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Course: 6th grade reading and vocabulary (improved and expanded) > Unit 1
Lesson 2: Citing text evidenceAlign | Vocabulary
let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “align”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- Is it necassary to watch these vocab. videos if you already know all the meanings and definitions of the word?(8 votes)
- The videos systematically teach you the meaning and outlines variations of the word, as well as giving you a brief reason for how the word was created.(2 votes)
- Am I the only one who aggressively bobs my head and eat chips while David plays the music? Just me? Anyone else?🫠🫠(8 votes)
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- did anyone else notice David stopped saying ‘hello readers’ now he says ‘hey wordsmiths’(3 votes)
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David says "Hey wordsmiths!" because this video and
the previous one are vocabulary videos.(4 votes)
- What is the meaning of ALLY?(2 votes)
- An Ally is someone who is on your side.(5 votes)
- I was laughing my head off when he said this video was "snackable"(3 votes)
- what color is the sky(2 votes)
- ay mi amor, ay mi amor(2 votes)
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- Align means to give support to (a person, organization, or cause) or to place or arrange (things) in a straight line.(3 votes)
- This is sooo cooooooooool!(2 votes)
- goo goo gaa fa fa moo moo ka(I just vibe while he plays the music)(2 votes)
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Video transcript
- [David] Hey, there, Wordsmiths. This video is about the word align, align. This word has two definitions. The first is to support, ally
or associate with someone. And the second definition is to put things in a straight line. That's its literal definition. It comes from the Latin
lin, which means line. It's a very useful little
word and it is a verb. Now, I'm gonna throw y'all
a ten second music break and in that time, see how many words you can
come up with that use lin. Please, Mr. Music, won't you play? (bright upbeat music) Here are some words I
came up with earlier, cooking show style. Linear, which means in a straight line, to delineate, which means
to describe in detail or draw out borders and perhaps, obviously,
the word line itself. But let's dive into align because if you're anything like me, you're wondering about
that G, why isn't it align? I will spare you the lecture and say simply that it came from French. Don't worry about it. We just don't say it, in the
same way we don't say the G in sign, or, at least, we
don't say it as a /g/ sound. I find this stuff fascinating. I could basically keep
talking about this forever, but I'm trying to keep these
videos short and snackable. So let's use align in some sentences. You can use it literally, right? Like, all lined up. When the planet's aligned, are powers we're at their greatest, right? You can draw a straight line from Neptune straight through to the
sun, straight enough. The planets aligned, but you can also use it
figuratively, non literally to say that people agree. Jamelle and I aligned on the fact that the cereal milk is
the best part of breakfast. Here we are, in fact, in agreement, in alignment, in fact,
I'll write that down. So this is the noun form. We've added -ment to turn it
into a noun, in alignment. And one last sentence. Supriya had to align
with the other rebels. She had to get in line,
they had to link up. So I hope you and I are
all aligned on the meaning of this word, because I am out of time. Until the next one,
you can learn anything. David, out.