Ways of Seeing – FYLC Fall 2018
First Year Learning Community
Liabilities
Definition: anything that is owed to someone else
Encountered from A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D
“All of a sudden, his greatest liabilities — his impatience, short attention span and restlessness — became assets. And this, I think, gets to the heart of what
is happening in A.D.H.D.”
The author is saying one of his greatest responsibility is his short attention span.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/liabilities
Pharmaceutical (adjective)
Definition: of, relating to, or engaged in pharmacy or the manufacture and sale of pharmaceuticals
Encountered from A Natural Fix for ADHD
“Some of the rising prevalence of A.D.H.D. is doubtless driven by the pharmaceutical industry, whose profitable drugs are the mainstay of treatment. ”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pharmaceutical
Psychiatric
Definition: branch of medicine that deals with mental, emotional, or behavioral disorders
Encountered from A Natural Fix for ADHD
“ATTENTION deficit hyperactivity disorder is now the most prevalent psychiatric illness of young people in America, affecting 11 percent of them at some point between the ages of 4 and 17.”
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/psychiatry
Underfed (adj)
Definition: not getting adequate food
“Compared with the rest of us, they have sluggish and underfed brain reward circuits, so much of everyday life feels routine and understimulating.”
Encountered from A Natural fix for A.D.H.D
The author is saying that people with ADHD has a different way of thinking than people that don’t have ADHD so they do stuff that causes them to be a step behind.
https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/underfed
This book requires readers to open a piece of folded paper. In the paper there lies the word matriarch and a picuture. Matriarch means a woman who is the head of a family or tribe. The picture is a picture of a crown with the word queen in it. A queen represents a matriarch because it can be a mother of a king.
Noun
•a process or set of rules to be followed in calculations or other problem-solving operations, especially by a computer.
I encountered this word in the final that we took, the article “when your boss is a algorithm” where it mainly talks about what Uber drivers have to go through because there boss is a system on a phone.
Prodigious (Adjective):
1a obsolete : being an omen : PORTENTOUS
b : resembling or befitting a prodigy : STRANGE, UNUSUAL
2 : causing amazement or wonder
3 : extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree : ENORMOUS
I encountered the word in a sentence found in the article ” A Literary Visitor Strolls in From the Airport”, written by Charles McGrath”. The sentence the word was written in says, “Smoking is Mr. self’s only remaining vice. He used to be a prodigious drinker and drug-taker, famous for late – night altercations, not always coherent public appearance and marathon hours at trendy spots like Groucho Club.”The word was written to describe Mr.Self’s immense ability to drink.
Gig economy (adj.)
Merriam Webster: a sector of work mainly dedicated to temporary or freelance work.
Source: “When Your Boss is an Algorithm”. “I have learned that drivers at ride-hailing companies may have the freedom and flexibility of gig economy work, but they are still at the mercy of a boss, an algorithmic boss”
From the definition, I can tell that gig economy could mean any freelance jobs like artists or graphic designers
The page requires readers to open a folded paper. The word on this page is exasperate. The definition of exasperate is to cause irritation or annoyance to. I drew a picture of a annoyed face to show the meaning of the word.
The page on this book has a folded paper that requires you to open the paper and there you will discover and word. The word on this paper is afflatus. The definition of this word is a strong creatice impluse; a divine inspiration. I drew a picture of a lightbulb because it represents a idea. When getting inspired and a idea a lighted up light bulb usually represents that.
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