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Unit 4: Part 3 Vocabulary

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  1. sate
    fill to contentment
    But before his jaws were sated with our blood,
    Or pinefire took the garland of our towers,
    He was thrown back
  2. deflect
    turn aside and away from an initial or intended course
    Words also, and thought as rapid as air,
    He fashions to his good use; statecraft is his,
    And his the skill that deflects the arrows of snow,
    The spears of winter rain
  3. brazen
    not held back by conventional ideas of behavior
    Her mind’s a traitor: crimes kept in the dark
    Cry for light, and the guardian brain shudders;
    But how much worse than this
    Is brazen boasting of barefaced anarchy!
  4. deference
    a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others
    Have you come here hating me, or have you come
    With deference and with love, whatever I do?
  5. contempt
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
    Of all the people in this city, only she
    Has had contempt for my law and broken it.
  6. piety
    righteousness by virtue of being religiously devout
    That piety shown the dead is pity in vain.
  7. flick
    touch or hit with a light, quick blow
    Though he flick my shoulders with his whip, I will not tell
    him which way the fox ran.
  8. deliver
    surrender someone or something to another
    Am I a spy in the land of the living, that I should deliver men
    to Death?
  9. overcome
    win a victory over
    Brother, the password and the plans of our city are safe with
    me; never through me
    Shall you be overcome.
  10. reciprocity
    a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence
    Today, between writers of one country and the readers and writers of another, there is an almost instantaneous reciprocity, as I myself know.
  11. inexorably
    in a manner impervious to change or persuasion
    Whoever has once announced violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose lying as his PRINCIPLE.
  12. oratory
    the act of addressing an audience formally
    At birth, violence behaves openly and even proudly. But as soon as it becomes stronger and firmly established, it senses the thinning of the air around it and cannot go on without befogging itself in lies, coating itself with lying’s sugary oratory.
  13. irreproachable
    free of guilt; not subject to blame
    Juan knows there won’t be a problem with the letter’s contents, that it’s irreproachable, harmless.
  14. ulterior
    lying beyond what is openly revealed or avowed
    Ulterior motives couldn’t be overlooked by the Censorship Division, but they needn’t be too strict with those who applied.
  15. staid
    characterized by dignity and propriety
    The building had a festive air on the outside that contrasted with its inner staidness.
  16. paradigm
    a standard or typical example
    Fueled by a desire to understand how ordinary Germans had managed to participate in the horrors of the Holocaust, Milgram decided to investigate when and why people obey authority. To do so, he developed an ingenious experimental paradigm that revealed the surprising degree to which ordinary individuals are willing to inflict pain on others.
  17. baseline
    a standard by which things are measured or compared
    In what became known as the baseline, or voice feedback, condition, the teacher sits in the same room as the experimenter.
  18. simulation
    representing the real world by a computer program
    Mel Slater, a computer scientist at University College London, has developed a virtual-reality simulation of the obedience paradigm.
  19. pragmatism
    the attribute of accepting the facts of life
    (3) Based solely upon policy, pragmatism, or expediency.
  20. expediency
    the quality of being suited to the end in view
    (3) Based solely upon policy, pragmatism, or expediency.
  21. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
    (b) Relevant factors that should be considered in determining a person’s claim of conscientious objection include training in the home and church; general demeanor and pattern of conduct...
  22. contradiction
    the speech act of opposing someone
  23. principle
    a rule or standard especially of good behavior
  24. practical
    concerned with actual use
  25. initial
    occurring at the beginning
  26. respective
    considered individually
  27. illustrate
    make clear or understandable by giving an example
  28. implicitly
    without ever expressing so clearly
  29. absolute
    complete and without restriction or qualification
  30. resonate
    evoke or suggest a strong meaning or belief
  31. policy
    a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group
  32. laureate
    someone honored for great achievements
  33. awareness
    the state of having knowledge of something
  34. premise
    a statement that is held to be true
  35. revile
    spread negative information about
  36. regulate
    bring into conformity with rules, principles, or usage
  37. functionary
    a worker who holds or is invested with an office
  38. banality
    the quality of lacking interestingness
  39. criterion
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
  40. manifestation
    a clear appearance
  41. affiliation
    the act of becoming formally connected or joined
  42. scale
    the ratio between the size of a thing and its representation
  43. isolation
    a state of separation between persons or groups
  44. integrity
    moral soundness
Created on Thu Oct 15 16:46:39 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Oct 20 12:03:29 EDT 2020)

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