Quiz 1

Question 1

(par’ă-doks) 1: a tenet contrary to received opinion 2a: a statement that is seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense and yet is perhaps true b: a self-contradictory statement that at first seems true c: an argument that apparently derives self-contradictory conclusions by valid deduction from acceptable premises 3: one (such as a person, situation, or action) having seemingly contradictory qualities or phases

Answer 1

Paradox

Question 2

a proposition antecedently supposed or proved as a basis of argument or inference

Answer 2

Premise

Question 3

the quality or state of being productive

Answer 3

Productivity

Question 4

Acting in anticipation of future problems, needs, or changes

Answer 4

Proactive

Question 5

Emotional brain

relating to, or marked by reaction or reactance 2a: readily responsive to a stimulus b: occurring as a result of stress or emotional upset

Answer 5

Reactive

Question 6

A philosophical and theoretical framework of a scientific school or discipline within which theories, laws, and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them are formulated

How you see and understand the world. Mental map.

Answer 6

Paradigm

Question 7

1a: a comprehensive and fundamental law, doctrine, or assumption b(1): a rule or code of conduct (2): habitual devotion to right principles

Answer 7

Principle

Question 8

the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure :

The use of insight and understanding in making a choice

Answer 8

Discernment

Question 9

1: to make understandable clarify a subject The president was forced to clarify his position on the issue. 2: to free of confusion needs time to clarify his thoughts 3: to make (a liquid or something liquefied) clear or pure usually by freeing from suspended matter

Answer 9

Clarify

Question 10

Existing in possibility : capable of development into actuality

Answer 10

Potential