This activity is based on the popular U.S. board game Scrabble® which encourages English learners to extend their lexical competence for a whole gamut of roots and affixes.
English Words From Latin and Greek Roots: A Dictionary of Latin and Greek Roots in English Vocabulary
Most of the English words derived from Latin and Greek roots. If you know the Latin and Greek roots meaning, then you can easily grasp difficult English words derived from these roots. This book introduces English words from Latin and Greek roots with meaning of roots, origin, Etymology and English words examples.
Ancient Roman authors are firmly established in the Western canon, and yet the birth of Latin literature was far from inevitable. The cultural flourishing that eventually produced the Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history, as Denis Feeney demonstrates in this bold revision.
A major new interpretation recasts U.S. history between revolution and civil war, exposing a dramatic reversal in sympathy toward Latin American revolutions. In the early nineteenth century, the United States turned its idealistic gaze southward, imagining a legacy of revolution and republicanism it hoped would dominate the American hemisphere. From pulsing port cities to Midwestern farms and southern plantations, an adolescent nation hailed Latin America’s independence movements as glorious tropical reprises of 1776.
