Reading Strategies

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Reading Strategies & Test Vocabulary	Many English words come from the names of people, places, other languages and events
...	English has borrowed from other languages, and many of those borrowed words and phrases are worth knowing because they frequently turn up in academic contexts.
...	If you learn these words and phrases now, you avoid being confused or puzzled when they appear in texts or lectures.
...	Sometimes they may appear in the texts of the ACT, so it is helpful to know what they mean.
...	Tantalize (story of myth)
...	Sample Sentence : Tantalized by the smell of frying bacon, the dog stared hungrily at the stove.
...	Nemesis (ancient myth story)
...	Sample Sentence: In Shakespeare's tragedy of Othello (i), lago is Othello's nemesis; motivated by envy and hatred, lago is determined to destroy the man he claims to love above all others.
...	Maelstrom (story)
...	Sample Sentence: Unused to the political maelstrom that was Washington, the young senator found himself struggling to hold on to his integrity along with his career
...	Bedlam (myth)
...	Sample Sentence: The substitute teacher left the room for only a few brief moments,
...	but when she returned,
...	the classroom was complete bedlum with some children standing on their desks
...	while others marched around wearing chairs or books on top of their heads
...	Tawdry (myth)
...	England princess Audrey
...	In the play A Streetcar Named Desire(i),the desperate heroin, Blanche Dubois,
...	tries to pretend that the tawdry apartment she shares with her sister is only temporary
...	Latin:
...	1. ad hoc: literally, "toward this"; refers to something devised or created for a particular situation or purpose.
...	2. Ad infinitum: literally to finfinity; suggests that somone or something will continue infefinitely.
...	3. a posteriori: literally, from the subsequent"; indicated that reasoning is based on experience, that one may argue from facts to general principles
...	4. a priori: literally from the previous causes; indicates that reasoning is based on theories or gerneral principles rather than experience or factual knowledge
...	5. bond fide
...	6. in loco parentis: literally in place of a parent; indicated that some group or institution of stubstitues for absent; indicated an equal exchange parents
...	7. in toto: literally in sum or as a whole; indicates that something should be taken totally or altogether
8	8. prima facie literally on first appearance; refers to a first impression formed before any closer inspection
French	11. carte blanch; literally a blank card, signifies unrestricted power or unconditional authority
...	12. deja vu; literally already seen
...	13. double-entendre; literally double meaning
...	14. entree: liteally entrance
...	15. idee fixe; literally fixed idea
...	16. fin de siecle ; literally end of the century
...	17. noblesse oblige; literally nobility obligates
...	18. nom de plume literally pen name
...	19. raison detre literally reason for being
...	20. vis-a-vis literally face to face.
Analyze	show how relates to the whole/underlying meaning
Apply	Importance of information
Argue	Express all points of view
Compare and Contrast	same and different
Criticize	positive and negative effects
Define	Give meaning including examples
Describe	details
Discuss	stand and decision
Evaluate	explain pros and cons

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