Debrot The Atlantic Harambe article vocabulary

a cultural item that is transmitted by repetition and replication in a manner analogous to the biological transmission of genes

• meme
• zeitgeist

the general intellectual, moral, and cultural climate of an era

• zeitgeist
• anticipatory

a range or series of related things

• gamut
• nascent

causing a strong feeling of sadness

• poignant
• juxtaposition

very strange or unusual; having the quality of a dream (or nightmare)

• surreal
• anamalous

a very sad, unfortunate or upsetting situation; something that causes strong feelings of sadness or regret: a play, movie, etc.

• tragedy
• atemporal

a presence everywhere or in many places, especially simultaneously (omnipresence)

• ubiquity
• pantheon

the exact opposite of something or someone: the state of two things that are directly opposite to each other

• antithesis
• anomie

something (such as an emergency) that might happen

• contingency
• gamut

characterized by anticipation (took anticipatory measures to prevent flooding)

• anticipatory
• atemporal