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Define:
Snollygoster
Hullabaloo
Raucous
Felicitous
Abstain
Accost

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A shrewd but unprincipled person
A loud noise made by people who are angry or annoyed
Constituting a disturbingly harsh or loud noise
Well suited to circumstances
Retain from doing something
Address someone boldly or aggressively

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Define:
Kyphosis
Homorganic
Polysemous
Widdershins
Heliosphere
Expert system

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Excessive rounding of the spine
Phonemes with the same place of articulation
A sign with multiple meanings
Counterclockwise
The boundary where solar wind collides insterstellar wind
A bound lexeme that is morphologically independent but phonologically dependent
A program that can stimulate the behaviour of a human expert

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Hubble constant

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The constant of proportionality in hubbles law

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Define:
Hubble sphere vs observable universe which is bigger
Power function

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Observable universe
A monomial with a constant as an exponent

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Define:
jabberwocky
Structured data
Gradualism
Scriptorium
Semistructured data
Unstructured data

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Meaningless or made up language
Data organized for efficient access
The idea that evolution is gradual
A writing room in medieval monastaries for scribes
Data that is structured with metadata
Data with multiple media types that cant be organized easily

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Define:
Chiral center
Pandiculate
Regimented
Sialoquent
Austere

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A carbon atom with four regions of electron density and an enantiomer
involuntary stretching of soft tissue
Strictly organized or controlled
Tending to Spit while talking
Severe or strict in manner, attitude of appearance

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Define:
Quibble
Deterministic AI model
Probabilistic AI model
SWIFT

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To fixate on a small detail to avoid the main point
Models that can only manipulate a premade data set
Models that can change the data set that they manipulate
The network international payments are made through

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