WSC 2020 SOCIAL STUDIES 1

2. People have adapted this word making it mean more as if something or someone is lucky and not simply something happening by chance
4. The use of the name of one thing to represent something related to it (such as a crown to represent "king or queen" or White House or Oval Office to represent "President."
5. A theory that stock prices move in the same direction as the hemlines of women's dresses
7. In law, an offence made more serious by attendant circumstances
9. A personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty
12. The first country in the world to ban planned obsolescence
13. In a recent slang definition, it refers to a person having tastes, interests, or attitudes regarded as mainstream or conventional
14. The study of the origin of words and how their meanings have changed throughout history
15. Expressing something in a non-literal way, but represents a concept

1. The meaning of this word has gained a positive tone recently where it is used to describe specifically good things that are extraordinary and improbable.
3. A figure of speech in which a term for a part of something refers to the whole of something or vice versa.
6. Informal word in the United States meaning not disconcerted; unperturbed
8. Intentionally slowing down the performance of certain products/features
10. The word originally meant something "inspiring wonder (or fear)"
11. The word has a more positive modern meaning indicating a larger amount than you need, want, or can deal with