This glossary can be used to describe the personality of people and superstitions you know.
Audacious
Adjective
Showing a willingness to take surprisingly bold risks.
Example: The declarative sentence that opens Gruoch has almost defiant and AUDACIOUS undertones that imply a strong sense of pride and confidence in the speaker's identity; 'I have a name of my own.'(l.1) A caesura breaks the rhythm of the line and focuses our attention on her name thus emphasising its importance.
es: Audaz
Believable
Adjective
Able to be believed; credible.
Example: Although this may be an exaggerated or even fictional account by Gaius, it must have had some basis in fact if it was to be BELIEVABLE.
es: Creíble
Conceivable
Adjective
Capable of being imagined or grasped mentally.
Example: The 3D rendering aspects of the visual environment allow for the investigation of all CONCEIVABLE conformations of molecules, provided along side calculation for the energies of each conformation.
es: Concebible
Confidential
Adjective
Intended to be kept secret.
Example: Kay contends that "it is contrary to good business ethics that a man holding a position of trust in a company should use CONFIDENTIAL information for his personal benefit [and]
good business ethics should be supported and reinforced through legal sanctions ".
es: Confidencial
Convincing
Adjective
Capable of causing someone to believe that something is true or real.
Example: Yet again, we see that scientific research was little more than an instrument with which historians could produce a CONVINCING argument.
es: Convincente.
Credible
Adjective
Able to be believed; convincing.
Example: For Britain's commitment to be CREDIBLE, it was said they had to do what they did, since if they devalued once, it would be thought that they would do it again.
es: Creíble
Dubious
Adjective
Hesitating or doubting.
Example: Support for this is merited by the DUBIOUS classification as 'omissions' of acts such as the switching off of ventilation machines, and removal of feeding and hydration tubes.
es: Dudoso
Far-fetched
Adjective
Unlikely and unconvincing; implausible.
Example: Even though the idea of 'shadow governments' and insiders in the Athenian institutions would seem to me to be a little FAR-FETCHED, it is in my opinion unlikely that the rich would simply give up all of their powers to the meson and let themselves be governed by the mob when it may have been possible to possess political power in an unofficial manner through secrecy or corruption.
es: Inverosímil
Fishy
Adjective
Relating to or resembling fish or a fish.
Example: Something FISHY in the Neolithic?
es: Sospechoso
Frivolous
Adjective
Not having any serious purpose or value.
Example: What one could gather from passages like these is that Hegel takes skepticism to be ineffectual, even FRIVOLOUS; moreover, conflicted and misguided in its very conception.
es: Frívolo
Hazardous
Adjective
Risky; dangerous.
Example: As to development policies, social capital is a HAZARDOUS concept, since it involves quantifying qualitative variables such as trust, civic engagement, horizontal associations and network of connections.
es: Peligroso
Iffy
Adjective
Full of uncertainty; doubtful.
Example: I was hoping to go to the park but the weather's looking a bit iffy.
es: Dudoso
Misleading
Adjective.
Giving the wrong idea or impression.
Example: Consumers remain confused by MISLEADING health claims such as 90% fat free products that are in fact no healthier as instead of fat they are packed full of sugar to enhance the taste.
es: Engañoso
Phony
Adjective
Not genuine; fraudulent.
Example: They will use phony emotions to get a desired result.
es: Falso
Plausible
Adjective
(of an argument or statement) seeming reasonable or probable.
Example: Warde (1997) proposes the regeneration of identities, the new approach on food-people being more health conscious-, the differences surging in gender relations-with women having more freedom and responsibilities (apart from the household!)-and increasing differences between generations and social groups as some PLAUSIBLE causes for these hypothesises of change.
es: Plausible
Problematic
Adjective
Constituting or presenting a problem.
Example: Finding the right market size can be very PROBLEMATIC for a new invention, not in the market yet.
es: Problemático
Prudent
Adjective
Acting with or showing care and thought for the future.
Example: Recommendations and justifications will be provided where PRUDENT. 2) Project Stakeholders One of the key issues to be addressed in any project is the identification and management of the stakeholders involved in the process.
es: Prudente
Unethical
Adjective
Not morally correct.
Example: It would be UNETHICAL and ineffective for the therapist to decide which interventions would be best for Michelle, as she would lack motivation and would lose trust in the therapist (Shelley, 1997).
es: Poco ético
Well-founded
Adjective
Based on excellent reasoning, information, judgment, or grounds.
Example: However a degree of sympathy can be felt when one takes into account the economic and demographic pressures the Ministry of Health was under (as outlined above), and appreciates Bevan's WELL-FOUNDED repudiation of short-termist, populist housing policy that the Conservative party espoused in which the quantity of building is held at such a premium that the lack of quality of the housing and the urban decay that this would precipitate is disregarded.
