Key terms & definitions

A decision about how much public money to give to different services, projects or priorities.

A way of financing media production and distribution, such as public funding, advertising income or not-for-profit support.

A ceremony marking a person’s death, honouring their life and supporting mourners, usually before burial or cremation.

An association whose members made regular contributions towards funeral costs and support when a member died.

The main communal act of worship for a person who has died; it may take place with or without Mass.

A public speech delivered to honour the dead. Pericles’ Funeral Oration also praises Athens and encourages the living to defend it.

A pile of combustible material on which a body is burned.

A religious ceremony of prayers and actions marking a person’s death, commending them to God and supporting those who mourn.

An object placed with a dead person as part of their burial, also called a grave good.

A ceremonial group accompanying a dead person's body to its place of cremation or burial.

A small reproductive particle produced by a fungus that can disperse and, if it reaches a suitable host, start a new infection.

A chemical treatment used to kill or inhibit fungi.

A chemical that kills fungi or inhibits their growth.

A pathogen that can cause disease in plants or animals and may reproduce by producing spores.

Supernatural female figures associated with punishment, whose unprecedented tears show how deeply Orpheus’s song moves the underworld.

An intense, uncontrolled passion, such as rage, that can overwhelm judgement and drive destructive action.

Post-16 education below degree level, including courses in sixth forms and further education colleges; it is also available to adults.

An additional enquiry designed to test a new question, extend the evidence or examine whether a result applies under other conditions.

‘Branches of religion’: the name given to the practices of Shi’a Islam, including the Ten Obligatory Acts.

A safety component that melts and breaks a circuit if the current is too large.

A safety device containing a wire that heats up and melts when the current becomes too large, breaking the circuit.

A 3D-printing method in which thermoplastic filament is heated and extruded through a nozzle to build an object in layers.

The ease with which a material melts, making it suitable for processes such as soldering.

A heat-activated bonding material used to attach one fabric layer to another.

A soldier belonging to a regiment of fusiliers.

A rapid burst or volley of gunfire; Carson uses the word metaphorically for a barrage of questions.

Joining textile layers using heat, either to activate an adhesive or to soften compatible synthetic surfaces so they unite.

Cooking that combines ingredients, dishes or techniques associated with different culinary traditions.

Pointlessness or ineffectiveness: effort and suffering fail to achieve a meaningful result.

The interpretation that the full establishment of God’s Kingdom lies in the future.