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Lesson 3: Analyzing text structureStrategic | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “strategic”. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- [Narrator] I love it
when a plan comes together, wordsmiths, because the word I'm featuring in this video is strategic. Strategic. It's an adjective and it
means related to a plan. It's the adjective form of
strategy, which is a way of thinking about making
effective and successful plans or the plan itself. Strategic comes from Greek, the word strategos means general, as in the commander of an army. Being strategic means you're
thinking like a general commanding troops, like you're
trying to play five games of chess at once. The ic part, the I-C part is
an adjective forming suffix, so it turns nouns into
modifiers, into adjectives. So strategic means like a general. What do you see from these word parts? What do you see in strateg and ic? I'll give you 10 seconds to
come up with similar words. Throw in a little music, here we go. (upbeat music) Here's what I came up with. There's stratagem, which is like a trick or a cutting little
plan that you pull off. In other words, a maneuver. Cosmic, which means it has to
do with outer space, right? It's the the word cosmos plus ic, the adjective forming suffix. Cosmos is outer space. Strategize, which is the verb
form of strategic or strategy. It means to make plans, to
come up with a strategy. Okay, troops, follow me
over to the next screen where we'll use strategic
in a few sentences, hoo-ah. If you're strategic with your
chocolate chip placement, you can use cookies to spell words. This one appears to say Khan. If you're clever about
it, if you've thought through the plan and its
implications, if you're strategic, you can create cookie
mischief, which is probably one of the 10 best kinds of mischief. Okay, let's try it as
a noun now as strategy. After three straight days of
failure, the scientists decided to attempt a new strategy. What was that strategy? I don't know. I didn't read the lab notes and it kind of appears as
if those lab notes have gone into the trash. But
here's what I do know. You can learn anything,
wordsmiths, David out.