Hamilton Week 5 Vocab

Aggregate

a whole formed by combining several elements, formed or calculated by the combination of many separate units, form or group into a class or cluster

Alter

change or cause to change in a small but usually significant way, tailor clothing

Clause

a unit of grammatical structure that is ranked below the sentence in traditional grammar, a particular and separate article in a legal document

Compound

a thing composed of two or more elements; a mixture, consisting of two or more parts, a fenced or walled-in area containing a group of buildings, to make worse, to add to (something bad), to put together to form a whole

Conflict

a struggle for power; a fight, a difference that prevents agreement, to be at odds or incompatible; to clash, a literary device; a central element of the plot that involves a struggle between the protagonist and antagonist

Currency

system of money, the quality or state of being accepted by many people

Discretion

the quality of being careful about what you do and say so that people will not be offended, the right to choose what should be done in a particular situation

Draft

a preliminary version, compulsory recruitment for military service, a current of cool air, prepare a preliminary version, select a person or group for a certain purpose, esp. athletic or military

Enable

make able to do or be something, behave in a manner that facilitates or supports abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior

Enforce

to make sure people do what is required; to compel the observance of laws or rules

Expand

to increase in size, range, or amount, to give a fuller version or account,

Explicit

very clear and complete, leaving no doubt about the meaning, Showing or referring openly to nudity, violence, or sex

Exposure

the fact or condition of being affected by or experiencing something, a physical condition caused by being outside in severe weather; esp. hypothermia, the revelation of an identity or fact previously concealed

Facilitate

to make something easier; to help something run more easily; to assist

Incentive

something that encourages someone to do something or work harder, a payment or concession to stimulate output

Liberal

favoring social reform and some state intervention in matters relating to economics and social justice; left-wing, not opposed to new ideas or ways of behaving; not traditional, concerned with broadening a person’s knowledge; not preprofessional or technical studies, generous amounts, a person of liberal views, broadly construed; loose

License

a permit or authorization, freedom to act however you want, the freedom of an artist, writer, etc. to alter the way things are described or shown to produce art

Logic

a particular mode of reasoning viewed as valid or faulty, convincing forcefulness; valid reasoning, a formal branch of philosophy devoted to reasoning

Marginal

not very important, not included in the main part of society or a group

Network

a system (of lines, people, wires, etc.) that is closely connected, to interact with other people to exchange information and develop contacts, especially to further one's career

Occupy

to live in; to fill or use, to fill or preoccupy the mind or thoughts; to keep busy and active, to take control of by conquest or settlement

Orientation

a person’s feelings or beliefs, the process of giving people new training or information, relative physical position

Output

the amount of something that is produced by a person, machine, or system; (in the arts) mental or artistic production, to produce, deliver, or supply data using a computer or other device, a site where power or information leaves a system

Parallel

to be side by side with (something extending in a line), always keeping the same distance; having such a quality, a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another, similar, analogous, or interdependent in tendency or development; readily compared

Perspective

the interrelation in which a subject and its parts a mentally viewed, a particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view, the art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point

Prejudice

a preconceived judgement or opinion, esp. one that is formed without sufficient knowledge, , to make biased, (in law) cause harm to

Principal

most important or influential, a sum of money lent or invested on which interest is paid, the person with the highest authority or most important position in an organization, institution, or group

Project

something that is contemplated, devised, or planned, to estimate or forecast something on the basis of present trends, to extend outward beyond something else; protrude, a government-subsidized housing development with relatively low rents, to attribute (an emotion, state of mind, etc.) to another person, esp. unconsciously

Pursue

to follow in order to catch or attack, continue or proceed along

Regime

a government, especially an authoritarian one, a system or planned way of doing things, especially imposed from above

Relief

a feeling of relaxation after a release from anxiety, assistance to those in need, the state of being clearly visible or obvious due to being accentuated in some way

Resolution

the firm decision to do or not do something, the action of solving a problem or dispute, (in chemistry) the process of reducing or separating something into its components, the smallest interval measurable by a scientific (especially optical) instrument; the resolving power

Retained

continue to have either in memory or physically, absorb and continue to hold (a substance)

Romantic

conducive to or characterized by the expression of love, characterized by an idealized view of reality, a writer or artist of the Romantic movement, which spanned from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth centuries and valorized the notions of individual creation and harmony with nature

Sheer

nothing other than, unmitigated, vertical, or nearly so, very thin; delicate

Station

a regular stopping place, a place or building where a specified activity or service is based, a company involved in broadcasting of a specified kind, put in or assigned to a specified place for a particular purpose, (dated) one's social rank or position

Status

the relative social, professional, or other standing of someone or something, high rank or social standing, the official classification given to a person, country, or organization, determining their rights or responsibilities, the position of affairs at a particular time, especially in political or commercial contexts

Stress

a state of mental or emotional strain or tension, pressure exerted on a material object; to exert that pressure, to give particular emphasis or importance to a point, statement, or idea made in speech or writing

Suffer

experience or be subjected to (something bad or unpleasant), (dated) to tolerate

Trend

a general direction in which something is developing or changing; to exhibit change in such a direction, a fashion

Deductive reasoning

the process of reasoning from one or more generalized premises to reach a logically certain and specific conclusion; the inference of particular instances from a general law

Inductive reasoning

the process of reasoning by which general laws are inferred from particular instances; unlike deductive arguments, inductive reasoning allows for the possibility that the conclusion is false, even if all of the premises are true

Margin of error

an amount (usually small) that is allowed for in case of miscalculation or change of circumstances

Null hypothesis

(in a statistical test) the hypothesis that there is no significant difference between specified populations, and any observed difference is due to sampling or experimental error

Panel study

an investigation of attitude changes using a constant set of people and comparing each individual's opinions at different times

Peer review

the evaluation of scientific, academic, or professional work by others working in the same field; to subject a work to this evaluation

Policy analysis

a systematic evaluation of the technical and political implications of alternatives proposed to solve public problems; refers to both the process of assessing policies or programs and the product of that analysis

Position paper

(in business and politics) a written report outlining someone's attitude or intentions regarding a particular matter

Predictive validity

the extent to which a score on a scale predicts outcomes; a comparison of a test score with later evidence and findings

Principal investigator

often abbreviated as PI, the principal investigator is the holder of an independent grant administered by a university and the lead researcher for the grant project, usually in the sciences, such as a laboratory study or a clinical trial; the phrase is also often used as a synonym for "head of the laboratory" or “research group leader”