4 English - Wordsmith Words - January 2025 Flashcards
Concatenate (transitive verb, adjective)
[Late Latin concatēnāre, concatēnāt- : com-, com- + catēnāre, to bind (from Latin catēna, chain).]
Transitive Verb
→ 1 To connect or link in a series or chain;
to link or join together, esp in a chain or series
→ 2 Computers To arrange (strings of characters) into a chained list.
Adjective (-nĭt, -nāt′)
Connected or linked in a series;
linked or joined together
con·cat′e·na′tion n.
[C16: from Late Latin concatēnāre, to chain together, from Latin com- together + catēna chain]
Thesaurus of Verb
1 To make into a whole by joining a system of parts: articulate, integrate
Cloister (1) (noun, verb)
Noun
→
1 A covered walk with an open colonnade on one side, running along the walls of buildings that face a quadrangle.
→ 2 A place, especially a monastery or convent, devoted to religious seclusion.
→ 3 Life in a monastery or convent.
→ 4 A secluded, quiet place.; An inclosed place.
Cloister (2) (noun, verb)
Transitive verb
→ 1 To shut away from the world in or as if in a cloister; seclude.
→ 2 To furnish (a building) with a cloister.
→ 3 To confine in, or as in, a cloister; to seclude from the world; to immure.
Didactics (plural noun)
di·dac·tics (dī-dăk′tĭks)
→ (noun) (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
Instruction; teaching; pedagogy;
(Education) (functioning as singular) the art or science of teaching;
the art or science of teaching;
Noun
1 Didactics - the activities of educating or instructing
Didactics - the activities of educating or instructing; activities that impart knowledge or skill;
“He received no formal education”;
“Our instruction was carefully programmed”;
“Good classroom teaching is seldom rewarded”
Didactic
di·dac·tic (dī-dăk′tĭk) also di·dac·ti·cal (-tĭ-kəl)
(adjective)
[1635–45;
Greek didaktikós apt at teaching, , skillful in teaching, instructive
= didakt(ós) that may be taught + -ikos -ic]
1 (Education) Instructive; intended to instruct, esp excessively;
intended for instruction: e.g.: didactic poetry
2 (Education) Morally instructive, teaching morality;
over inclined to teach or lecture others;
inclined to teach or moralise excessively;
Pedantic, academic, formal, pompous, schoolmasterly, erudite, bookish, abstruse, moral, moralising, priggish, pedagogic, didactical, preachy
“He adopts a lofty, didactic tone when addressing women.”
3 (Literary & Literary Critical Terms) (of works of art or literature) containing a political or moral message to which aesthetic considerations are subordinated;
teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson;
Instructive, educational, enlightening, moral, edifying, homiletic, preceptive
“In totalitarian societies, art exists solely for didactic purposes.”
di·dac′ti·cal·ly adv.
di·dac′ti·cism (-tĭ-sĭz′əm) n.
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