Language Flashcards

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Define
inoculate
Ascetic
Idiolect
Xeric
Xi
Flimflam
Genuflect

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Introduce a microorganism into an organism to prevent illness
characterized by severe self discipline and abstention from indulgence
A persons way of speaking
(Of an environment) Dry
The fourteenth star of a constellation
nonsense or insincere talk
Bend a knee to the ground

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Define:
Daltons law
Benfords law
Hess law
Hubbles law
Boyle law
Ideal gas law equation

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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

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Esperanto:
Vekigâs
Komencigas

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To wake up
To begin

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Define:
Curglaff
Nascent
Incipient
Oxytone
Paronymous

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The shock when one plunges into cold water
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

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French: I want to plan a look for my job interview
I hate when you fight in the frozen section
We sell many things
My timetables broadcast a desire for a day off
I was celebrating my job interview
Such a cold makes me sneeze and stretch

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Je veux prévoyer un l’air pour mon entretien d’embauche
je hais quand tu te bats dans le rayon surgele
On vend plein des choses
Mes horaites diffuse in desire pour un jour de conge
Je fetais mon entretien dembauche
Un telle de rhume me fait eternuer et m’entirer

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Why was west saxon the language of government
It was originally just the language of this
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

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Most of mercia and northumbria were overrun by the vikings in the ninth century
West saxon
Mercian and Northumbrian
450 to 650
Old norse
East anglia, sussex, essex, kent, mercia, wessex and northumbria, in the fifth century

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How many hieroglyphs were there
What was a determinative
Hieroglyph for a million
Hieroglyphics for name
Hieroglyphs for great
Indication of a bent stick
Indication of a line
Why did the egyptians later add a lion for L

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Over 700
A symbol that came after a word and gave you clues to what it was
God hey, who was eternity
Oval over wavy line, rn
Spear on its side
Throw
A picture that means what it depicts
To pronounce foreign names

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8
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Define:
Carbene
Carbocation vs carboanion and which is electrophilic
Radicals
Which carbon species have six valence electrons
Singlet vs triplet carbene

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A carbon atom with two bonds and a lone pair
Both are carbon atoms with three bonds but a carboanion has a lone pair and a carbocation does not, carbocation
A carbon atom with three bonds and another unpaired electron
Carbenes and carbocations
Singlets have two electrons with opposite spins and triplets have two electrons with parallel spins

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Official lang of
andorra
Afghanistan
algeria
antigua and barbuda
angola
Belgium
Bhutan
Sudan
The bahamas
Botswana
Brunei
Chad

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Catalan
dari and pashto
arabic and berber
english
portugese
German, dutch and French
Dzongkha
Arabic and english
English
English
Malay
French and arabic

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10
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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

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Sabahiniz xeyir
Zdravo
Shuprobhat
Geia sou
Xin chao
Witam
Bon dia
Zao shang hao

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Numbers in old saxon

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Ēn, twēne, thrie, fiuwar, fif, sehs, sivun, ahto, nigun, tehan

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Numbers in Icelandic

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Einn, tveir, (thorn)rír, fjórir, fimm, sex, sjö, átta, níu, tíu

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Define:
Deiquescent
Macabre
Neologism
Omnishambles
Loquacious

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liquidifying or tending to liquidify
Disturbing and horrifying
A newly coined lexeme
Disorder caused by a poor decision
Talkative

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14
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Whats is initial consonant mutation
Debuccalization vs palatinization
Synchronic vs diachronic linguistics
What is Assimilation
Lexical vs prosodic stress
Medial vs lateral consonants

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phonemic variations of the initial consonant in a word
Debuccalization is shifting to the larynx and palatinization is shifting to the palate
Synchronic views language at a specific point in time and diachronic views its evolution
The blending of sounds into the sounds around them
Lexical stress is put on parts of words and prosodic stress is put on whole words
Medial means air flows down the center of the toungue and lateral means it flows on the sides

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15
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Define:
Slubberdegullion
Quokerwodger
Zenzizenzizenzic
Obdurate
Evangelize
Quire

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A filthy, worthless person
A puppet
To the eighth power
Stubbornly refusing to change ones opinion
Convert to Christianity
25 sheets of paper

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16
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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

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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