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Lesson 5: Identifying point of viewExclude | Vocabulary
Let's explore the meaning and the origin of the word "exclude". Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- Isnt alienated basically mean excluded?(2 votes)
- Yes, excluded can be a synonym for alienated (but not always), but alienated isn’t always a synonym for excluded. Like you wouldn’t say “I alienated him out of the party” you would say “I excluded him from the party”. Or you would say (using the word alienated) “She felt alienated by her classmates, who ignored her and never invited her to join their activities.” The word alienated means feeling isolated, estranged, or disconnected from others. The word excluded means being deliberately left out or prevented from joining something. Both words imply a sense of rejection, but alienated is more about the emotional state of the person, while excluded is more about the action of others.(6 votes)
- why did it say "I kid I kid"?(2 votes)
- They should really add the 2-3 new words a day.(1 vote)
- Leafy green? who eats those now a days! Lol(0 votes)
- does example count as a similar word?(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [David] Hey, wordsmiths,
I would never dare leave you feeling left out, so I wanna warn you that
the word we're discussing in this video is exclude, ex-clude. It's a verb, it means to keep someone or something out, to prevent access. It can have a bad connotation or feeling like keeping
people from voting, excluding them from having a vote. And it can also have a neutral connotation or feeling, like excluding coffee from your diet or something. You'll also see it as exclusion,
which is the noun form. But for now, let's talk
about its derivation. Where does this word come
from? We got ex, we got clude. What's going on here? So we have two pieces of Latin here. Ex means out as in extend or expel. Those two words mean to
stretch out or to drive out. And then clude comes
from the Latin claudere, which means to close. You sometimes see this
root pop up as clus too. So when you are excluded from something, you've been closed out,
a door has been shut, and you're on the wrong side of it. But for now, let's open the
door to some similar words. I'll put on some music, all right? And you'll take that time to come up with a few words that also
use clude or clus or ex. Ready? Let's go. (hip hop music) Here are some I thought up. Exclusive, which means special or limited, related to exclude, right? An exclusive club is very
picky about who gets in. Some people are going to be excluded from or kept out of the club. Or an exclusive offer is
limited time only, act now. To conclude, to end something,
literally to close together, like drawing the curtains at a theater. Or secluded meaning out
of the way or private from Latin parts sed, meaning
apart and claudere, right? So literally to be closed
off, apart from everything. Let's use exclude in some sentences. Wanda didn't mean to exclude Bonnie. She really did honestly forget to invite her to the clam bake. Look at Bonnie being so
sad, dreaming of clams and potatoes and corn. Nobody's ever invited me to a clam bake, which is a New England beach party. They do what it sounds
like, they bake clams. Okay, let's try it now in the noun form and continuing the theme,
strangely enough, of corn. Nirmal loved corn on the cob to the exclusion of all other food. So that means he doesn't
eat anything but corn. He excludes other foods,
which is not great, my dudes. It's important to eat a
balanced diet, wordsmiths, a good mix of leafy greens and proteins and the USDA recommended two
to three new words a day. See, it's right here
on the MyPlate graphic. I didn't just put that there. I kid, I kid obviously,
but words are good for you. Okay, I'll see you in the next one. You can learn anything, David out.