Perk Unit Vocab Review

Unit Vocab Review

Activity 1: Words In Context

Use context clues to determine the meaning of each of your new vocabulary words. Write your best guess at the definition in the answer box.

Open Ended

To remember this, to hold oneself apart from society, is to begin to think one's way beyond it. Solitude, Emerson said, "is to genius the stern friend." "He who should inspire and lead his race must be defended from traveling with the souls of other men, from living, breathing, reading, and writing in the daily, time-worn yoke of their opinions." One must protect oneself from the momentum of intellectual and moral consensus — especially, Emerson added, during youth. 

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "consensus".

• a general agreement by a group

• to represent something; indicate

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

• quality of being important or relevant

Open Ended

Do you find it easier to reach a consensus when there is a goal? Explain.

Open Ended

To me a community is a group of individuals connected to each other by one or more attribute(s). The element that links them together is at the core, and is the essence of the group. Just as denoted by the root and the suffix of the word (common-unity), a certain segment of the population is united by a familiar thread. 

from “What is Community, and Why Is It Important?”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "denoted".

• a general agreement by a group

• to represent something; indicate

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

• quality of being important or relevant

Open Ended

Is the color red more likely to denote anger or passion for you? Why?

Open Ended

But we no longer live in the modernist city, and our great fear is not submersion by the mass but isolation from the herd. Urbanization gave way to suburbanization, and with it the universal threat of loneliness. What technologies of transportation exacerbated — we could live farther and farther apart —technologies of communication redressed — we could bring ourselves closer and closer together. 

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "exacerbate".

• fond of company; social

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

•  to make something worse

Open Ended

Describe a time when a character from a movie or television show acted in a way that exacerbated the conflict.

Open Ended

We, however, have made of geniality — the weak smile, the polite interest, the fake invitation — a cardinal virtue. Friendship may be slipping from our grasp, but our friendliness is universal. Not for nothing does "gregarious" mean "part of the herd."

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "gregarious".

• fond of company; social

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

•  to make something worse

Open Ended

Do you believe that individuals who are gregarious always benefit from this trait? Explain.

Open Ended

See, rock-paper-scissor novices have a variety of tendencies that can be exploited by more experienced players. For instance, inexperienced male players have an increased likelihood of starting with a throw of "rock," because rocks are implicitly associated with power. And this gives a smart opponent the upper hand. (Lieberman)

from “The Social Brain and Its Superpowers”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "implicitly".

• fond of company; social

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

•  to make something worse

Open Ended

What are some ways in which people implicitly communicate that they feel comfortable with you?

Open Ended

And losing solitude, what have they lost? First, the propensity for introspection, that examination of the self that the Puritans, and the Romantics, and the modernists (and Socrates, for that matter) placed at the center of spiritual life — of wisdom, of conduct. Thoreau called it fishing "in the Walden Pond of [our] own natures," "bait[ing our] hooks with darkness."

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "introspection."

•  to accept or confirm

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

• the act of treating a person, group, or concept as if they are unimportan

Open Ended

Why is introspection an important part of self-development?

Open Ended

I was first drawn to Asian American Studies, and ethnic studies in general, because of its revolutionary commitments to community-building, justice-centered education, and hands-on, practical work. I have always felt that the best places to learn/teach are not behind the closed doors of an ivory tower but where people are experiencing marginalization and exclusion from decision-making power and resource-rich opportunities.

from “What is Community, and Why Is It Important?”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "marginalization".

•  to accept or confirm

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

• the act of treating a person, group, or concept as if they are unimportan

Open Ended

How can you ensure that your classmates’ ideas are not marginalized during a group discussion?

Open Ended

Lost, too, is the related propensity for sustained reading. The Internet brought text back into a televisual world, but it brought it back on terms dictated by that world — that is, by its remapping of our attention spans. Reading now means skipping and skimming; five minutes on the same Web page is considered an eternity. 

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "propensity".

•  to accept or confirm

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

• the act of treating a person, group, or concept as if they are unimportan

Open Ended

What is something you have a propensity towards? Explain.

Open Ended

With Protestantism and printing, the quest for the divine voice became available to, even incumbent upon, everyone.

But it is with Romanticism that solitude achieved its greatest cultural salience, becoming both literal and literary. Protestant solitude is still only figurative. Rousseau and Wordsworth made it physical.

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "salience".

•  to accept or confirm

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

• quality of being important or relevant

Open Ended

Identify a trend that you wish achieved greater cultural salience. Why?

Open Ended

This is what the contemporary self wants. It wants to be recognized, wants to be connected: It wants to be visible. If not to the millions, on Survivor or Oprah, then to the hundreds, on Twitter or Facebook. This is the quality that validates us, this is how we become real to ourselves — by being seen by others.

from “The End of Solitude”

What do you think is the meaning of the underlined word?

Multiple Choice

Select the correct definition of "validate".

•  to accept or confirm

•  a tendency to behave in a certain way

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

• quality of being important or relevant

Open Ended

What is the one thing that makes you feel validated as a friend? Why?

Match

So let's test our knowledge!

Match the following definitions with the correct vocab term

•  to accept or confirm

• fond of company; social

• quality of being important or relevant

•  to represent something; indicate

• a general agreement by a group

validate

gregarious

salience

denote

consensus

• validate

• gregarious

• salience

• denote

• consensus

Match

So let's test our knowledge!

Match the following definitions with the correct vocab term

• to make something worse

• a tendency to behave in a certain way

• done in a way that is suggested; not communicated directly

• the act of examining your own thoughts and feelings

•  the act of treating a person, group, or concept as if they are unimportant

Exacerbate

Propensity

Implicitly

introspection

Marginalization

• Exacerbate

• Propensity

• Implicitly

• introspection

• Marginalization