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Title: Which of the following is the definition of chicanery


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Which of the following is the definition of
chicanery?
  • Rude
  • Trickery
  • Comical
  • Immature

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  • Trickery

3
A filibuster is.
  • an attempt to delay or prevent action especially
    in a legislative assembly
  • Existing before war
  • lacking social experience or grace
  • deception by artful subterfuge or sophistry

4
  • a. an attempt to delay or prevent action
    especially in a legislative assembly

5
physics that deals with the mechanical action or
relations of heat
  • Laissez faire
  • Antebellum
  • Gauche
  • Thermodynamics

6
  • d. Thermodynamics

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a doctrine opposing governmental interference in
economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for
the maintenance of peace and property rights
  • Laissez faire
  • Filibuster
  • Gauche
  • Chicanery

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  • Laissez faire

9
If little Johnny is wiping snot on his shirt
sleeve instead of using a tissue, his behavior
would be considered
  • Chicanery
  • A filibuster
  • Antebellum
  • Gauche

10
  • d. Gauche

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Antebellum means
  • Existing after the war
  • Existing during the war
  • Existing before the war
  • Not existing at all

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  • c. Existing before the war

13
A-,an-
  • Self, same
  • Opposite
  • Without
  • New, recent

14
  • c. without

15
Thermo-,therm
  • one, single
  • All
  • Life, living
  • heat

16
  • d. heat

17
Hyper-
  • Without
  • All
  • Excessive
  • Self, same

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  • c. excessive

19
Geo-
  • Earth
  • Life, living
  • New, recent
  • Small

20
  • a. earth

21
Neo-
  • self, same
  • New, recent
  • Opposite, opposing
  • Heat

22
  • b. New, recent

23
Mono-
  • Without
  • Excessive
  • All
  • One, single

24
  • d. One, single

25
Auto-
  • self, same
  • Life, living
  • One, single
  • small

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  • a. Self, same

27
Anti-, ant-
  • Without
  • All
  • Heat
  • Opposite, opposing

28
  • d. Opposite, opposing

29
Bio-
  • Self, same
  • Life, living organism
  • New, recent
  • Earth

30
  • b. Life, living organism

31
Micro-
  • One
  • Small
  • All
  • without

32
  • b. small

33
Pan-
  • New
  • Life
  • All
  • Opposite

34
  • c. all

35
Kents journey went good.
  • What change, if any, should be made in this
    sentence?
  • a. Change Kents to Kents
  • b. Change journey to journy
  • c. Change good to well
  • d. Make no change

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  • c. Change good to well

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For more than 20 years, sailors have competed in
a race calledAround Alone. It is a boat race.
  • What is the BEST way to combine these 2
    sentences?
  • A For more than 20 years, sailors have
    competed in a race called Around Alone, it is a
    boat race.
  • B For more than 20 years, sailors competing in
    a boat race called Around Alone.
  • C For more than 20 years, sailors have
    competed and in a race called Around Alone,
    a boat race.
  • D For more than 20 years, sailors have
    competed in a boat race called Around Alone.

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  • D For more than 20 years, sailors have
    competed in a boat race called Around Alone.

39
Interested sailors come to new york to begin the
competition.
  • What change, if any, should be made in
  • this sentence?
  • A Change Interested to Intrested
  • B Change new york to New York
  • C Change the competition to it
  • D Make no change

40
  • B Change new york to New York

41
Since pizza comes in so many flavors and forms
Americans never tire of it.
  • What change, if any, should be made in this
    sentence?
  • Change comes to comes
  • Insert a comma after forms
  • Change tire to tired
  • make no change

42
  • B. Insert a comma after forms

43
Juan loves to play games. His favorite game is
chess because it requires a great deal of
thought. Juan also likes to play less demanding
board games that are based mostly on luck. He
prefers Monopoly because it requires luck and
skill. If hes alone, Juan likes to play action
video games as long as they arent too violent.
What is the main idea of this paragraph? a. Juan
dislikes violence.b. Juan likes to think.c.
Juan enjoys Monopoly.d. Juan enjoys playing
games.  
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  • d. Juan enjoys playing games.

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Maria is watching too much television. A toddler
shouldnt be spending hours staring blankly at a
screen. Worse yet, some of her wild behavior has
been inspired by those awful cartoons she
watches. We need to spend more time reading books
with her and pull the plug on the TV!
What is the main idea of this paragraph? a.
Watching a lot of television isnt good for
Maria.b. Books are good.c. All cartoons are
bad.d. Some cartoons are bad for Maria.
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  • a. Watching a lot of television isnt good for
    Maria.
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