Outlier Ch.1-3 vocab

AP Eng III Outliers Ch.1-3 Vocab

Vocab

Intro

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Egalitarian

relating to/believing in the principle that all people are equal and deserve equal rights and opportunities.

Sentence: “They picked up on the particular egalitarian ethos”.

Ethos

credibility

Chapter 1

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Meritocracy

Government/holding power by people selected on a basis/ ability

Sentence: “Canadian hockey was a meritocracy”.

Chapter 2

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Crucible

A situation where a lasting change occurs or transformation.

Sentence: “The Hamburg crucible is one of the things that get the Beatles apart”.

Paradigm

A philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind

Sentence: “If you were born in 1820’s, you were too old, your mindset was shaped by pre-civil war paradigm”.

Cohort

A group of people with a shared characteristic

Sentence: “Gates and his cohorts ran up 1,575 hours of computer time on the I9I mainframe”.

Chapter 3

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Threshold

A level, rate, or amount at which something comes into effect

Sentence: “The idea of IQ has a threshold”.

Subversive

a subversive person, troublemaker, disruptive

Sentence: “He’s a little subversive”.

Abstruse

Something difficult to understand or comprehend due to its complexity or obscurity

Sentence: “At 16, he made his way through Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead’s famously abstruse masterpiece principal Mathematica

Cognitive

Relating to process acquiring knowledge and understanding thought, experience, and the senses

Sentence: “High-tech companies, like Google carefully measure the cognitive abilities of prospective employees