vocabulary - 8 Flashcards
plethora
a large or excessive amount of something.
“They will doubtless name a plethora of different subcultures.”
rivals
a person or thing competing with another for the same objective or for superiority in the same field of activity.
“And their great rivals, the Rockers,…”
emerg
appear
“Hippies, who emerged in America and spread across the world”
garish
دارای زرق و برق زیاد
“garish clothes”
mainstream society
Mainstream is the dominant trend in opinion, fashion, or the arts. Mainstream culture is the culture that is held by or seems the most “normal” to a large amount of people that live in a society.
drainpipe jeans
: tight-fitting trousers that taper to the ankles.
kilt
دامن مردانه
predecessor
Forerunner; a person who held a job or office before the current holder.
“They perhaps more than any of their predecessors embodied youth rebellion.”
embody
be an expression of or give a tangible or visible form to (an idea, quality, or feeling).
“They perhaps more than any of their predecessors embodied youth rebellion.”
rebellion /n/
rebel /v/
an act of armed resistance to an established government or leader; uprising, نافرمانی کردن
“They perhaps more than any of their predecessors embodied youth rebellion.”
spit
gerund: spitting
Be extremely angry or frustrated.
eject saliva forcibly from one’s mouth, sometimes as a gesture of contempt or anger.
“Todd spat in Hugh’s face”
“Sometimes literally spitting in the face of the world in which they had grown up”
conventional
مرسوم٫ متعارف
“youth movements had become conventional”
austerity
severity
“after the austerity of war”
subtle
/ˈsʌt(ə)l/
precise
endure
/ɪnˈdjʊə/
remain in existence; last.
“There is one subculture that seems to have endured better than the others”
