Vocabulary List - The Humans by Matt Haig

Vocabulary flashcards generated from the vocabulary list for The Humans by Matt Haig.

Hexanoic

An acid also known as Caproic acid that smells like barnyard animals.

Androsterone

A steroid hormone that is also a pheromone that significantly affects masculinization in mammalian fetuses. (It’s also present in the skin and urine.)

Contempt

The act of despising; disdain; lack of respect or reverence for someone or something.

Diploid

A single cell, individual, or generation characterized by two complete sets of chromosomes.

Eukaryotic

Of, relating to, or being an organism composed of one or ore cells containing visibly evident nuclei and organelles.

Kafkaesque

Suggestive of Franz Kafka, having a nightmarishly complex, bizarre, or illogical quality.

Glabrous

Having a surface without hairs or projections; smooth

Schopenhauer

German philosopher who theorized that the phenomenal world was the manifestation of the will.

Camus

French philosopher known as a moralist, an absurdist and existentialist. He believed morality should guide politics.

Kierkegaard

Danish theologian and philosopher, considered the first existentialist.

Diazepam

A common medicine approved for the management of anxiety disorders.

Presentient

Perceiving beforehand

Riemann hypothesis

The conjecture that the Riemann zeta function has its zeros only at the negative even integers and complex numbers with real part $\frac{1}{2}$.

Tessellation

A form of small squares or blocks arranged in a checkered or mosaic pattern

Exoplanet

A planet that revolves around a star other than the sun

Porphyrogenite

A prince born after his father has succeeded to the throne

Apoptosis

A normal, genetically regulated process leading to the death of cells, triggered by the presence or absence of certain stimuli.

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