Pg 406 Hit Parade Flashcards
An expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning in explicitly.
Allusion (The lyrics contain biblical allusions.)
Concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.
Aesthetic (The pictures gave great aesthetic pleasure.)
Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
Ambivalent (Some loved her, some hated her, few were ambivalent about her.)
A short and amusing or interesting story about a real incident or person.
Anecdote (He would always tell anecdotes about his job.)
To state a fact or belief confidently and forcefully.
Assert (The company asserts that the cuts will not affect development.)
To evaluate or estimate the nature, ability, or quality of something.
Assess (The committee must assess the relative importance of the issues.)
Giving a false impression of something.
Belied (the tree’s delicate beauty belied it’s true toughness.)
A difficult task or problem.
Challenge (Teaching adolescents can be quite a challenge.)
To describe the character or special qualities of something.
Characterization (How would you characterize the situation, as positive or negative?)
To say that something is similar to something else.
Compare (The singer’s voice has been compared to that of Elvis.)
To agree with something or someone.
Concur (We concur that more money should be spent on education.)
The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn.
Contempt (He showed his contempt for his job by doing it very badly.)
To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences.
Contrast (An essay that contrasts city and country life; contrasted this computer with inferior models.)
Based on or in accordance with general agreement, use, or practice; customary.
Conventional (Conventional symbols; a conventional form of address.)
To communicate or make known; impart.
Convey (A look intended to convey sympathetic comprehension.)
To expose or ridicule the falseness, sham, or exaggerated claims of.
Debunk (We must debunk that supposed miracle drug.)
Lacking confidence: not feeling comfortable around people.
Diffident (She was diffident about stating her opinion.)
To come to know, recognize, or understand something.
Discern (The reasons behind this sudden change are difficult to discern.)
To cause someone or something to seem dishonest or untrue.
Discredit (Many of his theories have been thoroughly discredited.)
To be separated from someone or something.
Disengage (If there is a malfunction, the gears will automatically disengage.)
Not influenced by personal feelings, opinions, or concerns.
Disinterested (The city’s Philistines, naturally disinterested in arts, voted to cut the museum’s budget.)
To decide not to think about or consider something or someone.
Dismissive (I don’t think we should be dismissive about the matter.)
To describe someone or something as unimportant, weak, or bad.
Disparage (Voters don’t like political advertisements in which opponents disparage one another.)
Containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements.
Disparity (There were notions of disparity among adults and adolescents about when the middle age began.)
Not influenced or affected by emotions.
Dispassionate (Journalists aim to be dispassionate observers.)
Causing doubt, uncertainty, or suspicion: likely to be bad or wrong.
Dubious (He made the highly dubious claim that Elvis is still alive and living in Hawaii.)
To get a response or information from someone.
Elicit (She has been trying to elicit the support of other committee members.)
To publicly or officially say that you support or approve of someone or something.
Endorse (The newspaper had endorsed the conservative candidate for mayor.)
To use unclear language especially to deceive or mislead someone.
Equivocate (The applicant seemed to be equivocating when we asked about his last job.)
To be a very good example of something.
Exemplify (The cities economic growth is exemplified by the many new buildings that are currently under construction.)
The quality of being false or wrong.
Fallacy (The fallacy of their ideas about medicine soon became apparent.)
An idea or theory that is not proven but that leads to further study or discussion.
Hypothesis (Their hypothesis is that watching excessive amounts of television reduces the person’s ability to concentrate.)
Involving or based on a suggested idea or theory.
Hypothetical (She described a hypothetical case to clarify her point.)
To give examples in order to make something easier to understand.
Illustrate (He illustrated his lecture with stories of his own experiences in the field.)
Not interested in or concerned about something.
Indifferent (The movie was poorly received by an indifferent public.)
To explain the meaning of something.
Interpret (We need someone to interpret these results for us.)
Using words that mean the opposite of what you really think especially in order to be funny.
Ironic (It’s ironic that computers breakdown so often since they’re meant to say people time.)
To provide or be a good reason for something: to prove or show something to be just, right, or reasonable.
Justify (He tried to justify his behavior by saying that he was being pressured unfairly by his boss.)
Pleasure or sadness that is caused by remembering something from the past and wishing that you could experience it again.
Nostalgia (A wave of nostalgia swept over me when I saw my childhood home.)
Based on facts rather than feelings or opinions.
Objective (We need someone outside the company to give us an objective analysis.)
A firm adherent to a party, fraction, cause, or person; especially one exhibiting blind, prejudiced, and unreasoning allegiance.
Partisan (Newspapers have become increasingly like a partisan.)
Something that can be observed and studied and that typically is unusual or different to understand or fully explain.
Phenomenon (An example if a phenomenon is lightning, or earthquakes.)
Possibly true: believable or realistic.
Plausible (It’s a plausible explanation for the demise of that prehistoric species.)
To show the existence, truth, or correctness of something by using evidence and logic.
Prove (The charges against him were never proved in court.)
To cause the occurrence of a feeling or action: to make something happen.
Provoke (His remarks provoked both tears and laughter.)
Having the necessary skill, experience, or knowledge to do a particular job or activity.
Qualified (I am not qualified to give you advice about what you should do.)
To cause people or groups to become friendly again after an argument or disagreement.
Reconcile (Historians have never been able to reconcile over the two eyewitness accounts of the battle.)
To prove something is wrong by argument or evidence.
Refute (He refutes the notion that he is planning to retire soon.)
Relating to a subject in an appropriate way.
Relevant (The ideas and observations expressed in the book are still relevant today.)
To refuse to accept or support something: to reject it.
Repudiate (A generation has repudiated the values of the past.)
To give up a job or position in a formal or official way.
Resigned (The senator was forced to resign his position.)
Showing a lot of respect.
Reverent (A reverent tone of voice was used when confronting the scientist.)
A way of using humor to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, or bad: humor that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person, government, or society.
Satire (His movies are known for their use of satire.)
Feeling or showing open dislike and disrespect.
Scornful (He is scornful of anyone who disagrees with his political beliefs.)
To examine something carefully especially in a critical way.
Scrutinize (I closely scrutinized my opponents every move.)
To think about something and make guesses about it: to form ideas or series about something usually when there are many things not known about it.
Speculate (We don’t know what happened… we can only speculate.)
Relating to the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind.
Subjective (Dreaming is a subjective experience.)
To prove the truth of something.
Substantiate (Mr. McGregor couldn’t substantiate that it was Peter, and not some other rabbit, in the Cabbage Patch.)
To make someone or something weaker or less effective usually in a secret or gradual way.
Undermine (She tried to undermine my authority by complaining about me to my boss.)
To emphasize something or to show importance of something.
Underscore (These failures underscore the difficulty of what we are attempting to do.)
To give up possession of a claim or demand.
Yield (I yield the floor to the senator from Maine.)
