1.facilitate:make easier
Novel Sentence:”In order to facilitate cross-cultural comparisons and contrasts, I have included creation, fertility, and hero myths from each culture." (Rosenberg xiii)
Stand-alone:Computer-based technologies can be used in a variety of ways to facilitate language learning.
Informal: A personation can give facilitate an image to a reader.
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2.appeal:attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
novel sentence: "An introduction to each myth includes historical background, literary analysis, and an evaluation of the myth’s appeal" (Rosenberg, XIII).
Stand-alone: My mother says she doesn't find rock appealing.
Informal: She appealed him to help her daughter.
3.preserve: the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior
novel sentence: "World Mythology presents the major myths from around the world in a manner that preserves their appeal as fine literature" (Rosenberg, XIII).
Stand-alone:A fund was set up to preserve endangered marine life.
Informal: I couldn't preserve enough time to homework in fall break.
4.arduous: characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort
Novel Sentences: Heroes are children of gods who have an unusual birth, possess extraordinary strength, kill monsters with the help of special weapons, embark on an arduousjourney, descend into the Underworld as part of their tasks" (Rosenberg xvi),
Stand-alone:Painting the house was an arduous task that took weeks.
Informal: His travel was long arduous journey.
5.extraordinary: beyond what is ordinary or usual; highly unusual or exceptional or remarkable
Novel Sentences:"Heroes are children of gods who have an unusual birth, possess extraordinary strength, kill monsters with the help of special weapons, embark on an arduous journey, descend into the Underworld as part of their tasks, and have an unusual death" (Rosenberg, XVI).
Stand-alone: She was extraordinarily important in my life.
6.divinities:any supernatural being worshiped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force
Novel Sentences: "Some explain origins, natural phenomena, and death; others describe the nature and function of divinities" (Rosenberg xv).
Stand-alone: At Sparta were a thousand temples and shrines to a thousand different divinities.
Informal: This story written about a god or other divinity.
7.cowardice: a person who shows fear or timidity
Novel Sentence: "Hector and Beowulf are forced to choose heroic deaths because they cannot live with the strain of cowardice" (Rosenberg xviii).
Stand-alone:I was disgusted at his cowardice.
Informal: Zeus was enraged with cowardly behavior of Lycaon.
8.journey: the act of traveling from one place to another
novel sentence: "Heroes are children of gods who have an unusual birth, possess extraordinary strength, kill monsters with the help of special weapons, embark on an arduous journey, descend into the Underworld as part of their tasks, and have an unusual death" (Rosenberg, XVI).
Stand-alone:Life is often likened to a journey.
Informal: His travel was long arduous journey.
9.embark:proceed somewhere despire the risk of possible dangers
Novel Sentence: Heroes are children of gods who have an unusual birth,possess extraordinary strength, kill monsters with the help of special weapons, Embark on an arduous journey, descend into the Underworld as part of their tasks" (Rosenberg xvi).
Stand-alone:They embarked on the new project full of hope.
10.circumstances: your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
novel sentence: "Heroes are forced by circumstance to make critical choices where they must balance one set of values agianst competing values" (Rosenberg, XVII).
Stand-alone:She wished for a more relaxing life, but that was impossible under the circumstances.
Informal: Circumstances prevented me from going to tournament.
11.confront: oppose, as in hostility or a competition
Novel sentence: "Like the heroes of every culture, all people today confront choices that force them to reconcile their personal wishes with their responsibility to others" (Rosenberg, XIV).
Stand-alone:The prime minister directly confronted the challenges of his political opponents.
Informal: He confronted difficulty to return to the country where his wife waits.
12.Resemble: appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to
Novel Sentence: "The answers to these questions have produced from diverse cultures a body of myths that closely resemble each other in subject, although the treatment of each issue naturally varies from one society to another" (Rosenberg xvi).
Stand-alone:She resembles her father in character.
13.ramification: a development that complicates a situation
Novel Sentence:"And only the unforeseen remifications of that couice cause him change his mind".(Rosenberg xvi)
Stand-alone:The ramifications of this day rumbled on for years.
14.emulate: strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
novel sentence: "They earn lasting fame- the only kind of immortality possible for human beings – by performing great deeds that help their community, and they inspire others to emulate them" (Rosenberg, XVII).
Stand-alone: It's customary for boys to emulate their fathers.
Informal: My younger sister always emulate brother's behavior.
15.flaunt: display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiousl
novel sentence: "He survives his homecoming only because he masters his need to assert himself and flaunt his superiority" (Rosenberg, XVII).
Stand-alone:His behavior was an outrageous flaunt.
Informal: He flaunted the overwhelming power to them.
16.stereotypical: lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality
novel sentence: "prejudice feeds on stereotypical views of cultural differences and on cultural bias" (Rosenberg, XIV).
Stand-alone: If Japanese get to know Taiwan better, there will be no more discrimination just by a stereotyped image and we'll make more Japanese friends.
Informal: I think it's important to be a free-thinking without being bound to stereotypes .
17.insurmountable: not capable of being surmounted or overcome
Novel Sentence:"Like these heroic figures, all people today must confront tasks in the course of thier daily lives that appear to be insurmountable" (Rosenberg xiv)
Stand-alone: He felt a sort of insurmountable longing to abandon the game altogether.
Informal: They overcame barriers they once saw asinsurmountable.
18.intellectual:of or associated with or requiring the use of the mind
Novel Sentence: "The world's myths continue to inspire many createve and intellectual pursuits"(Rosenberg xiv).
Stand-alone: Besides being beautiful, she is kind and intellectual.
19.literary: of or relationg to or characteristic of literature
Novel Sentence:"An introduction to each myth includes histroical background, literary analysis, and an evaluation of the myth's appeal"(Rosenberg xiv).
Stand-alone: She has some literary talent.
Informal: Myth is a literary work left behind for posterity.
20.principal: most important element
Novel Sentence: "My retelling of each myth retains the proncipal plot, charaterization, style, and cultural values of the origin" 'Resenberg xiii).
Stand-alone:In the absence of the principal, the assistant principal assumes his duties.
Informal: This is an principal point in this story.
