English Flashcards

(30 cards)

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Consult

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When you ask for a advice from someone

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Enrich

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Reading good literature will enrich, or add to, your understanding of human nature

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Foundation

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Is a base, or basis, on which something rests

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Institution

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Is a organization, such as a school

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Motivation

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Is an incentive for doing something

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Annotate

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If you annotate a work of literature, you include notes

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Characteristics

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A characteristic is a feature

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Derive

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Derive means “to come from a certain source”

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Literal

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A literal meaning reflects exactly what a word means

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Stress

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To stress is to accent

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critique

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A critique is a review

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Effective

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Effective means “having the intended purpose”

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Plausible

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If something is plausible, it seems likely

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Thesis

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A thesis is a proposition supported by an argument

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Transition

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A transition is a change from one thing to another

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Articulate

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If you articulate something, you express it clearly

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Contradict

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If you contradict something, you say the opposite

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Disclose

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Disclose means “to expose”

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Media

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Media refers to forms of mass communication such as newspapers

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Speculate

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To speculate is to think deeply about something

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Capitalism

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Capitalism is an economic system with a free market

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Financial

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A financial transaction has to do with money

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Proportion

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Proportion is a part in relation to the whole

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Revenue

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Revenue is income

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Statistics
Statistics is collected data
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Diminish
To diminish is to become smaller
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Equivalent
If something is equal in value or measure to something else it is equivalent
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Fragment
A fragment is a pice of a whole
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Minimal
If you do a minimal amount of work, you do the smallest amount
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Quorum
A quorum is the number of people, usually a majority, needed for a group to do business