Learn English Listening and Vocabulary Through the Movie Inception

adj

1. difficult to analyze or understand

e.g. a complicated problem
complicated Middle East politics

noun

1. the quality possessed by something that is real

2. all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you

e.g. his world was shattered
we live in different worlds
for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were

Synonym: world

3. the state of being actual or real

e.g. the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him

Synonym: realnessrealism

4. the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be

e.g. businessmen have to face harsh realities

noun

1. the act of referring or consulting

e.g. reference to an encyclopedia produced the answer

Synonym: consultation

2. the most direct or specific meaning of a word or expression
the class of objects that an expression refers to

e.g. the extension of `satellite of Mars' is the set containing only Demos and Phobos

Synonym: denotationextension

3. the relation between a word or phrase and the object or idea it refers to

e.g. he argued that reference is a consequence of conditioned reflexes

4. (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored

Synonym: addresscomputer address

5. a book to which you can refer for authoritative facts

e.g. he contributed articles to the basic reference work on that topic

Synonym: reference bookreference workbook of facts

6. a formal recommendation by a former employer to a potential future employer describing the person's qualifications and dependability

e.g. requests for character references are all too often answered evasively

Synonym: charactercharacter reference

7. a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage

e.g. the student's essay failed to list several important citations
the acknowledgments are usually printed at the front of a book
the article includes mention of similar clinical cases

Synonym: citationciteacknowledgmentcreditmentionquotation

8. a remark that calls attention to something or someone

e.g. she made frequent mention of her promotion
there was no mention of it
the speaker made several references to his wife

Synonym: mention

9. an indicator that orients you generally

e.g. it is used as a reference for comparing the heating and the electrical energy involved

Synonym: reference pointpoint of reference

10. a publication (or a passage from a publication) that is referred to

e.g. he carried an armful of references back to his desk
he spent hours looking for the source of that quotation

Synonym: source

noun

1. the act of expelling or projecting or ejecting

Synonym: expulsionejectionforcing out

2. the act of projecting out from something

Synonym: protrusionjutjutting

3. any structure that branches out from a central support

4. the representation of a figure or solid on a plane as it would look from a particular direction

5. a prediction made by extrapolating from past observations

6. a planned undertaking

Synonym: project

7. the projection of an image from a film onto a screen

8. the acoustic phenomenon that gives sound a penetrating quality

e.g. our ukuleles have been designed to have superior sound and projection
a prime ingredient of public speaking is projection of the voice

Synonym: acoustic projectionsound projection

9. (psychiatry) a defense mechanism by which your own traits and emotions are attributed to someone else

10. any solid convex shape that juts out from something

noun

1. a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person

Synonym: sedative drugdepressantdowner

noun

1. the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets

noun

1. superior development of one side of the body

Synonym: laterality

2. the power or right to give orders or make decisions

e.g. he has the authority to issue warrants
deputies are given authorization to make arrests
a place of potency in the state

Synonym: authorityauthorizationauthorisationpotencysay-so

3. the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not

4. the state that exists when one person or group has power over another

e.g. her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her

Synonym: ascendanceascendenceascendancyascendencycontrol