COMS 624 VOCABULARY BANK
Accentuation (N): the action of emphasizing something.
Congruity (N): is a quality of agreement and appropriateness.
Dyad (N) : something that consists of two elements or parts.
Elucidate (V): make something clear; explain
Empirical (Adj): based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather
than theory or pure logic.
Flamboyant (Adj): the tendency to attract attention because of one's exuberance, confidence,
and stylishness.
Interlocutor (N): a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation.
Predicament (N): a difficult, unpleasant, or embarrassing situation.
Valence (N): the combining power of an element, especially as measured by the number of
hydrogen atoms it can displace or combine with.
Ontology (N): a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have
existence
Xenophobia (N): fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or
foreign
Islamophobia (N): irrational fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against Islam or people
who practice Islam
Epistemology (N): the study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially
with reference to its limits and validity
Equilvocality (N): subject to two or more interpretations
and usually used to mislead or
confuse
Threshold (N) :the point at which a physiological or psychological effect begins to be
produced
Reciporal (N): of, constituting, or resulting from paired crosses in which the kind that
supplies the male parent of the first cross supplies the female parent of the second cross and
vice versa
mutually corresponding
Axiom (N): an established rule or principle or a self-evident truth
Rigid (Adj): appearing stiff and unyielding,
inflexibly set in opinion
Convergence (N): the act of converging and especially moving toward union or uniformity
independent development of similar characters (as of bodily structure of unrelated
organisms or cultural traits) often associated with similarity of habits or environmen
Superordinate (Adj): superior in rank, class, or status
Intergraft (V): to unite or become united by grafting
Optimal (Adj): most desirable or satisfactory
Contentious (Adj): likely to cause disagreement or argument
exhibiting an often perverse
and wearisome tendency to quarrels and disputes
Pluralism (N): the holding of two or more offices or positions (such as benefices) at the same
time
a theory that there are more than one or more than two kinds of ultimate reality
Relativism (N): a theory that knowledge is relative to the limited nature of the mind and the
conditions of knowing
a view that ethical truths depend on the individuals and groups holding them
Traditional assimilation (N) an act, process, or instance of assimilating
The clash of lifestyles
has made assimilation difficult.
the process of becoming a part, or making someone become a part, of a group, country, society,
etc.:
Separatism (N): a belief in, movement for, or state of separation (such as schism, secession,
or segregation)
Extremism (N): advocacy of extreme measures or views : RADICALISM
Capacious (Adj): containing or capable of containing a great deal
Interrealtionship (V): to bring into mutual relation
Communal (Adj): of or relating to one or more communes
Shibboleth (Adj): characterized by collective ownership and use of property
participated in, shared, or used in common by members of a group or
communitya communal kitchengathered for a communal meal
of, relating to, or based on racial or cultural groupscommunal violence
Ethonopluralism (N): sometimes called ethno-differentialism,[1][2] is a Nouvelle Droite concept
which relies on preserving and mutually respecting individual and bordered ethno-cultural
regions
Consonance (N): agreement or compatibility between opinions or actions:
Dissonance (N): lack of agreement
a mingling of sounds that strike the ear harshly : a mingling of discordant
soundsespecially, music : a clashing or unresolved musical interval or chord
Extrinsic (Adj): not forming part of or belonging to a thing : EXTRANEOUS
originating from or on the outsideespecially : originating outside a part and acting upon the
part as a wholeextrinsic muscles of the tongue
2: EXTERNAL
Heterogeneous (Adj): consisting of dissimilar or diverse ingredients or constituents
Homogeneous (Adj): of the same or a similar kind or nature
Self-construal (N): political construals of reality refers to the grounds of self-definition, and
the extent to which the self is defined independently of others or interdependently with others.
Initially, the term derived from perceived cultural differences in the self.
