Math/CS
this specific data type can only hold one of two possible values: True or False.
Boolean
Who wrote the pamphlet "Common Sense"
Thomas Paine
This financial statement measures a company's financial performance over a specific accounting period by subtracting total expenses from total revenues.
What is an income statement or Profit/Loss
What are the four macromolecules
Proteins, Carbohydrates, Lipids, Nucleic Acids
While a word's denotation is its literal dictionary definition, this term refers to the emotional or cultural baggage that comes with the word.
Connotation
This theorem states that if a function is continuous on [a, b] and differentiable on (a, b), there exists a point c where the instantaneous rate of change equals the average rate of change.
Mean Value Theorum
What year did the civil war start
1861
This financial contract gives the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell an underlying asset at a specified strike price before a certain expiration date.
What is a put option
This constant, denoted by the letter "h", relates the energy of a photon to its frequency
Planck's Constant
Gatsby’s real name is revealed to be this
James Gatz
This is the sum of the infinite geometric series 1 +1/2+1/4+1/8+...
2
Which country funded the most conquests throughout history, attaining the most territory of 35.5 million sq miles
Great Britain (British Empire)
This phrase refers to a company outsourcing a business process, like customer service or manufacturing, to another country to cut costs.
Offshoring or Outsourcing
These tiny cellular fragments circulating in the blood play a crucial role in blood clotting and wound healing.
Platelets or Thrombocytes
Grammar error that occurs when two independent clauses are joined together with only a comma and no coordinating conjunction. (Commonly tested on SAT)
Comma Splice
This occurs when a function or algorithm calls itself directly or indirectly during execution to break down a complex problem.
Recursion
What book led to the Meat and Drug Inspection Act being passed
The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
This economic phenomenon occurs when inflation remains high while economic growth slows and unemployment steadily rises.
Stagflation
This term describes the heat energy absorbed or released by a substance during a phase change, such as melting or boiling, without changing its temperature
Latent Heat
This device juxtaposes two completely opposing ideas within a parallel grammatical structure
Ex: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Antithesis
This algorithmic Principle utilizes the concept that if n items are put into m containers where n > m, at least one container must hold more than one item.
Pigeonhole Principle
What was the XYZ affair
A diplomatic incident between France and USA leading to an undeclared war.
This type of legal agreement prevents a former employee from working for a direct competitor or starting a competing business for a specific period.
Non Complete Clause
This aquatic crisis occurs when runoff delivers excess nutrients to a body of water, triggering massive algal blooms that deplete dissolved oxygen and suffocate marine life.
Eutrophication
Poetry repetition of identical or similar consonant sounds within or at the end of words in close proximity,
Ex: "all mammoths murmured."
Consonance