"Tainted meat!" ... why watching some TV shows will improve a student's vocabulary

Here is the list of words that were studied during Easter vacation and how soe of them were learned.



tainted
"Oh, I heard about that on the Walking Dead.  Some guy shouted TAINTED MEAT and it looked like a bad thing.  So I think taint means to make something bad."

Other words included
cognates

derivation


roots

prefix


affix


suffix


photo -  light

graph -  writing


litho - rock


etymology




alliteration
the roaring river runs roughly over rocks