English
the study of language meaning
What is semantics?
The the second planet from the Sun
What is Venus
An angle less than 90 degrees
What is an acute angle?
a reformer who favors putting an end to slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
A notation device used to represent gradually increasing sound
What is a crescendo?
a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses
What is a conjunction?
The main gas that makes up the earth's atmosphere
The theory that states that the squares of two sides of a triangle equal the square of the hypotenuse.
What is the Pythagorean Theorem?
A government tax on imports or exports
What is a tariff?
The name of the clef that places middle C in the middle of the staff
words that identify a noun as being specific or unspecific.
What is an Article?
The largest desert on Earth
What is Antarctica
Any number that can be written as a fraction
What is a rational number?
a state of political hostility that existed from 1945 until 1990 between countries led by the Soviet Union and countries led by the United States
What is the Cold War?
The composer called the "Grand Master of the Fugue"
What is Johann Sebastian Bach?
a type of sentence that contains at least three clauses—two independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses
What is a compound complex sentence?
A decrease of density in something
What is rarefaction?
What is an asymptote?
a major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
What is the Federalist Party?
The mode in music based on the seventh scale degree
What is Locrian?
used to describe events or actions that have occurred in the past.
What is past continuous tense?
The medical term referring to the regeneration of heart tissue
What is angiomyogenesis?
the average amount by which individual data items in a data set differ from the arithmetic mean of all the data in the set.
What is standard deviation?
The 34th President of the United States
What is Dwight David Eisenhower
A major chord built on the flatted second degree
What is a Neapolitan chord?