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Define
Abridge
Debauch
Substantiate
Fracture(linguitics)

A

Truncate without losing the sense
Destroy the moral purity of
Support with evidence
The transformation of a vowel into a diphthong

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Define:
Querulous
Distrain
Ablation
Arrogate
Brite

A

Whining petulantly
Seize property as payment
Removal of something
Take without justification
To be or become overripe

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Which goth division was frendlier to the romans
Which founded the kingdom of asturias
The visigoths migrated to gaul and Iberia from where
Which sacked the western Roman Empire and when
The empire of which ruled Italy in the fifth century, who destroyed thag empire

A

The visigoths
The visigoths
The region north of the danube
The Visigoths in 410
the ostrogoths, the byzantines

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Define
Glaive
Enervate
Enmesh
Equivocate

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Sword
Be indecisive
Cause to become entangled
Use ambiguous language to conceal the truth

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Old English verbs
To say
To wound
To go
To make
To do
To devour
To lick
To see
To bless
To come
To eat
To ask

A

Cweþan
Gewundian
Gān
GeMacian
Dōn
Fretan
Liccan
Geseon
Bletsian
Cuman
Etan
Āscian

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Realis vs irrealis mood

A

Realis is fact and irrealis is not

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Era of the dinos
What ice age are we in

A

The mesozoic era
The quaternary glaciation

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What part of engla land was heavily influenced by the scandinavian, what dialect was it
Example of breaking in old English, in what dialect did it happen, in what dialect did it not happen

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The north, Dialect Northumbrian
Ald into eald, west saxon, anglian

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According to a study how many years does a doctor save patients over their whole career
How much has medicine increased average life expectancy
What things increased life expectancy more than medicine

A

100
A bit
Better nutrition and improved saniated

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Functional vs chronological resume
Which is better, why
When to use a functional resume

A

Functional lists relevant job experience and chronological lists all job experience
Chronological, it assures employers you dont have a history of some
unemployment
When you have no recent experience, in a major career pivot, or if you have various short term positions

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Determining r or s configuration
How must tetrahedral molecules be oriented
What order do atomic numbers get put in
sequence acronym
Formula for how many possible r or s configurations

A

With the lowest atomic number facing away
Highest to lowest
Counters
Square the number of chiral centers

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Simplest carboxylic acid
What do you get when you dehydrogenate an alcohol
Acétone structure
Ketone plus ether is
Morpheme for ‘plus carboxyl’
Wuza phenyl group

A

Formic acid
An aldehyde
Methyls on either side of a ketone
Ester
Oic acid
A benzene ring added on

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13
Q

Mandarin
Auf weidersehen
Ich verstehe nicht
Gern geschehen
Verzeihung

A

Zainjan
Tingbudong
Buyong xie
Buhaoyisi

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Define
Belabor
Catenate
Defer
Expunge

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Argue or elaborate in excessive detail
Arrange in a series of rings or chains
Postpone
Remove completely

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