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Learning Strategy 99an audiophile. The word is formed from the Latin verb audire (to hear)and the ancient Greek noun philos (love). People may suffer from technophobia,formed from technology and phobia, fear of advanced technologyand computers. Both parts come from ancient Greek: technologia is a systematictechnique and phobia means fear. In this book, you will studymany words from Greek and Latin.Finally, using old words in new ways is a time-honored tradition.The meanings of many words have changed over centuries of use. Husbandonce meant “master of the house.” Lady meant “kneader of bread.”New WordsCan you match these new words and phrases with their definitions?1. bottom feeder a. no ice2. hold the hail b. a person who thrives on the bad luck of others3. wedsite c. to write or speak in an unnecessarily long andcomplex manner4. bloviated. girlfriend, boyfriend5. booe. an Internet means of posting pictures and newsabout a marriage ceremony.Answers are found on page 399.Interested in new words? You can access websites that list and define them throughthe Student Companion Website at www.cengage.com/devenglish/richek8e.Copyright © Cengage Learning. All Right Reserved.Learning StrategyContext Clues of OppositionSome sentences give the opposite definition or sense of a word you aretrying to understand. A simple opposition clue is the word not. Here is anexample:The movie was not good, but terrible.Good is, of course, the opposite of terrible. Context clues of oppositioncan also be used for more difficult words.The word was not used correctly, but was a malapropism.(A malapropism is a word that is incorrectly used.)