outliers_1 Flashcards

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I’ve substituted the players’ birthdays for their names

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나는 선수들의 생일을 그들의 이름으로 대체했습니다.

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he stops and circles, eluding the Vancouver defense-man February 15

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eluding - evade or escape from (a danger, enemy, or pursuer), typically in a skillful or cunning way.

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it’s simply that in Canada the eligibility cutoff for age-class hockey is January 1

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eligibility - the state of having the right to do or obtain something through satisfaction of the appropriate conditions.
적임 적절

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In the united states, football and basketball don’t select, stream, and differentiate quite as dramatically

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stream -

a continuous flow of liquid, air, or gas.

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it seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery

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assimilate- take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully.

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Ten Thousand hours is the magic number of greatness.

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greatness -the quality of being great, distinguished, or eminent.

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it was a do-it-yourself contraption that you could assemble at home.

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contraption - a machine or device that appears strange or unnecessarily complicated, and often badly made or unsafe.
*신안
new idea, contraption

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To the readers of Popular Electronics, in those days the bible of the fledgling software and computer world, that headline was a revelation

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*fledgling- 깃털이 갓난 새 새끼

fledgeling, fledgling

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he grew up in Mountain View, California, just south of San Francisco, which is the absolute epicenter of Silicon Valley

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*epicenter -중심점

node, epicenter, pivot, epicentrum, epicentre

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as a teenager he prowled the flea markets of Mountain View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts.

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*prowl -기웃거리다

prowl

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Jobs not only received the parts he asked for, he managed to wrangle a summer job

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설복하다

persuade, wrangle, reason, prevail

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Tonight the mob takes on their fiercest competition yet

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폭도

mob, insurgent, rioter, insurrectionist

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all because of a brain that appears to defy description

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*defy- 무시하다

disregard, ignore, defy, face it out, fracture, set aside

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he could skim through the textbook and ace the test

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*skim through -대충 읽다

skim, dip

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he did not circle about topics, searching for the right phrase, or double back to restate a previous sentence.

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*restate- 다시 말하다

restate, rehash

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For the matte, he did not say or use any form of conversational mitigation

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*conversational mitigation -완화

mitigation, assuagement

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henry Cowell had been raised in poverty and chaos

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*in poverty

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He had been unschooled since the age of seven

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*unschool-

not educated at or made to attend school.

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He doled out a constant stream of advice and counsel, all the time recording his findings in thick red volumes entitled Genetic Studies of Genius

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*dole out-..을 나누어 주다

dole

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Schwartz concedes that his idea has virtually no chance of being accepted

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*concede that -인정하다

recognize, acknowledge, concede, ken, grant, allow

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The University of Michigan law school uses a policy of affirmative action when it comes to applicants of the students Michigan enrolls each fall are members of racial minorities

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*affirmative action -

supportive, hopeful, or encouraging.

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There was no place we saw any serious discrepancy

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discrepancy -
a lack of compatibility or similarity between two or more facts.
there’s a discrepancy between your account and his

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It’s also the second reason Michigan Law School couldn’t find a difference between its affirmative action graduates and the rest of its alumni.

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*affirmative - supportive, hopeful, or encouraging.

the family is usually a source of encouragement from which affirmative influences come

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And just because Michigan’s minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn’t mean they don’t have that other critical trait in abundance.

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*convergence tests -
the process or state of converging.
the convergence of lines in the distance

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And just because Michigan’s minority students have lower scores on convergence tests doesn’t mean they don’t have that other critical trait in abundance.

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*a very large quantity of something.

the tropical island boasts an abundance of wildlife

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Prize winners in his exhaustively selected group of geniuses

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*exhaustively -
in a way that includes or considers all elements or aspects; comprehensively.
the book is a scholarly study, exhaustively researched

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In a devastating critique

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*critique-
a detailed analysis and assessment of something, especially a literary, philosophical, or political theory.
a critique of Marxist historicism

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and dispensed with IQs altogether

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*dispense -distribute or provide (a service or information) to a number of people.
he dispensed a gentle pat on Claude’s back