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My Mix as at 25 Feb 2019 > Words and Phrases > Flashcards

Words and Phrases Flashcards

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Delusional

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Unruly sexuality

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Fleeting moments

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For example, a few fleeting moments

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Acerbic

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Sharp or biting, as in character or expression:

“At times, the playwright allows an acerbic tone to pierce through otherwise arid or flowery prose”

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Presciently

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With foresight:

”More presciently than their superiors, these workers grasped the economic situation”

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Hubris

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Overbearing pride or presumption;

Arrogance

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Redacted

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To select or adapt (as by obscuring or removing sensitive information) for publication or release; (broadly : edit); to obscure or remove (text) from a document prior to publication or release

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Upstream issues

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Infect(ed)

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His ideas infected the party

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A seriously odd thing to say …

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About the weirdness of a statement

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Greenlight something

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Greenlight something - eg to green light a proposal

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Nuanced

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Subtle shades of meaning.

A subtle difference or distinction in expression, meaning, response, etc;

A very slight difference or variation in color or tone.

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Conflating

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At certain points they seem unable to separate these aspects, and end up conflating the two.

Chris is either misremembering or deliberately conflating two separate issues.

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Allegedly

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Could be used instead of supposedly

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Mollify

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To soothe in temper or disposition

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Guilt by association

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Guilt by association

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More anonymous than a silent number

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Running on fumes

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Something’s just “running on fumes” eg the economy

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Distopian

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Opposite of utopian

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Cleaved

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Split or sever (something)

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Junkyard of our failures

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A way of describing our past failures

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Augmented (reality)

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Augmented reality adds graphics, sounds, haptic feedback and smell to the natural world as it exists.

A technology that superimposes a computer-generated image on a user’s view of the real world, thus providing a composite view.

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Filleting away

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Slowly pairing back something; Richard Flanagan said his Dad was filleting off certain memories

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Good luck with that

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Smoke out Tony Abbott (make him reveal his policies)

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Make him reveal his policies

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic;
hopeful or confident;
a sanguine disposition;
sanguine expectations.

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Pedigree

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Pedigree (had a conservative ped)

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Buffoon

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Apostles of austerity

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Apostles of austerity

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Torpor

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Its effect was to awake them from their compliant torpor

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Perjorative

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Expressing contempt or disapproval (of words or expressions etc);
Having an unpleasant or disparaging connotation

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We’ve already breached that wall

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We’ve done something that has already moved partly in a contested direction, perhaps one some are saying is dangerous or undesirable

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Shifting foundations

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Unreliable basis

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His blessing was his blindness

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His advantage was that he didn’t know

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Resile

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He didn’t resile from taking this difficult course of action

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Revealingly

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Blind sided

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I had been told to trust this recruiter by people I knew, so I was completely blindsided by his change in tactics.

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Valence

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In context of something:
Not having much valence;
Not much capacity to influence

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Resonance

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Something might have “historic resonance”

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Ventilate

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Give exposure to an issue

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Reading the tea leaves

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Pejorative

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A word expressing contempt or disapproval; (of words, expressions, etc) having an unpleasant or disparaging connotation.

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Shine a light on

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Place a focus on;

Bring something to light

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Like a train wreck in slow motion

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Inhabit

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For example, inhabit the mind

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Panacea

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Panacea

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Redact

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Edit, obscure remove (text) from a doc prior to publication or release

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Exercising

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What’s been exercising my mind

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Delusions of adequacy

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“He had delusions of adequacy.” - Walter Kerr

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Blow an eyebrow

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Visceral

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From instinct rather than intellect;
a visceral reaction;
dealing with course or base emotions;
earthy;
crude;
a visceral literary style
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Physicality

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The physicality of a live performance

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The “canon”

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The collection

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Pushing to an open door

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Sanguine

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Cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or confident. “A sanguine disposition”.

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Causal or contiguous

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Is something “causal” (a cause) or contiguous (just happens at the same time).

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Sweatshop workers of the mind

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Sweatshop workers of the mind

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Shambolic

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As the lights went up, eyes focused in on a shambolic, drunken sprawling mess.

A short amble onwards, the streets become shambolic, messy, invested with noise and life.

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Gotcha moment

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Journalists try for the Gotcha moment

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Muted

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Soft in color - not bright;
soft or quiet in sound;
quieter than usual;
not done or expressed in a strong, forceful, or excited way.

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The mayor of Wrongtown

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Augmented (reality)

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A further step will then be to combine augmented reality and robotic systems to allow automation of surgical operations.

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(I have) Flourishing bogan (family) branches

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Are your brains just painted on?

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65
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You’ll wet yourself when you see this tonight, so colostomy bags in,
everyone.

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Brain-frying tedium

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Cultural script

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What we have believed on the basis of our culture & history

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Fed on a steady diet of …

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(Fed on) a steady diet of bull dust

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What is meaning of Congenital

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Confected

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But, as I have remarked before, few events pass by these days without some confected moral outrage.

But an analysis by Unions NSW suggests this is a confected excuse to roll back a progressive workplace right.

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Deputed

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Something as not a good optic

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Something as not a good optic

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Visceral

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Exquisite

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For example, exquisite irony

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Rubric

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Rubric

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Visceral

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Characterized by or proceeding from instinct rather than intellect: a visceral reaction. characterized by or dealing with coarse or base emotions; earthy; crude: a visceral literary style

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Leaf blower

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About Pauline Hanson:

In speaking, she’s the human equivalent of leaf blower.

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Let’s ‘workshop’ that

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Said with over emphasis

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Cleaved

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Split or severed

He cleaved the head off of an imaginary foe before turning about and parrying a blow by another imaginary enemy.

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A downstream problem

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A problem to be addressed further on

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Hubris

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Overbearing pride or presumption; arrogance

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Dillentante

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A person who cultivates an area of interest, such as the arts, without real commitment or knowledge.

“I’m a dilettante, a dabbler, and it was easy for many years to let that keep me on the sidelines”.

”Is there really so little talent in the whole Liberal party that they gave the Communications job to a complete dilettante?”

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Cut and paste thinking

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Cut and paste thinking

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Distopian (op. of utopian?)

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Sedimentary

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Layer on layer

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Adroit

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Clever or skilful

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if you believe them, hey, say hello to the fairies at the bottom of your garden

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My Mix as at 25 Feb 2019 (6 decks)

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