Question 1

Polynomial

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A mathematical expression involving a sum of powers in one or more variables multiplied by coefficients.

Question 2

Quadratic Equation

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An equation of the second degree, meaning it contains at least one term that is squared. The general form is ax^2+bx+c=0.

Question 3

Metaphor

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A figure of speech that identifies something as being the same as some unrelated thing for rhetorical effect.

Question 4

Allusion

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A brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing, or idea of historical, cultural, literary, or political significance.

Question 5

Manifest Destiny

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A widely held cultural belief in the 19th-century United States that American settlers were destined to expand across North America.

Question 6

Plate Tectonics

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The theory explaining the structure of the earth's crust involving the interaction of rigid lithospheric plates.

Question 7

Passive Voice

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A grammatical voice common in many languages, used when the subject of the sentence is the recipient of the action.

Question 8

Hyperbole

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An exaggerated statement or claim not meant to be taken literally.

Question 9

Trigonometric Functions

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Functions of an angle, commonly used in fields such as mathematics, physics, engineering, and computer science.

Question 10

Constitution

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A body of fundamental principles or established precedents by which a state or other organization is acknowledged to be governed.

Question 11

Photosynthesis

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The process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods with the aid of chlorophyll.

Question 12

Civil Rights Movement

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A struggle for social justice that took place mainly during the 1950s and 1960s for Blacks to gain equal rights under the law in the United States.

Question 13

The Great Depression

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A severe worldwide economic depression that took place during the 1930s, beginning in the United States.

Question 14

Ecosystem

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A community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment, interacting as a system.

Question 15

Rational Numbers

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A number that can be expressed as a fraction where both numerator and denominator are integers.

Question 16

Reconstruction Era

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The period after the Civil War in the United States when the southern states were reorganized and reintegrated into the Union.

Question 17

Transcendentalism

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A 19th-century movement of writers and philosophers in New England who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought.

Question 18

Homophone

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A word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning, and may differ in spelling.

Question 19

Parallelogram

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A simple (non-self-intersecting) quadrilateral with two pairs of parallel sides.

Question 20

Biome

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A large community of plants and animals that occupies a distinct region.

Question 21

Cold War

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A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States and their respective allies, the Eastern Bloc and the Western Bloc, after World War II.

Question 22

Geometric Sequence

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A sequence of numbers where each term after the first is found by multiplying the previous term by a fixed, non-zero number called the common ratio.

Question 23

Oxidation-Reduction (Redox) Reactions

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A type of chemical reaction that involves a transfer of electrons between two species.

Question 24

Simile

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A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind.

Question 25

Syntax

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The arrangement of words and phrases to create well-formed sentences in a language.

Question 26

Onomatopoeia

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The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.

Question 27

Asyndeton

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A literary scheme in which one or several conjunctions are deliberately omitted from a series of related clauses.

Question 28

Box-and-whisker Plot

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A method for graphically depicting groups of numerical data through their quartiles.

Question 29

Industrial Revolution

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The transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

Question 30

Rational Exponents

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Exponents that are fractions. The numerator is the power and the denominator is the root.

Question 31

Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent ideas or qualities, by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense.

Question 32

Anaphora

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A rhetorical device that consists of repeating a sequence of words at the beginnings of neighboring clauses.

Question 33

The Civil War

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A major conflict fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865, between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy).

Question 34

Noun Clause

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A type of dependent clause that functions as a noun in a sentence.

Question 35

Independent and Dependent Variables

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In an experiment, the independent variable is the factor that is deliberately manipulated. The dependent variable is the factor that changes as a result of manipulating the independent variable.

Question 36

Semicolon

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A punctuation mark (;) used to join two independent clauses in a way that shows their close connection or to separate items in a complex list.

Question 37

Scientific Notation

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A way of expressing numbers that are too big or too small to be conveniently written in decimal form.

Question 38

The Louisiana Purchase

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A land purchase made by United States president Thomas Jefferson in 1803, where the U.S. acquired approximately 828,000,000 square miles of territory from France.

Question 39

Personification

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A figure of speech in which a thing, an idea or an animal is given human attributes.

Question 40

Imagery

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The literary term used for language and description that appeals to our five senses.

Question 41

Absolute Value

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A numerical value regardless of its sign; distance of a number from zero on a number line.

Question 42

Iron Curtain

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A political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.

Question 43

Atomic Number

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The number of protons in the nucleus of an atom, which determines the chemical properties of an element and its place in the periodic table.

Question 44

Theme

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The main idea or underlying meaning a writer explores in a novel, short story, or other literary work.

Question 45

Satire

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A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies.

Question 46

Ellipse

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A type of curve in a plane surrounding two focal points, the sum of the distances from any point on the curve to the two focal points is constant.

Advanced Concepts for Missouri Assessment Program (MAP) Preparation