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Course: 6th grade reading and vocabulary (improved and expanded) > Unit 1
Lesson 3: Making inferencesEliminate | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “eliminate”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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Video transcript
- [David] What's up, wordsmiths? This video is about the word eliminate. Eliminate. It's a verb. It means to remove or
get rid of something. The word comes to us from Latin, and it's a combination of two parts, ex, which means out or away, think exit, and limin, which means edge
or threshold, think limit. You're pushing something
over the threshold and out the door. (instructor mimicking door slamming) There he goes. You'll notice it's not exliminate. Sometimes ex gets
shortened down to just e, as it does here or in
words like eject or emit. For now, just know that
sometimes, ex becomes e, as in eliminate. Thinking of those elements, ex or lim, try to come up
with a couple of similar words in English that contain those parts. I'll give you 10 seconds, all right? Take it away, music break. (light music) Here are some of mine: exit, like the opposite of an entrance, a place you go out of, limit, like the edge or
the end of something, and subliminal, this is a fun one. It means below the threshold of awareness. You might have heard of
subliminal messaging, like how I've been
subtly flashing the words eat more mangoes onscreen
for the last five seconds. I haven't been paid by any
mango growers or anything. I just think they're tasty fruits. But to eliminate something
is to get rid of it. For good. Let's try it in a sentence. And you can see how it comes across. It usually has a kind of dire
connotation, kinda scary. "Our new directive of
public order will eliminate those troublemakers for good," sneered the Minister of Peace. Right, creepy, ew. I didn't even need to do the voice. Getting rid of troublemakers for good sounds pretty frightening. Not gonna lie. A less creepy example, you might see it in an advertising context, like, "This fabulous product eliminates
99% of household odors!" Fabulous little product in its spray can. It removes the odors. It takes them away. It puts them beyond the threshold, the limit of your awareness. I hope that this video has
eliminated any confusion about the meaning of the word eliminate. All right, I'm exiting now. Catch you in the next one. You can learn anything, David out.