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vocb of semester2
| Question | Answer | |
|---|---|---|
| underserved | v.t to supply with insufficient services, especially social and health services. | Through these and other means, it has helped bulked individual and community capacity for leadership and policy advocacy, while working to ensure seats at the policy table for representatives of underserved communities. |
| promulgate | to make known (a degree, for example) by public declaration; announce officially | For decades such facts were considered beneath the notice of serious scholars. And the claims about the arbitrary concepts of color were ____ unchallenged in text books and lecture halls. |
| protract | to draw out or lengthen in time; prolong | In the decades following the WWI, Geiger's sequence was simply erased from memory, as was the whole ____ debate of the nineteenth century. All that now remained was on mantra: color vocab vary greatly between cultures. |
| corroborate | to strengthen or support with other evidence; make more certain | This developing consensus was also __ by advances in physics and biology. which had exposed the critical flaws in Magnus' scenario of recent refinements in color vision. |
| consensus | general agreement: unanimity | This developing ____ was also corroborated by advances in physics and biology, which had exposed the critical flaws in Magnus' scenario of recent refinements in color vision. |
| refinement | The improvement or clarification of something by the making of small changes. | Through these and other means, it has helped bulked individual and community capacity for leadership and policy advocacy, while working to ensure seats at the policy table for representatives of underserved communities. |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order | root origin: current "running" developed more words such as cursory, discourse, precursor |
| ameliorate | make something bad or unsatisfactory better. | "if you don't like the group you care in right now, I can try to switch you guys around to ameliorate the situation. W went through a strategic process of setting clear policy goals to solve or ameliorate the problem. |
| perfunctory | Done routinely and with little interest or care. | If he does make an entrance, he will be relegated to a perfunctory "pioneering efforts" footnote, reserved for those whom one feels one ought to mention but whom one cannot be bothered to read. |
| modicum | a small, moderate, or token amount | ..But anyone who reviews the evidence with a modicum of impartiality will realize that each side simply lays claim to a part of the truth: both culture and nature have legitimate claims on the concepts of color, and neither side enjoys complete hegemony. |
| impartiality | The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment | This developing consensus was also corroborated by advances in physics and biology, which had exposed the critical flaws in Magnus' scenario of recent refinement in color vision. |
| vanguard | the forefront of an action or movement | In the following years, some influential reviews of River's work appeared in America, where the vanguard of anthropological research was now forming. |
| haphazard | adj. marked by lack of plan, order, or direction | People in primitive 文化-as G had observed at the very beginning of the color debate-have no occasion to manipulate 色 artificially&are not exposed to a systematic array of highly saturated 颜色,only to the haphazard and often unsaturated 颜色 presented by 自然. |
| vocation | n. a summons or a strong inclination to a particular state or course of action; esp a divine call to the religious life | But River's vocation as the salve of shell-shocked souls came only later in life, after a distinguished career in two other fields: experimental psychology and the nantrhopology |
| subside | v.i to sink to fall to the bottom | ...The heated 讨论 gradually subsided over the following 年 and the 问题 of the 色 sense remained in limbo for almost 二 decades, until the first attempt to conduct sophisticated 实验 on the mental traits of native in situ. |
| assault | n. a concerted effort ( as to reach a goal or defeat an adversary) | The culturalists may have had their proof that the 古人 could distinguish all 色, but they were less 成功 in formulating a convincing alternative explanation, for culture's assault on the concepts of color still crashed against a solid wall of disbelief. |
| contemplate | v.t to view or consider with continued attention | What had seemed almost impossible to __ a few years ago befre turned out to be a plain fact: people can spot the difference between different colors but can still fail to give them separate names. |
| vindicate | v.t obsolete, to set free | their philological insights may have been ___, for languages across the world were behaving exactly as predicted |
| perspicacious | adj. of acute mental vision or discernment | In fact, Geiger, Gladstone and especially MAgnus came under heavy fire, for it turned out they were as shortsighted as they were perspicacious |
| purport | v. to claim to be or do a particular thing when this claim may not be true. (support but not so reliable, purposefully supportive) | Magnus' treaties purported to provide the anatomical nuts and bolts, or rather nerves and cells, to Gladstone's and Geiger's philological discoveries. |
| subsume | v.t to include or place within something larger or more comprehensive: encompass as a subordinate or component element | This suggests that at an earlier period in the history of all these languages,"blue" was not yet recognized as a concept in its own right and was ___under under black or green |
| convene | v.i to come together in a body | In the autumn of 1867, distinguished natural scientists from all over Germany ___in for the Assembly of German NAturalists and Physicians. |
| regressed | v.i to go back; move backward | by 1916 the new republican had regressed into authoritarianism when the president tried to have himself crowned emperor. |
| despondency | n. feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | In 1917Luxun was roused from his ___by a request from QXT, and ld friend and one of Chielf Chen's co editor on New Youth, to produce something for magazine |
| underscore | v.t to underpinning/ to emphasize; to stress | ..But anyone who reviews the evidence with a modicum of impartiality will realize that each side simply lays nature have legitimate claims on the concepts of color, and neither side enjoys complete hegemony. *not particularly interested* |
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