vocabulary list 3

Question 1

morpheme

Answer 1

a meaningful morphological unit of a language that cannot be further divided

Question 2

elucidate

Answer 2

To make clear or to shed light onto

Question 3

boilerplate

Answer 3

standardized, prepackaged language

Question 4

sine qua non

Answer 4

The condition of possibility/something that is necessary for something

Question 5

ad hoc

Answer 5

something that is on the fly or unplanned

Question 6

obfuscate

Answer 6

to make more confusing; opposite to elucidate

Question 7

castigate

Answer 7

harsh criticisms with moral judgements

Question 8

canon, canonical

Answer 8

officially accepted “good” texts

Question 9

de facto

Answer 9

as a matter of fact

Question 10

highbrow, lowbrow

Answer 10

One of the appeals of some entertainers are their lowbrow persona.

Question 11

trepidation

Answer 11

Fear, anxiety, apprehension

Question 12

internalize

Answer 12

bring something from the outside in

Question 13

subversive

Answer 13

Going against authority in a way that attempts to undermine it.

Question 14

genesis

Answer 14

origin

Question 15

pro forma

Answer 15

Going through the motions, without authenticity or genuine substance

Question 16

reify, reification

Answer 16

literalization, embodiment, concretization. Getting something non-literal and making it literal; getting an abstraction and rendering it as a concrete, material thing.

Question 17

conceit

Answer 17

an artistic device or effect; the conceit of the movie I just watched was that the protagonist could not remember his past and was discovering his own history as he moved through the plot