VOCABULARY PRESENTATION

Nayoon Choi

Perpetual[pərpétʃuəl]

Africa, which seems to face a perpetual food crisis, is

full of overlooked and underdeveloped food plants that

are not being fully exploited in the fight against

hunger, according to a recent report by the National

Research Council, an arm of the National Academy of

Sciences.

http://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/23/science/research-yields-underused-source-of-food-in-africa-grains.html

Perpetual[pərpétʃuəl]

Adjective

1. continuing all the time without changing or stopping

2. repeated many times in a way that annoys you

3. literary permanent

Synonym: Continuous, continual, infinite, eternal, endless

Antonym: Temporary, brief

Ex) Perpetual snow, Perpetual noise, Perpetual love

Vicissitude[vɪ|sɪsɪtju:d]

Vicissitude of Chinese Figure Paintings

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9zKsaTcuxU

Vicissitude[vɪ|sɪsɪtju:d]

Noun

The continuous changes and problems that

affect a situation or someone’s life

Synonym: change, mutation, circumstances,

ups and downs, rise and decline

Madrigal[|mædrɪgl]

A type of secular vocal music composition, written during the

Renaissance and early Baroque eras (15th to early 17th century).

Throughout most of its history it was polyphonic and

unaccompanied by instruments, with the number of voices

varying from two to eight, but most frequently three to six.

Secular: not connected with religious matters

Polyphonic: the combination of several different patterns of musical notes sung together to

form a single piece of music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU3FfyWVnHU

Matching question A ( ) Dinner is an American form of dinner

theater often held by schools and church groups. The meal is divided into courses, each of which is heralded with a traditional song.

You could say that losing your job is just one of the ( ) of life

There is the ( ) snows in the top of Mountain Everest

Perpetual, Vicissitude, Madrigal