Vocab words test #3 Flashcards
morpheme
We are talking about elemental (=basic) meaning units here, as in: chairwoman has (2) morphemes in it, “chair” and “woman”. Consider the morphemes in the word keyhole, blacksmith, or carport. We are also talking about meaning units like this: baked has both bake + -ed. The -ed carries a meaning: past action.
ad hoc
When necessary or needed
sine qua non
condition of possibility
obfuscate
To make more confusing
castigate
to reprimand someone severely
boilerplate
standardized, prepackaged language.
allude, allusion
an implied or indirect reference especially to something
conceit
an artistic device or effect
reification, reify
Getting something non-literal and making it literal; getting an abstraction and rendering it as a concrete, material thing.
elucidate
make (something) clear; explain.
canon, canonical
is one in the “canon,” or the officially accepted “good” texts.
de facto
“ as a matter of fact.”
highbrow, lowbrow
Highbrow: intellectual in nature, academic humor
Lowbrow: Unsophisticated, uncultured, vulgar
trepidation
a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation
internalize
Bring something from the outside in
subversive
Going against authority in a way that attempts to undermine it
genesis
The origin of time of forming something. Mostly used in the bible
pro forma
Going through the motions, without authenticity or genuine substance.
