Passage 1
Passage A
What does 'virtually' mean?
almost
nearly
Paragraph C
What is meant by 'pioneers'?
People who started or established a settlement or place to live.
Paragraph A
What is the verb, adjective and adverb of
Intelligence
Adj - intelligent
Adv - intelligently
V - intellectualise (x3)
Paragraph E
What does 'toggling' mean?
a link between two things or states
a pull between two things or states
Paragraph A
What does 'familiar tongue' mean?
Same language
Understandable language
Paragraph H
What does the writer mean by 'The Lapita's thrust into the Pacific'?
They moved quickly or fast into the Pacific ocean.
Paragraph C
What does 'the key to triggering a creative event' mean?
an important sth makes a creative event/thing happen
Paragraph F
What are two synonyms of 'aspect'?
element
factor
state
manner
appearance
Paragraph B
What does 'alpine' mean?
What does 'gleaned' mean?
alpine - mountains/ mountain areas (x1)
gleaned - looked for with difficulty (x1)
Paragraph I
What does 'they encountered hundreds of islands' mean?
They found many islands.
Paragraph D
What is the singular for 'stimuli'?
Stimulus
Paragraph E
What does 'oblique' mean?
Not expressed directly
Paragraph H
What does 'plumes of smoke' mean?
Paragraph D
What does 'latent inhibition' mean?
when all our ideas are blocked or ignored to save us from information overload in our brain
Paragraph E
What does 'conclusively identifies' mean?
Finally finds out who they are looking at.
Paragraph C
What does 'derives from' mean?
Comes from
Is originated from (x2)
Paragraph E
What does 'strikingly' mean?
Very surpisingly