Language Flashcards
Define
Bog men
Ascetic
Xeric
Xi
Flimflam
Genuflect
Bodies from long ago preserved in bog
characterized by severe self discipline and abstention from indulgence
(Of an environment) Dry
The fourteenth star of a constellation
nonsense or insincere talk
Bend a knee to the ground
Define:
Daltons law
Benfords law
Hess law
Hubbles law
Boyle law
Ideal gas law equation
The total pressure of a mixture of nonreacting gases is the sum of the pressures of the individual gases
Certain digits are more common as the initial digit
At constant temperature, heat change or enthalpy of a reaction is the same regardless of the sequence of steps
Galaxies move away from us at speeds proportional ti their distance
The product of a gas’s pressure and volume is always constant
PV = NRT
Define:
Curglaff
Nascent
Incipient
Situationship
Paronymous
A romantic relationship that is not formal
An inchoate thing beginning to display signs of future protential
just starting to happen or develop
A word having an accent on the last syllable
coming from the same lexical origin
Why was west saxon the language of government
Anglian is what two dialects of old English
When was prehistoric old English spoken
What language had the greatest effect on English
Heptarchy kingdoms and when were they
What englisc dialects diverge in the Middle English period
Most of mercia and northumbria were overrun by the vikings in the ninth century
Mercian and Northumbrian
450 to 650
Old norse
East anglia, sussex, essex, kent, mercia, wessex and northumbria, in the fifth century
West saxon and kentish
Carbocation vs carbanion, which is electrophilic
Which carbon species have six valence electrons
Singlet vs triplet carbene
Nucleophile vs electrophile
carbocation
Carbenes and carbocations
Singlets have two electrons with opposite spins and triplets have two electrons with parallel spins
Nucleophiles donate and electrophiles accept
Language of:
Niger
Belize
Bosnia and herzegovina
Botswana
Cabo verde
Cameroon
Cambodia
Cornwall
DRC
Isle of man
French
English
Bosnian
English
Portugese
French and english
Khmer
Cornish
French
Manx
Hello in azerbajani
Hello in Slovenian
Hello in Bangla
Hello in greek
Hello in Vietnamese
Hello in polish
Good morning in catalan
Good morning in mandarin
Sabahiniz xeyir
Zdravo
Shuprobhat
Geia sou
Xin chao
Witam
Bon dia
Zao shang hao
Numbers in old saxon
Ēn, twēne, thrie, fiuwar, fif, sehs, sivun, ahto, nigun, tehan
What is sonorizing lenition
What is assibilation
Why do velars assimilate easily
What type of trills are nog possible
Lenition that increases the sonorance of a phoneme
Turning a sound into a sibilant
Movements of the dorsum are unprecise
Velar trills
Define:
Deiquescent
Capitulate
Neologism
Omnishambles
Tautological
liquidifying or tending to liquidify
Cease to resist an opponent or demand
A newly coined lexeme
Disorder caused by a poor decision
Needless repetition of an idea
Debuccalization vs palatinization
Debuccalization is shifting to the larynx and palatinization is shifting to the palate
Define:
Zenzizenzizenzic
Obdurate
Evangelize
Quire
Philology
To the eighth power
Stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion
Convert to Christianity
25 sheets of paper
Study of language history and relationships
Define:
Open vs closed syllables
Lenis vs fortis consonants
Lenition vs fortition and which are intervocalic consonant associated with
Englishs palatal approximant
How to make a consonant
What characterizes a sonorant
A syllable is open if it ends in a vowel and closed if not
Lenis means voiced and fortis means not
Lenition decreases stricture and fortition does not, with lenition
Y
Obstruct air in some part if the mouth
A continuing resonant sound
Define
Fronted vs retracted
Centum vs satem
centumization
Centralized vs midcentralized vowel
Fronted is Pronounced further forward in the vocal tract than normal and retracted is further back
The centum are the western branches of the indo European branches and the satem branches are the eastern
The sound charge that turned the palatovelars into plain velars in centum languages
Centralized is pronounced toward the center and midcentralized is not
How acidic are Hydrocarbons
Combustion reactions only make this if they are incomplete
Three major reactions with hydrocarbons
Not very
Carbon monoxide
Halogenation, combustion and dehydrogenation
