New York City Flashcards
Quintessential
The perfect example of something
Metropolis
A large important city
Frenetic
Fast, and not very organized/frantic
Chaotic
Where everything is happening in a confused way
Glamorous
Attractive, exciting, and related to wealth and success
Icon
Symbol
Aspiration
Ambition/the wish to achieve something
Beacon
Signal, guide
Huddled masses
A lot of people, gathering close together
To disembark
To go from a ship
Innately
You have always had it; from birth
Cinematic
Relating to films
Tapered
Gradually becoming narrower towards the end
Skyscraper
A very high building
Borough
District in a city, responsible for its own schools etc.
Distinct
Clearly different and seperate
Up-and coming
Showing signs of advancement and ambitious development; likely to become successful or popular
Convoluted
Complicated; difficult to understand
Acronym
A word made up from the first letters of the name of something such as an organization. For example NATO is an acronym for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Relentless
Strict, cruel or determined, without ever stopping
Gentrification
A gradual process in which area in bad condition where poor people live is changed by people with more money coming to live there and improving it like a flow of this process that never seems to stop
Zero tolerance
No tolerance, won’t accept it
Epidemic
A sudden increase in the number of times that something bad happens
A large number of cases of a disease that happen at the same time
Trans fats
Trans-unsaturated fatty acids/hard fat
