* Vocab :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_DECK: Default::vocab :END: ** perennial :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419384 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 63571041d65bacaa92dc79b4d91f5b26 :END: *** Back (adjective) lasting or existing for a long or apparently infinite time; enduring or continually recurring *** Examples 1. "her perennial optimism irritated some of her more cynical colleagues" 2. "the perennial debate over privacy and security surfaced yet again" *** Synonyms enduring, lasting, persistent, continual, recurring, chronic ** decadent :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419389 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 2802fb5b6cb5f3609927f84c39a77d11 :END: *** Back (adjective) characterised by or reflecting a state of moral or cultural decline; luxuriously self-indulgent *** Examples 1. "the city's decadent nightlife masked deeper social problems" 2. "they indulged in a decadent dessert of triple-chocolate cake and cream" *** Synonyms self-indulgent, hedonistic, degenerate, corrupt, overindulgent, luxuriant ** a priori :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419393 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 42b8f85949178326cf070d99c3686e5b :END: *** Back (adjective, adverb) relating to knowledge or justification that is independent of experience; deduced from self-evident principles rather than observed facts *** Examples 1. "the theory rests on an a priori assumption about human rationality" 2. "we can say a priori that the result must be non-negative" *** Synonyms theoretical, presupposed, assumed, deduced, from first principles ** iridescent :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419399 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 1554b99760dec892f94c5e1d5765c460 :END: *** Back (adjective) showing luminous colours that seem to change when seen from different angles *** Examples 1. "the pigeon’s neck feathers shimmered with an iridescent green" 2. "oil on the surface of the water created an iridescent sheen" *** Synonyms shimmering, opalescent, lustrous, pearly, rainbow-coloured ** banal :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419404 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: af4097c665303c35119588dccf32aaca :END: *** Back (adjective) so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring *** Examples 1. "he filled the presentation with banal clichés and buzzwords" 2. "the conversation soon sank into banal small talk" *** Synonyms trite, hackneyed, commonplace, clichéd, pedestrian ** vacillations :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419407 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: ab230aaddf9b328312d2eab8df50bc4f :END: *** Back (noun, plural) wavering between different opinions or actions; repeated indecision *** Examples 1. "her constant vacillations made it hard for the team to commit to a plan" 2. "the market’s vacillations reflected broader uncertainty in the economy" *** Synonyms hesitations, indecision, wavering, dithering, fluctuations ** frivolity :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419411 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: a541e28f6043f598515914764b581fe6 :END: *** Back (noun) lack of seriousness; light-hearted or silly behaviour *** Examples 1. "the meeting began with a moment of frivolity before turning serious" 2. "he resented what he saw as the frivolity of social media culture" *** Synonyms levity, silliness, triviality, light-heartedness, flippancy ** adumbrated :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419414 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 938518c6327851490b3158dbbf8d46b5 :END: *** Back (verb) foreshadowed or vaguely outlined; partially or sketchily disclosed *** Examples 1. "the author adumbrated the novel’s tragic ending in the opening chapter" 2. "the policy changes were adumbrated in an internal memo months earlier" *** Synonyms foreshadowed, suggested, outlined, hinted, intimated ** plenitude :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419417 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: f636bbd6bc5f56281e16c3f599d32183 :END: *** Back (noun) an abundance; the condition of being full or complete *** Examples 1. "the garden offered a plenitude of fresh herbs and vegetables" 2. "in a world of data plenitude, the challenge is knowing what to ignore" *** Synonyms abundance, profusion, plenty, copiousness, fullness ** recrimination :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419421 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 5d647aead750a5a3167c8add238a95ca :END: *** Back (noun) an accusation made in response to one from someone else; mutual blaming *** Examples 1. "the discussion devolved into bitter recrimination on both sides" 2. "they sought mediation to avoid endless cycles of blame and recrimination" *** Synonyms blame, counter-accusation, retaliation, finger-pointing, accusation ** fait accompli :nietzsche: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419424 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: ac00aa78ff1b7a0e3def0eb0d6e37515 :END: *** Back (noun) a thing that has already been done or decided, leaving those affected with no option but to accept it *** Examples 1. "the merger was presented to employees as a fait accompli" 2. "by the time the committee met, the budget cuts were already a fait accompli" *** Synonyms done deal, accomplished fact, irreversible decision ** catatonic :kiyomi: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1763288419428 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 063892accdd015fb000cad4e6f532f45 :END: *** Back (adjective) in or relating to a state of stupor, immobility, or unresponsiveness; colloquially, extremely passive or disengaged *** Examples 1. "he sat in a nearly catatonic state after receiving the news" 2. "after working all night, she was catatonic in the morning meeting" *** Synonyms unresponsive, stuporous, inert, motionless, withdrawn ** ad hoc :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923777 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 41263ee3341a3cd3ff1ef2fa1a3d4cb1 :END: *** Back (adjective, adverb) created or done for a particular purpose as needed, rather than planned in advance; improvised or one-off *** Examples 1. "the committee set up an ad hoc sub-group to handle the urgent complaint" 2. "they relied on ad hoc scripts instead of building a proper data pipeline" *** Synonyms improvised, makeshift, temporary, one-off, impromptu, provisional ** syntopic :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923778 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 52c62aa8796f724a41426cc83c785d40 :END: *** Back (adjective, biology) occurring together in the same local habitat; able to coexist in the same place without excluding each other *** Examples 1. "the two frog species are syntopic in these wetlands, sharing the same ponds" 2. "syntopic predators often partition resources to avoid direct competition" *** Synonyms coexisting, co-occurring, sympatric, overlapping, sharing a habitat ** praxis :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923779 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 2bd1d13b5dda3868b69107974953a4af :END: *** Back (noun) practice as opposed to theory; the process of applying ideas or values in real, concrete action *** Examples 1. "for the philosopher, politics is the arena where theory becomes praxis" 2. "good teaching requires both sound pedagogy and reflective classroom praxis" *** Synonyms practice, application, implementation, exercise, enactment ** bedevilled :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923780 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: de37d070c3c3b93b297aabc3f4f44d72 :END: *** Back (verb, past participle) tormented, troubled, or persistently plagued by difficulties *** Examples 1. "the project was bedevilled by delays and shifting requirements" 2. "for years he felt bedevilled by a sense of vague but constant anxiety" *** Synonyms plagued, dogged, tormented, burdened, beset, harried ** denigrate :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923781 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 15bf6fde403f714373bfb19cc1567710 :END: *** Back (verb) to criticise someone or something unfairly; to belittle or speak of as having little worth *** Examples 1. "the article seemed designed to denigrate her achievements" 2. "he resented attempts to denigrate academic work as ‘mere theory’" *** Synonyms belittle, disparage, deprecate, run down, vilify, smear ** disabused :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923782 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: d7022e7a077d94e38cea4eebab330cca :END: *** Back (verb, past participle) having been persuaded that a belief or idea is mistaken; freed from illusion or false notions *** Examples 1. "after a year in industry he was disabused of his romantic view of start-ups" 2. "the data quickly disabused them of the notion that the system was secure" *** Synonyms disillusioned, corrected, undeceived, set straight, enlightened ** visceral :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923783 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 483c0539f137d3ac336077b09843db24 :END: *** Back (adjective) relating to deep, instinctive feelings rather than the intellect; felt in the ‘guts’ rather than reasoned out *** Examples 1. "the film provoked a visceral sense of dread in the audience" 2. "she had a visceral dislike of dishonesty in any form" *** Synonyms instinctive, gut-level, deep-seated, emotional, primal, intuitive ** phoneme :nielsen: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923784 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: 764a4f7b40c9630214c096f1de9aaa17 :END: *** Back (noun, linguistics) the smallest unit of sound in a language that can distinguish meaning (for example /p/ vs /b/ in ‘pat’ and ‘bat’) *** Examples 1. "children learning to read must learn to map letters onto phonemes" 2. "in English, the words ‘ship’ and ‘sheep’ differ by just one phoneme" *** Synonyms speech sound, sound unit, basic sound, minimal sound unit ** bona fide :progit: :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923785 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: b0384dd751052d4eda4518a8f06e02b3 :END: *** Back (adjective, adverb) genuine; real; made or carried out in good faith rather than as a sham or pretence *** Examples 1. "they made a bona fide offer to settle the dispute" 2. "she is a bona fide expert in machine learning, not just a buzzword user" *** Synonyms genuine, authentic, legitimate, real, in good faith ** non sequitur :PROPERTIES: :ANKI_NOTE_TYPE: Vocab :ANKI_NOTE_ID: 1765951923786 :ANKI_NOTE_HASH: bed52ba81268f768409b34e76fbfe0e7 :END: *** Back (noun) a conclusion or remark that does not logically follow from what came before; an irrelevant or absurd jump in reasoning or conversation *** Examples 1. "his comment about the weather was a complete non sequitur in the ethics seminar" 2. "the argument rests on a non sequitur: the premises do not support the conclusion" *** Synonyms illogical conclusion, non-follow, irrelevance, logical lapse, disconnect