Chapter 5: The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role

1. prima facie – at first face or first impression

2. ad hoc – created or done for a particular purpose as necessary

3. In-camera – doing something that the camera rolls.

4. ad infinitum – again and again in the same way

5. mutatis mutandis – making necessary alterations while not affecting the main point at issue.

6. Caveat – a warning or proviso of specific stipulations, conditions, or limitations.

7. tabula rasa – an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals

Working with words

I. Locate the following phrases in the text and study their connotation.

1. gripped the imagination of: received much attention

2. dawned upon: realised it for the first time

3. ushered in: began the new idea

4. passed into current coin: have been brought into use

5. passport of the future: a thing that makes something possible

II. The words ‘grip’, ‘dawn’, ‘usher’, ‘coin’, ‘passport’ have a literal as well as a figurative meaning. Write pairs of sentences using each word in the literal as well as the figurative sense

Write your own answer.