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Course: 6th grade reading and vocabulary (improved and expanded) > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Understanding visual evidenceInnovative | Vocabulary
Let’s explore the meaning and origin of the word “innovative”.
nnovative-vocabulary-635b. Created by David Rheinstrom.
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- What does a novelty toy mean?(1 vote)
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Video transcript
- [David] Ah, hello, Wordsmiths, you found me in my
workshop, coining new words. A little soldering, a little welding, and there you are, a brand new word. Let's take it out of the
forge and see what I've made. Oh, well this word already
exists, it's innovative. In-no-va-tive, it's an adjective. It means coming up with new
ideas or approaches, inventive. So, an innovative idea might require a new approach to a problem. New is important here, and I'll explain when we get into the word's origins. In, means in or on. Nov, means new from the Latin novus, and -ate makes the word
into a verb, right? And so that's innovate,
to make something new. I-V-E, -ive, makes that
verb into an adjective. Innovative, a way to describe
something as newly invented or newly introduced. So, let's think about
that nov word, part N-O-V. How many words can you think
of that have that in there? I'll give you 10 seconds and a little music break to think it over. Okay, meet back here in 10. (upbeat music) Here's what I came up with. Novice, a noun, it means newbie, someone who's a beginner. Novel, which is a noun or an adjective. As a noun, it's a fiction book, right? It's something original and new
that hasn't happened before. Thus, novel, that's what the
adjective form means, too. A novel concept is something wholly new. And novelty, which means
kinda silly new thing. A novelty is trivial, frivolous, goofy. Novelty music is a whole entire genre of very silly music that
I love a great deal. If you look closely at the grocery store, you'll see that the section where the ice cream sandwiches
are is usually labeled frozen novelties. Wordsmiths, I would be so good at inventing frozen novelties. Okay, frozen novelty innovator over here. Cherry ice cream between
two thin slabs of brownie, but the ice cream part is
rolled in chocolate shavings. I could make a mint as
an ice cream innovator. A chocolate-mint, hi-yo! All right, let's use
innovative in a sentence. Nick's innovative machine
turns seawater into bananas. They're okay. That's sort of the risk you take when you make something
new, when you innovate, when you're an innovator who innovates. It's frankly a miracle that you can turn seawater into fruit. It would be another separate miracle if the resultant fruit tasted good. All right, so that's innovative. Let's try the verb form, innovate. Here at the Frozen Flavor Lab, we're always innovating new
kinds of ice cream treats. You know, like frozen
chocolate-dipped bananas that taste like the brackish
waters of the Chesapeake Bay. Listen, they can't all
be winners, all right? You can learn anything. David out.