General Terminology Flashcards
(121 cards)
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Tautologous
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Repetitive
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Smouldering
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Burning slowly: with smoke but no flame
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Squalid
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Place of extreme dirty/unpleasant (i.e poverty)
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Acute
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Severe/a lot of
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Almanac
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A booklet without outline of key details for the year
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Adherent
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someone who supports a particular party
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Undulation
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Moving up and down
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Profanity
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“Swear word”- blasphemous or obscene language
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Laden
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‘carrying a load or burden’
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umpteen
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A lot of (indefinitely a lot)
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bayonet
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Knife that fits at the end of a rifle
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Layman
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person with no profession/specialised knowledge
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Blouse
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Womans uppergarment resembling a shirt
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Brandish
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To shake or wave (a weapon) menacingly
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Bereft
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Deprived/lacking (of something)
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Whorl
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A pattern of spirals/concentric circles
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Trope
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Using a word or expression in a figurative/metaphoric way
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Garnish
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Decorate/embelishment
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Tunic
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Women’s clothing from shoulder to hips
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Carafe
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Glass container without handles used for serving drinks
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Purported
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Appearing to be stated as true (a statement)
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Advent
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Arrival of noble person or thing
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Predicament
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Difficult/unpleasant situation
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Savant
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educated person (i.e distinguished scientist), intellectual
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Aggregation
"cluster" of things brought together
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Demarcation
Fixing a boundary (i.e wall et.c)/limit
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Premeditate
Think or plan out beforehand
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Congrous
In agreement/harmony
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Contentions
heated disagreement/ones main argument
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Preclude
Prevent from happening
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irrevocable
Not able to be changed/reversed/recovered
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Redundant
No longer useful/superfluous
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Superfluous
Unnecessary
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Dualism
Philosophy: theory that mental and physical are in some sense radically different kinds of things
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Encompassing
Surround/hold within
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Advocate
A person who publicly supports or recommends a particular cause or policy
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Pertaining
be appropriate/related/applicable to
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Axiomatic
Self evident/unquestionable
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Marxist
Supporter of the "Marx" side of politics
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Capitalism
Economic system where country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by the state
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Republic
A state where supreme power is held by people and their elected representative, with an elected president
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Fascade
The front of the building that faces the open street/Deceptive outward appearance
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Fleeting
Last for very short amount of time
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Union
Societies formed by people with common interest of purpose
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Trifling
Unimportant or trivial (of little value or importance)
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Idly
No particular purpose, reason or foundation
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indemnity
Money paid as compensation (can be for security too)
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Vindication
action of clearing someone from blame/suspicion
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Oblique
Not expressed in a direct way
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Pastiche
Artistic work style that imitates that of another work
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hypocrisy
Practice of claiming to have higher standards than is the case
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Trite
Lacking original freshness/dull due to overuse
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Erronous
Wrong/incorrect
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Contempt
Feeling that person/thing is worthless/beneath consideration
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bipartisan
Agreement/cooperation of two political parties usually opposing each other's policy
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Iterative
Denoting a grammatical rule that can be applied repeatedly
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Myriad
A great number of ___ (n/adj)
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Tacit
understood/implied without stated
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Haulage
Commercial transport of goods
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Sporadically
Occasionally at regular intervals
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Self actualisation
Relizing or fulfilling one's talent/potential as a need to present in everyone
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Tress
Long lock of hair
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Erratic
Changing unpredictably/rapidly
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Customary
according to customs/practices
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pragmatic
Dealing with things sensibly/realistically
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immutable
unchanging over time/unable to be changed
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albiet
"though"
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trenchant
vigorous or incisive (intelligently analytic and clear thinking) in expression/style
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incisive
intelligently analytic and clear thinking
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vacuous
mindless/out of thought
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idiosyncratic
peculiar/distinctive/individual/distinguished
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burgeon
begin to grow or increase rapidly/flourish
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Scrupulous
careful, thorough and extremely attentive to detail
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deliberation
long and careful consideration discussion
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Liberal
open to changing one own's value/for government
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Conservative
Holding on traditional values/for people
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kangaroo court
an unofficial court held by a group of people in order to try someone regarded, especially without good evidence, as guilty of a crime or misdemeanour.
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shrapnel
fragments of a bomb/shell or other object thrown out by explosion
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epithet
an addition of a phrase added to a name to describe the quality of that person/object i.e Alexander THE GREAT
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Itinerant
travelling from place to place
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Sophistry
using clever but false arguments, especially with the intention of deceiving
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eclectic
deriving ideas/style/taste from a broad and diverse range of sources
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ethnocentric
evaluating cultures according to the preconceptions/standards and customs
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heliocentric
representing the sun in the centre (of a model)
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anthropocentric
marking humankind as the centre/most important
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geocentric
marking earth as its centre
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Dogma
principles that are laid as true
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Rites
A religious ceremony
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doctrines
set of beliefs held and taught by the church
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rudimentary
limited to basic principles/underdeveloped state
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parsimonious
unwilling to spend money/resource
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Propriety
state of quality or conforming to conventionally accepted standards of behaviour/morals
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superflous
unnecessary
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jostle
use elbow to push against someone/thing (i.e in a crowd)
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meticulous
showing great attention to detail
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inexplicable
unable to be explained/accounted for
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taut
stretched or pulled tightly, no slack
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straddled
sit or stand with one leg on either side of it (an object)
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leer
look/gaze in a bad way
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judicious
showing good judgment/cause
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auspicious
conducive to success; favourable
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ostentatious
pretencious/showy display/show off
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pretentious
attempting to impress by greater merit than possessed
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enigmatic
: difficult to interpret/understand/mysterious
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oeuvre
the body of work for a painter, composer or author
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emancipation
process of being set free from legal, social or political restrictions
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quiescent
inactive/dormancy
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jocosity
fun characterised by humour
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bleak
lacking
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denouement
the outcome of a decision/closure
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plenitude
an abundance
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savest
conscience
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allusion
figure of speech that makes reference to thing through implication
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pensive
reflect deep or serious thought
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jaunty
lively/cheerful/confident manner
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double entendre
a sentence/phrase that has two meanings (entendre= meaning)
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amendment
a minor change to improve a legislation
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alleviating
make (a problem) less severe
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empirical
based on observation rather than logic/theories
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abhorrned
regarded with disgust/hatred
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overdrawn
exaggerating
