vocab 2 english Flashcards
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connote, connotation
“she’s feeling blue”
a word that means its association rather than the literal meaning
ramifications
“any change is bound to have legal ramification”
consequences
anachronistic, anachronism
“a knight wearing a wristwatch in a movie set in the medieval era:
belonging to a different time than being portrayed
archaic
“prisons are run on archaic methods”
old fashioned
loan word [linguistic]
café (from French café, which means “coffee”)
words from language B added to a speaker’s vocabulary that speaks language A
vis-a-vis
“Each currency is given a value vis-à-vis the other currencies.”
in relation to
quid pro quo
“when the supervisor asks for sexual favors in return for approving a promotion or giving the employee a raise.”
a favor given, expecting to get something in return.
schadenfreude
“a football player will feel a great sense of delight when the opposition’s star quarterback gets hurt in the middle of a game.”
pleasure from someone else’s misfortune
ad hominem (attack) [logic]
“before you listen to her, I should remind you that she has been charged with assault.”
unnecessarily attacking someone’s character instead of their argument/position
aesthetic
“Minimalism is a popular aesthetic in modern home design.”
concerned with beauty or the aesthetic of beauty
prose
“i follow basic grammar”
ordinary writing without rhyme or poetic writing
etymology, etymon
“I study the origin of words”
the study of words and how they’ve changed over history
via
“I did this via this”
by way of something else
ergo
“I backflipped, ergo I can backflip”
therefore
ubiquitous, ubiquity
“omnipresent”
found everywhere
unique, unicity
“I’m unique”
special/different
ellipsis
“so….”
periods added for suspense
perfunctory
“Im lazy and have done perfunctory”
done with minimal effort
