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Drama Wordsanthropomorphism

audience masks

character

collaboration

communication

concentration

co-operation

costume

dialogue

Director

dramatise

entrance

exit

explorative- strategies

Drama Words

focus

forum theatre

freeze

gesture

hot-seating

improvise

inspire

lighting

Drama Words

mime

monologue

movement

perform

performance

playwright

position

Drama Words

rehearsal

rehearse

role

scenario

scene

script

share

Drama Words

spotlight

stage

stimulus

symbolic

theatre

theatrical

thought-tracking

voice-over

Drama Words

abstract

Abstract Expressionism

abstraction

acrylic

African

aperture

architecture

Art Words

Art Deco

Art Nouveau

artificial

Asian

asymmetry

Australasian

Avant-garde

Aztec

Art Words

background

better

body

border

calligraphy

Celtic

chalk pastel

character

Art Words

charcoal

chiaroscuro

close up

collage

collection

colour

complementary

Art Words

context

contrast

create

crosshatch

Cubism

Cubist

Culture

depth of field

Art Words

Art Wordsdesign

dimension

develop

display

distance

Draw

easel

East Asian

Art Words

edge

Effective because

Egyptian

European

evaluate

exhibition

exposure

Art WordsEven better if...

explore

expressionistic

Fauves

festival

figurative

focal point

focus

Art Wordsfont

foreground

form

fresco

frieze

futurism

Futurists

gallery

Art Words

gargoyle

glue

gouache

graphic

gum strip

harmonic

highlights

Art Words

history

horror

how?

illuminate

illusion

illustrate

impasto

impressionist

Inca

ink

interior design

investigate

itallic

Japan

Japanese

Art Words

Art Wordskanji

kiln

know

landscape

layer

lens

light

line

Art Words

manga

Maori

mask

medieval

Mediterranean

mood

motif

mural

Native American

natural

North American

oil pastel

opposite

outstanding

Art Words

Art Words

Outstanding because

overlap

Pacific Rim

paintbrush

palette

panoramic view

papier mache

Art Wordspaste

pattern

perspective

pigment

Pop Art

Pop artists

portrait

present

Art Wordsprimary

print

relief

rhythm

rule of thirds

scale

sculpture

secondary

shade

shape

shutter

shutter speed

sketch

space

spectrum

Art Words

Art WordsStands out

because

still life

Successful because

surface

Surrealism

Surrealists

symbol

Art Words

symmetry

tertiary

text

texture

three-dimensional

tone

Art Words

townscape

two-dimensional

understand

Urban

viewpoint

watercolour

What went well?

what?

when?

where?

who?

why?

woodcut

Art Words

added value

aims

assets

authoritarian

(autocratic)

average cost

balance sheet

Business Studies Words

Business Studies Wordsbasic economic problem

batch production

board of directors

bonus

boom

brand name

break even

business

Business Studies Words

business cycle

business plan

CAD

CAM

charities

cash flow forecast

cash flow statement

Business Studies Wordschain of command

channel of distribution

commission

control

co-operatives

deed of partnership

delayering

demand

Business Studies Wordsdemocratic

desk research

direct sales

division of labour

divorce of ownership and

control

economies of scale

enterprise

entrepreneur

Business Studies Wordsethics

exchange rates

exports

external communication

external growth

external recruitment

external sources of finance

Business Studies Wordsfactors of

production

field research

fixed costs

flow (mass)

production

franchise

fringe benefits

Government legislation

Business Studies Wordsgross pay

imports

incorporated

inflation

interest rates

internal communicatio

n

internal growth

Business Studies Wordsinternal recruitment

internal sources of finance

job description

job production

just in time (JIT)

leadership

liabilities

limited liability

Business Studies Words

market research

market segment

market segmentation

marketing

marketing mix

merger

monopoly

Business Studies Words

multinational

needs

net pay

organisation chart

overtime

partnership 

perfect competition

Business Studies Wordsperformance related

pay

person specification 

piece rates

pressure groups

primary sector

private sector

product life cycle

product mix

Business Studies Wordsproduct range

profit

profit and loss account

promotion

public sector

quality control

recession

reference

Business Studies Wordsretained profit

royalty payment

salary

sales revenue (turnover)

secondary sector

short listing

sleeping partner

Business Studies Words

social benefits

social costs

sole trader

span of control

specialisation

stakeholder

stakeholders

stock control

stock rotation

stock wastage

supply

takeover

taxation

tertiary sector

the euro

Business Studies Words

Business Studies Words

The European Union

total cost

total quality management

unemployment

unincorporated

unlimited liability

variable costs

verbal communication

wage

wants

wholesaler

written communication

Business Studies Words

English Wordsabbreviation

accent

advertisement

advise

alliteration

alphabet

analyse

English Words

annotate

antonym

apostrophe

argue

article

aside

assonance

English Wordsattitude

attract

audience

author

autobiography

ballad

bias

biased

English Wordsbiography

blank verse

broadsheet

brochure

cartoon

censorship

character

clause

English Wordscliché

climax

colloquial

comedy

comic

conclusion

conjunction

connective

English Wordsconnotation

contrast

copy

costume

couplet

description

device

dialect

English Wordsdialogue

diary

director

discursive

dramatic irony

emotive

empathy

enjambment

English Wordsevaluation

fact

feature

fiction

figurative

film

first person

gender

English Wordsgenre

gothic

grammar

haiku

headline

highlight

homophone

hot-seating

English Wordshumour

imagery

imperative

innuendo

interest

ironic

irony

jargon

English Wordsjoke

journal

juxtaposition

language

layout

leaflet

limerick

lyric

English Wordsmagazine

mass audience

masthead

metaphor

meter

mnemonic

monologue

narrative

English Wordsnarrator

object

onomatopoeia

opinion

oxymoron

pace

paragraph

performance

English Wordspersonification

pitch

play

playwright

poem

poet

poetry

producer

English Wordspronoun

prose

pun

purpose

reader

repetition

report

review

English Wordsrhetorical device

rhetorical question

rhyme

rhythm

sarcasm

scan

scene

second person

English Wordssentence

simile

slogan

soliloquy

sonnet

speech

Standard English

stanza

English Wordsstory

structure

style

sub-plot

symbol

synonym

synopsis

English Wordstabloid

target audience

television

tense

tension

theatre

theme

English Wordsthesaurus

third person

tone

unbiased

verse

voice

writer

Geography Words

arch

beach

birth rate

cave

central business

Geography Words

district

cliff

construction

death rate

deposition

Geography Words

destruction

discharge

earthquake

ecotourism

environment

Geography Words

erosion

eruption

extreme

flooding

gorge

Geography Words

inner city

meander

migration

mountains

natural increase

Geography Wordsox-bow

lake

population

prediction

prevention

pyramid

river

Geography Wordssettlement

squatter

stack

super volcano

sustainable

tourism

tourist

Geography Wordstraffic

transport

tsunami

urban

volcano

waterfall

waves

History Wordsarchaeologist

artefact

attribution

biased

Catholic

centuries

century

History Wordschronological order

civil war

evidence

exaggerated

fact

government

heir

History Wordsmonarch

monasteries

opinion

parliament

primary source

propaganda

Protestant

History Wordsreign

reliable

religion

republic

revolution

secondary source

useful

ICT Wordsabsolute cell

reference

accurate

attachment

audience

automatically

bias

Boolean search

ICT Wordscell

cell reference

column

contact list

control

copyright

credit card fraud

ICT Wordsdata

data type

database

datasheet view

delay

design view

Dreamweaver

ICT Words

efficiency

efficient

E-mail

field

file name

fill handle

filter

ICT Wordsflowchart

flowol

folders

font

formatting

formulae

goal seek

ICT Wordsgraph

heading

HTML

hyperlinks

identity theft

image

import

ICT Wordsinformation

keyword search

label

layer objects

layout

loop

mimic

ICT Wordsmodel

MS Publisher

MS Word

MSW Logo

navigation

output

piracy

ICT Wordsprocesses

programme

purpose

query

questionnaire

questions

realistic

ICT Wordsrecord

relative cell

reference

relevant

reliable

report

row

ICT Wordsrule

search engine

sequence of instructions

social network

site

society

sort

ICT Wordssource

structure

sub-routines

symbols

table

type

validation

ICT WordsValidity

value

variable

virus

webpage

website

white space

worksheet

Library Words

alphabet

alphabetical

anthology

article

author

Library Wordsautobiograph

y

biography

catalogue

chapter

classification

Library Wordscontent

contents

copyright

dictionary

edition

Library Wordseditor

encyclopaedia

extract

fantasy

fiction

Library Wordsgenre

glossary

index

Internet

irrelevance

Library Wordsirrelevant

issue

librarian

magazine

non-fiction

Library Wordsnovel

paragraph

photocopy

publisher

reference

relevance

Library Wordsrelevant

return

romance

section

series

system

Maths Words

divide

division

equation

equilateral

estimate

expression

fraction

Maths Wordsgraph

horizontal

irregular

isosceles

kilogram

kilometre

litre

Maths Wordsmeasure

metre

minus

multiplication

multiply

negative

numerator

Maths Wordsnegative

numerator

obtuse

parallel

parallelogram

percentage

perimeter

Maths Wordsperpendicular

positive

quadrilateral

questionnaire

radius

ratio

recurring

Maths Wordsreflect

reflection

reflex

regular

rhombus

right

rotate

Maths Wordsrotation

simplify

square

subtraction

supplementary

symmetrical

symmetry

tonne

Maths Wordstrapezium

triangle

triangular

vertex

vertical

vertices

volume

weight

Media Wordsalliteration

anchorage

audience

bias

central image

climax

close up

codes

Media Wordscomplication

connotation

convention

copy

denotation

development

diegetic

exposition

Media Wordsgenre

hard sell

identifier

imperative

masthead

mise-en-scene

narrative

non-diegetic

Media Words

objective

onomatopoeia

panning shot

representation

resolution

signifier

soft sell

stereotype

Media Wordssubjective

symbol

symbolic

technical

text

Vladimir Propp

zoom

Zvetan Todorov

Music Wordschoir

chord

chromatic

composition

conductor

crotchet

dynamics

harmony

instrument

Music Wordsinstrumental

interval

lyric

major

melody

minim

minor

musician

octave

Music Wordsorchestra

orchestral

ostinato

percussion

pitch

quaver

rhythm

scale

score

Music Wordssemibreve

synchronise

syncopation

tempo

ternary

timbre

triad

vocal

rhythm & metre

Music Wordspulse

simple time

compound time

regular

irregular

free

augmentation

diminution

hemiola

Music Wordscross-rhythm

dotted rhythms

triplets

syncopation

tempo

rubato

polyrhythm

bi-rhythm

drum fills

Music WordsHarmony

diatonic

chromatic

consonant

dissonant

pedal

drone

cadences

perfect cadence

Music Wordsplagal cadence

imperfect cadence

interrupted cadence

Tièrce de Picardie

major

minor

dominant seventh

chord

tonality

Music Wordstonal

major

minor

modal

key

sharps

flat

modulation

dominant

Music Wordssubdominant

relative major

relative minor

Texture

harmonic

homophonic

polyphonic

contrapuntal

imitative

Music Wordscanonic

layered

unison

octaves

single melody line

melody with accompaniment

antiphonal

melody

intervals

Music Wordsoctave

conjunct

disjunct

triadic

broken chords

scalic

arpeggio

passing note

acciaccatura

Music Wordsappoggiatura

blue note

diatonic

chromatic

pentatonic

whole tone

modal

augmentation

diminution

Music Wordssequence

inversion

slide

glissando

portamento

ornamentation

ostinato

riff

phrasing

Music Wordsarticulation

pitch bend

improvisation

Timbre

instruments

voices

technology

synthesised sound

computer-generated sound

Music Wordssampling

reverb

distortion

chorus

instrumental techniques

con arco/with a bow

pizzicato/plucked

con sordino/muted

double-stopping

Music Wordstremolo/tremolando

vocal techniques

falsetto

vibrato

Dynamics

pp

p

mp

mf

Music Wordsf

ff

cresc.

crescendo

dim.

diminuendo

sfz/sforzando

structure & form

binary

Music Wordsternary

call & response

rondo

theme & variations

arch-shape

sonata

minuet & trio

scherzo & trio

strophic

Music Wordsthrough-composed

da capo aria

cyclic

verse-chorus

ground bass

continuo

cadenza

composer

performer

Music Wordsaudience

intention

use

purpose

commission

patronage

technical/emotional demands

amateur/professional performance

Music Wordsperformance practice

interpretation

improvisation

occasion

time

place

sacred

secular

Music Wordsutility

private

public

concert

live

recorded

media

Internet

performing conventions

PE Wordsactive

activity

agile

agility

athlete

athletic

basketball

bicep

PE Wordscardio-vascular

catch

composition

condition

decisions

diagonal

distance

doctor

PE Wordsdodge

dribble

exercise

field

football

gym

gymnastic

hamstring

PE Wordsheart

hockey

intercept

injury

javelin

league

mobile

mobility

PE Wordsmovement

muscle

netball

organisation

personal

pitch

practice

pulse

PE Wordsquadriceps

qualify

quality

referee

relay

rounders

rugby

sequence

PE Wordsshot putt

skill

squad

strategies

stretches

striking and fielding

PE Words

tackle

tactic

technique

tournament

triceps

umpire

RE Wordsaltar

atheist

agnostic

Bible

biblical

Buddhist

Buddhism

RE Wordscelebrate

celebration

ceremony

Christian

commandment

creation

disciple

RE Wordsevangelical

faith

festival

font

funeral

gurdwara

Guru granth

RE WordsSahib

Hindu

Hinduism

Imam

immoral

immorality

Islam

RE WordsIsrael

Judaism

Jesus

Jewish

marriage

miracle

monotheism

RE Wordsmoral

morality

mosque

Muhammad

Muslim

parable

pilgrim

RE Wordspilgrimage

polytheism

pray

prayer

priest

prejudice

prophet

RE Words

Protestant

Qur’an

religious

religion

Roman Catholic

sign

RE Words

Sikh

Sikhism

special

spirit

spiritual

symbol

RE Words

vicarwedding

synagoguetempleworship

Science Wordsvicar

weddingsynagogue

templeworship

Science Wordsblood

calciumcarnivoredensity

diaphragm

Science Wordsenzymesexercise

filtergravity

hormone

Science Wordsinsulation

kineticlever

magneticmagma

Science Wordsnervesopaqueovumpetrolprism

Science Wordsresistanceroughage

slimyswitchtime

Science Wordsuterusvacuole

windpipeyeast

zygote

Sociology Wordsage

classcrime

deprivation

deviance

Sociology Wordsethnicityfeministformal

functionalist

informal

Sociology Words

labellingMarxistmass media

new rightnorms

Sociology Words

nuclear familyPrimary

Secondarysocialisation

society

Sociology Words

statisticsstereotype

sub-culturevalueswelfare