Connections Flashcards
Paraphernalia
- ( sometimes used with a singular verb ) equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity: a skier’s paraphernalia.
2.
( used with a plural verb ) personal belongings.
Ministrations
the act of ministering care, aid, religious service, etc.
Pervasive
spread throughout: The corruption is so pervasive that it is accepted as the way to do business.
Parturition
giving birth.
Loft
- a storage room.
2. a high room.
Emblem
a symbol or design that represents something.
Sobriquet
a nickname.
Gentrification
upper class people take over an area and modify it. changing the previously existing environment.
Monolithic
consisting of only one piece. usually a stone.
Disconsolate
- hopeless
2. without consolation.
Paroxysms
- a sudden outburst.
2. sudden attack of a disease.
Enclaves
to be surrounded by a non friendly environment.
Capitalism
free market economy.
Neo-Marxist
some theories designed to understand behaviour of man i think. but need more research.
Regnant
- reigning; ruling (usually used following the noun it modifies): a queen regnant.
2.
exercising authority, rule, or influence.
3.
prevalent; widespread.
Denunciation
- an act or instance of denouncing; public censure or condemnation.
2.
an accusation of crime before a public prosecutor or tribunal.
3.
notice of the termination or the renouncement of an international agreement or part thereof.
4.
Archaic . warning of impending evil; threat.
Overt
- open to view or knowledge; not concealed or secret: overt hostility.
2.
Heraldry . (of a device, as a purse) represented as open: a purse overt.
Apologists
- a person who makes a defense in speech or writing of a belief, idea, etc.
2.
Ecclesiastical .
a.
Also, a·pol·o·gete [uh-pol-uh-jeet] Show IPA. a person skilled in apologetics.
b.
one of the authors of the early Christian apologies in defense of the faith.
Abrogation
cancelling or repealing.
Inflection
related to change in form.
