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ad- toward 

Administration  arrangements and tasks needed to control the operation of a plan or organization:

Final Exam 

ab- away from 

Abolish   to end an activity or custom officially:

Hyper-    over, beyond 

Hyperbole   a way of speaking or writing that makes someone or something sound bigger, better, more, etc. than they are:

New Testament 

The New Testament is the second major part of the Christian biblical canon, the first part being the Old Testament, based on the Hebrew Bible. The Greek New Testament discusses the teachings and person of Jesus, as well as events in first-century Christianity. 

omni-  all  

omniscient  having or seeming to have unlimited knowledge:

"No man is an Island" --- by John Donne 

dia-   go through 

Diameter   a straight line that reaches from one point on the edge of a round shape or object, through its centre, to a point on the opposite edge:

The Tyger 

"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake published in 1794 as part of the Songs of Experience collection. Literary critic Alfred Kazin calls it "the most famous of his poems," and The Cambridge Companion to William Blake says it is "the most anthologized poem in English."  It is one of Blake's most reinterpreted and arranged works.

Metaphysical conceit in the Poetry of John Donne 

 Many of John Donne's poems contain metaphysical conceits and intellectual reasoning to build a deeper understanding of the speaker's emotional state. A metaphysical conceit can be defined as an extended, unconventional metaphor between objects that appear to be unrelated. Donne is exceptionally good at creating unusual unions between different elements in order to illustrate his point and form a persuasive argument in his poems. 

Midterm Exam 

Movie-- Spectre 

Spectre (2015) is the twenty-fourth James Bond film produced by Eon Productions, and is the direct sequel to the 2012 film Skyfall. It features Daniel Craig in his fourth performance as James Bond, and Christoph Waltz as Ernst Stavro Blofeld, with the film marking the character's re-introduction into the series. It was directed by Sam Mendes as his second James Bond film followingSkyfall, and was written by John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth. It is distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerand Columbia Pictures. With a budget around $245 million, it is the most expensive Bond film and one of the most expensive films ever made.

Tomas Paine 

Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist and revolutionary. One of the Founding Fathers of the United States, he authored the two most influential pamphlets at the start of the American Revolution, and he inspired the rebels in 1776 to declare independence from Britain. His ideas reflected Enlightenment-era rhetoric of transnational human rights. He has been called "a corsetmaker by trade, a journalist by profession, and a propagandist by inclination".

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Rip van winkle 

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anticipate  to imagine or expect that something will happen:

How languages evolve-- Alex Gendler

pre- 

preface  an introduction at the beginning of a book explaining its purpose, thanking people who helped the author

Part of speech 

A part of speech is a category of words which have similar grammatical properties. Words that are assigned to the same part of speech generally display similar behavior in terms of syntax—they play similar roles within the grammatical structure of sentences—and sometimes in terms of morphology, in that they undergo inflection for similar properties. Commonly listed English parts of speech are noun, verb, adjective, adverb, pronoun, preposition, conjunction, interjection, and sometimes numeral, article or determiner.