Vocabularies II
charm: the quality of giving delight: his charm has captivated the media. friendliness: the quality of being kind.
antagonistic: showing active opposition to someone or something: he was antagonistic to the government’s reforms. hostility: antagonistic behavior and unfriendliness: their hostility to all outsiders.
ease: make something less severe. relieve: cause pain or distress to become less severe. allay: calm a troubling emotion of fear, anxiety, or suspicion: the company released more data to allay concerns about the drug’s safety.
disarm (v.): take weapons away from a person or force. disarmingly: in a manner that unexpectedly lowers someone’s psychological defenses: he was disarmingly honest about his mistakes| the plan was disarmingly simple, making my worries feel pointless.
square: the product of a number multiplied by itself. quadratic: involving the second of a quantity. cube: the product of a number multiplied by its square: the cube of its length. quartic: involving the fourth of a quantity.
dedicated: (of a thing) exclusively allocated to or intended for a particular purpose: a dedicated study week.
redundant: not or no longer needed or useful: it is considered redundant to use a conjunction after a semicolon.
symmetry: Mathematics a law or operation in which a physical property or process has an equivalence in two or more directions.
straightforward (adj.): uncomplicated and easy to understand: it is straightforward to formalize the notion of functions.
thread: a theme or characteristic running throughout a situation or piece of writing: a common thread we will follow in this book will be to try to understand the type of a structure. common: shared by more than one: problems common to both communities.
demonstration2: practical explanation of how something works.
liable: likely to do or to be something: the political situation was becoming liable to change rapidly. volatile: liable to change rapidly and unpredictably, especially for the worse: liquid markets are less volatile than illiquid ones.
repository: Computing a central location in which data is stored and managed. fetch (v.): Computing go for and retrieve data, instructions, or other information from a specified location or source: fetch updates from a remote repository.
in its own right: deserving recognition or value because of its own qualities, not because of something else. on its own: happening or existing without help or company: the door opened on its own.