1st Semester Vocabulary

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abstract

Latin/adjective, noun

thought of apart from concrete realities

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Unreal, intellectual, deep,

Picasso’s art.

Real, factual, actual,

There are a lot of modern and abstract buildings in the city.

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aesthetic

Greek/adjective, noun

pertaining to a sense of the beautiful

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Artful, nice looking, neat

Ugly, displeasing, unattractive

His project looked aesthetic.

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implicit

Latin/adjective, adverb

implied, rather than expressly stated

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Contained, unsaid, unexpressed

Explicit, specific

There was so much drama implicit in his show.

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explicit

Latin/adjective, adverb

fully and clearly expressed or demonstrated

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Absolute, stated directly, exact, straightforwa rd

Ambiguous, implicit, unspecific, vague

The swearing in lyrics was explicit.

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endemic

Latin & Greek/adjective, noun

natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; an endemic disease

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Local, regional, native

Foreign, uncontagious

Disease that occurs regularly in a particular area, as malaria does in many tropical countries, is said to be endemic.

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intrinsic

Latin/adjective

belonging to a thing by its very nature

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Built-in, central, natural, elemental, essential

Accidental, extrinsic, acquired, learned

All organs that are in humans are intrinsic.

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apathy

Latin & Greek/noun

absence or suppression of passion, emotion, or excitement

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Cool, indifferent

Ardor, fervor

The person was apathetic to the crying stranger.

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latent

Latin/adjective, adverb

present but not visible, apparent, or actualized

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Dormant, quiescent, veiled

Open, active

They weren’t latent with the technology.

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paradigm

Greek/noun

a set of forms all of which contain a particular element; example serving as a model

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Archetype, ideal, sample, model, original

Atypical, copy, not original

His ideas, which were in an order, created a paradigm.

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Efficacy

Latin/noun

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capacity for producing a desired result or effect

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Ability, use, energy, competence, influence

Failure, inefficacy, uselessness, weakness

The efficacy in his answer was enough to make the judges happy

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facilitate

Latin/verb

to make easier or less difficult

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Aid, assist, speed up, make easy

Block, delay, detain, prohibit

He couldn’t facilitate any kind of work at his job.

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ideology

French/noun

the study of the nature and origin of ideas; political and social plan

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Culture, outlook, philosophy, system, view

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The Socialist ideology is only perfect on paper.

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juxtapose

Latin & French/verb

place side by side

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Together, near, appose, join

Put away from each other

The couples were juxtaposed.

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ambiguous

Latin/adjective

open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations

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Enigmatic, equivocal, vague, puzzling

Explicit, certain, clear, precise

The trio was ambiguous.

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discursive

Latin/adjective

passing aimlessly from one subject to another

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Wandering, deviating, roving

Not moving

The squirrels were very discursive.

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nostalgia

Latin/noun

remembrances of the past

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The nostalgia of the accident was killing him inside.

Flashback, reminiscence , yearning, remorse

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catharsis

Greek/noun

the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions

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Purification, release, lustration, cleansing

dirtying

She had to go through catharsis before thinking of being in a relationship.

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ethnocentric

?/noun

superiority of one's own ethnic group or culture

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Being better because of ethnicity

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His ethnocentrism made him not have any friends in international academy.

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loquacious

Latin/noun

talking or tending to talk much or freely

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Sentence She’s a typical loquacious teenager.

Verbose, talkative

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