Words to Know #2 Flashcards
Aeriform
Having the nature of air; lacking substance or real existence.
Aggregation
A group, body, or mass composed of many distinct parts or individuals. The collecting of units or parts into a mass or whole.
Alchemist
A person who studies or practices the ability to transform things for the better, real, or imagined.
Analogy
A comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect.
Caricature
Exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics.
Complex Syntax
A sentence that contains an independent clause and a dependent clause.
Confervae
A genus of filamentous green algae containing a number of species of doubtful relationship many of which are now placed in the genus.
Connotation
Something suggested by a word or thing. The suggestion of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes.
Decelerate
To reduce the speed of; slow down.
Democratized
Relating to one of the two major political parties; relating to the masses of the people. Forwarding social equality.
Deprave
To speak ill of or to make bad; corrupt.
Derogation
To cause to seem inferior. To take away a part so as to impair. To act beneath one’s position or character.
Diffuse
Being of one verbose and ill-organized. Not concentrated or localized.
Diversion
The act or an instance of turning from one course to another or straying from course, activity, or use.
Empirical
Originating in or based on observation or experience. Relying on experience or observation alone often without due regard for system and theory.
Epoch
An event or time marked by an event that begins a new period or development. An instant of time used as reference.
Extended Analogy
Suggesting that because two things are alike in some way and one of those things is like something else, then both things must be like that “something else.”`
Formal Diction
The use of sophisticated language, without slang or colloquialisms.
Hermetic
Of or relating to the mystical and alchemical writings or teachings arising in the first three centuries and attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Subjects that are mysterious or difficult to understand.
Heterogeneous
Consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents.
Infinite
Extending indefinitely. Immeasurably or inconceivably great or extensive. No limit.
Inorganic
Being or composed of matter other than plant or animal. Lacking structure, character, or vitality.
Jurisdiction
The power, right, or authority to interpret and apply the law.
Master-mechanism
A device. An original form which copies can be made.
Nostalgic
Longing for or thinking fondly of a past time or condition.
Organic
Of, relating to, yielding, or involving the use of food produced with the use of feed or fertilizer of plant or animal origin.
Paraphernalia
The separate real or personal property of a married woman that she can dispose of by will and sometimes according to common law during her life. Personal belongings.
Parody
A literary or musical work in which the style of the author or work is closely imitated for comic effect or in ridicule.
Periodic Sentence
A usually complex sentence that has no subordinate or trailing elements following its principal clause.
Ex. Yesterday while I was walking down the street, I saw him.
Phenomena
An observable fact or event. An object or aspect known through the senses rather than by thought or intuition.
Polype
The sessile form of cnidarian typically having a hollow cylindrical body closed and attaches at one end and opening at the other by a central mouth.
Process Analysis
Explaining how to do something, how something works, or both.
Proverb
A brief popular epigram or maxim. Stating a general truth or piece of advice.
Quantifiable Evidence
Something that can be measured or counted in a scientific way.
Revenue
The total income produced by a given source.
Classification
Arranging people, objects, or ideas with shared characteristics into classes or groups.
Compare and Contrast
Analyzing two or more things, using an established logical system.
Bandwagon Appeal
A logic fallacy that suggests that because a belief, action, or trend is already popular, everyone should adopt it.
Factual Reporting
Concerned with facts or contains facts, rather than giving theories or opinions.
Attacking the Counterargument
Opposing an argument that opposes another argument.
Stigma
A mark of shame or discredit. An identifying mark or characteristic. A specific diagnostic sign of a disease.
Stagnant
Not flowing in a current or stream. Without inflow and outflow. Not advancing or developing.
Syntactic Clarity
The way we put together a sentence and give information in a logical order so that readers understand it easily.
Transmutation
The conversion of one element or nuclide into another either naturally or artificially.
Understatement
A statement that represents something as smaller or less intense, or less important than it really is.
Utmost
Situated at the farthest or most distant point. The highest, greatest, or best of one’s abilities, powers, and resources.
Vituperative
Uttering or given to censure; containing or characterized by verbal abuse. Bitter or abusive.
