Monday 12/7 ~ Power of One ~ Ch.5

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(This verse written in Isaiah, 650 years before birth of Christ.)

ROOTS

• nox, noc - night
• numer - number
• oligo - few, little

FINALS REVIEW

• Focus: Grammar ~ Check the review page and study this section in your notebook.

THE POWER OF ONE

*Discuss Journal 34.

*Add to your vocabulary list vocab for future reading:

• Neophytes (n.) - recent convert; beginner or novice (p.159)
• incongruous (adj.) - lacking in harmony; incompatible (p.165)
• Esoteric (adj.) - religious practices that come from mixing orthodox religious ideas with science, but the result is accepted by neither mainline religions or science. Ex/ new age and occult practices. Generally, this adjective describes something that is understood by very few (p.180)
• Punctilious (adj). - Following fine points of etiquette (p.180)
• fervent (adj.) - very emotional or heated
• equivocation (n.) - the use of ambiguous language; using noncommittal language (p.207)
• recidivist (n.) - one who has a tendency to laps into previous pattern of behavior, especially criminal activity (p. 207)
• imperious (adj.) - arrogantly domineering or overbearing, urgent pressing (p. 211)

*HW: Read Ch. 5

Journal 35: After reading Chapters 5&6, what has Peekay learned about camouflage so far? How are the ideas of camouflage and adapting to change related to the "power of one" ? What is the "power of one"?