Vocabulary - Word Group 12

Word Group : Copy

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Word
Meaning
Sentence
1
Counterpart
1.     A person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation
2.     One of two copies of a legal document
The minister held talks with his French counterpart
2
Emulate
1.     Match or surpass (a person or achievement), typically by imitation
2.     Imitate
3.     Reproduce the function or action of a different computer, software system, etc.
1.     Most rulers wished to emulate Alexander the Great
2.     Hers is not a hairstyle I wish to emulate
3.     The adaptor is factory set to emulate a Hercules graphics board
3
Facsimile
1.     An exact copy, especially of written or printed material
2.     Make a copy of
1.     A facsimile of the manuscript
2.     The ride was facsimiled for another theme park
4
Factitious
Artificially created or developed
A largely factitious national identity
5
Paradigm
1.     A typical example or pattern of something; a pattern or model
2.     A set of linguistic items that form mutually exclusive choices in particular syntactic roles.
1.     Society’s paradigm of the ideal wo2men.
2.     English determiners form a paradigm: we can say ‘a book’ or ‘his book’ but not ‘a his book’
6
Precursor
1.     A person or thing that comes before another of the same kind; a forerunner
2.     A substance from which another is formed, especially by the metabolic reaction
1.     A three-signed precursor of the violin
2.     Pepsinogen is the inactive precursor of pepsin
7
Quintessence
1.     The most perfect or typical example of a quality or class
2.     A refined essence or extract of a substance
He has the quintessence of political professionalism
8
Simulated
1.     Manufactured in imitation of some other material
2.     (of an emotion) pretended or feigned
3.     imitating the conditions of something, especially as a training exercise
1.     A simulated leather handbag
2.     She howled simulated anguish
3.     A simulated terrorist attack
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Vicarious
1.     Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person
2.     Acting or done for another
1.     This catalogue brings vicarious pleasures in luxury living
2.     A vicarious atonement



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