Vocab words test #2 Flashcards
Ad hominem
It means “at the person” and in the field of logic or argumentation it refers to any time you attack a person’s identity as a way of avoiding the substance of their argument.
Ex) Your just a girl, what do you know?
Loan word
When you pluck a word from another language and plop it into ours, that is a loan word. This is a linguistics term
Ex) hammock in English that was derived from the word hammock in spanish
Ramifications
Just means consequences of some action taken.
Ex) What are the ramifications (consquences) of not paying attention in school? Perhaps harder time finding a job later one
Prose
Just means “not poetry,” or, “normal” writing/speaking.
Ex) Doing poetry Ike roses are red violets are blue are an example of poetry the opposite of Prose.
Vis-a-vis
A loan word from French, this just means “in regards to
Ex) My sister is angry at me vis a vis me eating her icecream
quid pro quo
This just means, in Latin, “this for that.”
Ex) Ill give you a Snickers if you give me a milky way, that sentence is an example of quid pro quo
ellipsis
Just the three dots: “…” that you use to skip words in a quote
Ex) Zheng was an important maritime explorer…later on increasing connections in the Indian ocean
Ubiquitous
Just means that you see it everywhere,
Ex) Smartphones are ubiquitous because we generally see them everywhere now.
Schadenfreude
it’s the malign pleasure you get, usually unconsciously, at the misfortune of someone you don’t like.
Ex) I watched my enemy fall down when running making me laugh and let me be happy. This is an example of Schadenfreude
etymology
Refers to a word’s history: where did it come from, what was the origin of the word? Etymon just refers to the original root word from which the modern word is derived
Ex) Where did Quid por quo originate from? It came from latin and was used to say “this for that”
Via
Just means, by way of.
Ex) I came to the party via my brothers old car
Perfunctory
Implies a limited and shallow application of something
Ex) I had a perfunctory view of botany
