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Part II
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| relegate | consign or dismiss to an inferior rank or position |
| sanctimony | the quality of being hypocritically devout |
| repartee | conversation or speech characterized by quick, witty comments or replies |
| analogy | a comparison between two things, typically on the basis of their structure and for the purpose of explanation or clarification |
| counterinsurgency | military or political action taken against the activities of guerrillas or revolutionaries |
| deduce | arrive at (a fact or a conclusion) by reasoning; draw as a logical conclusion |
| exhibitionism | extravagant behavior that is intended to attract attention to oneself |
| beachhead | a defended position on a beach taken from the enemy by landing forces, from which an attack can be launched |
| Marxism | a method of socio-economic analysis and worldview based on a materialist interpretation of historical development, a dialectical view of social transformation, and an analysis of class-relations and conflict within society |
| liberalism | a political orientation that favors social progress by reform and by changing laws rather than by revolution |
| acrimony | bitterness or ill feeling |
| broached | raise (a sensitive or difficult subject) for discussion |
| syllogism | an instance of a form of reasoning in which a conclusion is drawn (whether validly or not) from two given or assumed propositions (premises) (e.g., all dogs are animals; all animals have four legs; therefore all dogs have four legs ) |
| fascism | an authoritarian and nationalistic right-wing system of government and social organization |
| incensed | very angry; enraged |
| ire | anger |
| superorganism | the belief that culture and society lived in a separate realm from individual people and their thoughts and feelings |
| vulgar | lacking sophistication or good taste; unrefined |
| propensity | an inclination or natural tendency to behave in a particular way |
| autonomy | (of a country or region) the right or condition of self-government, esp. in a particular sphere |
| phillipic | a bitter attack or denunciation, esp. a verbal one |
| signatory | a party that has signed an agreement, esp. a country that has signed a treaty |
| determinism | the doctrine that all events, including human action, are ultimately determined by causes external to the will |
| status quo | the existing state of affairs, esp. regarding social or political issues |
| buttress | a source of defense or support |
| exonerate | (esp. of an official body) absolve (someone) from blame for a fault or wrongdoing, esp. after due consideration of the case |
| salutary | (esp. with reference to something unwelcome or unpleasant) producing good effects; beneficial |
| effloresce | reach an optimum stage of development; blossom |
| vilification | abusively disparaging speech or writing |
| placard | a poster or sign for public display, either fixed to a wall or carried during a demonstration |
| harangued | lecture (someone) at length in an aggressive and critical manner |
| galling | annoying; humiliating |
| a priori | relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge that proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience |
| hireling | a person who is paid for doing a job that is not respected or that is considered morally wrong |
| vanguard | a group of people leading the way in new developments or ideas |
| indefatigable | (of a person or their efforts) persisting tirelessly |
| reductionism | the practice of analyzing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of phenomena that are held to represent a simpler or more fundamental level, esp. when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation. |
| determinism | a system whose states are caused by prior states with absolute certainty, rather than probablistically |
| dialectical biology | created by Lewontin, Rose, and Kamin and was like a cake and how it can't be divided into its component ingredients |
| voyeur | a person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity |
| ethology | the science of animal behavior |
| symposium | a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject |
| deprave | make (someone) immoral or wicked |
| protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text |
| Joseph Mengele | an SS medical officer (Third Reich WWII) who supervised the selection of victims during the Holocaust, determining who was to be killed & who was to temporarily become a forced laborer, & for performing bizarre and murderous human experiments on prisoners |
| abet | encourage or assist (someone) to do something wrong, in particular, to commit a crime or other offense |
| collusion | secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, esp. in order to cheat or deceive others |
| depredation | an act of attacking or plundering |
| cockamamie | ridiculous; implausible |
| latent | (of a quality or state) existing but not yet developed or manifest; hidden; concealed |
| irredentist | a person advocating the restoration to their country of any territory formerly belonging to it |
| empirical | based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic |
| empiricism | the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience |
| tantamount | equivalent in seriousness to; virtually the same as |
| avow | assert or confess openly |
| innocuous | not harmful or offensive |
| boffin | a person engaged in scientific or technical research |
| dichotomy | a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different |
| biological determinism | idea that genes cause behavior with 100% certainty |
| daft | silly; foolish |
| biological potentiality | capable of a full range of human behaviors |
| abjure | solemnly renounce (a belief, cause, or claim) |
| tautology | the saying of the same thing twice in different words, generally considered to be a fault of style (e.g., they arrived one after the other in succession ) |
| Lilliputian | trivial or very small (After Lilliput, a country in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, where everything was diminutive) |
| precis | a summary or abstract of a text or speech |
| ambit | the scope, extent, or bounds of something |
| Great Asymmetry | an essential truth that good and kind people outnumber all others by thousands to one (Gould) |
| replete | filled or well-supplied with something |
| grisly | causing horror or disgust |
| non sequitur | a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement |
| materialism | the doctrine that nothing exists except matter and its movements and modifications |
| acumen | the ability to make good judgments and quick decisions, typically in a particular domain |
| albeit | although |
| ontology | a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being |
| coterminous | having the same boundaries or extent in space, time, or meaning |
| volition | the faculty or power of using one's will |
| bourgeois | of or characteristic of the middle class, typically with reference to its perceived materialistic values or conventional attitudes |
| unfetter | release from restraint or inhibition |
| epithet | an adjective or descriptive phrase expressing a quality characteristic of the person or thing mentioned |
| jaundiced | in particular unnaturally yellow in complexion |
| inheres | exist essentially or permanently in |
| piecemeal | characterized by unsystematic partial measures taken over a period of time |
| neoconservative | relating to or denoting a return to a modified form of a traditional viewpoint, in particular a political ideology characterized by an emphasis on free-market capitalism and an interventionist foreign policy |
| jettison | throw or drop (something) from an aircraft or ship |
| scruple | a feeling of doubt or hesitation with regard to the morality or propriety of a course of action |
| corollary | a proposition that follows from (and is often appended to) one already proved |
| fallacy | a mistaken belief, esp. one based on unsound argument |
| irony | the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite, typically for humorous or emphatic effect |
| partisan | a strong supporter of a party, cause, or person |
| fob | a chain attached to a watch for carrying in a waistcoat or waistband pocket |
| infallible | incapable of making mistakes or being wrong |
| pontiff | the pope |
| temerity | excessive confidence or boldness; audacity |
| shrewdly | astutely |
| anathema | something or someone that one vehemently dislikes |
| pundit | an expert in a particular subject or field who is frequently called on to give opinions about it to the public |
| reification | hypostatization: regarding something abstract as a material thing |
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