Vocab Words #2

Question 1

Connote, Connotation
Ex: Not needlessly do rhetoricians advise due heed to the connotation of words, well as to the denotation.

Answer 1

An idea or feeling a word invokes plus its actual meaning.

Question 2

Ramifications (of…)
Ex: It’s impossible to completely game out the legal and political ramifications of a Trump indictment.

Answer 2

A complex consequence system that branches out in many directions

Question 3

Anachronistic, anachronism
Ex: SINGAPORE is uneasily aware that it is something of an anachronism and contradiction in this post-war era.

Answer 3

A thing belonging to another time period than which it actually exists in.

Question 4

archaic
Ex: Greek and Etruscan Art of the Archaic Period

Answer 4

Very old, or old fashioned

Question 5

loan word
Ex: Hansei is a Chinese loan word (literally “rethinking”), translated in the standard Kenkyusha New Japanese-English Dictionary as “self-examination”

Answer 5

A word taken from one language, and used in another language, with borrowing

Question 6

Vis-a-vis
Ex: I need to speak to James Lewis vis-à-vis the arrangements for Thursday.

Answer 6

In relation to or in regards to

Question 7

Quid pro quo
Ex: the pardon was a quid pro quo for their help in releasing hostages

Answer 7

a favor or advantage granted or expected in return for something

Question 8

schadenfreude
Ex: a business that thrives on schadenfreude

Answer 8

pleasure that comes from other people’s misfortunes.

Question 9

ad hominem
Ex: ad hominem attacks involve attacking the person in general rather than what the person has to say on a specific issue.

Answer 9

A direct attack against a person instead of the argument or facts. (Hard to counter)

Question 10

aesthetic
Ex: And that innate sense of beauty itself can become an engine of evolution, pushing animals toward aesthetic extremes.

Answer 10

Anything that applies to beauty or its appreciation

Question 11

Prose
Ex: Prose vs. Poetry

Answer 11

written work without a certain structure (not poem)

Question 12

etymology, etymon
Ex: Kamsler’s attempt to trace English “turkey” to Hebrew “tuki” (letter, Dec. 13) makes etymology seem easy

Answer 12

The origin of words and their historical meaning, and definitions

Question 13

via
Ex: I sent a text to my teacher via student square.

Answer 13

Traveling through a destination to another final one; through

Question 14

ergo
Ex: she was the sole beneficiary of the will, ergo the prime suspect

Answer 14

therefore

Question 15

ubiquitous, ubiquity
Ex: his ubiquitous influence was felt by all the family

Answer 15

present, or being everywhere at the same time.

Question 16

unique, unicity
Ex: What I found is unique to its time era.

Answer 16

Being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else

Question 17

ellipsis
Ex: ‘I want to go but I can’t’ instead of `I want to go but I can’t go.’

Answer 17

To leave out words rather than repeating them unnecessarily.

Question 18

Perfunctory
Ex: Were they heartfelt, or perfunctory? A smile, head shake or eyebrow raise might pass between us.

Answer 18

Something done (action) that is carried without thinking about it and effort