Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Indigenous

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This adjective describes people or things that are
native to a region. Immigrants and transplants don’t qualify. (Indi—–india——-yahan ke log aur cheezein)

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Interloper

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Interlopers intrude where they aren’t wanted,
whether they are meddlers in the affairs of others or merely non-indigenous
species of plants ( inter-, (“between”) with -loper, (from landloper, meaning “vagabond” or “adventurer”).)

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Extraneous

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This adjective can mean simply “coming from
the outside,” but it is more likely to have the strong sense of irrelevant or
unimportant. (extra——faltu—–neous—–noise—–outside)

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Inherent

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the nature of
the thing (or the person), integral to its being.

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Pariah

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This noun refers to a social outcast, someone not
accepted in his or her society. (paraya)

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Endemic

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(often used about a disease or problem) regularly found in a particular place or among a particular group of people and difficult to get rid of ( In people jaise pandemic was an endemic of diesease)

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7
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Intrinsic

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inwards

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Innate

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in born

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Ostracize/Ostracism

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If you ostracize someone, you make him or her a
pariah (paraya karna )

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Tangential

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something “slightly touching” or “barely connected.”

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