civic
adjective
civic duty
Voting is your civic duty.
pitch
noun
etiquette
noun
- the rules governing the proper way to behave or to do something
the couple exhibited poor etiquette when they left the party without saying good-bye to the host and hostess
recap
noun
- a concise summary
rubric
noun
- an established rule, tradition, or custom
the rubric, popular among jewelers anyway, that a man should spend a month’s salary on his fiancée’s engagement ring.
affiliation
noun
- the state or relation of being closely associated or affiliated with a particular person, group, party, company, etc.
compensation
noun
- payment, remuneration
- money paid regularly
working without compensation
When the business was struggling, she worked without compensation.
dumbbell
noun
indigenous
adjective
the culture of the indigenous people of that country
rag
noun
The child is dressed in rags.
verb
- tease
jag
verb
really ragged and jagged
bursary
noun
- scholarship
postsecondary
adjective
- of, relating to, or being education following secondary school
postsecondary education
reassess
verb
… had the sense to reassess their situation before making a critical error.
fraud
noun
was accused of credit card fraud
automobile insurance frauds
He was found guilty of bank fraud.
encapsulate
verb
a pilot encapsulated in the cockpit
Encapsulation (computer programming)
In object-oriented programming (OOP), encapsulation refers to the bundling of data with the methods that operate on that data, or the restricting of direct access to some of an object’s components.
immutable
adjective
the immutable laws of nature
In Java, String is a final and immutable class, which makes it the most special. It cannot be inherited, and once created, we can not alter the object. String object is one of the most-used objects in any of the programs.
modifier
noun
In “a red hat,” the adjective “red” is a modifier describing the noun “hat.”
Java class access modifiers (public, private, protected, abstract)
acronym
noun
The word “radar” is an acronym for “radio detecting and ranging.”
OOP is the acronym for object-oriented programming
scenario
noun
In the worst-case scenario, we would have to start the project all over again.
prudence
noun
advised to use some old-fashioned prudence when agreeing to meet face-to-face with an online acquaintance
sloth
noun
- the quality or state of being lazy
vow
noun
The bride and groom exchanged vows.
portfolio
noun
The Knowledge Portfolio
ternary
adjective
- having three elements, parts, or divisions
ternary operator
1 | const beverage = age >= 21 ? "Beer" : "Juice"; |
lever
noun
when we open a door or use a nutcracker, we exploit archimedes’ law of the lever; (The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, VIII.3 The Ubiquity of Mathematics, T. W. Körner)
parabola
noun
With the help of elementary calculus, we know that a baseball, after it leaves the bat, will have a trajectory in the shape of a parabola. (The Princeton Companion to Mathematics, VIII.3 The Ubiquity of Mathematics, T. W. Körner)
tag
noun
- a game in which the player who is it chases others and tries to touch one of them who then becomes it
trailer
noun
- a selected group of scenes that are shown to advertise a movie
A trailer (also known as a preview or attraction video) is a commercial advertisement, originally for a feature film that is going to be exhibited in the future at a movie theater/cinema.