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Course: 6th grade reading and vocabulary (improved and expanded) > Unit 1
Lesson 5: Tracing ideas across a textImpose | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “impose”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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I like your taste in music(7 votes)
Not many people commented, is this a new video?(4 votes)
Normal people: enjoying music and focusing on video
Me: eating lays chips and aggressively bobbing head to the music(4 votes)
I love the spider!(2 votes)- this music is soooo good(2 votes)
I would have done Impossible(2 votes)
Back on the previous exercise about CFC's, my logic doesn't support all of its reasoning. First of all, CFC was invented in 1928, and it wasn't widely used. In fact, it wasn't that popular. The ozone hole appeared in 1985, still even when CFC'S weren't widely used. The Ozone Hole is created by chlorine atoms under certain conditions. Notice that its "under certain conditions", and that period is between August and November when the Ozone Hole greatly decreases. In August, a weather phenomenon called the Polar Vortex occurs which introduces winds blowing from the South Pole which creates the South Pole region extremely cold, and it could drop as low as -90 Celsius. Water droplets would freeze and some could carry these chlorine atoms already in the atmosphere up into the air as the heavy gushes of wind carries them. If these particles get as high as into the stratosphere where the ozone layer is, the temperature would, with the warmer temperatures near the ozone layer will melt, and the chlorine would be released. Chlorine, if you know, would destroy the ozone, weakening the layer. This only occurs in the South Pole regions because this is where the polar vortex phenomenon is significantly pronounced. Plus, supporting the fact that CFC's aren't the cause of the ozone layer, how many people actually live in Antarctica where the air is filled with CFC's? Only a handful of people actually live there. Because of the ban of CFC'S, refrigeration, AC's, and surgical sterilizers are less effective and modernizing and adapting to the ban of CFC'S was a heavy toll. This concludes that the elimination of CFC'S is actually unclear if this actually improved anyone's life!
I'm in 7th grade. Even I know this. Don't know if the exercise is exactly new or what, but I don't want people to walk away with the wrong message.(2 votes)
Holy cow we do not need a 5 page essay! It is handy information though!(1 vote)
Me just listening to the music instead of thinking of words Lol!! 😂(1 vote)- What are wordsmiths? How many videos have been made?(1 vote)
impossible is what I would do to
also I need that play list(0 votes)
Video transcript
- [Narrator] Hey there, wordsmiths. This video is about the
word impose, impose. It's a verb and it means to
force something onto others. Kind of like how I
impose my taste in music on you in these videos. You didn't ask for this,
I just put it onto you, which is indeed what this
word literally means in Latin/ Comes from two parts, im or
in, which can mean in or on, and ponere, which means to put. So let me impose my taste on you by giving you a ten second music break during which time I would
like for you to list out as many words that contain
im or pose as you can. Ready? Let's do it to it. (upbeat music) All right, here is some
I came up with earlier. Position, where you put something, where it's located. Impression, an impact, a dent, when you make a big impression, you're literally saying you pressed into something, like a
big impression in the sand or the snow. Figuratively, it's an idea
that occurs to you as easily as making a dent in sand. Oppose, right? This word means to be against something, to put yourself against it. Anyway, impose, it means to put something on someone,
but it's not used literally. You wouldn't say, "I imposed
a bucket on Steve's head. Sorry Steve." 'Cause you wouldn't do that. "So I guess I'm not sorry Steve,
'cause that didn't happen." It is a figurative meaning,
a non-literal meaning. Do you think the new principle will impose a ban on junk food? It's more like you're
putting in a new rule. Another meaning of
imposing is being impolite. It's a common expression
to say, "I don't want to impose," right? I don't wanna be an inconvenience. I don't wanna waste your
time, put myself in your way. You see, "I don't want to
impose, but could you look after my giant spider this weekend? You don't even need to walk
her, come on, she's so sweet. Her name is Benjamin." Another form that this word
can take if we wanna make it a noun, is imposition. It's a big imposition for me to look after this man eating spider. Wordsmiths, I would never ask you to watch my giant spider, man-eating or otherwise, but I would impose on
you by asking that you be so kind as to watch the next
vocabulary video I make. You can learn anything, David out.