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Recognition | Vocabulary | Khan Academy


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·Nov 10, 2024

I see you, word Smiths, which is good because the word I'm talking about in this video is recognition. Recog, it's a noun; it means the act of acknowledging, being aware of, or noticing something.

Follow me over to the atmology Zone trademark where I'm going to break this word down. This word comes from Latin. Re means back, again, or against, as in review. Cognos means to know, to be familiar with, and -ion is a noun-forming suffix. It's what makes this word into a noun.

So what we're looking at here is a word that means the act of knowing something again, right? So this is the noun form of knowing something again. You recognize a person when you've met them before. You recognize a song because you've already heard it.

So let's come up with some words that use these word parts: re, cogno, that -ion ending. If you want, I'll give you 10 seconds to come up with some words, to knock some together.

Okay, here we go! Here are some that I came up with: incognito, which means disguised. Right? In incognito means literally not knowable. If I'm going incognito, maybe I'm wearing a fake nose, a fake mustache, right?

Reconnaissance! This word comes from French; it basically means spying. It's a military term. You're surveying; you're getting to know a territory before you decide how, or whether, to commit troops there. Same atmology as recognized, but it took a different language path to get to English.

And the verb to ignore, to choose to not know about something, to not pay attention to it. Same negating prefix as incognito, right? The 'in' or the 'i' part here means not, and the nor the 'gno' re part means knowing. So, not knowing—ignore.

So you might ignore the spy who is incognito, performing reconnaissance.

All right, let's use recognition in some sentences. Even at a distance, Sherman recognized the familiar three-step gait of his old friend, Pizot. Right? He could tell; he could identify it from a distance.

You can also use recognition to mean that someone is being appreciated for something that they've done. In recognition of her service to the city's Garden Club, Christina got a ceremonial key to the city.

So here it is, not that someone is literally saying, "Hey, is that Christina? I know her," it's more like the city is acknowledging and appreciating her work. It's the effort that she's put in that they're officially noticing by giving her a giant unwieldy novelty key.

You can hold the giant novelty key to knowledge, wordsmiths! If you hold fast to this truth, you can learn anything.

Daveid out.

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