English Word Roots/Announcement (2) 썸네일형 리스트형 The story of the English Root word "aud-" which is the prefix ‘audio-’ and the English word ‘audition’ K-POP has become a global music genre, and it relies on auditions to find the best talent. The English word ‘audition’ first appeared in English in the 1590s, meaning ‘power of hearing,’ and expanded to mean ‘the act of hearing, a listening’ in the 1650s. It wasn't until 1881 that audition began to be used to mean ‘a contest’ on stage, ‘a trial for a performer’, and then, in 1938, as a verb mean.. English Root words PDF - download a free PDF file containing all the root words of the Top 5000 English words We've collected, analyzed, and organized the top 5000 most frequently used words in the English language, and are releasing them as a free pdf file. The 5,000+ words collected are based on spelling, not part of speech, and would be equivalent to at least 7,000 English words based on part of speech. The words were collected from the following sources 1) Top 5000 words from the Oxford dictionary 2.. 이전 1 다음