Taxonomy classifies groups of biological organisms. From highest to lowest they are: domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order... (last three)
family, genus, species
This language used to be common even in public school curricula but in the '60s even the Catholic church dropped it
Part of many religions it's the opposition to war & violence as means of settling disputes
Pacifism
What proper name is spelled, unusually, with a single n both on the Liberty Bell and in the U.S. Constitution?
Pennsylvania
From the Greek for words it's a dictionary or the vocabulary of a particular field
A lexicon
The three main branches of Biology are Botany, microbiology, and...
zoology
The Catholic revival that began in the mid-1500s is also called the Counter-this
THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
Renoir & Monet were part of the 1874 exhibition of this artistic movement
Impressionism
What extra letter did Dan Quayle add to the word "potato" when he misspelled it in 1992?
e (potatoe)
This 11-letter political word entered our vocabulary after Massachusetts' governor signed a redistricting bill
Gerrymander
What is divided into the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum?
The small intestine
The Protestant society called this color Order is named for the king who defeated Catholic James II in Ireland in 1690
Orange
Repeated or habitual relapse into crime
Recidivism
You must be cognizant of misspellings in a catagory like this otherwise you might be embarrassed
Category
It's the 8-letter term for the specialized vocabulary used by attorneys
Legalese
What process is divided into 4 parts: prophase, metaphase, anaphase, and telophase?
Cell mitosis
Is the birthplace of most of the world's major religions (which continent)
Asia
You're likely to hear You are getting very sleepy from someone practicing this
Hypnotism
What Margate City, New Jersey, housing area has been misspelled on the Monopoly board for almost eighty years?
Marven Gardens
It entered our vocabulary in 1953 when the oil & gas journal called it a new exploratory tool
Fracking
For his tenacity, nineteenth-century biologist Thomas Huxley was nicknamed whose "bull-dog"
Darwin's
Who is worshipped by Ganapatya Hindus as the supreme god?
Ganesh
To keep an industry safe from foreign competition the government might impose quotas or tariffs examples of this -ism
Protectionism
In the Bible, whose daughter-in-law Orpah is the source for Oprah Winfrey's misspelled name?
Naomi
Often found before "enthusiasm", it literally refers to a horse without control reins & bit
Unbridled