Misc. 11 Flashcards
(25 cards)
misogynoir
Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice against black women. misogyny directed towards black women where race and gender both play roles in bias. The term was coined by queer black feminist Moya Bailey, who created the term in 2010 as a grad student at Emory to address misogyny directed toward black women in American visual and popular culture.
inward ear
A term often used by critics to denote the mental process enabling the silent reader to catch the rhythm, etc., which the reader’s interpretation would give the text in performance aloud.
prevaricate
avoid telling the truth by not directly answering a question
cloture
a procedure for ending a debate and taking a vote.
“’If you do not have the support of 60 Senators to invoke cloture and end a filibuster… you cannot pass such a deeming resolution in the Senate.’”
egress
the action of going out of or leaving a place
“The government must ‘protect passenger safety by mandating minimum seat pitch standards to preclude ingress/egress and health issues.’”
incubus
a cause of distress or anxiety
“The Japanese people, freed of the incubus of a war industry which by 1938 was absorbing 61 per cent of their national income, have a chance of recovering…”
lugubrious
Looking or sounding sad and dismal
supine
Failing to act as a result of moral weakness or indolence
“Last year Shinzo Abe, the prime minister, brought in a corporate-governance code which…requires hitherto supine institutional investors to keep a close eye on firms they invest in.”
welter
a large number of items in no order; a confused mass
At the same time they are subjected to a welter of conflicting pressures—acting as spin-doctors and bean-counters as well as corporate strategists and auditors.”
hypergolic
(of a rocket propellant) igniting spontaneously on mixing with another substance; igniting upon contact of components without external aid (such as a spark). Pronounced with a hard ‘g’.
vouchsafe
to tell or give something to someone; to grant or give, as by favor, graciousness, or condescension:
Ex.:
“to vouchsafe a reply to a question” or “They vouchsafed his return to his own country.”
apophenia
the tendency to perceive a connection or meaningful pattern between unrelated or random things (such as objects or ideas)
soteriology
1.) the doctrine of salvation, often relating to Christ in Christian theology but not necessarily.
2.) the study of 1.)
The Greek “sōtēria” = salvation
/sō tee ree OL uh gee/
ductile
- (of a metal) able to be drawn out into a thin wire.
- Able to be deformed without losing toughness; pliable, not brittle.
inveigle
- Persuade (someone) to do something by means of deception or flattery.
- (Inveigle oneself or one’s way into) Gain entrance to (a place) by persuading (someone) with deception or flattery.
delectation
pleasure and delight
amalgam
- A mixture or blend.
- An alloy of mercury with another metal, especially one used for dental fillings.
horology
- The study and measurement of time.
- The art of making clocks and watches.
mirific
(Literary) Working wonders; wonderful.
lodestone
- A piece of magnetite or other naturally magnetized mineral, able to be used as a magnet.
- A thing that is the focus of attention or attraction.
coruscate
(Of light) to flash or sparkle.
adumbrate
- Report or represent in outline.
- Foreshadow or symbolize.
- Indicate faintly.
- Overshadow.
- The early scenes, with their flickering lights and off-kilter angles, adumbrate the psychological disintegration that follows.
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Explanation: Here, adumbrate means to hint at or foreshadow something to come, in this case, psychological collapse.
- The early scenes, with their flickering lights and off-kilter angles, adumbrate the psychological disintegration that follows.
* The theorist adumbrated a new framework for understanding transnational identity, though the details remained undeveloped.*
Explanation: This use captures the sense of laying out a concept in broad strokes, with the implication that the full version is forthcoming.
Her memoir adumbrates the trauma beneath her public persona without ever naming it directly.
Explanation: The verb here implies a subtle or implicit indication, without full disclosure.
* Milton’s Satan can be read as adumbrating the modern figure of the tragic antihero.*
Explanation: This instance blends the ideas of foreshadowing and symbolic prefiguration, often used in literary or theological analysis.
stalwart
- Loyal, reliable, and hardworking.
- (Dated) Strongly built and sturdy.
meliorism
the belief that the world can be made better by human effort.
