Unit 2 Flashcards
To steal the words or ideas of another person and use them as if they were your own words or ideas.
Plagiarize
A brief statement of the most important information in a piece of writing or speech.
Summary
To say (something that someone else has said or written) using different words.
Paraphrase
An exact copy of someone else’s words, surrounded by quotation marks.
Quotation
A source quoted in an essay or written response to give credit to the original author.
Citation
Special attention is given to someone for doing or making something happen.
Credit
A feeling of admiring someone or something that is good, valuable, important, etc.
Respect
A document, film, painting, etc., is created by a person and not copied.
Original
To be slow or late about doing something that should be done: to delay doing something until later because you do not want to do it because you are lazy, etc.
Procrastinate
Something that happens (usually negative) due to a particular action.
Consequence
To come to a country to live there.
Immigrate
To leave a country to live elsewhere.
Emigrate
A strongly held belief about what is important or acceptable.
Values
To speak or act for (someone or something); to be a sign or symbol of (someone or something).
Represent
A group of people born and living during the same time.
Generation
To refuse to believe or accept something or someone.
Reject
To say that something is good enough to be given official approval.
Accredit
The beliefs, customs, arts, etc., of a particular society, group, place, or time.
Culture
The words that are used with a certain word or phrase and that help to explain its meaning; the situation in which something happens.
Context
To provide (someone) with a job that pays wages or a salary.
Employ
The true situation that exists; the real situation.
Reality
Pleasure and sadness are caused by remembering something from the past and wishing you could experience it again.
Nostalgia
A difficult task or problem: something that is hard to do.
Challenge
A feeling of sadness or grief caused especially by the loss of someone or something.
Sorrow
