gp word bank

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the General Paper word bank transcript.

Nascent

recently formed, not fully developed

Promulgation

promotion of idea

Zeitgeist

spirit of a era

Milieu

social environment

Inextricably linked

connected as if inseparable

Epochal

major turning point

Salient

important or conspicuous

Elucidate

explain

Inter alia

among other things

Egalitarian

equal society

Predicated upon

based upon a premise

Bifurcated (false dichotomy)

divided into 2 branches

Undergird

supported from beneath

proponents/critics

supporters/anti

Prima facie

based on initial impression

Ostensibly

appearing to be true, underlying diff meaning

Putative

generally considered the case

Not without merit

acknowledge validity

Superficially compelling

surface, deeper analysis reveals flaws

Purport

larp

Cogent

convincing

Myopic

narrow

jejune/puerile

naive, immature

Sweeping generalisation

conclusion drawn from insufficient evidence

Quixotic

idealistic to the point of idealistic

Reductive

oversimplifying complex issue

Specious

superficially plausible, actually wrong

Non sequitur (empirical link)

concusion that does not follow from premise

Spurious

false, based on faulty reasoning

Intellectual dishonest (cherry-picking)

unfair engagement

Tendentious

promoting a viewpoint unfairly

Disingenuous

turn a blind eye, pretend to not know something

Tautological

saying the same thing twice, circular reasoning

Cogitate

to think deeply about something

Perfidious

deceitful, harmful

Acrimony

bitter manner of speech

Obfuscate

deliberate confusion

Sophistry

clever but deceptive

epitome/quintessential

perfect/best

Perpetuate

to cause

Corollary

a consequence

Vestige

a trace of something largely disappeared

Precipitous

dangerously abrupt

Inimical

hostile

Commensurate

proportionate

Proliferate

increase in number

Circumscribe

limit something

Inure

season someone, negative

Faustian bargain

moral integrity for worldly gain

Paradigm

a framework of understanding

Sisyphean

endless, futile

Hydra headed

problem that multiplies when one aspect is addressed

Juggernaut

overwhelming force

Mercurial

volatile

Avarice (Corporate)

extreme greed

Penury

extreme poverty

Apocryphal (notion)

widely believed but untrue

Behemoth

giant

Genesis

origin, fundamental cause

Labyrinth

complex

Hegemony

dominance of one group over another

Pyrrhic victory

a victory w so many losses its essentially a defeat

Gordian knot

complex, unsolvable problem

Palimpsest

altered but bears traces of its earlier form

Promethean

audacious, creative

Tantalising

edging(?), desirable but elusive

Leviathan

threatening power of the state

Elysian (utopian)

blissful, ideal world

Stygian

gloomy, underworld

Status quo

current state of affairs

Raison d etre

fundamental reason for existence

Avant garde

ahead of its time

Noblesse oblige

moral duty of privileged to help others

Philanthropic optics

how a charitable act is perceived

Deus ex machina

artificial solution to a problem

Quid pro quo

tradeoff

Ad nauseam

repeated excessively

A priori

reasoning from priority rather than reason

Ipso facto

inherently

Clarion call

demand for action

Sine qua non

indispensable condition

Carte blanche

freedom to act

Modus operandi

mode of operations

In extremis

in critical conditions

Per se

intrinsically

Bona fide

genuine, in good faith

Vis-a-vis

in relation to

De rigueur

obligatory

Casus belli

an act that provokes/justifies conflict