201~300 Flashcards
Sinister [ˈsɪn.ə.stɚ]
making you feel that something bad or evil might happen (Eg> Indeed, there is sth slightly sinister about the idea of Rousseau,~)
Spectacles [spek·tə·kəlz]
a more old fashioned term than glasses (Eg> If you are wearing rose-tinted spectacles they will colour every aspect of your visual experince.)
Jargon [dʒɑːr.ɡən]
special words and phrases that are used by particular groups of people, especially in their work (Eg> Very few people would claim to understand it all, and much of the reasoning is complex and jargon-heavy.)
Thicket [ˈθɪk.ɪt]
an area of trees and bushes growing closely together (Eg> Reading it can feel like struggling through a dense thicket of words with little sense of where you are going,~)
Glimpse [ɡlɪmps]
an occasion when you see something or someone for a very short time (Eg> ~, and few glimpses of daylight.)
Lurk [lɝːk]
to wait or move in a secret way so that you cannot be seen (Eg> ~, but the noumenal world is lurking behind all our experience.)
Rigorous [rɪɡ.ɚ.əs]
careful to look at or consider every part of something to make certain it is correct or safe (Eg> Yet we can, by rigorous thought, get a greater understanding than we could get from a purely scientific approach.)
Fieldwork [ˈfildˌwɜrk]
the testing of scientific theories in real situations (Eg> No fieldwork is required to come to this conclusion:~)
Suckle [ˈsʌk.əl]
to feed a baby, especially a baby animal, with milk (Eg> It’s like the sentence ‘All mammals suckle their young.’)
Innate [ɪˈneɪt]
inborn; natural (Eg> When Locke declared that there were no innate ideas and that a child’s mind was a blank slate, he was claiming that there was no a priori knowledge.)
Empathy [ˈem.pə.θi]
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another (Eg> Some people feel compassion and empathy, others don’t)
Parable [per.ə.bəl]
a short, simple story that teaches or explains an idea, especially a moral or religious idea (Eg> Think of the parable of the Good Samaritan.)
Knock over
to hit someone with a vehicle and injure or kill them (Eg> Think of how you would feel about being accidentally knocked over by a parent rushing to stop his young child from running into the road.)
Cupboard [ˈkʌb.ɚd]
a piece of furniture or a space for storing things, with a door or doors and usually with shelves (Eg> Is she hiding in a cupboard?)
Instruct [ɪnˈstrʌkt]
to order or tell someone to do something, especially in a formal way (Eg> Categorical imperatives are different. They instruct you.)
Reverence [ˈrev.ɚ.əns]
a feeling of respect or admiration for someone or something (Eg> This reverence for dignity and worth of individual human beings is at the core of modern human rights theory.)
Stand/Be in (stark) contrast to
to be very different from something else (Eg> Kant’s moral philosophy stands in stark contrast to that of Jeremy Bentham, the topic of the next chapter.)
Mummify [ˈmʌm.ə.faɪ]
to preserve a dead body as a mummy (Eg> The real one is mummified and kept in a wooden box, though it used to be on display.)
Embalm [ɪmˈbɑːm]
to use chemicals to prevent a dead body from decaying (Eg> The idea has never really caught on, though Lenin’s body was embalmed and put on display in a special mausoleum.)
Mausoleum [ˌmɑː.zəˈliː.əm]
a building in which the bodies of dead people are buried
Lagoon [ləˈɡuːn]
an area of sea water separated from the sea by a reef (= a line of rocks and sand) (Eg> ~the spray from the lagoon in my face~)
Flattering [ˈflæt̬.ɚ.ɪŋ]
making someone look or seem better or more attractive than usual (Eg> If a friend asks you whether a new pair of jeans is flattering or not,~)
Hereditary [həˈred.ə.ter.i]
passed from the genes of a parent to a child, or passed from parent to a child as a right (Eg> ~and many even had a hereditary right to sit in the House of Lords and decide on the laws of England.)
Immerse [iˈmərs]
dip or submerge in a liquid; involve oneself deeply in a particular activity or interest (Eg> Bentham was immersed in his own age, keen to find solutions to the social problems that surrounded him.)
