............5 THE WORDS.............................................7 WORD ANALYSIS ...............................103 IDIOM AND USAGE ............................117 About This Book English offers perhaps the richest vocabulary of all languages, in part because its words are culled from so many languages. It is a shame that we do not tap this rich source more often in our daily conversation to express ourselves more clearly and precisely. There are of course thesauruses but they mainly list common words. Other vocabulary books list difficult, esoteric words that we quickly forget or feel self-conscious using. However, there is a bounty of choice words between the common and the esoteric that often seem be just on the tip of our tongue. Vocabulary 4000 brings these words to the fore. Whenever possible, one-word definitions are used. Although this makes a definition less precise, it also makes it easier to remember. Many common words appear in the list of words, but with their less common meanings. For example, the common meaning of champion is “winner.” A less common meaning for champion is to support or fight for someone else. (Think of the phrase “to champion a cause.”) This is the meaning that would be used in the list. As you read through the list of words, mark any that you do not know with a check mark. Then when you read through the list again, mark any that you do not remember with two checks. Continue in this manner until you have learned the words. There are four...
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...English Personal Statement Having thoroughly enjoyed the study of English Language at A Level, I believe I have a secure academic foundation with which to approach a degree course in this subject with confidence and enthusiasm. The English Language takes a fundamental and crucial role in enhanced communication between different social groups, and to read English would, therefore, be extremely beneficial to both the development of my communication skills and my ability to express ideas and opinions Additionally, a course in English at this level would provide me with an opportunity to further my knowledge of the theory and historical basis of the language - each of these being aspects of the course that particularly interest me. I also look forward to studying the practical application of English in various social contexts, and the ways in which language has evolved and developed over time. I hope that successful completion of an English degree will be advantageous to me when pursuing a career in marketing and advertising - a field I aspire to enter upon leaving university In addition to my A Level courses, I have pursued various interests, both in and out of school - including the study of both theoretical and instrumental music to Grade V standard, by means of school lessons. Playing the 'cello has allowed me many opportunities to participate in numerous orchestral concerts and solo performances, which I feel have increased my confidence and improved my ability to communicate...
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...preserve traditional culture and knowledge. The formation of word may be the result of combination of two or more words. Separation of the words in meaningful sub-words is sandhi-splitting (sandhi viccheda). In sandhi splitter module, it will take Sanskrit text as input, then find out sandhi words and will give sub-words for respective sandhi...
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...the modern Japanese writing system along with hiragana and katakana. The Japanese term kanji for the Chinese characters literally means "Han characters"[2] and is written using the same characters as the Chinese word hanzi (simplified Chinese: 汉字; traditional Chinese: 漢字).[3] Kanji Type Logographic Languages Old Japanese, Japanese Parent systems Oracle Bone Script Seal Script Clerical Script Kaishu Kanji Sister systems Hanja, Zhuyin, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Nom, Khitan script, Jurchen script ISO 15924 Hani, 500 Direction Left-to-right Unicode alias Han This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. For a list of words relating to kokuji, see the Japanese-coined CJKV characters category of words in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Contents History Orthographic reform and lists of kanji Kyōiku kanji Jōyō kanji Jinmeiyō kanji Hyōgaiji Japanese Industrial Standards for kanji Gaiji Total number of kanji Readings On'yomi (Sino-Japanese reading) Kun'yomi (Japanese reading) Mixed readings Special readings Single character gairaigo Other readings When to use which reading Pronunciation assistance Spelling words Dictionaries Local developments and divergences from Chinese Kokuji Kokkun Types of Kanji: by category Shōkei moji (象形文字) Shiji moji (指事文字) Kaii moji (会意文字) Keisei moji (形声文字) Tenchū moji (転注文字) Kasha...
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...one can expect that such ligands might possess the corresponding type of biological activity and therefore could be used as ‘’hits” for drug design. All ligands in this tutorial are described by means of an extended set of MACCS fingerprints, each of them comprising 1024 bits, the “on” value of each of them indicating the presence of a certain structural feature in ligand, otherwise its value being “off”. Part 1. Two-Class Classification Models. 1. Data and descriptors. The dataset for this tutorial contains 49 ligands of Angeotensin-Converting Enzyme (ACE) and 1797 decoy compounds chosen from the DUD database. The set of "extended" MACCS fingerprints is used as descriptors. 2. Files The following file is supplied for the tutorial: • ace.arff – descriptor and activity values 3. Exercise 1: Building the Trivial model ZeroR In this exercise, we build the trivial model ZeroR, in which all compounds are classified as “nonactive”. The goal is to demonstrate that the accuracy is not a correct choice to measure 1 the performance of...
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...National Textile University B.Sc. Textile Engineering Assignment no 1 Environmental Science Title : Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Submitted By: Adeel mazhar 08-NTU-093 Affan Waqar 08-ntu-94 Submitted To: Sir Irfan siyal Date: 27-03-201 Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) What are Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC’s) that we hear so much about? Simply, they are chemicals which are carbon-based (hence the “organic” in the name, as organic chemistry is the study of carbon containing compounds) and which volatilize – or rather, evaporate or vaporize – at ordinary (atmospheric) temperatures. This is a very broad set of chemicals! These volatile organic compounds (VOC’s) are ubiquitous in the environment. You can’t see them, but they’re all around us. They’re not listed as ingredients on the products you bring home, but they’re often there. The most common VOC is methane, which comes from wetlands and rice agriculture to …well, “ruminant gases” (or cow farts – which are actually not a trivial consideration: cows are responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gasses – read more here). We ourselves contribute to CO2 emissions each time we breathe out. They’re also in paint, carpets, furnishings, fabrics and cleaning agents. The evaporating chemicals from many products contribute to poor indoor air quality, which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates...
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...This is an essay, hello Search Browse RandomLists.com! Pictionary Nouns Adjectives Verbs Adverbs Charades Vocabulary Words Languages Compound Words Prepositions Boggle » More » Random words: 1. horses 2. stiff 3. brake 4. happy 5. youthful 6. calendar 7. condition 8. thoughtful 9. fence 10. play 11. receipt 12. momentous 13. pretend 14. government 15. yak 16. warm 17. action 18. influence 19. word 20. interest 21. bear 22. welcome 23. husky 24. pail 25. snail 26. railway 27. wet 28. old-fashioned 29. nosy 30. yard 31. mixed 32. teeny 33. judicious 34. discussion 35. gigantic 36. steady 37. wide-eyed 38. tasteful 39. milky 40. astonishing 41. root 42. desire 43. sand 44. lick 45. scorch 46. sleepy 47. transport 48. productive 49. waste 50. park 51. cemetery 52. tub 53. squeak 54. lucky 55. observe 56. behave 57. jaded 58. general 59. rail 60. rabbits 61. hallowed 62. show 63. weigh 64. slippery 65. cream 66. warm 67. jealous 68. label 69. continue 70. stingy 71. strip 72. month 73. cracker 74. famous 75. clumsy 76. damage 77. imported 78. attractive 79. jeans 80. scrape 81. frightening 82. brake 83. ripe 84. massive 85. river 86. valuable 87. flesh 88. arithmetic 89. note 90. sisters 91. marble 92. invincible 93. hair 94. stop 95. drunk 96. gun 97. imagine 98. cough 99. twist 100. pear 101. muscle 102. thundering 103. earthy 104. run 105. cap 106. ragged 107. discover ...
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...Study Guide and Reinforcement Student Edition ips.msscience.com Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the United States Copyright Act, no part of this publication may be reproduced or distributed in any form or by any means, or stored in a database retrieval system, without prior written permission of the publisher. Send all inquiries to: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 8787 Orion Place Columbus, OH 43240 ISBN 0-07-867338-0 Printed in the United States of America 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 045 09 08 07 06 05 04 Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Nature of Science . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 Chapter 2: Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 Chapter 3: Atoms, Elements, and the Periodic Table . . . . . . . . . .9 Chapter 4: States of Matter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13 Chapter 5: Matter—Properties and Changes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17 Chapter 6: Atomic Structure and Chemical Bonds. . . . . . . . . . .21 Chapter 7: Chemical Reactions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 Chapter 8: Substances, Mixtures, and Solubility . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Chapter 9: Carbon Chemistry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .29 Chapter 10: Motion and Momentum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Chapter 11: Force and Newton’s Laws . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Chapter 12: Forces and Fluids . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....
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...sheet (page 3) for the experiment and answer the questions. Note: read the lab introduction for clarification on the difference between physical and chemical changes. Remember that a physical change often occurs during a chemical change, but a chemical change does not always happen when a physical change occurs. If you still have questions ask your instructor. From experiment # 1 we learned that a chemical change results in a color change, the formation of bubbles, the formation of a precipitate, or a change of temperature. Keep that in mind when you are deciding whether a physical or chemical change has occurred. Data Table (8 points) Read carefully before you begin your experiment! Be complete when writing your observations. One word observations are not usually complete. If there is a color change, include the color before and after. For example, silver to black. A color change is not always a chemical change. It may simply be a dilution. For example, if the color changes from blue to lighter blue after the addition of water, it is not a chemical change but a dilution. Be sure to describe the color change carefully. Describe what you see in concise detail without forming a conclusion. Do not write conclusions instead of...
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...tried to emphasize areas that are both commonly used and commonly misunderstood, such as the use of modal auxiliaries like can, could, shall, should, etc. Punctuation marks are not included in this list; they have a separate section in this Appendix. “People who are experts in grammar don’t always write well, and many people who write well no longer think consciously about grammar … but when something goes wrong in a sentence, a knowledge of grammar helps in recognizing the problem and provides a language for discussing it.” — H. Ramsey Fowler – 265 – The Tongue and Quill a/an Active Voice Adjective Use a before consonant sounds and an before vowel sounds Shows the subject as the actor. (pages 73-74). Describes or limits a noun or pronoun. It answers “Which one? What kind? or How many?” Modifies or limits a verb, adjective or another adverb and answers “When? Where? Why? How much? How far? To what degree?” Conjunctive or Connective Adverb—transition words that often appears to connect clauses. Adverbs Antecedent Appositive Article Bibliography Noun, phrase or clause to which a pronoun refers or replaces. (pages 99100) Word, phrase or clause preceding or renaming a noun. Small set of words used with nouns to limit or give definiteness to the application. A list of books, articles and other works used in preparing a manuscript or other written product. (See “The Mechanics of Research,” pages 345347.) Any punctuation symbol used to emphasize specific items...
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...break them down into anything simpler. New statements can be obtained from existing ones in two ways. 1) Transform a given statement p into the statement ￢p, which denotes its negation and is read “Not p.” For the statement p above, ￢p is the statement “Combinatorics is not a required course for sophomores.” (We do not consider the negation of a primitive statement to be a primitive statement.) 2) Combine two or more statements into a compound statement, using the following logical connectives. a) Conjunction: The conjunction of the statements p, q is denoted by p ∧ q, which is read “p and q.” In our example the compound statement p ∧ q is read “Combinatorics is a required course for sophomores, and Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind.” b) Disjunction: The expression p ∨ q denotes the disjunction of the statements p, q and is read “p or q.” Hence “Combinatorics is a required course for sophomores, or Margaret Mitchell wrote Gone with the Wind” is the verbal translation for p ∨ q, when p, q are as above.We use the word “or” in the inclusive sense here. Consequently, p ∨ q is true if one or the other of p, q is true or if both of the statements p, q are true. In...
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...ingnited by the fuse. An explosion occurs which produces hot rapidly expanding gases . This is an example of the “Law of Volumes” which is an experimental gas law which describes how gases tend to expand when heated. Since all the kenetic energy is contained in a tube the shell has no place to go but up. This is Newton’s third law in action which states (in laymans terms) “for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction”. The next two stages in the process happen almost simultaniously the bursting charge, explodes out ward dispersing the pellets or stars which give us our colors and patterns. This happens when the ariel shell is at the apex of its climb via a time delay fuse. Chemical Agents Oxidizer, what is an oxidizer? The word "burning" describes the oxidation of a fuel in air. A campfire, for instance, uses oxygen from the air to turn wood (cellulose) into steam (H2O) and carbon dioxide (CO2), among other things. So why do fireworks need an oxidizer? Simply because our atmosphere doesn't provide the chemicals with enough oxygen (O2) to sustain the rapid rate of burning that fireworks require in order to give off color, shoot into the air, or explode. Fuels,The most commonly used fuel would be gunpowder, also commonly known in the pyrotechnic industry as black powder. The fuel source is also known as the reducing agent in a pyrotechnic...
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...Grand Canyon University American Psychological Association [APA] Style Guide for Writing Introduction Students of Grand Canyon University (GCU) are required to use a writing style associated with the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.) for preparing written assignments, except where otherwise noted. In the interest of providing resource material for student use, this guide to APA style and format has been developed and made available. It is based on the 5th edition of the APA Manual. However, the guide only highlights aspects of APA style and format, and so it is recommended that students use the APA Manual as a resource when writing APA-style papers. APA Templates (with and without abstract) and an APA PowerPoint Presentation have been provided in the Student Success Center’s Writing Center for student download and use. PLEASE NOTE: The curriculum materials (Syllabus, Readings/Lectures, Resources, etc.) created and provided by GCU in the online or Web-enhanced modalities are prepared using an editorial format that relies on APA as a framework but which modifies some formatting criteria to better suit the nature and purpose of instructional materials. Students and faculty are advised that GCU course materials do not adhere strictly to APA format and should not be used as examples of correct APA format when preparing written work for class. APA Format and Style General Academic writing, which is independent thought supported...
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...to has-have when used as the SECOND helping verb in a pair. They do NOT apply to any other helping verbs, such as can, could, shall, should, may, might, will, would, must. The subject-verb agreement rules apply to all personal pronouns except I and you, which, although SINGULAR, require PLURAL forms of verbs. Now click on the link below to do exercise 1. Link to Exercise 1 The remainder of this teaching unit deals with some more advanced subject-verb agreement rules and with exceptions to the original subject-verb agreement rule Compound Subject The word “compound” means “made up of two or more parts.” Two or more words can be compounded or linked by joining them with any of three words: and, or, and nor Here are some examples of compounding: Compound nouns can function as a “compound...
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...Types of Word Formation Processes Compounding Compounding forms a word out of two or more root morphemes. The words are called compounds or compound words. In Linguistics, compounds can be either native or borrowed. Native English roots are typically free morphemes, so that means native compounds are made out of independent words that can occur by themselves. Examples: mailman (composed of free root mail and free root man) mail carrier dog house fireplace fireplug (a regional word for 'fire hydrant') fire hydrant dry run pick-up truck talking-to In Greek and Latin, in contrast to English, roots do not typically stand alone. So compounds are composed of bound roots. Compounds formed in English from borrowed Latin and Greek morphemes preserve this characteristic. Examples include photograph, iatrogenic, and many thousands of other classical words. Note that compounds are written in various ways in English: with a space between the elements; with a hyphen between the elements; or simply with the two roots run together with no separation. The way the word is written does not affect its status as a compound. Over time, the convention for writing compounds can change, usually in the direction from separate words (e.g. clock work), to hyphenated words (clock-work), to one word with no break (clockwork). If you read older literature you might see some compound words that are now written as one word appearing with unfamiliar spaces or hyphens between the components Another...
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