western literature week8

pro-=in favor of,many,much progess noun ·       1. forward or onward movement towards a destination: the darkness did not stop my progress they failed to make any progress up the estuary ·       2. a state journey or official tour, especially by royalty. ·       3. development towards an improved or more advanced                          verb 1. move forward or onward in space or time as the century progressed the quality of telescopes improved 2. calculate the position of (a planet) or of all the planets          and coordinates of (a chart) according to the technique of progression. 3. develop towards an improved or more advanced   4. cause (a task or undertaking) to make progress:   I cannot predict how quickly we can progress the matter

op-=ob-=against transitive verb oppress 1.(a.)archaic   (b.)to crush or burden by abuse of power or authority 2.to burden spiritually or mentally

omni-=all omnipotent adjective 1. (of a deity) having unlimited power; able to do anything. Synonym : all-powerful, almighty, supreme, preeminent, most high, invincible,unconquerable 2. having ultimate power and influence

-potent = ability incompetent adjective 1. not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully: a forgetful and utterly incompetent assistant 2. not qualified to act in a particular capacity: the patient is deemed legally incompetent 3. (especially of a valve or sphincter) not able to perform its function. noun 1. an incompetent person. the tanker captain was a known incompetent

aeol- = air aerotrain(懸浮列車) The Aerotrain was a streamlined trainset introduced by General Motors Electro-Motive Division in the mid-1950s. Like all of GM's body designs of this mid-century era, this train was first brought to life in GM's Styling Section. Chuck Jordan was in charge of designing the Aerotrain as Chief Designer of Special Projects. It utilized the experimental EMD LWT12 locomotive, coupled to a set of modified GM Truck & Coach Division 40-seat intercity highway bus bodies. The cars each rode on two axles with an air suspension system, which was intended to give a smooth ride, but had the opposite effect.

se- =apart from separate verb 1. cause to move or be apart: police were trying to separate two rioting mobsthey were separated by the war Synonym : split (up), break up, part, pull apart, divide, sunder 2. form a distinction or boundary between (people, places, or things): only a footpath separated their garden from the shoresix years separated the two brothers Synonym : partition, divide, come between, keep apart, bisect, intersect 3. become detached or disconnected: the second stage of the rocket failed to separate Synonym : disconnect, detach, disengage, uncouple, unyoke, disunite, disjoin, split,divide, sever, disentangle 4. leave another person's company:  they separated at the corner, agreeing to meet within two    hours 5. stop living together as a couple: after her parents separated, she was brought up by her motherher parents are separated Synonym : split up, break up, part, be estranged, divorce 6. discharge or dismiss (someone) from service or employment: this year one million veterans will be separated from the service 7. divide or cause to divide into constituent or distinct   elements: the milk had separated into curds and wheyseparate the eggs and beat the yolks 8. extract or remove for use or rejection   Synonym : isolate, set 9. distinguish between; consider individually: we cannot separate his thinking from his activity 10. (of a factor or quality) distinguish (someone or something) from others: his position separates him from those who might share his interests 11. make something form, or view something as, a unit apart or by itself: the organ loft separating off the choir Synonym : isolate, set apart, segregate, distinguish segregate verb 1. set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide: disabled people should not be segregated from the rest of society 2. separate or divide along racial, sexual, or religious lines 3. (of pairs of alleles) be separated at meiosis and transmitted independently via separate gametes. the gene pairs segregate at reduction division noun 1. an allele that has undergone segregation. 2. a species within an aggregate.

en-/em- = put into enthrone verb 1. install (a monarch) on a throne, especially during a ceremony to mark the beginning of their rule. 2. give or ascribe a position of authority to: he was enthroned as the guru of the avant-garde empower verb 1. give (someone) the authority or power to do something: members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies Synonym : authorize, license, entitle 2. make (someone) stronger and more confident, especially in controlling their life and claiming their rights: movements to empower the poor Synonym : emancipate, unyoke, unfetter,

voc-/vok- = to call voice noun 1. the sound produced in a person's larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song 2. the ability to speak or sing: she'd lost her voice Synonym : power of speech, powers of articulation 3. the supposed utterance of a guiding spirit. they were admitted to hospital after expressing paranoid ideas and hearing voices 4. the distinctive tone or style of a literary work or author: she had strained and falsified her literary voice 5. a particular opinion or attitude expressed:  a dissenting voice 6. an agency by which a point of view is expressed or represented: once the proud voice of middle-class conservatism, the paper had fallen on hard times Synonym : mouthpiece, forum, organ, agency, agent, 7. the right to express an opinion:  the new electoral system gives minority parties a voice 8. the range of pitch or type of tone with which a person sings, such as soprano or tenor 9. a vocal part in a composition 10. a constituent part in a fugue 11. each of the notes or sounds able to be produced simultaneously by a musical instrument (especially an electronic one) or a computer 12. (in an electronic musical instrument) each of a number of preset or programmable tones 13. sound uttered with resonance of the vocal cords (used in the pronunciation of vowels and certain consonants) 14. a form or set of forms of a verb showing the relation of the subject to the action: the passive voice

	Pygmalion is a play by George Bernard Shaw, named after a Greek mythological character. It was first presented on stage to the public in 1913. Professor of phonetics Henry Higgins makes a bet that he can train a bedraggled Cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, to pass for a duchess at an ambassador's garden party by teaching her to assume a veneer of gentility, the most important element of which, he believes, is impeccable speech. The play is a sharp lampoon of the rigid British class system of the day and a commentary on women's independence.
	The United States Bicentennial was a series of celebrations and observances during the mid-1970s that paid tribute to historical events leading up to the creation of the United States of America as an independent republic. It was a central event in the memory of the American Revolution. The Bicentennial culminated on Sunday, July 4, 1976, with the 200th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence.
	Tiresias was a blind prophet of Apollo in Thebes, famous for clairvoyance and for being transformed into a woman for seven years. He was the son of the shepherd Everes and the nymph Chariclo. Tiresias participated fully in seven generations at Thebes, beginning as advisor to Cadmushimself.
	The most famous King Midas is popularly remembered in Greek mythology for his ability to turn everything he touched into gold. This came to be called the golden touch, or the Midas touch.The Phrygian city Midaeum was presumably named after this Midas, and this is probably also the Midas that according to Pausaniasfounded Ancyra.According to Aristotle, legend held that Midas died of starvation as a result of his "vain prayer" for the gold touch.The legends told about this Midas and his father Gordias, credited with founding the Phrygian capital cityGordium and tying the Gordian Knot, indicate that they were believed to have lived sometime in the 2nd millennium BC, well before the Trojan War. However, Homerdoes not mention Midas or Gordias, while instead mentioning two other Phrygian kings, Mygdon and Otreus. Another King Midas ruled Phrygia in the late 8th century BC, up until the sacking of Gordium by the Cimmerians, when he is said to have committed suicide. Most historians believe this Midas is the same person as the Mita, called king of theMushki in Assyrian texts, who warred with Assyria and its Anatolian provinces during the same period. A third Midas is said by Herodotus to have been a member of the royal house of Phrygia and the grandfather of an Adrastus who fled Phrygia after accidentally killing his brother and took asylum in Lydia during the reign of Croesus. Phrygia was by that time a Lydian subject. Herodotus says that Croesus regarded the Phrygian royal house as "friends" but does not mention whether the Phrygian royal house still ruled as (vassal) kings of Phrygia.
	Orpheus was a legendary musician, poet, and prophet in ancient Greek religion and myth. The major stories about him are centered on his ability to charm all living things and even stones with his music, his attempt to retrieve his wife, Eurydice, from the underworld, and his death at the hands of those who could not hear his divine music. As an archetype of the inspired singer, Orpheus is one of the most significant figures in the reception of classical mythology in Western culture, portrayed or alluded to in countless forms of art and popular culture including poetry, film, opera, music, and painting. For the Greeks, Orpheus was a founder and prophet of the so-called "Orphic" mysteries. He was credited with the composition of the Orphic Hymns, a collection of which only two have survived.[Shrines containing purported relics of Orpheus were regarded as oracles. Some ancient Greek sources note Orpheus' Thracian origins.
	Eurydice was an oak nymph or one of the daughters of Apollo (the god of music, prophecy, and light, who also drove the sun chariot, "adopting" the power as god of the Sun from the primordial god Helios). She was the wife of Orpheus, who tried to bring her back from the dead with his enchanting music.