| A | B |
|---|
| Affluent | wealthy, rich, having many things, well-off |
| politesse | Manners, conduct, correctitude |
| honed | To improve, to make perfect |
| imperative | Critical, crucial, important |
| pompous | Boastful, conceited |
| desolate | Barren, empty, bare, bleak |
| gist | The main idea, the central poit I get the gist of the conversation. |
| vilified | To make vicious and defamatory statements about, to criticize |
| expletive | A swear word, an exclamation |
| True/False Validity is a matter of degree | True It is measured as high, moderate, or low |
| True/False Validity is always specific to some particular use or interpretation | True |
| What is validity? | refers to appropriateness of the interpretation of results |
| True/False Validity is always specific to some particular use or interpretation | True |
| True/False Validity is a unitary concept | True |
| What is reliability? | consistency of the assessment results |
| True/False Reliability (consistency) of measurement is needed to obtain valid results, but we can have reliability without validity | True |
| neologism | new words |
| nutraceucical | good for your nuitrition |
| anomaly | departure from something What we saw was an anomaly from his good behavior. |
| amnesty | Freedom from blame, freedom from punishment; The President granted the criminals amnesty. |
| rogue | a dishonest, knavish person; a mischievous person We liked him even though he was a rogue. |
| plethora | Excess, overabundance, plenty---There is a plethora of food in this country. |
| mores | Values--We all grow up learning mores of our parents |
| ingenious | Able, bright, crafty, creative |
| Abstinent | self denial or restraint from something—giving up food, candy, or something for Lent |
| Affable | showing warmth and friendliness; |
| Affront | an offense to one's dignity or self-respect |
| Allegations | A statement asserting something without proof |
| Autonomy | independence or freedom, as of the will or one's actions |
| Carnage | the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre |
| Contentious | tending to argument or strife; quarrelsome |
| Covert | concealed; secret; disguised |
| Credibility | capable of being believed; believable |
| sound bite | a brief, striking remark or statement excerpted from an audiotape or videotape for insertion in a broadcast news story |
| Decimated-- | to destroy a great number or proportion of |
| Delete | to strike out or remove |
| Dormant | lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive, as in sleep; torpid |
| Egregious | extraordinary in some bad way; glaring; flagrant |
| Enervated | to deprive of force or strength; destroy the vigor of; weaken |
| Epithet | a characterizing word or phrase firmly associated with a person or thing and often used in place of an actual name, title, or the like, as “man's best friend” for “dog.” |
| Exacerbate | to embitter the feelings of (a person); irritate; exasperate |
| Feasible | capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: |
| Forensic | pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate |
| Formidable | causing fear, apprehension, or dread |
| Hapless | unlucky; luckless; unfortunate |
| Hyperbole | obvious and intentional exaggeration |
| Inalienable | not alienable; not transferable to another or capable of being repudiated |
| Largesse | generous bestowal of gifts |
| Libido | sexual instinct or sexual drive |
| Lionize | to treat (a person) as a celebrity |
| Mammon-- | riches or material wealth |
| Moratorium | a suspension of activity |
| Myriad | a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things |
| Oligarchy-- | a form of government in which all power is vested in a few persons or in a dominant class or clique; government by the few |
| Oxymoron | a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.” |
| Proliferate | to increase in number or spread rapidly and often excessively |
| Quagmire | an area of miry or boggy ground whose surface yields under the tread |
| Quid pro quo | one thing in return for another |
| Resilient-- | springing back; rebounding |
| Salacious | lustful or lecherous |
| Shore up | support by placing against something solid or rigid; "shore and buttress an old building" |
| Snafu | badly confused or ridiculously muddled situation |
| Star-crossed | thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated |
| Status quo-- | the existing state or condition |
| Stonewall | to block, stall, or resist intentionally |
| Text-- | the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc |
| Touted-- | To solicit customers, votes, or patronage, especially in a brazen way |
| Ubiquitous-- | existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent: |
| Vicariously-- | performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another |
