Vocab Recap Flashcards
Elucidate
Make something clear; explain
Purport
Claim; appear to be/ or do something (falsely); profess
Emanate
Emerge; exclude; (a feeling) issue or spread out from (a source)
I.e. phenomenon emanating from the west
Culminate
Come to a climax or point of highest development
Envisage
Foresee; imagine; contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event
Exacerbate
Aggravate; make (a problem, bad situation or a negative feeling), worse
Dissemination
Spreading; the act/fact of spreading something, especially information, widely
(보급, 유포)
Unchartered
“Without a charter” or “without a regulation; lawless”
Uncharted :- unexplored
Discourse
Discussion; essay; written/spoken communication/debate
Perpetuates
Keep alive; make something continue indefinitely
Detriment
Harm; the state of being harmed/ damaged
Indigenous
Native; originating/naturally occurring in a particular place
Exodus
Mass departure of people
Relegate
Downgrade; consign/dismissed to an inferior rank/position
Valorize
Give/ascribe value or validity to something
Paramount
Most important than anything else; supreme (having supreme power)
Bifurcate
Divide into two branches/forks
Dichotomise
Regard/represent as divided or opposed (양분되다)
Vocational
Relating to an occupation or employment
Binary
Relating to;composed of, or involving two things
Stratified
Formed/arranged into strata or layers (몇개의 층으로 이루어진)
Amalgamated
Combine or unite to form one organisation or structure
Omnipresent
Present everywhere; widely/constantly encountered (widespread)
Primacy
Greater importance; the fact of being pre-eminent/ most important
Medication
Conciliation; intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration.
Incinerated
Burn; destroy something by burning
Marginalisation
Treatment of a person/group/concept as insignificant or peripheral
Imperative
Vitally important; crucial; peremptory; giving an authoritative command
Curtail
Reduce(in extent or quantity); impone a restriction on
Adept
Expert; very skilled ore proficient in something
Disconcerting
Unsettling
Disparate
Contrasting; essentially different in kind; not able to be compared
Subjugate
Dominate; conquer
Autarky
Economic independence; self sufficiency
Caricature
A picture description or imitation of a person in which certain striking characteristics are exaggerated in order to create a comic or grotesque effect
Epidemiological
Relating to a branch or medicine which deals with incidence, distribution and control of diseases
Sparse
Scanty; thinly dispersed or scattered
Intricate
Complex; very complicated or detailed
Philanthropic
Charitable; seeking to promote the welfare of others; generous& benevolent
Prerogative
Entitlement; a right or prevailed exclusive to a particular individual or class
Endemic
(Of a disease/condition) regularly found among particular people or in a certain area
(Or a plant or animal) native and restricted to a certain place
Emancipation
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social or political restriction; liberation
Sporadically
Occasionally at irregular intervals
Aphorism
A pithy observation which contains general truth
Erroneous
Wrong; incorrect
Adversary
Opponent
Actuate
Motivated; activate
Elicit
Obtained; evoke or draw out
Remnant
Remains; scrap
Fallacious
Erroneous; based on a mistaken belief
Enagmatical
Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious
Infallible
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong; unerring; never failing
Doctrine
교훈
Infamy
The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed; notoriety; wickedness
Stoical
Long suffering; enduring pain and hardship without showing one’s feeling or complaining.
Eloquently
In a fluent or persuasive manner
Anachronism
An act of attributing a custom, event or object to a period to which it does not belong
Alluding
Refer to
Reticent
Reserved; not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings easily.
Exhortation.
Urging someone to do something
Pecuniary
Of or relating to money.
I.e. pecuniary needs/aids etc.
Negate
Invalidate / deny
idyosyncratic
Distinctive; peculiar
Precariousness
State of being dangerously likely to fall or collapse
위태롭군
Emancipate
Set free, especially from legal political or social restrictions
Perennially
In a way that contimes for a long or apparently an infinite time.
On a yearly basis for a several years.
Pernicious
Harmful, or having a harmful effect in a gradual subtle way
Recapitulate
Summarize
Embellish
Decorate / elaborate.
Frivolous
- Not having any serious purpose or value.
2. (Of a person)carefree & superficial.
Locus.
- a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated.
- (Math def)A curve or other figure formed by all the points satisfying a particular equation of relation between coordinates or point, lines, surface moving
I.e. Suffer from an external locus of identity.
Maudlin
- Self pityingly or tearfully sentimental.
- ( of a book, film or song) highly sentimental
I.e. a maudlin display of emotions.
Ubiquitous.
Present, appearing or found everywhere
Lucrative
Producing a great deal of profit
Demarcate
Separate; set boundaries, limits of
Salient
most noticeable; important
Incertitude
Uncertainty, a absence of assurance or confidence, doubt
The quality or state of being unstable or insecure.
Metamorphosis
The process of transformation from an immature form to an adult form in two or more distinct stages.
A change of the form or nature of a thing or person into a completely different form.
Normative
Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour.
Multistate
Having divisions in several states
Of, relating to, or involving several states
Encroachment
Intrusion on a person’s territory, rights etc.
A gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits
Conflation
The merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one.
Acquiesce
Permit, accept something reluctantly but without protest
Inertia
Inactivity
A tendency to do nothing or to remain unchanged
A property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line, unless that state is changed by an external force
Purport
Claim
Appear to do something, especially falsely
Enumerate
List, calculate
Mention (a number of things) one by one
Antinomy
A contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable, a paradox
(자기모순)
Conjecture
An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information
Misapprehension
Misunderstanding
A mistaken belief about or interpretation of something
Postulate
Put forward
Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion or belief.
Apodictic
Clearly established or beyond dispute
Immanent
Inherent
Pervasive
Existing or operating within
Polysemy
The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.
Adversarial
Involving or characterised by conflict or opposition
Pretension
Aspiration Pretentiousness A claim or assertion of a claim to do something The use of affection to impress 요구, 자부
Pertinent
Pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant
I.e. pertinent details
Profess
Declare
Claim
Claim that one has a quality or feeling, especially when this is not the case
Affirm one’s faith in or allegiance to a religion or a set of beliefs
Levity
Light-hearted ness
Fickleness
The treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect
Exempt
Free from
Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others
Semblance
Appearance
The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different
Adduce
Cite
Cite as evidence
Enounce
Utter or pronounce (words)
Vicissitude
Change
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
Alteration between opposite or contrasting things
Ubiquity
The fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common
Inextricably
In a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate
Reified
Make something more concrete or real
Polysemy
The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase
