Key terms & definitions

The pattern of behaviour expected of someone occupying a particular social position.

The process through which people are selected for and placed into positions in society, particularly occupational roles.

Understanding your own responsibilities and how they connect with the responsibilities of other team members.

A clash between the demands of different roles held by the same person.

Someone whose behaviour, achievements or success inspires others and may encourage them to participate.

A person whose behaviour or achievements provide an example that others may aspire to follow.

A person or character whom someone admires, looks up to or wants to resemble.

A change in the expected relationship between characters, such as children becoming moral teachers to their parents.

A narrow fabric edge rolled and secured with stitching to enclose its raw edge.

A follower with a freely rotating roller at its contact point with the cam, reducing friction and wear.

Read Only Memory: non-volatile main memory that holds the instructions needed to start a computer. During normal operation, its contents are read rather than changed.

A legal status giving a person membership of the Roman state, with particular rights, protections and obligations.

An emergency office in the Roman Republic giving one commander exceptional authority for a limited period.

A medieval architectural style fashionable in Western Europe which drew on Roman architecture and recalled the power of the Roman Empire.

The spread and adoption of Roman practices under Roman rule, including changes to settlements, religion, culture and ways of life.

A territory governed by Rome through its own officials, supported by Roman military forces.

A comedy centred on lovers overcoming obstacles and misunderstandings, usually reaching a happy resolution.

A film genre combining the development of a love relationship with humour, commonly using conflict, obstacles and eventual reconciliation.

An artistic and literary movement that valued emotion, imagination, individual freedom and the power of nature.

Love presented through emotional attachment, affection and a desire for a relationship with another person.

A character whose exceptional ambition drives them beyond human, natural or moral limits, with destructive consequences. Victor’s pursuit of creative power makes him a Romantic overreacher.

A secondary storyline concerning a developing love relationship, running alongside the main plot.

An ethnic group with origins in north-west India whose ancestors migrated through Asia into Europe. Romany communities reached Britain in the early sixteenth century.

The October 1936 understanding between Germany and Italy to cooperate in foreign policy.

An overcrowded district of poor-quality housing, often containing a maze of narrow alleys and courts.

The usual temperature of the surroundings; in this context it is about 20 °C.

The conditions of room temperature and ordinary atmospheric pressure, abbreviated to RTP.

The usual conditions under which the GCSE molar gas volume is used, commonly taken as $20\,^{\circ}\text{C}$ and a pressure of one atmosphere.

A value of $x$ that makes an equation true; on the graph $y=f(x)$, a real root is an $x$-coordinate where the graph meets the $$-axis.

The starting node of a tree, from which every character's path begins.