Vocab-ability Prefix–311 (pseudo__ = false, not genuine) – A More Powerful Vocabulary (earn UpVotes with “Vocab Practice” exercise)

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My Vocab Practice

1.- The musicians are making a sort of pseudoclassic music that people desn´t like to listen.

2.- The man who stole the bank had a pseudonym. They called him the tiger.

3.-Pseudo-intellectual people like to draw attention to themselves, while truly intelligent people go unnoticed.

4.- Before I was a Scientologist, I never agreed with psychiatry and I know that psychiatry is a pseudoscience .

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And I agree with your statement in #3.

My Vocab Practice

1.- She said that the dress she was wearing is a 90's classic but I felt it was more of a pseudoclassic, nothing original.

2.- The day I delivered my first speech in front of my friends, they used a psuedonym 'Miss Magnet' for me.

3.- Those who keep showing off their intellectual abilities seems more like pseudo-intellectual to me.

4.- I have heard left handed people are smarter than right handed people but I think its all pseudoscience.

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. The car KIA 'Picanto' seems to be a pseudoclassic of the Volkswagen 'Beetle'.
  2. On now account should anyone allow his/her pseudonym appear on their formal documents.
  3. Most pseudo-intellectuals that I know, ends up becoming depressed in old age.
  4. Mr. Njibiba has always told his colleagues that Africa black magic is pseudoscience but they still think otherwise!

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MY VOCAB PRACTICE:

  1. pseudoclassic
    All pizzerias around the world have their twist on their pseudoclassic pizzas since no one can make it like the Neapolitans.
  2. pseudonym
    Norma Jeane Baker is better known under her pseudonym Marilyn Monroe.
  3. pseudo-intellectual
    Pseudo-intellectuals often hide behind complicated words and metaphors instead of using simple terms to explain something.
  4. pseudoscience
    Homeopathy is considered a pseudoscience since the principles on which the treatment method is based are contradicted by discoveries made in biology, psychology, physics and chemistry in the two centuries following its invention.

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In #3, it sounds like you're describing Jordan Peterson. :-)

MY VOCAB PRACTICE

  1. Although the pseudoclassic style of writing by the young author drew criticism from the literary establishment, his novels often made it to the top five on the New York Times Best Seller list.

  2. In order to avoid persecution by the country's authoritarian regime, the investigative journalist published his article on corruption by government officials under a pseudonym.

  3. The university lecturer was labelled as a pseudo-intellectual after he fabricated the results for his social science research paper.

  4. The study of clairvoyance is often dismissed as pseudoscience.

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