Fertility

What conditions enable fertility? a drought or place that is dry and has no water. The conditions have to be lacking certain nutrients in order to grow and create new life.

What conditions impede fertility? Death, desease or just an innability to reproduce. No rain.

What might it mean for a country or culture to be fertile? It could mean that they are stable and running and creating new life while progressing as the future arrives.

Cite an example of a fertile social group in the world today and an infertile one. World Vision sets up water supplies in africa for people who don't have them. An infertile group would be PITA, who stops the killing of animals. they are just trying to stop things from progressing the way they should.

Chp. 5 Etymology

1. Amnesty

Amnestia

oblivion

Greek

One may be pardoned from an assult or ack of unkindness by making it seem unknown, or like it didn't happen and another word for unknown is oblivion. Act like it never happened.

2. Axiomatic

Axios

worthy

Greek

Axiomatic means an excepted principle or rule and in order to stay out of trouble one must respect the rules and be worthy to the rules.

3. Extricate

Extricare

perplexities

Latin

the two words are opposites of eachother. Extricare means to entangle while extricate means to untangle.

4. Flout

Fluiten

whistle

Dutch

Whistling can sometimes be used to mock or scorn.

5. Scathing

Skabojan

injury

Germanic

An injury can be severe and can sometimes cause great harm.

6. Vapid

Vappa

Flat or sour wine

Latin

Flat or sour wine can sometimes be dull and lack flavor. It can be vapid to the tastebuds.