Post by Jia Hong on May 6, 2010 15:19:37 GMT -8
PIQ 103 Lecture Notes -- Jia Hong
Persona non grata- UNWELCOME PERSON
drench-to get wet
stimulate- to excite
civil- being nice/courteous
rupture-bursting
groundless- unreasonable
bungle- to mess up/ carelessly make mistake
ostentatious- very showy
vigilant-watchful
capitulation- surrender
mutability- change
IQ- Intelligence quotient
quotient- division of mental age/physical age
10 yr old/12 yr old---->normal-10 yr old/ 10 yr old
68% of people score within 15 points above or below 100
96% of people fall within 30 above or below points of 100
Intelligence comes 50% from genes, 50% environment
bias:
cultural bias- taking a test on african american terms
sexual bias- taking a test biased on if you are a male/female
mensa- club for top 2%
ETYMOLOGY NOTES:
confluent- con-with/together, flu-flowing
refluent- re-back, flu-flowing
reflux- re-back, flux-flow
CIRCUM- AROUND
circumference- measurement around a circle
circumnavigate- sail around the world
circumfluent- flowing around
PHILOS-LOVE; BIBLION- BIBLE,BOOK
bibliophile- collector of books
biography- biblio-book, graphy-writing
philosophy- philo-love, sophos-wisdom; the love of wisdom
sophisticated- soph-wisdom; being wise
sophistication- another form of sophisticate
sophistry-sophists- a group of people who make you thing wrong things
ANTHROPOS-MANKIND
philanthropist-phil-love; anthropist-mankind; man lover
philanthropy-(noun version)
philanthropic-(adjective version)
misein-opposite
misanthropist-opposite of philanthropist
misogyny- hatred of women
moros-full
moron-a fool
moronic-foolish
sophomore- sopho-wise, more-foolish
sophomoric- silly/immature
pejorative- insulting term
misogynous- adjective for misogyny
gamos- marriage
misogamy- hatred of marriage
monogamy- one marriage
bigamy- two mariages
polygamy- many marriages
fides-faith
confidence- having faith within
confide-trust
confidant- someone you trust (share secrets with)
confidential- secret
bona, bonus- good
bona fide- good faith
bon voyage- have a good trip
diffident- having no faith in oneself
diffidence- noun of diffident
perfidious- step through somebody's faith (betray)
fidelis-faith, faithful
infidelity- not being faithful to your spouse
infidel- a person of the wrong religion
deus,theo-god
theology- study of god
theologian- person who studies god
polys-many
polytheism- believing in many gods
polyglot- a place of many languages
comu-horn
unicorn- one horn
valva- leaf
univalve- one shell
kleptes-thief
kleptomania- disorder where one has temptation to steal
dipsa-thirst
dipsomania- alcoholism
pyros-fire
pyromania- wanting to set fires all the time
megas-big
ego-self
egomania- being conceited
egoist- being selfish
egotist- bragging
egocentric- seeing oneself as the center
concentric- a circle within circle
centrifugal- force that's pushing outward
centripetal-force that's pushing towards the center
pyre- wood for cremation
megaphone- loud sound
megaton- thousand tons
agnostic- not sure if there is a god
theist-believes in god
Persona non grata- UNWELCOME PERSON
drench-to get wet
stimulate- to excite
civil- being nice/courteous
rupture-bursting
groundless- unreasonable
bungle- to mess up/ carelessly make mistake
ostentatious- very showy
vigilant-watchful
capitulation- surrender
mutability- change
IQ- Intelligence quotient
quotient- division of mental age/physical age
10 yr old/12 yr old---->normal-10 yr old/ 10 yr old
68% of people score within 15 points above or below 100
96% of people fall within 30 above or below points of 100
Intelligence comes 50% from genes, 50% environment
bias:
cultural bias- taking a test on african american terms
sexual bias- taking a test biased on if you are a male/female
mensa- club for top 2%
ETYMOLOGY NOTES:
confluent- con-with/together, flu-flowing
refluent- re-back, flu-flowing
reflux- re-back, flux-flow
CIRCUM- AROUND
circumference- measurement around a circle
circumnavigate- sail around the world
circumfluent- flowing around
PHILOS-LOVE; BIBLION- BIBLE,BOOK
bibliophile- collector of books
biography- biblio-book, graphy-writing
philosophy- philo-love, sophos-wisdom; the love of wisdom
sophisticated- soph-wisdom; being wise
sophistication- another form of sophisticate
sophistry-sophists- a group of people who make you thing wrong things
ANTHROPOS-MANKIND
philanthropist-phil-love; anthropist-mankind; man lover
philanthropy-(noun version)
philanthropic-(adjective version)
misein-opposite
misanthropist-opposite of philanthropist
misogyny- hatred of women
moros-full
moron-a fool
moronic-foolish
sophomore- sopho-wise, more-foolish
sophomoric- silly/immature
pejorative- insulting term
misogynous- adjective for misogyny
gamos- marriage
misogamy- hatred of marriage
monogamy- one marriage
bigamy- two mariages
polygamy- many marriages
fides-faith
confidence- having faith within
confide-trust
confidant- someone you trust (share secrets with)
confidential- secret
bona, bonus- good
bona fide- good faith
bon voyage- have a good trip
diffident- having no faith in oneself
diffidence- noun of diffident
perfidious- step through somebody's faith (betray)
fidelis-faith, faithful
infidelity- not being faithful to your spouse
infidel- a person of the wrong religion
deus,theo-god
theology- study of god
theologian- person who studies god
polys-many
polytheism- believing in many gods
polyglot- a place of many languages
comu-horn
unicorn- one horn
valva- leaf
univalve- one shell
kleptes-thief
kleptomania- disorder where one has temptation to steal
dipsa-thirst
dipsomania- alcoholism
pyros-fire
pyromania- wanting to set fires all the time
megas-big
ego-self
egomania- being conceited
egoist- being selfish
egotist- bragging
egocentric- seeing oneself as the center
concentric- a circle within circle
centrifugal- force that's pushing outward
centripetal-force that's pushing towards the center
pyre- wood for cremation
megaphone- loud sound
megaton- thousand tons
agnostic- not sure if there is a god
theist-believes in god