Expressions Flashcards
What expression describes an environment where temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements.
Gig Economy
What is the definition of gig economy?
An environment where temporary positions are common and organizations contract with independent workers for short-term engagements.
What percentage of Americans are predicted to work as independent contractors by 2020?
40%
What is Putonghua?
The standard spoken form of modern Chinese, based on the dialect of Beijing.
What is the name for the spoken form of modern Chinese, based on the dialect of Beijing?
Putonghua
To consider or treat as sacrosanct or holy. For example ‘they ________ his many verbal foibles and made them gospel’.
canonized
Regard as being above reproach or of great significance. For example:-
‘we have ___________ freedom of speech as an absolute value overriding all others’
canonized
To attribute authoritative sanction or approval to or to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred For example ‘his mother had ___________ all his timidities as common sense —Scott Fitzgerald.
canonized
To attribute authoritative sanction or approval to or to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred For example ‘Lloyd comes to Houston next Wednesday having outlived almost all the legends whose work has been _____________.’
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Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, “Charles Lloyd is a living jazz master,” 7 Feb. 2018
Canonized
To attribute authoritative sanction or approval to or to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred For example ‘In their efforts to canonize history is an unambiguous instruction: Remember it like this.’
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Simon Han, The Atlantic, “The Impossible Task of Remembering the Nanking Massacre,” 17 Dec. 2017
canonize
To attribute authoritative sanction or approval to or to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred For example ‘Women do much less engineering, producing and senior-level label and artist-management work and have done little of the __________ criticism compared with men.’
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Wesley Morris, New York Times, “Should Women Make Their Own Pop Music Canon?,” 5 Oct. 2017
Canonizing
To attribute authoritative sanction or approval to or to treat as illustrious, preeminent, or sacred For example ‘The latter, which first appeared in 1980, has just been reissued in Penguin Classics, joining the small shelf of his novels that have been deservedly _________ by the iconic series.’
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Sam Sacks, WSJ, “The Voice of Kenya,” 21 July 2017
canonized
What is Dajjal?
Moslem (Arabic) word for Anti-Christ
What is the Moslem word for Anti-Christ?
Dajjal.
Why do many words in Arabic have two consonants?
In order to indicate how to pronounce them.
In ___________ many words (e.g. dajjal) have two consonants to indicate how to pronounce them.
Arabic
In Arabic many words (eg dajjal) have two ________ to indicate how to pronounce them.
consonants
In Arabic many words (eg dajjal) have two consonants to indicate how to pronounce them.
Pronounce
Give an example of an Arabic word with two consonants.
Dajjal
Who was Jack Parsons?
An American rocket engineer, rocket propulsion researcher, chemist and Thelemite occultist.
When did Jack Parsons live?
From 1914 – 1952.
What were key achievements of Jack Parsons?
He invented the first rocket engine to use castable composite rocket propellant and pioneered the advancement of both liquid-fuel and solid-fuel rockets.
According to Wikipedia, for these innovations, his advocacy of space exploration and human space flight, and funding of JPL and Aerojet, Parsons is regarded as among the most important figures in the history of the US space programme.
What is Thelema?
A social or spiritual philosophy derived from Western esotericism. While it is often regarded as a religion – a new spiritual religious movement in particular- it is also referred to as a philosophy, “religious philosophy”, “spiritual philosophy” or “religious matrix”.
What is Western esotericism?
Western esotericism is a term under which scholars have categorised a wide range of loosely related ideas and movements which have developed within Western society.
One scholarly model adopts its definition of “esotericism” from certain esotericist schools of thought themselves, treating “esotericism” as a perennialist hidden, inner tradition. A second perspective sees esotericism as a category that encompasses world-views which seek to embrace an “enchanted” world-view in the face of increasing de-enchantment. A third views Western esotericism as a category encompassing all of Western culture’s “rejected knowledge” that is accepted neither by the scientific establishment nor by orthodox religious authorities.