How to Flatter Your

Friends
Anton Maulana
OVERVIEW
1. TEASER PREVIEW
2. IDEAS
3. USING THE WORDS
a) Can you pronounce the words?
b) Can you work with the words?
c) Do you understand the words?
4. ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
5. REVIEW OF ETYMOLOGY
TEASER PREVIEW
 What adjective aptly describes people who are:
1. friendly and easy to get along with?

2. tireless?

3. simple, frank, aboveboard?

4. keen-minded?

5. generous, noble, and forgiving?

6. able to do many things skillfully?

7. unflinching in the face of pain or disaster?

8. brave, fearless?

9. charming and witty?

10. smooth, polished, cultured?

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1. put the kettle on, Polly
 They are friendly, happy, extroverted, and
gregarious-the sort of people who will invite
you out for a drink, who like to transact
business around the lunch table, who put the
coffee to perking as soon as company drops
in.
 They're sociable, genial, cordial, affable-and

they like parties and all the eating and

drinking that goes with them.
The adjective is: convivial
2. you can't tire them
 Arnold Bennett once pointed out that we all have
the same amount of time-twenty-four hours a day.
 Strictly speaking, that's as inconclusive an

observation as Bennett ever made.

 It's not time that counts, but energy-and of that

wonderful quality we all have very different

amounts, from the persons who wake up tired, no
matter how much sleep they've had, to lucky, well-
adjusted mortals who hardly ever need to sleep.
2. you can't tire them
 Energy comes from a healthy body, of course;
 it also comes from a psychological balance, a lack of

conflicts and insecurities.

 Some people apparently have boundless, illimitable

energy-they're on the go from morning to night, and

 often far into the night, working hard, playing hard,

never tiring, never "pooped" or "bushed"-and getting

twice as much done as any three other human
beings.
The adjective is: indefatigable
3. no tricks, no secrets
 They are pleasingly frank, utterly lacking in
pretense or artificiality, in fact quite unable to
hide their feelings or thoughts-and so honest
and aboveboard that
 they can scarcely conceive of trickery,

chicanery, or dissimulation in anyone.

 There is, then, a'bout them the simple

naturalness and unsophistication of a child.

 The adjective is: ingenuous
4. sharp as a razor
 They have minds like steel traps;
 their insight into problems
 that would confuse or mystify people of less

keenness or discernment is just short of

amazing.
The adjective is: perspicacious
5. no placating necessary
 They are most generous about forgiving a
slight, an insult, an injury.
 Never do they harbor resentment, store up

petty grudges, or waste energy or thought on

means of revenge or retaliation.
 How could they? They’re much too big-

hearted.
The adjective is: magnanimous
6. one-person orchestras
 The range of their aptitudes is truly
formidable.
 If they are writers, they have professional

facility in poetry, fiction, biography, criticism,

essays-you just mention it and they've done
it, and very competently.
 If they are musicians, they can play the oboe,

the bassoon, the French horn, the bass viol,

the piano, the celesta, the xylophone, even
the clavichord if you can dig one up.
6. one-person orchestras
 If they are artists, they use oils, water colors,
gouache, charcoal, pen and ink_:_
 they can do anything!
 Or maybe the range of their abilities cuts across
all fields, as in the case of Michelangelo, who
 was an expert sculptor, painter, poet, architect,
and inventor.
 Jn case you're thinking "Jack of all trades ... ,"
you're wrong, they're masters of all trades.
The adjective is: versatile
7. no grumbling

(menanggung)
 They bear their troubles bravely,
(menyerah)
never ask for sympathy, never yield to
(kesedihan) (mengernyit)
sorrow , never wince at pain.
 It sounds almost superhuman, but it's true.

(sangat tabah)
The adjective is: stoical
8. no fear
 There is not a cowardly bone in their bodies.
 They are strangers to fear, they're audacious, dauntless,
contemptuous of danger and hardship.
The adjective is: intrepid (pemberani)

Audacious (adj): showing a willingness to take risks or offend people.

o He described the plan as ambitious and audacious.
o an audacious remark/suggestion
Dauntless (adj): showing determination and no fear.
o In spite of the scale of the famine (kelaparan), the relief workers
struggled on with dauntless optimism.
Contemptuous (tidak mengindahkan/memandang remeh)
9. no dullness
 They are witty(cerdas), clever(pandai), delightful
(menyenangkan)
; and naturally(tentu saja), also,
 they are brilliant and entertaining

conversationalists(pembicara).
The adjective is: scintillating(gemilang)
10. city slickers
 They are cultivated(baik budi bahasanya), poised(tenang), tactful(bijaksana),
socially so experienced, sophisticated, and courteous (sopan) that
they're at home(betah) in any group, at easee(merasa nyaman) under all
circumstances(keadaan) of social intercourse(hubungan).
 You cannot help admiring (perhaps envying) their smoothness and
self-assurance, their tact and congeniality.
 The adjective is: urbane

 Urbane : (especially of a man) good at knowing what to say and

how to behave in social situations; appearing relaxed and confident

 city slickers: a person who behaves in a way that is typical of

people who live in big cities
USING THE WORDS
 Can you pronounce the words?
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 Do you understand the words? (1)
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 Do you understand the words? (2)
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
1. eat, drink, and be merry
 The Latin verb vivo, to live, and the noun vita, life, are the source

of a number of important English words.

 Convivo is the Latin verb to live together;
 from this, in Latin, was formed the noun convivium (don't get

impatient; we'll be back to English directly),

 which meant a feast or banquet; and
 from convivium we get our English word convivial,
 an adjective that describes the kind of person who likes to attend

feasts and banquets, enjoying (and supplying) the jovial good

fellowship characteristic of such gatherings.
 Using the suffix -ity can you write the noun form of the adjective

convivial? ___________ (Can you pronounce

 it?)
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 2. living it up
 Among many others, the following English words derive from
 Latin vivo, to live:
 I. vivacious (vi-VA:Y'-shgs)-full of the joy of living; animated;
 peppy-a vivacious personality. Noun: vivacity (vi-VAS':
 l-tee). You can, as you know, also add -ness to any adjective to
 form a noun. Write the alternate noun .form of vivacious:
 2. vivid-possessing the freshness of life; strong; sharp-a
 vivid imagination; a vivid color. Add -ness to form the noun:
 3. revive (r:l-VIV')-bring back to life. In the 1960s, men's
 fashions of the twenties were revived. Noun: revival (rg-VI'-vgl).
 4. vivisection (viv'-:l-SEK'-shgn}-operating on a live animal.
 Sect- is from a Latin verb meaning to cut. Vivisection is the process
 of experimenting on live animals to discover causes and cures
 of disease. Antivivisectionists object to the procedure, though
 many of our most important medical discoveries were made
 through vivisection.
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 2. living it up
 5. Viviparous (vi-VIP'-Qr-Qs)-producing live babies. Human
 beings and most other mammals are -viviparous. Viviparous is
 contrasted to oviparous ( o-VIP'-Qr-Qs), producing young from
 eggs. Most fish, fowl, and other lower forms of life are oviparous.
 The combining root in both these adjectives is Latin pareo, to
 give birth (parent comes from the same root). In oviparous, the
 first two syllables derive from Latin ovum, egg.
 Ovum, egg, is the source of oval and ovoid, egg-shaped; ovulate
 (O'-vyQ-layt'), to release an egg from the ovary: ovum (O-VQm),
 the female germ cell which, when fertilized by a sperm, develops
 into an embryo, then into il fetus (FEE'-tQs), and finally, in about
 280 days in the case of humans, is born as an infant.
 The adjective form of ovary is ovarian (o-VAIR'-ee-Qn); of
 fetus, fetal (FEE'-tQl). Can you write the noun form of the verb
 ovulate? ___________ _
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 2. living it up
 Love, you may or may not be surprised to hear, also comes
 from ovum.
 No, not the kind of love you're thinking of. Latin ovum
became
 oeuf in French, or with "the" preceding the noun (the egg),
 l'oeuf, pronounced something like Lol>F. Zero (picture it for
a
 moment) is shaped like an egg (0), so if your score in tennis
is
 fifteen, and your opponent's is zero, you shout
triumphantly,
 fifteen love! Let's go!".
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 3. more about life
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 4. French life
ORIGINS AND RELATED WORDS
 5. food and how to enjoy it
REVIEW OF ETYMOLOGY
USING THE WORDS
 Con you pronounce the words? (1)
USING THE WORDS
 Con you pronounce the words? (2)
USING THE WORDS
 Can you work with the words? (I)
USING THE WORDS
 Can you work with the words? (2)
USING THE WORDS
 Can you work with the words? (3)
USING THE WORDS
 Do you understand the words? (1)
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 Do you understand the words? (2)
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 Do you understand the words? (3)
USING THE WORDS
 Can you recall the words?