Academic Vocabulary #1

Provide (someone) with a motive for doing something.

• Motivate

• Prompt

• Drive

• Inspire

A measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height.

• Aspect

• Dimension

• Element

• Proportions

Handle or control (a tool, mechanism, etc.), typically in a skillful manner.

• Control

• Handle

• Operate

• Manipulate

Of, affecting, or arising in the mind; related to the mental and emotional state of a person.

• Psychosomatic

• Psychological

• Sublimina

• Psychology

The art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other.

OR

A particular attitude toward or way of regarding something; a point of view.

• Standpoint

• Viewpoint

• Perspective

• Position

1. Relating to the Goths or their extinct East Germanic language, which provides the earliest manuscript evidence of any Germanic language (4th–6th centuries AD).

2. OR

   Of or in the style of architecture prevalent in western Europe in the 12th–16th centuries, characterized by pointed arches, rib vaults, and flying buttresses, together with large windows and elaborate tracery.

• Gothic

• Dark Ages

• Redolent

• Eerie