day 7weighing it up

weighing it up

Raise a question the way essays and lectures do, with -는가 (우리는 왜 여행하는가), and weigh an idea with 가늠, 감안, 간과하다, 논증, 맥락, 모순.

today’s words

• 가늠 ganeum · estimate, gauging
• 가려내다 garyeonaeda · pick out, sort out, single out
• 각도 gakdo · angle; point of view
• 각성 gakseong · awakening, waking up to
• 간과하다 gangwahada · overlook, neglect
• 간주 ganju · regarding as, considering to be
• 갈피 galpi · (갈피를 잡다) get your bearings
• 감 gam · a feel, a hunch
• 감안 gaman · taking into account
• 거시적 geosijeok · macroscopic, big-picture
• 고심 gosim · agonising, deep thought
• 곰곰이 gomgomi · carefully, long and hard (think)
• 관념 gwannyeom · notion, idea, concept
• 궁리 gungni · pondering, working out how
• 귀납적 gwinapjeok · inductive
• 긍정 geungjeong · affirmation, the positive
• 납득 napdeuk · understanding, being convinced
• 논증 nonjeung · argument, proof (reasoning)
• 되새기다 doesaegida · go over again, reflect on
• 들어맞다 deureomatda · come true, fit, be right
• 맞아떨어지다 majatteoreojida · add up, come out right
• 맥락 maengnak · context
• 명백하다 myeongbaekada · clear, obvious, evident
• 모색 mosaek · search for, finding (a way)
• 모순 mosun · contradiction

sentences

• 우리는 왜 여행하는가? · Why do we travel?
• 좋은 논문이란 무엇인가? · What makes a good thesis?
• 고심 끝에 논문 주제를 정했어요. · After a lot of agonising, I’ve settled on my thesis topic.
• 그 문제를 다른 각도에서 보면 답이 보여요. · If you look at the problem from a different angle, you can see the answer.
• 자료가 너무 많아서 중요한 것을 가려내기 어렵다. · There is so much material that it is hard to pick out what matters.