List 1 Flashcards
(10 cards)
chauvinistic
“The way the film is constructed, it feels rather chauvinistic.”
an attitude or feeling of superiority or dominance of one’s group over another (my group is better than everyone else’s)
chauvinist
“she now reports to a new boss, who is a chauvinist”
displaying excessive or prejudiced support for one’s own cause or group, in particular showing male prejudice against women.
genre
He made a massive contribution to the horror genre.
a category of artistic composition, as in music or literature, characterized by similarities in form, style, or subject matter.
generic
“chèvre is a generic term for all goat’s milk cheese”
characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.
iconoclastic
His plays were fairly iconoclastic in their day.
characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
pagination
“later editions are identical in text and pagination”
the sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical.
diction
“clear diction is vital for a public speaker”
the choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
Simile
as brave as a lion, crazy like a fox
a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
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immutable
“an immutable fact”
unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
Mutable
Emotions are mutable
liable to change.
