Key terms & definitions

Printing a bleaching agent onto dyed fabric to remove colour selectively and create a paler design.

A follower who learns from a religious teacher. In Mark’s Gospel, disciples follow Jesus and respond to his teaching and call.

Following Jesus as a learner and committing to his teaching and way of life.

Teaching a child appropriate behaviour, boundaries and responsibility.

A break in a graph where the function has no value or the curve cannot be drawn continuously.

A break in continuity, such as an unexplained change in the location or events of an imagined story.

Variation in a characteristic whose values fall into distinct categories.

Variation in which a characteristic is recorded in separate categories rather than as values along a continuous scale.

A coastline where bands of different rock types run at right angles to the shore.

A coastline where bands of different rock types meet the coast approximately at right angles.

A word or phrase that signals a relationship between ideas, such as contrast, addition or consequence.

The stage in which a substance with the potential to become a medicine is found or designed.

Learning through actively exploring, experimenting and finding things out rather than only receiving information.

Numerical data that take separate values rather than any value within a range, such as the number of pedestrians counted.

Numerical data that can take only particular, separate values, often produced by counting.

Numerical data that takes separate possible values, such as the number of pets someone owns.

Numerical data consisting of separate possible values, such as the number of words recalled.

A quantity made from separate countable values, usually whole numbers, such as a number of cars.

Care in handling sensitive information and avoiding unnecessary disclosure.

The quantity $b^2-4ac$ in the quadratic formula; its sign determines how many real roots a quadratic equation has.

Unfair treatment of a person or group because of characteristics such as race, colour or ethnic origin.

Unfair treatment because of a characteristic such as age, disability, race, sex or religion.

In just war theory, distinguishing between combatants and non-combatants so that innocent civilians are not deliberately targeted.

Unfair treatment of a person because of a characteristic such as their gender, ethnicity, religion, age or disability.

Unequal treatment of people because of their membership of a social group.

Unfair treatment of someone because of a characteristic or condition, such as excluding someone because they have a mental health problem.

Unfair treatment of a person because of a characteristic such as their race, sex or disability.

A test used to find out whether people can detect a sensory difference between foods.

An extended essay question that asks you to explore an aspect of a text or evaluate a view, selecting your own supporting moments rather than being directed to a particular extract.

Writing that explores a topic through reasoned discussion of different ideas or viewpoints.