Advanced Vocabulary for Understanding - Week 4

This set of flashcards captures key vocabulary terms and their definitions related to the themes of becoming independent and the generation gap.

Accommodation

Adjustment to changing expectations.

Adaptability

The ability to adjust to different conditions.

Age-based

Related to assumptions based on age.

Ageism

Discrimination based on age.

Alienate

To cause someone to feel isolated.

Asymmetrical

Not balanced or unequal in distribution.

Authority

The power or right to give orders or make decisions.

Autonomy

The right or condition of self-government.

Bridge

To connect or bring together.

Challenge

To question or dispute something.

Clash

Conflict or disagreement.

Cohort

A group of people with a shared characteristic.

Collectivism

The practice of prioritizing the group over the individual.

Conflicting

Not compatible; contradictory.

Conform

To comply with rules or standards.

Conservatism

A tendency to favor tradition and resist change.

Constraint

A limitation or restriction.

Contest

To dispute or challenge something.

Continuity

The maintenance of consistent existence or operation.

Conventional

Based on accepted standards or norms.

Cross-generational

Relating to more than one generation.

Curfew

A regulation requiring people to remain indoors during certain hours.

Decouple

To separate or disengage.

Deep-rooted

Firmly established and difficult to change.

Discipline

Training to improve strength or self-control.

Disconnect

A lack of connection or agreement.

Disillusionment

The feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed.

Disjunction

A lack of connection or consistency.

Disproportionately

In an uneven or unequal manner.

Dissonance

Lack of harmony among musical notes; also refers to a conflict of beliefs or values.

Divergent

Different; tending to be different or develop in different directions.

Elder-dominated

Controlled or influenced by older generations.

Embrace

To accept something willingly.

Enforcement

The act of compelling obedience to a law or regulation.

Entrench

To firmly establish something.

Estrange

To cause someone to be no longer close or affectionate.

Evolving

Developing gradually.

Fracture

A break or crack.

Fragmented

Broken into smaller parts.

Fundamentally

In a way that is central to the nature of something.

Hegemony

Leadership or dominance by one group over others.

Inadvertently

Without intention; accidentally.

Incompatibility

The quality of being able to coexist without mutual exclusion.

Incrementally

Gradually, by small degrees.

Individualism

The habit or principle of being independent and self-reliant.

Inherently

In a permanent, essential, or characteristic way.

Inheritance

The process of receiving property or genetic qualities after someone's death.

Interdependence

Mutual dependence between things or people.

Intergenerational

Relating to more than one generation.

Intermittent

Occurring at irregular intervals.

Internalize

To integrate something into one's own character or personality.

Irreconcilable

Impossible to reconcile.

Marginalization

The process of making a group or concept less important.

Mediate

To intervene in a dispute in order to resolve it.

Mindset

The established set of attitudes held by someone.

Misalignment

Failure to be in alignment.

Misattuned

Out of sync or not properly in rhythm.

Modernity

The quality or condition of being modern.

Navigate

To plan and direct the course of.

Negotiate

To try to reach an agreement or compromise by discussion.

Nonconformity

Failure or refusal to conform to a prevailing rule or practice.

Normativity

The tendency to establish norms.

Orthodox

Conforming to what is generally or traditionally accepted.

Outdated

Out of date; no longer useful.

Oversight

The action of overseeing or monitoring something.

Permeate

To spread throughout something.

Perpetuate

To make something continue indefinitely.

Pluralism

A condition or system in which two or more states, groups, principles, sources of authority, etc., coexist.

Polarization

Division into two sharply contrasting groups.

Precedence

The condition of being considered more important than someone or something else.

Progressive

Favoring or advocating progress, change, or reform.

Reassert

To state a fact or belief confidently.

Rebel

To resist authority or control.

Recalibrate

To adjust or correct the accuracy of something.

Reconcile

To restore friendly relations.

Residual

Remaining after the greater part has gone.

Rift

A serious break in friendly relations.

Sanction

A threatened penalty for disobeying a law or rule.

Socialization

The process of preparing individuals to act in ways that are acceptable in your culture.

Structurally

In a manner that relates to the physical structure.

Succession

The act of following in order.

Surveillance

Close observation, especially of a suspected spy or criminal.

Symbolically

In a way that represents or stands for something else.

Systematically

Done according to a fixed plan or system.

Traditionalism

The adherence to tradition as authority.

Transformative

Causing or able to cause a marked change.

Transitional

In a process of change.

Transmit

To send or convey from one person or place to another.

Worldview

A particular philosophy of life or conception of the world.