Vocab Recap Flashcards
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Elucidate
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Make something clear; explain
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Purport
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Claim; appear to be/ or do something (falsely); profess
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Emanate
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Emerge; exclude; (a feeling) issue or spread out from (a source)
I.e. phenomenon emanating from the west
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Culminate
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Come to a climax or point of highest development
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Envisage
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Foresee; imagine; contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event
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Exacerbate
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Aggravate; make (a problem, bad situation or a negative feeling), worse
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Dissemination
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Spreading; the act/fact of spreading something, especially information, widely
(보급, 유포)
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Unchartered
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“Without a charter” or “without a regulation; lawless”
Uncharted :- unexplored
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Discourse
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Discussion; essay; written/spoken communication/debate
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Perpetuates
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Keep alive; make something continue indefinitely
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Detriment
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Harm; the state of being harmed/ damaged
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Indigenous
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Native; originating/naturally occurring in a particular place
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Exodus
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Mass departure of people
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Relegate
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Downgrade; consign/dismissed to an inferior rank/position
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Valorize
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Give/ascribe value or validity to something
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Paramount
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Most important than anything else; supreme (having supreme power)
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Bifurcate
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Divide into two branches/forks
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Dichotomise
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Regard/represent as divided or opposed (양분되다)
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Vocational
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Relating to an occupation or employment
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Binary
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Relating to;composed of, or involving two things
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Stratified
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Formed/arranged into strata or layers (몇개의 층으로 이루어진)
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Amalgamated
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Combine or unite to form one organisation or structure
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Omnipresent
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Present everywhere; widely/constantly encountered (widespread)
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Primacy
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Greater importance; the fact of being pre-eminent/ most important
25
Medication
Conciliation; intervention in a dispute in order to resolve it; arbitration.
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Incinerated
Burn; destroy something by burning
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Marginalisation
Treatment of a person/group/concept as insignificant or peripheral
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Imperative
Vitally important; crucial; peremptory; giving an authoritative command
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Curtail
Reduce(in extent or quantity); impone a restriction on
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Adept
Expert; very skilled ore proficient in something
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Disconcerting
Unsettling
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Disparate
Contrasting; essentially different in kind; not able to be compared
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Subjugate
Dominate; conquer
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Autarky
Economic independence; self sufficiency
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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
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Epidemiological
Relating to a branch or medicine which deals with incidence, distribution and control of diseases
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Sparse
Scanty; thinly dispersed or scattered
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Intricate
Complex; very complicated or detailed
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Philanthropic
Charitable; seeking to promote the welfare of others; generous& benevolent
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Prerogative
Entitlement; a right or prevailed exclusive to a particular individual or class
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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
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Emancipation
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social or political restriction; liberation
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Sporadically
Occasionally at irregular intervals
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Aphorism
A pithy observation which contains general truth
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Erroneous
Wrong; incorrect
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Adversary
Opponent
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Actuate
Motivated; activate
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Elicit
Obtained; evoke or draw out
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Remnant
Remains; scrap
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Fallacious
Erroneous; based on a mistaken belief
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Enagmatical
Difficult to interpret or understand; mysterious
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Infallible
Incapable of making mistakes or being wrong; unerring; never failing
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Doctrine
교훈
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Infamy
The state of being well known for some bad quality or deed; notoriety; wickedness
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Stoical
Long suffering; enduring pain and hardship without showing one’s feeling or complaining.
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Eloquently
In a fluent or persuasive manner
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Anachronism
An act of attributing a custom, event or object to a period to which it does not belong
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Alluding
Refer to
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Reticent
Reserved; not revealing one’s thoughts or feelings easily.
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Exhortation.
Urging someone to do something
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Pecuniary
Of or relating to money.
| I.e. pecuniary needs/aids etc.
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Negate
Invalidate / deny
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idyosyncratic
Distinctive; peculiar
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Precariousness
State of being dangerously likely to fall or collapse
| 위태롭군
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Emancipate
Set free, especially from legal political or social restrictions
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Perennially
In a way that contimes for a long or apparently an infinite time.
On a yearly basis for a several years.
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Pernicious
Harmful, or having a harmful effect in a gradual subtle way
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Recapitulate
Summarize
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Embellish
Decorate / elaborate.
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Frivolous
1. Not having any serious purpose or value.
| 2. (Of a person)carefree & superficial.
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Locus.
1. a particular position or place where something occurs or is situated.
2. (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.
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Maudlin
1. Self pityingly or tearfully sentimental.
2. ( of a book, film or song) highly sentimental
I.e. a maudlin display of emotions.
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Ubiquitous.
Present, appearing or found everywhere
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Lucrative
Producing a great deal of profit
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Demarcate
Separate; set boundaries, limits of
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Salient
most noticeable; important
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Incertitude
Uncertainty, a absence of assurance or confidence, doubt
| The quality or state of being unstable or insecure.
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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.
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Normative
Establishing, relating to, or deriving from a standard or norm, especially of behaviour.
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Multistate
Having divisions in several states
| Of, relating to, or involving several states
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Encroachment
Intrusion on a person’s territory, rights etc.
| A gradual advance beyond usual or acceptable limits
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Conflation
The merging of two or more sets of information, texts, ideas, etc. into one.
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Acquiesce
Permit, accept something reluctantly but without protest
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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
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Purport
Claim
| Appear to do something, especially falsely
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Enumerate
List, calculate
| Mention (a number of things) one by one
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Antinomy
A contradiction between two beliefs or conclusions that are in themselves reasonable, a paradox
(자기모순)
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Conjecture
An opinion or conclusion formed on the basis of incomplete information
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Misapprehension
Misunderstanding
| A mistaken belief about or interpretation of something
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Postulate
Put forward
| Suggest or assume the existence, fact, or truth of something as a basis for reasoning, discussion or belief.
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Apodictic
Clearly established or beyond dispute
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Immanent
Inherent
Pervasive
Existing or operating within
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Polysemy
The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase.
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Adversarial
Involving or characterised by conflict or opposition
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Pretension
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Aspiration
Pretentiousness
A claim or assertion of a claim to do something
The use of affection to impress
요구, 자부
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Pertinent
Pertaining or relating directly and significantly to the matter at hand; relevant
I.e. pertinent details
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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
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Levity
Light-hearted ness
Fickleness
The treatment of a serious matter with humour or lack of due respect
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Exempt
Free from
| Free from an obligation or liability imposed on others
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Semblance
Appearance
| The outward appearance or apparent form of something, especially when the reality is different
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Adduce
Cite
| Cite as evidence
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Enounce
Utter or pronounce (words)
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Vicissitude
Change
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant
Alteration between opposite or contrasting things
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Ubiquity
The fact of appearing everywhere or of being very common
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Inextricably
In a way that is impossible to disentangle or separate
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Reified
Make something more concrete or real
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Polysemy
The coexistence of many possible meanings for a word or phrase
