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Matrix Vocabulary
Vocabulary for the first Matrix movie -- George Mason ELI AOCS Class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abundant | plentiful |
| colleague | a person you work with |
| combine | to bring together |
| conscious | mentally alert, awake; having an awareness of one’s environment and experience of it |
| construct | a concept or model created from parts of others |
| forthcoming | characterized by openness, candidness, honesty |
| generate | to bring into being; give rise to; to create |
| irrelevant | not relevant (not related or necessary) |
| irony | a viewpoint in which words are used to express an idea different from and often opposite to their literal (“real” or direct) meaning |
| marvel | to feel amazement or confusion at or about |
| matrix | a place or object from which something else begins, develops, or is held |
| Morpheus | the Greek god of dreams; the “shaper” or molder, because of the shapes he puts in a sleeper’s mind (morph=form, shape) |
| neo | new, new and different |
| noodle | (slang) head, brain |
| oracle | a person considered to be a source of wise advice or prophetic opinions |
| precision | the quality or state of being precise (exactly defined or stated; strictly conforming to a pattern, standard or convention): exactness |
| projection | a thing or part that goes beyond the surface or edge |
| residual | related to what is left over at the end of a process; a remainder |
| right as rain | (idiom) perfectly all right or in order |
| sacrifice | to give up something of value to gain a greater good |
| scorch | to destroy (land and buildings) by or as if by fire so that nothing remains |
| simulation | an imitation; a representation of something else |
| strike | to hit with strong force |
| trinity | a group consisting of three closely related members; In most Christian faiths, the union of three divine persons, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, in one God |
| wipe the slate clean | (idiom) to start again without any connection to past problems or mistakes |