Mr. M- vocab semester one midterm
Vocab semester one only words on the midterm.
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- Infer
- To derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence.
- Linguistics
- The scientific study of language.
- Ethics
- The philosophical study of morals and correct behavior (branch of philosophy is call ethics).
- Epithet
- Any word or phrase applied to a person or thing to describe an actual or attributed quality.
- Rationalism
- The philosophical theory that reason is the only valid for action or belief- the only basis for knowledge and spiritual truth
- Bowdlerize
- To remove questionable material from a text
- Paradox
- A brief comparison that doesn't seem to make sense but does (oxymorons are paradoxical)
- Humanism
- The philosophical theory that says that human beings , their interests and welfare are of a primary importance.
- Civilization
- A culture that is characterized by agriculture and/or domesticated livestock and a written language
- Denotation
- A word that names or signifies something specific.
- Literature
- The preserved writings of a give language or culture; particularly those writings which are considered "important" due to uniqueness and/or excellence of form and content.
- Lingua Franca
- A widely used language among people who speak different languages
- Modernism
- (all the arts) taking traditions and standards of art and challenging them
- Syntax
- Arrangement of sentences and clauses
- Literal
- Accordance with, involving, or being the primary or strict meaning of the word or words; not figurative or metaphorical.
- Race
- A human population that exhibits a distinctive genetic composition of physical traits. Cultural attitudes and practices are influence by rate, but race is purely genetic and scientifically superficial.
- Personality
- The sum total of behavior traits (both apparent and not) that are characteristic of an individual person.
- Law
- A standard of human behavior that is enforced (by threat or act of physical force or restraint) by a person or persons who have the recognized right to do so.
- Aesthetics
- The branch of philosophy that explores theories and ideas about the concept of beauty
- Science
- The observation, identification, description, experimental investigation and theoretical explanation of nature.
- Art
- The conscious production or arrangements of sound, color, form, movement, language or other elements in a manner that somehow affects the human sense of beauty
- Connotation
- The associated or secondary meaning of a word or expression in addition to its explicit or primary meaning.
- Novella
- A short novel work of fiction
- Beauty
- A pleasing quality associated with harmony of form, color, movement, sound, truthfulness, originality, or other unidentifiable quality (or combination of these)
- Satire
- Poking fun at a serious subject- the fun is meant to criticize the subject
- Ideograph
- A simple picture/symbol that represents without using letters or words
- Reason
- The capacity or action of rational, conscious thought.
- Imply
- To indicate or suggest without being explicitly stated.
- Totem
- An animal, plant or other object that is considered highly significant by an individual or social group.
- Humanities
- The branch of formal learning that is concerned with culture and its products
- Sisyphean
- Of or related to a task that is or seems endless (often used figuratively)
- Determinism
- The philosophical theory that every human act or decision is the inevitable result of specific influences (physical, psychological, environmental) that are independent of human will
- Philosophy
- Literally, the love of learning; commonly, the branch of academics which explores the concepts of reality, human conduct, logic, ethics, aesthetics, metaphysics, others.
- Magic
- The control of supernatural forces through the use of repeated behaviors or rituals.
- Virtue
- The quality of moral excellence; goodness. The quality or one of the qualities of moral goodness.
- Realism
- In the narrative arts, artists try to depict life as close to reality as possible
- romantic
- Sexual love and everything that surrounds it
- Figurative
- Of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, esp. a metaphor; metaphorical; not literal.
- Antithesis
- Opposition; contrast.
- Euphemism
- Soft, acceptable word or phrase that substitutes for a harder unacceptable word or phrase
- Religion
- Belief in a supernatural being or beings and the related ways of behaving as a result.
- Idiom
- A word or phrase that is colloquial but is not necessarily understood by others speaking the same language.
- Anthropomorphism
- The attribution of human form to a non-human object
- Chiasmus
- A reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
- Syllepsis
- a verb used in two different senses
- Logic
- The academic study of reasoning processes, especially the structure of propositions examined in a step-by-step manner, with a focus on the relationships and interrelationships between and among steps
- Empiricism
- The philosophical theory that physical evidence is the only source of knowledge
- Anthropology
- The study of human cultures- their creations, institutions, group behaviors, religions, languages, and the like.
- Thesis
- Proposition stated or put forward for consideration.
- Artifact
- Any object that has been "worked" by human beings or used as a tool
- Intuition
- The act or capacity of knowing and understanding without the apparent use of rational, logical processes
- Neologism
- A word that is new to a language.
- Language
- The words, their pronunciations and the methods of combining them used and understood- both literally and figuratively and in speech or writing- by a group
- Learning
- Acquired wisdom, knowledge, skill; or a change in behavior - mental and/or physical- as a result of experience.
- Mysticism
- The belief in the existence of realities
- Colloquialism
- Casual, everyday, speech and writing
- Cognate
- Related words in various languages
- Dialectic
- An argument using logic, back and forth