Academic Vocabulary
Academic Vocabulary
19 terms
To build my academic vocabulary
- acclimation
- to change to suit different conditions of life, or to cause someone to change to suit conditions:
- ameliorate
- verb FORMAL
make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better.
"the reform did much to ameliorate living standards"
- auspices
- 1 auspices plural : kindly patronage and guidance doing research under the auspices of the local historical society.
- categorisation
- the action or process of placing into classes or groups.
"categorization by topic"
a system of classes into which something is sorted.
plural noun: categorizations; plural noun: categorisations
"categorizations in music"
- constitute
- combine to form something; be considered to be something; formally establish organization, institution, government ...
- draconian
- Use the word Draconian (or lowercase draconian) to describe laws or rules that are really harsh and repressive
- engender
- cause or give rise to (a feeling, situation, or condition).
"the issue engendered continuing controversy"
- equivocal
- vague, and ambiguous all mean "not clearly understandable" and are used to describe confusing speech or writing
- idiosyncratic
- pertaining to the nature of idiosyncrasy, or something peculiar to an individual:
- interdisciplinary
- adjective
relating to more than one branch of knowledge.
"an interdisciplinary research programme"
- interspersed
- To distribute among other things at intervals: interspersed red and blue tiles on the walls; intersperse praise with constructive criticism
- leitmotif
- a recurrent theme throughout a musical or literary composition, associated with a particular person, idea, or situation.
- mitigate
- to make something less severe or less unpleasant: Getting a lot of sleep and drinking plenty of fluids can mitigate the effects of the flu.
- paradigm
- a framework containing the basic assumptions, ways of thinking, and methodology that are commonly accepted by members of a scientific community.
- pedagogy
- Pedagogy is the study and theory of the methods and principles of teaching.
- pragmatic
- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- pragmatic
- dealing with things sensibly and realistically in a way that is based on practical rather than theoretical considerations.
- reticent
- adjective
not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily.
- succinct
- adjective
(especially of something written or spoken) briefly and clearly expressed.
"use short, succinct sentences"