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LISTENING FOR INFORMATION AND IDEAS – type of listening that most students do in the
classroom
2. RESONATION – amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as nose,
windpipe and chest.
3. Plants – disadvantageous source of energy because consumption affect the population’s food
supply.
4. Metaphor - a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to
which it is not literally applicable. Ex: The sun was a ball of fire over the mountain.
5. Apocalyptic – means prophetic
6. Impertinent – means irrelevant
7. Red Letter Day – an idiom, a day that is pleasantly noteworthy or memorable
8. It was a black tie affair - Social events where all attendees are expected to wear formal attire.
Both males and females attending a black tie affair make efforts to comply with the dress code
and choose clothing that is considered appropriate formal dress for the time of day, the season,
and the nature of the event
9. My mother has a green thumb – an example of a synecdoche, which means having natural
talent for growing plants
10. “O wild west wind!” – example of apostrophe – a figure of speech
11. “To be, or not to” be is the opening phrase of a soliloquy spoken by Prince Hamlet in the so-
called "nunnery scene" of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet. Act III
12. Salitang ugat – pinakapayak na anyo mg salita na walang kahalong panglapi.
13. Kabanata I – bahagi ng pananaliksik kung saan makikita ang panimula, kaligiran ng pag aaral at
konseptuwal framework.
14. Median - measures of central tendency that is not influenced by extreme scores
15. Te - Tellurium is a chemical element with symbol Te and atomic number 52
16. Solid, liquid, gas and plasma are states of matter
17. Autotrophic – organisms that can make own food like plants.
18. Heterotrophic – depends on producers for food ex: grasshopper
19. AB -> A + B is a decomposition reaction
20. Ferromagnetism refers to materials (such as iron and nickel) that can retain their magnetic
properties when the magnetic field is removed.
21. Lungs – main organ of respiration
22. Chlorophyll – a molecule/pigment that allows plants to capture energy from the sun.
23. Cilia – hair like structure that serve a sensory function in eukaryotic cells.
24. Philippine constitution – fundamental law of the Philippines.
25. The Bell Trade Act of 1946, also known as the Philippine Trade Act, was an act passed by the
United States Congress specifying policy governing trade between the Philippines and the
United States following independence of the Philippines from the United States.
26. “preserve and defend its Constitution” – one of the pledges of the president of the Philippines
27. The Jones Law created the first fully elected Philippine legislature. The Jones Law provided for
both houses to be elected and changed the name of the Assembly to the House of
Representative.
28. Reduccion – Spanish policy that provided for the resettlement of Filipino communities to form
towns centers of cabeceras.
29. Huseng sisiw - José de la Cruz, more popularly known as Huseng Sisiw, was one of the great
Filipino writers during the Spanish regime. He is given the honor of Hari ng mga Makata in the
Philippines
30. Html - HyperText Markup Language
31. Angono - “The Arts Capital of the Philippines”
32. Carlos Modesto Villaluz Francisco, popularly known as Botong, was a muralist from Angono,
Rizal
33. Love begets love – if you offer love you will be loved in return
34. Frivolous – not important,
35. Filipino first policy – Carlos P. Garcia
36. Uranium – highly reactive because they emit alpha particles
37. Bilingual project of deped – encourages students to be proficient in both English and Filipino.
38. “maglubid ng buhangin” – nagsisinungaling
39. certain species of mosquitoes of the Anopheles genus—and only females of those species—can
transmit malaria
40. A pardon is an act of grace which exempts the individual on whom it is bestowed from the
punishment which the law inflicts for the crime he has committed.
A parole is when a prisoner is released from imprisonment but his liberty is not fully restored
because the parolee is still considered in the custody of the law although he is not in
confinement.
A commutation is a reduction or mitigation of the penalty, e.g., when the death sentence is
reduced to life imprisonment.
A reprieve is merely a postponement of a sentence to a date certain, or a stay of execution. It
may be ordered to enable the government to secure additional evidence to ascertain the guilt of
the convict or, in the case of the execution of the death sentence upon a pregrant woman, to
prevent the killing of her unborn child.
An amnesty is an act of grace given with the concurrence of Congress. It is usually extended to
groups of persons who committed political offenses and it abolishes the offense itself.
41. Adding iodine to bread will make the bread blue.
42. Wilfredo MA. Guerrero – most outstanding playwright in English.
43. “I die just when the dawn breaks to herald the day”. – taken from Rizal’s The Last Farewell
44. Articulate – able to express oneself clearly
45. Imperative – having to do with vital requirement, very important
46. Hydrogen – most abundant element in the universe
47. Granite - Granite is a light-colored igneous rock with grains large enough to be visible with the
unaided eye. It forms from the slow crystallization of magma below Earth's surface.
48. Boiling point of water in kelvin - 373.1 K
49. Gilbert Stuart's unfinished 1796 painting of George Washington is also known as The
Athenaeum, his most celebrated and famous work.
50. Ilibing sa limot – kalimutan
51. Archimedes' principle states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed
in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body
displaces and acts in the upward direction at the center of mass of the displaced fluid
52. Bile – emulsifies fats
53. wind pollinated flowers, are usually small and inconspicuous, and do not possess a scent or
produce nectar
54. The amount of light entering the human eye is regulated by the diameter of the pupil
55. Fray Botod, meaning Big-Bellied Friar, is a character sketch written by Graciano Lopez Jaena in
1874 when he was only eighteen years old. In this work, he caricatured the typical friar of the
day as abusive, cruel, lazy, indifferent, greedy and lustful
56. Nínay is the first novel authored by a native Filipino. Originally written in the Spanish language
by Pedro Alejandro Paterno
57. Vocabulario de la Lengua Pampanga (Pampanga vocabulary)-the first book in Pampango written
by Fr. Diego in 1732
58. Phrenology is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person's character and
mental capacity.
59. In its classical and modern forms, the alphabet has 24 letters, ordered from alpha to omega,
omega being the last
60. Salacot refers to the peculiar broad-brimmed headgear, mostly conical in shape, worn by
Filipinos as they work in the fields and the sea
61. INFRACTION means breaking the law
62. CURTAIL means to reduce or limit
63. VEXATIOUS – annoying
64. VOYEUR – peeping tom
65. Laughing gas - Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas
66. Pitchblende - amorphous, black, pitchy form of the crystalline uranium oxide mineral uraninite;
it is one of the primary mineral ores of uranium
67. Diamond is the hardest naturally occurring substance found on Earth
68. Turned up a new leaf - to change your behavior in a positive way
69. High minded – honorable, having strong moral principles.
70. Copernicus – publicly stated that the sun was at the center of the universe and the Earth
revolves around the sun.
71. Sex tourism – sexual acticity in exchange of remuneration.
72. Vitamins – can be absorbed by the body without undergoing digestion
73. Ecdysis – similar to molting, the process of shedding the old skin (in reptiles) or casting off the
outer cuticle (in insects and other arthropods).
74. Eutrophication – an environmental condition that usually blamed for the occurrence of fish kill
75. Genocide is intentional action to destroy a people (usually defined as an ethnic, national, racial,
or religious group) in whole or in part
76. The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem in Middle High
German
77. “First rate” – means excellent
78. Penchant – means strong or habitual liking for something or tendency to do something
79. Sublimation – a process where solid turns to gas without passing the liquid state as in what
happens in dry ice
80. Esoteric- understandable only by a select group.
81. Admonitory – warning to avoid danger.
82. Transcendental – supernatural
83. Illusive – based on false ideas.
84. Equinox –when day and night are equal in length.
85. Iambic pentameter - a line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or
unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable, for example Two households,
both alike in dignity.