20100219

Fourteen Words Key to 100,000 Words


PREFIX
SPELLINGS MEANING # KEYWORD MEANING ROOT SPELLINGS MEANING
de
down, away 1 DETAIN delay tam ten, tin to have, hold
inter
between 2 INTERMITTENT periodic mitt miss, mie, mit to send
pre
before 3 PRECEPT principle cept cept,cap, ceiv, ceit, cip
to take
ob oc,of,op to,toward, against
4 OFFER provide fer lat, lay to bear, carry
in il,im,ir into, not
5 INSIST demand sist stat, sta, stan
to stand, endure, persist
mono
one, alone 6 MONOGRAPH writing graph gram
to write
epi
over,upon, beside
7 EPILOGUE ending log ology speech, science
ad a, ab, ac, af, ag, al, am, an, ap, ar, as, at, a at, to, towards 8 ASPECT distinct feature spect spec, spi, spy To look
un
not 9 UNCOMPLICATED clear
plic play,plex, ploy, ply speech, science
com co,col, car with





non
not 10 NONEXTENDED core tens,tend
stretch
ex e,ef out





re

back, again
11 REPRODUCTION replica duct duc, duit, duk
To lead, make, shape, fashiion
pro
forward, in favor





in il, im, ir not 12 INDISPOSED not well poc pon,poat put,place
dis di,dif apart from





over
above 13 OVERSUFFICIENT over supply fic fac,fact, fash, feat
To make or do
sub
suc,suf, sug, sup under





mis
wrong 14 MISTRANSCRIBE write incorrectly scribe scrip,scriv write

20100211

Technical Numeric Prefixes


Standard Metric (SI) Prefixes, Values and Common Usage
There are many different size prefixes that are used to denote large and small numbers. The standard prefixes, from one trillion to one trillionth, are denoted below, along with some of the common places in the computer world where you will see them used:
Name
Abbr.
Decimal Power
Factor
Common Usage
tera
T
10^12
1,000,000,000,000
large data warehouses (TB)
giga
G
10^9
1,000,000,000
mass storage (GB), CPU speed (GHz)
mega
M
10^6
1,000,000
storage (MB), memory (MB), CPU speed (MHz), others
kilo
K
10^3
1,000
memory (KB), communication speed (KB/sec), others
milli
m
10^-3
0.001
drive access speed (ms)
micro
ยต (Greek "mu")
10^-6
0.000001
various circuit speeds (us)
nano
n
10^-9
0.000000001
memory speed (ns), CPU cycle length (ns), capacitors (nF)
pico
p
10^-12
0.000000000001
capacitors (pF)

20100204

Knowledge Idioms

KNOWLEDGE / UNDERSTANDING / COMPREHENSION IDIOMS


-A- 
all right 
as easy as pie

-B- 
be a piece of cake 
beat one's brains out 
beats me 
believe it or not 
bite off more than one can chew 
brainstorm 
brush up on 
burn the midnight oil 
by one's self

-C- 
can't believe (one's) eyes 
can't make heads or tails of something 
catch on 
change one's mind 
(be) a cinch 
clear up 
cram 
crash course

-D- 
ditch class

-E- 
easy does it! 
egghead 
elbow grease

-F- 
far-fetched 
find one's way around

-G- 
get it 
give it one's best shot 
go to pieces 
go to the dogs

-H- 
hard nut to crack 
hard-headed 
have (something) down pat 
hit the books

-I- 
in fact 
in other words 
in over one's head 
in the swing of things
TOP

-K- 
kind of / kinda 
knock (one) for a loop 
know something backwards and forward 
know something inside out 
know the ropes 
know-it-all 

-L- 
lead the way

-M- 
make a note of 
make sure 
make up one's mind 
mind one's P's and Q's

-N- 
no ifs, ands, or buts about it 
no wonder 
not all there

-O- 
OK 
on the ball 
on the go 
on the level 
on the line 
on the tip of (one's) tongue 
or so 
out of the question 
over (one's) head

-P- 
pay attention to 
pop quiz 
pull an all-nighter 
put two and two together

-Q- 
quick study 
quit while you’re ahead

-R- 
read someone's mind

-S- 
savvy 
scatterbrained 
shoot off (one's) mouth 
show off 
sort of 
so-so 
stick to one's guns 
swelled head

-T- 
talk through (one's) hat 
tough 
tricky

-U- 
until you're blue in the face 
use (one’s) noodle

-Y- 
You must be kidding! 

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