This post is about the information of non-verbal communication such as hand gestures, body language, and facial expressions you can find on the Internet.
The links below are from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial_expression
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gestures
One gesture I'd like to share with you is "corna". When I attended rock concerts, the audience usually raised their hands and used this gesture to show their appreciation of the performance. I pulled it out just as everyone else did but never understood its meaning until a while ago. It's actually a devil sign! I should've known! Then again, rock music is rebellious, and I don't get to use a devil sign on other occasions. Rock on!
You can also talk about a gesture/expression that is commonly known as one meaning but interpreted differently in a certain culture. Please see the video below.
- vivo: to live
vivacious (adj.): full of joy of living
vivid (adj.): possessing the freshness of life; strong; sharp
revive (v.): bring back to life
- convivo: to live together
convivial (adj.): the kind of person who likes to attend feasts and banquets
- vita: life
vital (adj.): essential to life
vitamin (n.): one of the many nutritional elements on which life is depended
- fatigue (n.): tiredness
indefatigable (adj.): unable to be fatigued
ingenuous (adj.): frank, open
ingenious (adj.): shred; clever; inventive
- credo: to believe
credulous (adj.): a willingness to believe in almost anything or full of believingness
gullible (adj.): easily tricked
credo (n.): personal belief
creed (n.): a religious belief
credentials (n.): a document or documents proving a person’s right to a title or privilege
- specto: to look
spectacle (n.): something or someone seen
spectator (n.): a close observer; audience
inspect (v.): to observe carefully
retrospect (v.): to look into the past
- punctus: point
punctuate (v.): put points between sentences
punctual (adj.): right on the point of time
perspicacious (adj.): smart, sharp, able to look through and understand
prospect (n.): a forward look
- verto, versus: to turn
versatile (adj.): people who can turn their hands to things easily
stoical (adj.): people who bear their pain or sorrow without complaint
- trepido: to tremble
intrepid (n.): courage and fearlessness
trepidation (n.): great fear
- scintilla: a quick, bright spark
scintillate (v.): the idea that the spark remains
- urbs: city
urbane (adj.): the adjective of city-dwellers (refined, polished, courteous)
urban (adj.): an adjective that simply refers to cities
suburb (n.): residential sections or small communities close to a large city
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- penuria: need, neediness
penurious (adj.) stingy, niggardly
parsimonious (adj.) stingy (not as much as a penurious person)
indigent (adj.) not absolutely penniless, but they are forced to live in reduced circumstances
destitute (adj.) on the verge of starvation- ad-: forward
- fluo: flow
affluent (adj.) more than comfortable, prosperous
fluent (adj.): the words flow smoothly
opulent (adj.): greater wealth than affluence, suggesting lavish expenditures and ostentatiously luxurious surroundings
vicarious (adj.) second-hand
- ephemera: dayfly (one short-lived creature)
ephemeral (adj.): unenduring
- e-: out
- vanesco: to vanish
- -esce: begin to
- eu-: good
- pheme: voice
euphemism: a word or expression that has been substituted for another that is likely to offend
- phone: sound
- logos: word or speech
euphoria: good feeling, a sense of mental buoyancy and physical well-being
badinage (n.): half-teasing, non-malicious, frivolous banter, intended to amuse rather than wound
cliche (n.): a pattern of words which was once new and fresh but which now is so old, worn, and threadbare that only unimaginative writers and speakers ever use it
- platys: broad or flat
plateau (adj.): flat land
plate, platter (n.): flat dishes
platitude (n.): a flat statement, similar to cliche
- bovis: ox or cow
bovine (adj.): stolid, patient, unexcitable
- notos: a return
- algos: pain
nostalgia: pain stirred by memory storing pleasant experiences of the past
- kakos: bad, harsh
- phone: sound
cacophony (n.): unmusical, grating, ear-offending noises
- carnis: flesh
- voro: to devour
carnivorous (adj.): meat-eating
carnival (n.): outdoor activity with games, rides, side shows, and lots of food
carnage (n.): great destruction of life
carnal (adj.): pleasure or appetites of the flesh rather than the spirit-->lecherous, lascivious...
reincarnation (n.): rebirth or reappearance
- herba: herb
- omnis-: all
- potens, potentis: powerful
omnipotent (adj.): all-powerful
- sciens: knowing
omnipresent (adj.): present in all places at once
- clam: secretly
