Outliers Vocab Ch.8-Epilogue

AP Eng III Outliers Ch.8-Epilogue Vocab

Vocab

Chapter 8

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Fundamental

a central or primary rule or principle on which something is based

Sentence: “—all of which assumes that there is something fundamentally wrong with the job schools are doing.”

Chapter 9 + Epilogue

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Idealist

Person guided by ideals

Sentence: “ My grandfather may have been an imposing and learned man, but he was an idealist and a dreamer.”

Daunting

Something feels difficult or intimidating

Sentence: “ To get a sense of how daunting that figure was, the value of the Centenary scholarship my aunt won”

Concubine

A woman with whom a man cohabits without being married

Sentence: “ Not long after his arrival, he bought a slave woman and took her as his concubine.”

Miscegenation

sexual relationships or reproduction between people of different ethnic groups, especially when one of them is white.

Sentence: “sexual relationships or reproduction between people of different ethnic groups, especially when one of them is white.”

Progeny

A descendant/offspring of an adult, plant, or animal

Fetish

a form of sexual desire in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular object/activity .

Sentence: “ It is not surprising, then, that the brown-skinned classes of Jamaica came to fetishize their lightness.”