Perfunctory – Done only for the sake of getting rid of the duty. We perform our daily perfunctory tasks with haste and, if possible with minimum effort. For instance, we tend to greet each other with perfunctory greetings. Without genuine interest, we might...
by Dwane | Mar 11, 2015 | Ebook, Education, English, Greek, Latin, Visual Latin, Vocabulary
Years ago, my family was foreclosed on. We ended up living with my wife’s parents for some time. I was a school teacher, earning a teacher’s salary. This is not such a bad thing if you work for the government, but I was a teacher in a private school. We had...
