Vocabulary VI Flashcards
Impede
Hinder.
Obstruct.
Breach
An opening.
Break into.
To make an opening.
Buck
Go against.
Resist strongly.
“He bucked the trend” (to go in the opposite direction of the tend)
Albatross
Something burdensome that impedes action or progress.
Cache
Nest egg.
Reserves.
Abate
Lessen.
Diminish.
Metric
An indicator.
A standard for measuring or evaluating something.
Primer
A book for teaching
Co-opt
To appropriate as one’s own.
Appropriate
To seize.
Take possession of.
Expropriate.
Parcel
To distribute in portions.
To “parcel out”.
Correlate
To have a mutual or complementary relation.
Spur
To urge or impel to action.
Agribusiness
The businesses collectively associated with the production, processing, and distribution of agricultural products.
Quantify
Appraise.
Express the quantity of.
Rate.
Rank.
Quantitative
Related to the measuring of quantity.
Qualitative
Pertaining to quality or qualities.
Rendition
The legal process of sending a suspected criminal to another country to be interrogated or detained.
Semiotics
The study of signs and symbols as elements of communicative behavior.
Denote
To represent by a symbol
Propagate
To cause to multiply.
To reproduce.
To transmit or spread.
Rhetorical
Speech that is marked by exaggeration bombast and is used mostly for effect.
Rhetorical question
A question asked to produce an effect or create an assertion, not to get a reply.
Opaque
Not transparent.
Not allowing light to penetrate.
