Vocab 1-2
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- Vernacular
- Noun) Everyday language, rather then literary language
- Atlas
- Noun) A book or bound collection of maps
- Epicure
- Noun) A person with refined taste, especially in food and drink
- Galvanize
- Verb) To simulate or urge into action; to spur
- Jovial
- Adj) Jolly; filled with good cheer
- Nemesis
- Noun) A source of harm or ruin; an opponent that cannot be defeated
- Pyrrhic Victory
- Noun) A victory that is offset by staggering losses or that comes at a huge price
- quixotic
- Adj) Dedicated to unreachable goals; idealistic but not practical
- Saturnine
- Adj) Gloomy and Sullen
- Sisyphean
- Adj) Requiring endless effort; without result or success
- Solecism
- Noun) A nonstandard or improper use of language
- Idiom
- an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements
- Jargon
- the language, esp. the vocabulary, peculiar to a particular trade, profession, or group
- Pidgin
- an auxiliary language that has come into existence through the attempts by the speakers of two different languages to communicate and that is primarily a simplified form of one of the languages, with a reduced vocabulary and grammatical structure and considerable variation in pronunciation.
- Semantics
- a. the study of meaning. b. the study of linguistic development by classifying and examining changes in meaning and form.
- Standard
- constituting or conforming to a standard especially as established by law or custom
- archaic
- constituting or conforming to a standard especially as established by law or custom
- Argot
- an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group
- Connotation
- : the suggesting of a meaning by a word apart from the thing it explicitly names or describes
- denotation
- The most direct or specific meaning of a word