Identity Unit Flashcards
Chauvinistic; Chauvinist
Yet it is surely CHAUVINISTIC to identify the West with America and Britain alone, and partisan to attribute its slow triumph to one favored thread of an ever complicated politics.
Someone who is overly patriotic or biased towards a religion, country, etc. (Most likely towards things that relate to them)
Genre, Generic
She took the crime GENRE into new and really interesting directions.
alcoholic beverages is a GENERIC term for wine, spirits, and beer
Genre: a category formed with styles or subject matter of similarities
Generic: a class or group of things that is not specific in characteristics
Iconoclastic
His plays were fairly ICONOCLASTIC in their day.
Attacking a belief or institution yourself or someone else cares for.
Pagination
It would require the PAGINATION of a telephone directory to properly record what occurred on this Masters Sunday.
Sequences for numbers regularly used in books, or pages
Diction
Clear DICTION is vital for a public speaker.
vocabulary choices for speech and writing; enunciating in forms of speaking or singing
Simile
In those early books, the poems feel like perfectly calibrated contraptions of metaphor and SIMILE.
A figurative speech to create a more vivid description of something by comparing it with another
Immutable/Mutable
Are we dealing with something which is an inborn, IMMUTABLE trait like, say, eye color?
Meanwhile, MUTABLE interpretation and reaction will always be there.
Immutable- unable to be changed.
Mutable- has the ability to be changed
Ameliorate
The reform did much to AMELIORATE living standards
To make something [bad] better.
Abstract
Yes, but it’s all so ABSTRACT! how on earth would you apply it?
an existing thought or idea that isn’t physical or concrete.
Protagonist
A strenuous PROTAGONIST of the new agricultural policy.
A main figure of a real or leading/major character of a situation.
Antagonist
The student thinks her teacher is her ANTAGONIST, but he is only trying to help her.
A person who opposes someone or something.
Inextricable
The past and the present are INEXTRICABLE.
Something that is impossible to remove or separate.
Metaphor
Her poetry depends on suggestion and METAPHOR
The METAPHOR ‘drowning in money’
Figure of speech that compares something directly yet isn’t literally applicable.
Naive, Naivete
Andy had a sweet, NAIVE look when he smiled.
His greatest fault was his political NAIVETE
Someone or an action that shows the lack of experience or knowledge.
Contemporary, Contemporaneous
He was a CONTEMPORARY of Darwin
Existing or occurring during the same time frame.
