key vocab Flashcards
(24 cards)
Dogmatic
To share your opinion with arrogance, as if it is fact.
(Mr Birling)
Lampoon
To publicly mock or criticise
(Priestley)
Wilful ignorance
To purposely ignore
(Mrs Birling)
Hubristic
Excessively prideful
(Mr and Mrs Birling)
Infantilise
To treat like a child
(Mr and Mrs Birling to Sheila)
Dynamic
Capable of change, progressive.
(Sheila)
Entitled
Belief that you are naturally deserving of certain privileges
(Eric and Gerald)
Debauchery
Negative sexual behaviour and excessive drinking/drugs
(Eric)
Disruptive
Causing radical change
(Inspector)
Omniscient
All knowing
(Inspector)
Omnipotent
All powerful
(Inspector)
Political diatribe
To criticise politics
(Priestley)
Sanctamonius
The belief of being socially superior
Intransigent
Unwilling or refusing to change one’s views
Obstinate
Stubbornly refusing to change one’s opinion, despite attempts to persuade one to do so
Opulent
Costly and luxurious (wealthy)
Imperious
Arrogant + domeneering
Polysyndeton
repetition of and
Microcosm
Something small representing something bigger
Materialistic
Money oriented
Individualist
the belief of people being soley responsible for themselves
superficial
To be shallow, artificial or insincere
Axiomatic
Something that is obvious, unquestionable
Ostracised
Cut off from society