It may also be of interest to all readers‚ whose command of English is sufficient to enable them to read texts of average difficulty and who would like to gain some information about the vocabulary resources of Modern English (for example‚ about synonyms and antonyms)‚ about the stylistic peculiarities of English vocabulary‚ about the complex nature of the word’s meaning and the modern methods of its investigation‚ about English idioms‚ about those changes that English vocabulary underwent in its
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The timeline of earth begin with three eras. The first era was the Paleozoic era. Then after that it was the Mesozoic era. The final and present era is the Cenozoic era‚ which we live in now. All of these eras had begun something new for the evolution of man today. The first era was the Paleozoic‚ which began 600 mya (million years ago). It started with the Cambrian period with the form of algae and simple invertebrates like the jellyfish and worms. Then came the Ordovician period 500 mya‚ when
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1. Lexicology and linguistics. Contrastive lexicology‚ object‚ aim‚ and tasks. 2. The history of contrastive lexicology‚ main units and terms. Ukrainian scientists‚ manuals‚ observing. 3. Language and vocabulary. The branches of Contrastive Lexicology. 4. Structural aspects of a word: External and Internal structure. Scientific methods to leant English and Ukrainian words in Comparison. 5. The semantic unity of a word. Polysemy: types of semantic component. Sema‚ Semema‚ semantic field. 6. The main
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etymological definitions‚ definitions by synonyms‚ definitions by description or definitions by examples. Etymological Definition This kind of definition defines a word by giving the meaning of the word or words from which is derived. For example‚ “philosophy” is derived from the Greek words philos and Sophia which mean “love” and “wisdom”‚ respectively. Consequently‚ the etymological definition of philosophy is “love of wisdom” Definition by synonym This kind of definition defines a word
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life. Chemical Background: Figure 1. Picture of Stillnox skeleton formula displaying organic functional groups. Source: Pubchem (2016) Zolpidem Information. Available at: https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/zolpidem#section=MeSH-Synonyms (Accessed: 12 July 2016). The skeleton formula of the drug Stillnox (C19H21N3O) allows for the organic compounds in the drug to be identified‚ the overall compound is identified as an aromatic heteropolycyclic (DrugBank‚ 2016). Nissa Garcia stated
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phase two‚ the person would experience an episodic memory‚ in order to remember the word. Methods: Besides the computer and all the hardware‚ the items utilized in this experiment are a list of words‚ which the participant has to either provide a synonym or a word that rhymes with that word in the phase one of the experiment. The time allotted for the answering is five seconds. On the phase two of the experiment‚ the participant has to recognize if the word was on the previous list or not. The lures
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FIRST PERIODIC TEST IN ENGLISH V (BLOOM’S TAXONOMY) First Periodic Test English V Directions: Listen as the teacher reads the sentences. In your answer sheet‚ shade the letter of the correct answer. 1. What intonation is used in the statements? a. rising b. falling c. rising – falling 2. In the sentence … Rose won the contest? …. What is the proper intonation? a. RISING
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on each word list like finding rhymes for a word and finding synonyms for a word. The rhyming task involved acoustic coding and the synonym task involved semantic coding. The participants were not told that they would be asked to try recalling the words on the word list however; they surprisingly did remember some of the words. The participants remembered more words from the synonym task rather than the rhyming task due to the synonym task involving deeper processing. This is called incidental learning
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All planets except Mercury and Venus have at least one moon. Saturn has the greatest number of moons—18. In 1995‚ the Hubble Space Telescope detected what appeared to be four additional moons of Saturn; however‚ that discovery has yet to be confirmed. Planet | Number of Moons | Names of Moons | Mercury | 0 | | Venus | 0 | | Earth | 1 | The Moon (sometimes called Luna) | Mars | 2 | Phobos‚ Deimos | | Jupiter | 16* | Metis‚ Adrastea‚ Amalthea‚ Thebe‚ Io‚ Europa‚ Ganymede‚ Callisto
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An Introduction to Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides “I was born twice; first‚ as a baby girl… and then again‚ as a teenage boy.” (Middlesex‚ 3) From just its opening line‚ Jeffrey Eugenides’s sophomore novel‚ Middlesex‚ provides an interesting paradox. The book’s title instantly suggests a biological ‘in-between’ of literally being of a middle-sex‚ whereas the opening line introduces the issues of gender‚ birth and self as a binary of being one or the other. This juxtaposition poses an intriguing
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