Sunday, May 16, 2010

Vocabulary Words # 10 (Week of March 8, 2010)

Ego- self-esteem

Subjectivity- personal interpretation based on personal feelings or opinion

Metacognition- knowledge of your own thoughts and the factors that influence your thinking

Epistemology- branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, in particular its foundations, scope, and validity

Mollify- to calm or pacify somebody, temper or soften something

Abrogate- to end an agreement or contract formally and publicly

Bureaucracy- an administration system that divides work into specific categories carried out by special departments of nonelected officials

Viscosity- to have a thick and sticky consistency or quality, a property that causes a fluid to resist flowing

Filibuster- a tactic used to delay or prevent the passage of legislation

Reconcile- to end a conflict or put people back on friendly terms

Vilify- to make malicious and abusive statements about somebody

Aggregate- collected together from different sources and considered as a whole

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