SECOND TEXTE Flashcards
vocabulary
“To tailor” (line 8):
To adjust
A tailor is one whose occupation is the making, mending, or altering of clothes. To be tailor-made for something means to have all the right skills and abilities for a particular task. Example: It sounds as though you are tailor-made for the job.
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“Eerie”” (line 9):
mysterious
Eerie means strange in a frightening and mysterious way.
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“Roughly” (lines 10 and 39):
approximately
You may have heard of the expression “Roughly speaking” which means: “Grosso modo”
vocabulary
“Overwhelmed” (line 34):
submerged
The author describes the state of having too much information in a heavily digitalized world. Notice the prefix “over” which means “too much”, as can be found in “overworked”, “overreact”, “overestimate”.
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Shareholders” (line 53):
investors
A shareholder is a person, company, or institution that owns at least one share of a company’s stock which is known as equity. Because shareholders are essentially owners in a company, they reap the benefits of a buisness’ success
definitions
To bear, to put up with:
.
to stand
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The activity of promoting products or services:
advertising
.
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Samplings of facts, figures, or opinions, used to indicate what a complete analysis might reveal:
surveys.
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Playing games of chance for money, betting:
gambling
.
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A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that produces specific symptoms:
a disease
. Whereas constantly expecting online positive feedback of one’s ideas is not common and acceptable, giving that feedback to massive random groups of people is.
Lines 6-7:”It’s not normal to submit opinions for approval every day to an online crowd, nor is it normal to consume the opinions of strangers in bulk”.
“In bulk” means “in large quantities”.
La réponse correcte est « Faux ».
- Monday’s report on Internet addiction stemmed from an apolitical initiative.
Line 14: “On Monday a report was published by an all-party parliamentary group”
La réponse correcte est « Faux ».
- Ted Kaczynski’s 1995 public declaration has turned out to be visionary insofar as it describes a society literally overindulging in social media content.
Lines 30-31 “but the line is prescient: we are the alcoholics, and the barrel is a collection of scrolling feeds we gorge on”.
You can notice the metaphorical use of the noun “barrel” which is originally a cylindrical container traditionally used for alcoholic drinks.
“To gorge on” means to eat or drink excessively and greedily.
La réponse correcte est « Vrai ».
- The author’s social media detox had a detrimental effect on his psychological wellbeing.
“the experience had left me neurotic and self-loathing, experiencing multiple panic attacks every day.”
“Self-loathing” or “self-hatred” refers to very strong feelings of dislike for yourself.
The word “detrimental” means “tending to cause harm”.
La réponse correcte est « Vrai »
Online dependence being officially acknowledged as a medical condition is likely to positively change psychiatrist approach.
Line 54: “One benefit of a disease classification would be that psychiatric professionals might take social media more seriously”.
Both “might” and “likely to” express the notion of probability.
The noun “benefit” confirms the meaning of “positively change”.
La réponse correcte est « Vrai ».