English Vocabulary and Etymology
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*vocabulary
- Student council/student government group/student union
student council is a curricular or extracurricular activity for students within elementary and secondary schools around the world.
These bodies are alternatively entitled student council, student government, Associated Student Body, Student Activity Council, Student Council Association or S.C.A. Student councils often serve to engage students in learning about democracy and leadership, as originally espoused byJohn Dewey in Democracy and Education (1917).
- dress code
Dress codes are written and, more often, unwritten rules with regard to clothing. Clothing like other aspects of human physical appearance has a social significance, with different rules and expectations being valid depending on circumstance and occasion. Even within a single day an individual may need to navigate between two or more dress codes, at a minimum these are those that apply at their place of work and those at home, usually ths ability is a result of cultural acclimatization. Different societies and cultures will have different dress norms although Western styles are commonly accepted as valid.
- snob/scrooge
snob is a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, and/or a person who has extremely high standards who is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like
for example:He's a terrible snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.I'm a bit of a wine snob/a snob where wine is concerned.
- chaos
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