Vocab Flashcards
foment
to promote growth or development of…
anharmonicity
deviation of a system from being a harmonic oscillator
attrition
- reduction/decrease in #’s, size or strength (military strategy - win by wearing down enemy o pt of collapse)
- sorrow for one’s sins, not b/c of the love/fear of God
chut koou glon
Vietnamese
good night
ōt posk
Russian
vacation
kag’ de la
Russian
How are you?
hoe re shō
Russian
okay
pōka
Russian
later (informal goodbye)
das vidanya
Russian
goodbye (formal)
pōt stava
Russian
situational betrayal
shin jao
Vietnamese
Hello
ban kwe kong
Vietnamese
how are you?
dungaree
a heavy, course, durable cotton twill woven from colored yarns
clothes made from denim
opulence
noun
- wealth/affluence
- abundance (as of resources)
adj
- opulent
exhort
- strongly encourage or urge someone to do something
- to incite by argument or advice
jural
- of or relating to law
- or or relating to rights and obligations
enigmatic
- difficult to interpret or understand
- mysterious
tamagoyaki
Japanese rolled eggs
jicama
Pachyrhizus erosus, commonly known as Jícama, Mexican Yam, or Mexican Turnip, is the name of a native Mexican vine, although the name most commonly refers to the plant’s edible tuberous root.
hedonism
School of thought that argues that pleasure is the only intrinsically good
okonomiyaki
Japanese
cabbage pancake
tarikh
Arabic
history
exegesis
critical explanation of interpretation of a text, esp of scripture
tafsir
Arabic
exegesis
mubham
Arabic
implicit, metaphorical
3ibra
Arabic
example, lesson, warning
vignette
a short descriptive literary text
A brief incident or scene
A picture that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper
evocation
The summoning of a spirit
Imaginative recreation
halogen (original meaning)
salt formers
dijobu
Japanese
Are u alright?
Is it okay?
I am okay
It’s okay
de mo
Japanese
but
bakana
Japanese
are u stupid?
kisame
Japanese
bastard
lexical gap
when there isn’t a word for something that there should be a word for
lacuna
an unfilled space or interval, a gap
a missing portion in a book or manuscript
panda jiji
Japanese
old panda
iya betsuni
Japanese
no, it’s nothing
kaizoku
Japanese
pirates
anathema
- something or someone that one vehemently dislikes
- a formal curse by a pope or a council of the Church, excommunicating a person or denouncing a doctrine
this notion was anathema to most of his countrymen
ferromagnetism
- stronger than paramagenetism
- allows a substance to become permanently magnetized when placed in a magnetic field
macob
Someone who performs a task, job, or procedure with the utmost skill
A true specialist in a certain area who stuns everyone with his/her knowledge and expertise.
Performs with such amazement it is only rivaled by some magicians.
May appear arrogant to some, but make no mistake, this person takes great pride in their skill.
Lives and breathes their job or career.
He’s a bona fide bad ass, a friggin macob!
macabre
- Suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome: macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle Ages
- Constituting or including a representation of death
ayshtaru
Japanese
I love you (seriously)
wakarene
Japaneses
Do you understand?
wakari mashta
Japanese
understood
saa sa
Japanese
now, then…
shik shou
Japanese
dammit
futz
usually used with around
to futz around (to fool around)
futzing
mizu
Japanese
water
shik shou
Japanese
dammit
chi gao
Japanese
you’re wrong
mo ya shi
Japanese
Bean sprout
masaka
Japanese
it can’t be
hayako
Japanese
hurry up
bonita
Spanish
pretty
usagi
Japanese
rabbit
kirai
Japanese
hate
gregarious
adj
- of a person - fond of company; sociable
- of animals - living in flocks or loosely organized communities
hydrargyrum
Latin
water silver
ya boy’
Japanese
crap
lascivious
- inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd: a lascivious, girl-chasing old man
- arousing sexual desire: lascivious photographs.
- indicating sexual interest or expressive of lust or lewdness: a lascivious gesture.
zishubis
Russian
awesome
kasava roadka
Russian
the name of a Russian outfit
komorebi
Japanese
sunlight that filters through the trees – the interplay between the light and the leaves
pochemuchka
Russian
someone who asks a lot of questions
sobremesa
Spanish
the period of time after a meal when you have food-induced conversations with the people you have shared the meal with.
goya
Urdu
a contemplative ‘as-if’ that nonetheless feels like reality, and describes the suspension of disbelief that can occur, often through good storytelling
mångata
Swedish
the glimmering, roadlike reflection that the moon creates on water
zugzwag
German for “compulsion to move”
a situation found usually in chess, but also in various other games, where one player is put at a disadvantage because he has to make a move when he would prefer to pass and make no move. The fact that the player must make a move means that his position will be significantly weaker than the hypothetical one in which it was his opponent’s turn to move
Educt
Reactant
effleurage
a French word meaning “to skim”
a series of massage strokes used in Swedish massage to warm up the muscles before more pressure is applied
indubious
not dubious or doubtful; certain
gongoozler
- a person who idly watches activity on a canal
- an idle spectator, esp. one who stares for a long time at something
awful
- very bad or unpleasant
- archaic: inspiring reverential wonder or fear, awesome
aglet
the plastic tip on the end of a shoelace
quixotic
extremely idealistic, unrealistic and impractical
pedantic
excessively concerned w/minor details or rules, over scrupulous
pedant
a person who annoys others by correcting small errors and giving too much attention to minor details
amorphous solid
solid w/random molecular structure –> strength of bonds is also random –> therefore m.p. and b.p. occurs over a range and not at a specific T
isotropic
responds to forces from every direction in the same way
anisotropic
responds differently to forces depending on direction of impact
obfuscate
to bewilder, confuse or stupefy;
to make obscure or unclear;
to darken
panegyric
a public speech or published text in praise of something
cantankerous
bad tempered, argumentative and uncooperative
contumacious
stubbornly perverse or rebellious;
willfully and obstinately disobedient
oi
a type of harsh aggressive punk music originally popular in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s
anthropogenic
of, relating to, or resulting from the influence of human beings on nature
elasmobranch
any of a subclass of cartilaginous fishes that have 5-7 lateral to ventral gill opening on each side and that comprise of sharks, rays, skates and extinct related fishes.
tableau
a group of models or motionless figures representing a scene from a story or from history;
or
anything that is kickass or beastly
pelagic
- of, relating to, or living or occurring in the open sea
- pelagic zone is any water in a sea or lake that is neither close to the bottom nor near the shore
enigmatic
difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious
coxcomb
- a jester’s cap adorned with a strip of red
- a conceited foolish person
lackadaisical
lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy.
