Language6 Flashcards

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Define
Abjuration
Infract
Referent
Numeronym
Nominalisation
Officious

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Stating that a person no longer agrees with a belief
Break the terms of a law or agreement
The thing a lexeme denotes
A lexème made partially of numeric phonemes
The use of a non noun as a noun
Tending to offer ones services when they are not wanted or needed

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Danish Numbers
Gothic numbers
Vandalic numbers
Old saxon numbers

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En, to, tre, fire, fem, seks, syv, otte, ni, ti
Ains, twai, (thorn)reis, fidwor, fimf, saihs, sibun, ahtau, niun, taihun
Einz, twei, treis, fidwur, fimf, sehs, sibun, ahto, niun, teihun
En, twēne, thrie, fiuwar, fif, sehs, sivun, ahto, nigun, tehan

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Define:
Caucus
exter book
Subterfuge
Clinomania

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A meeting between people working towards the same goal
The largest manuscript of old English literature
Deceit used to achieve a goal
Excessive desire to stay in bed

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Define:
Groak
Puffery
Apricity
Snoutfair

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To stare at someone who is eating in hopes that they will share
Exaggerated praise
Warmth of the sun in winter
A beautiful thing

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What marked the termination if attic Greek
The cyclades are islands of this country

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The start of the Hellenistic period
Greece

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Define:
Brabble
A posteriori
slugabed
Grooming
Ekphasis
Apposition

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To argue about stupid things
Ideas that come from experience instead of assumptions
A person who sleeps in all the time
When someone controls a child by building trust with them first
Description or Commentary on art
Lexemes that are placed side by side so that one is a qualifier of the other

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Why was oxygen called dephlogisticated air
Greek name of mercury
Spanish word for being moved by a work of art

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It supported combustion but had no pholgiston
Hydrargyrum
Duende

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What are Boundary currents
Types of boundary currents
define the types of boundary currents

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Ocean currents dictated by a
coastline
Western and eastern
Western forms on the west side of ocean basins and eastern forms in the east

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Defjne:
Western intensification
Fictitious force
The trade winds
Polar equation

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The tendency of west boundary currents to be stronger than east boundary currents
A force that acts on a mass that follows a non-inertail reference frame
Winds that blow near the equator
A relationship between the two polar coordinates

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Relationship between the central angle and the length of an arc
How many radians is a degree
Fornula of arc length
What type of triangle is herons formula useful for, what about them
What is herons fornula

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Proportional
Pi over 180 radians
Radius times central angle
Oblique triangles, their height
The area of an oblique triangle is half of absinC

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What was the great vowel shift
what were the old Saxons called
Regions of the duchy of saxony
The Dutch of Saxony was a state in
this
Gau is a —— term, meaning what
What was a medieval estate, what is it in german
Why doesn’t the term Anglo-saxons tribute the jutes
How many states did the holy roman empire have
Justify ‘traditore traddutore’

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A change in english vowel phones
The ealdseaxe
Nordalbinga, angria, westphalia anf eastphalia
Holy rom empire
Germanic, Region in a country
A part of the holy roman empire that could vote in the diet, Reichsstand
The angles and Saxons saw themselves as a gene anglorum
Saxons
1800
Translators can translate words but not the cultural context

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Define:
Vassal
Conflated
Free imperial knights
Ecclesiastical
Bay of kiel

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A medieval person granted land from a lord in return for service
Mistakenly Combine multiple ideas into one
Medieval knights with imperial immediacy
Relating to the Christian church
Bay around kiel

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England came during this century
England got the name engla lond after this
How much old English poetry was in the exter book
Name for peterborough for Anglo saxons
When did English replace French as the language of parliament
What did SPQR stand for

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Early Tenth
Anglo Saxons gained political unity
A sixth
Medeshamstede
The 1360s
Senatus populusque romanus

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Old english nominative and accusative neuter article
Old english plural nominative and accusative article, what is it the same as
Old English Genitive and dative feminine article
In what case is the masculine the same as the neuter

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(Thorn)(ash)t
(Thorn)ā, the accusative feminine article
(Thorn)(ash)re
Genitive and dative

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Define
Loaded language
Weasel words

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Use of words with strong connotations
A pretence of something specific and meaningful

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