VOCABULARY WORD NO. 14 & 15

For every turn in the road there is a sure way home. ( Brenda A. Ysaguirre)



Dear Students,

Never forget what you have learnt this year in all the classes we have shared. I have tired to form good character and strong Belizeans. Make me proud. I will keep in touch even after we part ways. Remember to keep in touch with each other. I will be stressing this from now on. AND keep on reading these blogs wherever you go. I will keep on doing them to continue what I have started for your educational growth and for all who seek a little bit of what this is all about - POWER THROUGH KNOWLEDGE.



Love Always,

Brenda A. Ysaguirre

Educator





Today's Words "preponderate"
preponderate \prih-PON-duh-rayt\ (intransitive verb) - 1 : To exceed in weight. 2 : To incline or descend, as the scale of a balance; to be weighed down. 3 : To exceed in influence, power, importance, number, amount, etc. "Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain." -- Aldous Huxley, 'Crome Yellow' Preponderate comes from the past participle of Latin praeponderare, "to weigh more, to exceed in weight," from prae, "before" + ponderare, "to weigh," from pondus, ponderis, "a weight."




AND "caesura"
caesura \sih-ZHUR-uh; -ZUR-\ (noun) plural caesuras or caesurae \sih-ZHUR-ee; -ZUR-ee\ - 1 : A break or pause in a line of verse, usually occurring in the middle of a line, and indicated in scanning by a double vertical line; for example, "The proper study of mankind is man" [Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man]. 2 : Any break, pause, or interruption. "You have improperly placed the cleft in those loaves; the caesura belongs in the middle, between the hemistichs!" -- Edmond Rostand, 'Cyrano de Bergerac' Caesura comes from Latin caesura, "a cutting off, a division, a stop," from the past participle of caedere, "to cut."