Vocabulary College Prep Essentials — Set 3: Meanings flashcards
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The third 100 of the 400 College Prep Essentials words, from correlate and confer to outlier and brevity: pronunciation, a precise definition and three example sentences, the most common use first.
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embody (v.) · im-BAH-deeto be a quality or ideal made real in a person or object; to have as one of its partsCharacter & Behavior
For many readers, Atticus Finch embodies quiet moral courage.
The new museum embodies the city's pride in its industrial past.
The final bill embodies several amendments proposed by the opposition. -
resonate (v.) · REZ-uh-naytto seem meaningful or true to people and move them; to ring out deeply or fill a space with echoesFeelings & Attitudes
The candidate's message about housing costs resonated with young voters.
Her essay about living between two languages resonates with many immigrant students.
The old church bell resonated across the snowy valley. -
equate (v.) · ih-KWAYTto see or describe one thing as no different from another, or as matching it in value; to amount toThinking & Knowing
Many first-year students equate a long essay with a good one.
The historian cautioned against equating the two revolutions.
The proposed tax cut equates to about three hundred dollars per household. -
monograph (n.) · MAHN-uh-grafa book or long paper in which a scholar treats one narrow subject in depthSpeaking & Arguing
Her first monograph examined river trade in medieval France.
The university press publishes about twenty monographs a year.
The lab's monograph on coral bleaching runs to three hundred pages. -
mobilize (v.) · MOH-buh-lighzto rally people or put resources to work in pursuit of a goal; to prepare armed forces for warActions & Effort
Students mobilized to register voters before the city election.
The agency mobilized emergency crews within hours of the earthquake.
In the summer of 1914, Europe's great powers mobilized millions of soldiers. -
correlate (v.) · KOR-uh-laytto have a connection in which one thing changes as another does; to show or measure such a connectionChange & Growth
In the study, hours of sleep correlated closely with test scores.
Vocabulary size is positively correlated with how much a student reads for fun.
The team correlated a century of rainfall records with local crop yields.
Watch out: two things can correlate without one causing the other. -
overarching (adj.) · oh-vur-AR-chingmost important and linking all the parts together; curving overhead like an archSize & Amount
The overarching goal of the program is to reduce child poverty.
The essay lacks an overarching argument to tie its sections together.
Overarching oak branches shaded the narrow country lane. -
normative (adj.) · NOR-muh-tivconcerned with how things ought to be, judged by values, rather than how they are; relating to a group's normsQuality & Judgment
Economists separate normative claims about fairness from factual claims about prices.
Ethics is a normative field: it asks what we should do.
The study examined normative pressure on teens to own the latest phones. -
confer (v.) · kuhn-FURto give a right, honor, degree or advantage; to hold talks with others before a decision is madeSociety & Power
Four thousand graduates will have degrees conferred on them this spring.
A single mutation can confer resistance to the antibiotic.
The judge conferred with both lawyers before ruling on the objection. -
intersect (v.) · in-tur-SEKTto pass across each other, as two roads or lines do; to overlap so that each shapes the otherNature & Time
The two highways intersect just north of the river.
On the graph, the two lines intersect at the point (2, 5).
Her research examines where race and class intersect in city schools.
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