Vocabulary from the Text About Color

Vocabulary terms and definitions from the lecture notes on the text about color.

Spectrum

A range of different things, ideas, or qualities.

Ridicule

To make fun of someone or something in an unkind way.

Therapeutic

Helping to improve your health or make you feel better.

Ailments

Illnesses or health problems, usually not serious ones.

Expand

To become bigger or make something bigger.

(Be) commonplace

To be usual or common; to happen often.

Omen

A sign that something good or bad may happen in the future.

Relate to something

To be connected with something or be about something.

Dispersion

The process of spreading things over an area or among different places.

Benefit from something

To get something good or helpful from it.

Controversial

Causing disagreement or strong differences of opinion.

Worship someone/something

To show deep respect or love for a god, or to admire someone very much.