September - 6th Flashcards
gerrymander
Some politicians change the boundaries of their voting districts in order to benefit themselves or their political party.
For Democrats, it was a nightmare come true: A conservative Supreme Court, led by three appointees of former President Donald J. Trump, had allowed a highly gerrymandered, Republican-controlled state legislature to circumvent Roe v.
disavow
“to deny”
To disavow is to deny support for someone or something.
You might feel dissed if your biggest donor decides to suddenly disavow you in your run for president.
“I call on you to immediately withdraw from this ‘election integrity’ rally and disavow this dangerous, deadly conspiracy theory once and for all,” McAuliffe, a former governor seeking a comeback, said in a statement Tuesday
timbre (timeber)
Timbre is a word that describes the tone or unique quality of a sound.
Though an electric saw has its own timbre, as does the sound of a tree whooshing through the air, don’t confuse timbre with “Timber!,
He idolized King, sometimes mimicking the cadence and timbre of the civil rights leader’s voice, said people who knew Warnock as a child.
problematic
doubtful or questionable.
Something problematic poses a problem or causes difficulties.
inchoate
“just beginning; not organized or orderly”
Inchoate means just beginning to form.
You can have an inchoate idea, like the earliest flickers of images for your masterpiece, or an inchoate feeling, like your inchoate sense of annoyance toward your sister’s new talking parrot.
When something is inchoate, although you don’t yet understand what it is fully, you have a strong sense that it is indeed coming.
But he has also leaned into the nativist, Trumpian side, giving voice to the generalized, inchoate fears about foreigners entering the country.
welter
Welter can also be a verb — the items in the pile on the messy desk welter every time someone tries to pull something out. This means they roll and get tossed around.
Maybe the person isn’t as messy as you think. Possibly his projects keep him so weltered — meaning “deeply involved” — that he doesn’t have the time or energy to deal with the mess.
untoward
The adjective untoward describes something offensive or inappropriate
