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Vocabulary
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The Letter "C"
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100
1953
What is commonly known as the "year of Korea".
100
Abaya
What is a black cloak traditionally worn by Saudi women called?
100
Scavenger
What is the term that Eighner uses to define himself?
100
Clutter
What are the unnecessary words that fill up an essay or story?
100
Referential Mania
What is the made up disorder where the patient imagines that everything happening around him is a veiled reference to his personality and existence?
200
5
How many parts to a typical essay?
200
Metaphor
What is a word or phrase that refers to another word or phrase?
200
Storyteller, teacher, enchanter
What are the three things that Nabokov says a good writer should be?
200
Collocation
What is a combination of two or more words that are frequently found with one another?
200
Schrodinger
Who is the scientist who came up with the theory about a cat in a box and Quantum mechanics?
300
5000
What is the number of students at Fremont High?
300
Frenum
What is the word for the membrane on the underside of the tongue?
300
Audience, Words
What are chapters 5 and 6 of Zinsser's book called?
300
Chicago
What is the city where the author of Black Men and Public Spaces felt that he was terrifying people around him?
300
Davidson Hall C
What is the name of the dorm that Ravi and Clementi lived in?
400
6000
What is the number of languages in use today?
400
Necrophiliac
What do we call a person who has a sexual attraction to corpses?
400
A pleasant place to be; no where else to go.
What are some reasons Bird states in College is a Waste of Time and Money on why some students attend college in the first place?
400
China
What is the country where Maxine Hong Kingston comes from?
400
Basketball
What is Mitchell's favorite sport?
500
40
How many years ago was the term TCK first used?
500
Berik
What is the language of New Guinea that is dying out?
500
Sun Yat-sen, Chanting
What are two differences that Kingston states in Tongue-Tied about being at her American school versus being at the Chinese school?
500
Customer
What is the term that Staples calls students in reference to a college education as the product?
500
Gloves
What is the item that Peter Orner from the New Yorker hide from his father?
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