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Theatre Arts for Advanced Secondary Schools

Glossary

Credentials qualification, achievement, quality, or aspect of a person’s
background, especially when used to indicate their suitability for
something.
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Liability the state of being legally responsible for something.
Constraints a limitation or restriction.
Monotonous dull, tedious and repetitious and lacking in variety and
interest.
Existential something relating to existence.
Mortality state of being subject to death.
Embodiment representation or expression of something in a tangible or
visible form.
Undoubtedly without doubt or certainly.
Contend declare something as a position in an argument.
Diverse showing a great deal of variety or something very different.
Perspectives views or prospect.
Intricate something that is very complicated or detailed.
Authentic something genuine and of undeniable origin, and not a copy.
Biography the story of life of a person written by someone else.
Storyboard a series of drawings or images showing the planned order of
images, actions and events.
Fade out It is a gradual decrease in a motion picture or television images
visibly.
Fade in a gradual increase in the visibility of a scene in movie
or television. It also refers to a gradual increase in a volume of
sou nd.
Novel something so new and original that it has never existed before;
a new invention.
Rigorously extremely thorough.
Tide a regular rise and fall in the level of the ocean, caused by the pull
of the moon and sun.
Nuance a very slight difference in meaning, sound, colour or somebody’s
feelings that is not usually very obvious.
Evocative an act of making you think of or remember a strong image or
feeling, in a pleasant way.
Pursuit An act of looking for or trying to find something.
Interdisciplinary relating to more than one branch of knowledge.
Bizarre very strange or unusual.
Existential relating to existence.
Repercussions an unintended consequence of an event or action, especially an
unwelcome one.
Sole being the only one or single.

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