Side By Side Flashcards
Concurrent
adjective
existing, happening, or done at the same time.
Intersect
To share a common area : overlap
To cross one another: The roads intersect near the bridge
Aphorism: Delay
Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Aphorism: Euphemism
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Aphorism: ≠
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Aphorism: Simper
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
Alan Watts
Aphorism: Silence
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Aphorism: Righteous Mind
It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Mark Twain
Etymology
-The study of the origin of words
-The derivation of a word. · a chronological account of the birth and development of a particular word or element of a word
Luxury (n.)
- From Latin luxuria “excess, extravagant living.
-Lasciviousness (Lustful M.14 century old French)
Vulgar Latin
Non-Classical Latin and the Origin of the Romance languages. 3rd century CE
Gasoline additive
Methyl tertiary-butyl ether, or MTBE ( Carcinogenic)
Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
(RCRA), enacted in 1976, is the primary federal law in the United States governing the disposal of solid waste and hazardous
Remediation
The process of improving or correcting a situation
Hematite
Alabama’s official state mineral and is known as oxide of iron (Fe2O3)
Ideology
It is a system of ideas that aspires both to explain the world and to change it.
Coleopteran
-Boll weevil, (Anthonomus grandis)
-Coleoptera (order), consisting of the beetles and weevils.
Tribal Town
(Alabama) In Creek Indian language
Shifting Baseline
Without memory, knowledge, or experience of past environmental conditions, current generations cannot perceive how much their environment has changed
