Key terms & definitions

A group within wider society with distinctive styles, interests and attitudes.

A culture within a wider culture, with distinctive norms, values or practices.

The process in which one tectonic plate sinks beneath another into the mantle.

A smaller category within a wider genre, with its own more specific conventions.

A narrower category within a broader genre, with more specific conventions, such as vampire horror within horror.

A heading within a text that introduces a section and helps readers follow its organisation.

Creating another level of feudal landholding when a tenant granted land to someone who then became that tenant’s own tenant.

The variable written alone on one side of a formula and calculated from the other variables.

The variable isolated on one side of an equation, expressed in terms of the other quantities.

The variable that stands alone on one side of a formula.

The person, thing or idea that a clause is about, which normally controls the form of its verb.

Influenced by a person's opinions or judgements rather than determined entirely by objective measurement.

Based on an individual’s personal feelings, awareness or interpretation rather than something independently observable by everyone.

Based on an individual's feelings, opinions or judgement rather than solely on an objective measurement.

How a person sees or identifies their own social class, which may differ from a classification based on occupation, income or wealth.

Evidence based on an individual’s personal experience or interpretation, which others cannot directly experience in the same way.

A judgement influenced by an individual's opinions or perceptions.

Poverty defined according to whether people consider themselves to be living in poverty.

A vision experienced inwardly, such as a mental image or an inner message believed to come from God.

A judgement influenced by personal opinions, experiences or preferences.

Dependence on personal judgement or interpretation rather than evidence that can be assessed independently.

The variable isolated on one side of a formula, such as $v$ in $v=u+at$.

The variable written alone on one side of an equation; changing the subject means rearranging the equation to isolate a different variable.

People living under the authority of a monarch; Cleopatra’s subjects included different communities with potentially different interests.

The grammatical matching of a verb to its subject in number and person: ‘she writes’, but ‘they write’.

The domination of a group through force or control, denying its members freedom and power.

A direct change from solid to gas without becoming liquid.

The change from a solid directly to a gas, without passing through the liquid state.

The change of state directly from solid to gas, without becoming liquid first.

A printing process in which heat-activated dyes transfer into polyester fabric or a polyester-coated surface.