Chapter 7 Flashcards
Indigenous
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)
Interloper
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”).)
Extraneous
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)
Inherent
the nature of
the thing (or the person), integral to its being.
Pariah
This noun refers to a social outcast, someone not
accepted in his or her society. (paraya)
Endemic
(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)
Intrinsic
inwards
Innate
in born
Ostracize/Ostracism
If you ostracize someone, you make him or her a
pariah (paraya karna )
Tangential
something “slightly touching” or “barely connected.”