Advanced Roots:  looking at Latin and Greek roots, stems, and bases.

It wasn't difficult to understand.  In fact, I will never forget my first time in this area, with a 15 year old child getting ready to attend Rice University at such an early age, prepping for SAT and College Entry, cramming for Vocabulary.  Sure, a finely crafted skyscraping stack of flashcards with an experienced guide is a good way to go, but is it the most efficient path?  It wasn't difficult to see that we needed more words and we needed them fast.  

By studying the bases and the morphologies, we were able to make the greatest gains in the least amount of time.  In fact, we were able to better mimic the paths and processes of our own brains, in terms of categorizing and making extensions and relations with words or things and their meanings.

It's not a fun list, but it is useful because we are doing what I call, Scoop Learning.  So there is a biological satisfaction here, such as when we eat a nice bowl of home-cooked lentil soup.  Or drink fresh coconut water.  It's just good.  The body knows.  And appreciates it.  Maybe, perhaps it's more like your least favorite vegetable, but c'mon, we all know our least favorite is probably one of our healthiest ones.

My point is, it's not difficult to see how important bases are, and how morphology plays a role.  Just like our Alphabet, and Language, we use a small amount of letters and combine them and permutate them in an infiniteless array of Wow. Language.  Same thing with these base words.  They allow us to reach further, greater, sooner.

I should discuss this more later as I develop this site, but for now, I will give you a hard nudge towards having a copy of these docs to peruse. 

Finally, students at the test prep centers say they don't know the word they are seeing, and I argue to them that they do!  For example, spelling can at times trick us into believing there are no relations (Garrulous and Caroling?) .  The point is, by understanding Spelling Interference, we become able to reach further in our mind in our quest to attain meaning, basing our search in an Oral English.  I probably did not explain myself too well here.  The point is, sometimes we say we don't know something because of the way it looks, but the sounds, or stretched relations can reveal significances in the signifiers.

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