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The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.
platform
-a usually raised horizontal flat surface; especially : a raised flooring
The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.
uniform
-presenting an unvaried appearance of surface, pattern, or color <uniform red brick houses> - same form as others.
Etymology: Middle French uniforme, from Latin uniformis, from uni- + -formis -form
The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.
transform
-to change the outward form or appearance
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin transformare, from trans- + formare to form
The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.
reform
-to make or change for the better
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French reformer, from Latin reformare, from re- + formare to form
The Latin root form means “shapeshape”.
inform
-to tell, to give information
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French enformer, from Latin informare, from in- + forma form
The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.
sensation
-a mental process (as seeing, hearing, or smelling)
Etymology: Medieval Latin sensation-, sensatio, from Late Latin, understanding, idea, from Latin sensus
The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.
sense
-to feel something
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French or Latin; Middle Frenchsens sensation, feeling, mechanism of perception,
meaning, from Latin sensus,
The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.
sensitive
-easily hurt
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French sensitif, from Medieval Latin sensitivus,
The Latin root sens means “to feelto feel”.
sensible
-having or showing good sense
Etymology: Middle English, from Middle French, from Latin sensibilis, from sensus,
The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.
vacant
-empty
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin vacant-, vacans, present participle of vacare to be empty, be free
The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.
vacation
-a period of rest from an activity
Etymology: Middle English vacacioun, from Middle French vacation, from Latin vacation-, vacatio freedom, exemption, from vacare
The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.
vacuum
-emptiness of space, a cleaning device
Etymology: Latin, from neuter of vacuus empty, from vacare to be empty
The Latin root vac means “emptyempty”.
evacuate
-to leave, empty, or remove
Etymology: Middle English, to draw off morbid humors, from Latin evacuatus, past participle of evacuare to empty,
from e- + vacuus empty
wreckage
When the tsunami hit, there was a massive amount of wreckage left
behind.
What is left after something is What is left after something is destroyeddestroyed
Background KnowledgeThe Big WaveThe Big Wave could have happened in real life, so its genre is realistic could have happened in real life, so its genre is realistic
fiction.fiction. • A small Japanese fishing village is hit by a destructive tidal wave.
•Survivors of a physical disaster is typically followed by an emotional trauma.
•Pearl S. Buck lived at one time in a little Japanese house on a hillside above the sea, overlooking a small fishing village on the beach below it. One summer, a big awave came up and washed the village away. The book, The Big Wave, grew out of her memory of this event. And so, in a way, the story of Jiya and Kino may be said to be a true one.
Purposes for readingPurposes for reading
• As you preview this story’s first few pages, what do you think it has to do with survival?
• What does the title of the story mean?