English Vocab List 1 - Tanaya Safi Flashcards
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chauvinistic, chauvinist
Sentence:
We all need to combat stereotypes and chauvinistic passions.
They are male chauvinist pigs.
Definition:
The unreasonable belief in the superiority or dominance of one’s own group or people, who are seen as strong and virtuous, while others are considered weak, unworthy, or inferior.
genre, generic
Sentence:
Genre:
Writers’ ideas are reviewed in terms of genre, format and audience.
Generic:
If a recruiter reads a generic CV they can tell instantly, so try to make it relevant to the role.
Definition:
genre: kind; sort; style;
generic: characteristic of or relating to a class or group of things; not specific.
iconoclastic
Sentence:
Recent economic opportunities have been straining such norms as much as iconoclastic Maoism ever did.
Definition:
Characterized by attack on cherished beliefs or institutions.
diction
Sentence:
Poor diction spoilt the performance.
Definition:
The choice and use of words and phrases in speech or writing.
pagination
Sentence:
In our binding we followed the arrangement of the papers in volumes but retained the original pagination.
Definition:
The sequence of numbers assigned to pages in a book or periodical.
simile
Sentence:
He failed to find a suitable simile, and his attempt to bluster petered out.
Ex - You were as brave as a lion
Definition:
A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, used to make a description more emphatic or vivid
immutable/mutable
Sentence:
immutable:
It is an immutable American belief that wilderness can mend the broken soul.
mutable:
The mutable nature of fashion
Definition:
immutable: unchanging over time or unable to be changed.
mutable:
liable to change.
ameliorate
Sentence:
Regular exercise can provide gradual amelioration of anxiety.
Definition:
Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
abstract
Sentence:
These abstract art moment pop up in each room, adding ease and comfort to the space.
Definition:
Existing in thought or as an idea but not having a physical or concrete existence.
protagonist
Sentence:
She was a leading protagonist in the civil rights movement.
Definition:
The leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text.
An advocate or champion of a particular cause or idea.
antagonist
Sentence:
The student thinks her teacher is her antagonist, but he is only trying to help her.
Definition:
A person who actively opposes or is hostile to someone or something; an adversary.
inextricable
Sentence:
The past and the present are inextricable.
Definition:
Impossible to disentangle or separate.
naïve, naivete
Sentence:
In many ways, Joseph was naïve and innocent in his thinking.
His greatest fault was his political naïvete.
Definition:
(of a person or action) showing a lack of experience, wisdom, or judgment.
(of a person) natural and unaffected; innocent.
metaphor
Sentence:
Both knew that flowers could work as attractive metaphors for other things.
Ex - That party was the bomb.
Definition:
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
contemporary, contemporaneous
Sentence:
This series of paintings is contemporary with other works in an early style.
We don’t know, but it appears that it was made in contemporaneous time.
Definition:
Living or occurring at the same time.
Belonging to or occurring in the present.
