Aug 19th Flashcards
manifest
Choose the verb manifest when someone shows something for everyone to notice.
Manifest is a formal way to say that something is apparent to the senses and is synonymous with evident, apparent, or clear.
If you have strong feelings about something, they will be manifest on your face.
It’s important to remember that, while forecasts like this are generally broadly reliable across the entire Atlantic, hurricane season’s impacts are manifest on an individual storm level.
conventional
Conventional is an adjective for things that are normal, ordinary, and following the accepted way.
partisan
Partisan can be used to describe rabid supporters of any person or activity.
A bill introduced may have partisan support from the party that introduced the bill, or — more rarely it seems to American voters — the bill may even have bipartisan support.
The review panel is one of several provisions in Georgia’s new voting law that lay the groundwork for the takeover of election administration by partisan lawmakers.
contentious
A contentious issue is one that people are likely to argue about, and a contentious person is someone who likes to argue or fight.
Some issues are very controversial. They’re also contentious, because people tend to argue about them, and the arguments will probably go on forever
Contentious issues get people angry and in a fighting mood.
Some people always seem to be in a fighting mood, no matter what the issue is. People like that are contentious too.
In countries like Ireland and New Zealand, where farming plays a huge role in the economy, these changes are contentious.
lament
Full of regret and grief
allusion
A quick reference to something that your audience will have to already know in order to “get.”
An allusion often references a famous work of art or literature, or to something from your own life.
you might say, “I obviously am no expert at love” — an allusion to your failed relationships
Musk caught the quick reference to the past
Musk said he caught the allusion but took it as simply a bit of humor, not a prophecy of doom.
No sirens warned of the launch, something the military said was “according to protocol” - an allusion to Israeli air defences that ignore rockets set to hit unpopulated areas.
arbiter
An arbiter is someone selected to judge and settle a dispute.
The arbiter of a baseball game is called an umpire. In football and basketball, the arbiter is a referee.
Arbitration is a type of conflict resolution in which a neutral person — the arbiter — hears the details of a dispute and makes a legally-binding decision about its resolution.
The Supreme Court seems to be by far the best arbiter of what “our democracy” requires and permits and what it encompasses at any point in time.
The 220-page file, chock full of examples of racial profiling by French police, was being delivered Thursday to the Council of State, the ultimate arbiter on the use of power by authorities
inherent
Use the adjective inherent for qualities that are considered permanent or cannot be separated from an essential character.
There’s no inherent reason a movie should be better than a TV show, or vice versa.
Embassy in Kabul must navigate, with the coronavirus pandemic and the specter of a possible diplomatic evacuation compounding the significant difficulties inherent to working in Afghanistan.
paradox
A paradox is a logical puzzler that contradicts itself in a baffling way.
She’d talked of the paradox at the core of her being, and the curse of knowing one’s enemies too well to be able to hate them.
cynic
A person who deeply distrusts human nature;
One who believes people are motivated only by selfishness
exposition
An exposition takes place when you “expose” something — like at a fair or convention for showing off goods, art, or similar wares.
An exposition can also be the section of a story that explains the basics of the tale.
Exposition is important to set the scene, so the rest of the story makes sense.
Exposition can also mean a big fair, often called an “expo.” ComicCon is a famous exposition.
The resort’s 125,000-square-foot exposition center will be converted into a practice facility, with courts on which some games also will be played.
consensus
When there’s a consensus, everyone agrees on something. If you’re going to a movie with friends, you need to reach a consensus about which movie everyone wants to see.
The Biden administration, meanwhile, appeared to be scrambling to contact officials in Beijing and Moscow, amid concerns that China and Russia might stymie an international consensus on isolating the Taliban should conditions worsen.
comprehensive
When you want to describe something that includes all or most details, you can use the adjective comprehensive.
sagacious
Use the formal adjective sagacious to describe someone who is wise and insightful like an advisor to the president or a Supreme Court justice.
Someone like an inspirational leader or an expert in a field who seeks knowledge and has foresight can be described as sagacious.
In the days that followed however, there were increasingly positive mentions of the younger Kim as the “mental mainstay of the Korean people” and a “sagacious leader”
Related words :
Discerning, insightful and another formal word perspicacious.
pervade
To pervade means to be present throughout, to exist in every part of.
If you have too many cats, the horrible smell of cat pee will pervade your house.
You can use pervade both for external things like smells and sickness, and for more internal things like feelings.
Zarqa Khan, a student who attended a candlelight vigil for Mukadam, bemoaned how religion now pervades so much of life in Pakistan and how today she fears walking alone on the streets.
Bessinger said there is a nervous tension that pervades her school and among her colleagues.
