Vocab Flashcards by Nicholas Sitterly

Onomatopoeia

3 examples

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Neologism

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Malapropism

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Anaphora

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Denouement

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Verisimilitude

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Sardonic/Ironic

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Ironic and satire

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Didactic

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

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Chyron

an electronically generated caption superimposed on a television or movie screen.

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Erudite

Having or showing great knowledge or education

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Erudite

Having or showing great knowledge or education

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Homonym

Homonyms may be words with identical pronunciations but different spellings and meanings, such as to, too, and two. Or they may be words with both identical pronunciations and identical spellings but different meanings, such as quail (the bird) and quail (to cringe).

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Positive vs normative

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Bayesian Inference

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Solipsism

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Aphorism 2 meanings
5 examples

a pithy observation that contains a general truth, such as,

“if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”. Famous by Carter advisor Thomas Bertram Lance in budget meet
Never interrupt enemy when making a mistake -napoleon
Character is what you are in the dark -Dwight moody
If you want something done well do it yourself -napoleon
Luck is wha happens when preparation meets opportunity Seneca

a concise statement of a scientific principle, typically by an ancient classical author.
“the opening sentence of the first aphorism of Hippocrates”

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Ennui

a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

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Etiquette vs courtesy vs manners

Etiquette is following rules that govern behavior- it might be the reason that causes you to behave a certain way.

Courtesy is behaving in a way that benefits others- it means thinking of the effect of your behavior.

Your manner is how you behave, regardless of the cause or the effect.

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Implicit 2

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Mixed metaphor

mixed metaphor

a combination of two or more incompatible
metaphors, which produces a ridiculous effect (e.g., this tower of strength will forge ahead).

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Polity

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Race v ethnicity

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Solipsism

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Adroit

Auspicious

Bumptious

Apropos

Categorically

Fulsome

Rationalism versus empiricism 4 items (last item irrelevant)

Metabolome

Automaticity

Motley

Pellucid

Jumping the shark Etymology

Hormesis

Robustness Principle

Hickam’s Dictum

Sartorial

Telemetry

Reactionary

Stochastic

Fifth column meaning origin

Contingent working for enemy in occupied territory

Market v command economy

Stochastic

Fifth column

Technocracy

Legerdemain

Equivocation

Homology

Atoms

Atomos Greek uncuttable democratus

DeciBel entomology

Heckler’s veto Coined by 6 Examples in article and why

Ruth McGaffrey 1. In the late nineteenth century, members of the Salvation Army were arrested on the charge of disorderly conduct after a "Skeleton Army" had broken up their street parade.' 2. In 1938, labor organizers were denied a permit to speak in New Jersey because there was threatened disorder on the part of opposing groups. 3. In 1946, the mayor of a small Iowa city set up roadblocks to prevent Jehovah's Witnesses from conducting a religious meeting in a. city park because citizens had threatened to disrupt the meeting. 4. In 1958, the city officials of Little Rock, Arkansas, asked permission to delay integration of the public schools because white sentiment was considered dangerous to public order.' 5. A decade later the Chicago police demanded that demonstrators disperse in order to prevent what they feared might become a riot when comedian Dick Gregory marched into the neighborhood of Mayor Richard Daley to protest racial segregation, even though the demonstrators themselves had been completely peaceful. 6. And finally in 1972 a district court in Texas held that the flag desecration portion of the Texas Penal Code was a valid exercise of the police power of the state to prevent the violence which would naturally result from public indignities perpetrated on the national emblem.