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JOB Flashcards

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Choose words carefully but not

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painstakingly or politically correct

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Feckless

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Work shy, layabout

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Old cultural values being imported

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by other ethnicities, such as a woman’s place is in the home

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lack of clarity

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and certainty

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pungent and

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trenchant views

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momentary flutter of

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success

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sport is married to national

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psyche

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social disability rather than a

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physical disability

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alacrity to take up invitation to be

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heartless and mean

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uncaring, right-wing

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credentials

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polluted the community

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spirit

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11
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muskateer

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of malevolence

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powerful piece of prose but emotionally

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bankrupt

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masculine

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hegemony

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14
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tabloid

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simplification

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high dudgeon

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high dudgeon

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16
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invites shallow

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cliche

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disgust, derision and

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condemnation

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science is the best available explanation at a given time of

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observable events

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19
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can’t escape the shadow of an allegation if you’re famous but

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can escape the shadow of a crime if you’re not

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20
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nail jelly to the

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wall

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tabloid

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exaggeration

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22
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John Maynard Keynes: when the facts change

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I change my mind

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Not emigration but

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transplatation

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great question requiring more than a

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soundbite to answer

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You would be made of flint

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not to respond/feel

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tilt at the

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windmill

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a self-deprecating

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gesture

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baulk at the infringement on my

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personal liberty

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personal affront to my freedom

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of choice

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our parents wire us;

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big job to re-wire

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the realms of

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theory

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apocalyptic treatment of

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stories by the press/tabloids

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the fruits of your

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experience

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morally less right if not

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wrong

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hard to shake the conviction born of

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your background

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shake your head not in disbelief but in

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dismay

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a pertinent but extreme

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example

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self-selecting constituency

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of people

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gris to the

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mill

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the word resonates

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unpleasantly

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too easy for people not in power to portray people in power

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as lazy or corrupt

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being cocky and arrogant is a precursor to

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epic humiliation

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the reddest of

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red herrings

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pander to

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prejudice

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i speak with professional and personal

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investment

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keyboard warrior

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on twitter

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twitter dating service; swap tweets about

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how bad you think he is

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given irresistible and irrefutable

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evidence

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they treat you like idiots;

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challenge their perception of you

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an enlightened

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liberal view

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a moral compass should point to perfection even if

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most of us never achieve it

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trenchant

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views

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the only emotions you feel in a day are the negative ones you excite

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in people around you

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don’t want to live in a world where people’s prejudices are accommodated

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by the victims of them

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make the point in an oblique way;

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not want to take literally

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question you won’t find offensive because

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I ask in the interest of academic inquiry

57
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rapacious despot in the pocket of

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oligarchs

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a meta view -

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an overall view

59
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Ockham’s razor

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shave off all implausibility

60
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world shrinks to the size of

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your immediate environment

61
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fig leaves and sticking plasters to

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cover up

62
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Sentiments of this kind run contrary to the principles of inclusion and respect that form the basis of our

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Diverse, multicultural and multi-ethnic country

63
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Factory for making money-making,

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Snobs/machines

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