Text 7: Ernest Rutherford
To leave one's home country to settle permanently in another. SPELL THIS WORD CORRECTLY FOR DOUBLE POINTS
What is to emigrate?
Oxygen causes metals to ___________
What is to corrode?
It was the great Sir Isaac Newton who _____ the theories of motion, verifying and extending the earlier work of Galileo and Copernicus.
What is formulated?
The answers are always __________ since even if we knew his technique, we wouldn't become Einstein.
What is unsatisfying?
Goðafræði in English
What is mythology?
the practice among those with power or influence of favouring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs
What is nepotism?
said when introducing a new expression or a variation on a familiar one
What is to coin a term?
I only buy pyjamas for my toddler which are labelled 'non-____________'
What is flammable?
Compared to a tennis ball, a truck has a great deal of _________.
What is inertia?
understanding something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning
What is intuition?
Good friends never leave each other _______________.
What is in the lurch?
Knowing oneself.
What is self-awareness?
a stable subatomic particle with a positive electric charge of +1 e
What is a proton?
Hydrogen and oxygen are the main _______ of the water we drink.
What are constituents?
The ability to bounce back.
What is elasticity?
feelings of personal omnipotence and grandeur.
What is megalomania?
Loki's curiosity is not able to be satisfied, or __________________.
What is insatiable?
To move forward.
What is to advance?
all of a sudden
What is spontaneously?
When oxygen, which is very active chemically, readily combines with other substances.
What is oxidation?
My affection is ____________ _____________ to the quantity of your farts at the dinner table.
What is inversely proportional?
Kip Thorne, a CIT physicist, ________ Einstein's deep insight to his 'conviction that the universe loves simplicity and beauty'
What is attributes?
Loki is in ___________ small, agile, with crafty eyes and a laughing face.
What is physique?
A psychiatrist prescribes medication, but a talking therapist is known as a ______________.
What is a psychologist?
Like planets, electrons orbited a central, sun-like __________.
What is a nucleus?
The process of converting nitrogen to its free state.
What is nitrogen fixation?
If you are smart, don't __________ her from the competition.
What is to discount?
What is subtly?
I find the sound of a fire ______________ to be soothing.
What is crackling?
In the US educational system, a degree beyond a Bachelor's is called a __________ degree.
What is postgraduate?
An ancient protoscience
What is alchemy?
The living part of a cell that is surrounded by a plasma membrane.
What is protoplasm?
to make sure that something is true
What is to verify?
I would rather not _____________ that situation, thank you.
What is visualize?
Franz Kafka's notorious short story about a young man who turns into a cockroach is called the _____________.
What is Metamorphosis?
The ability to understand another person's feelings.
What is empathy?
Verb for the noun 'emission'
What is to emit?
What you do to fruit in order to make a smoothie.
What is to liquify?
__________ causes a force on a surface which is in the opposite direction to its motion.
What is friction?
One great ____________ is that Einstein argued against the existence of black holes, which are now beyond dispute.
What is a blunder?
To be officially called to something
What is to be summoned?
The interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements.
What is synergy?