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1. Is it ever okay to start a sentence with the word but?
2. What is the longest word in the English language?
3. I'm learning English now, so I gave myself an English name ? "Vivi." However, an American told me that "Vivi" is not suitable for a name. There are some local reasons. So I want to know if "Vivi" really can't be used as a name.
4. I'm guessing the word quadroon is four of something. But what's a roon?
5. In Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, what's a samovar?
6. I came across a music channel that featured "tejano," and then I saw the same word when I was reading Bless Me, Ultima. What does it mean?
7. In The Awakening, there's a term "prunella gaiter." I'm guessing that gaiters are a type of covering for your legs, like the gaiters I use on my ski boots to keep snow out. But what the heck is prunella? Is it a purplish color like prunes?
8. What's sedulous mean?
9. What is it called when something is out of place in time, like a jet stream in a movie about ancient Rome?
10. What is it called when a word is the same both forward and backward?
11. What did Alice Walker mean in the essay "Beauty"?
12. Do swans really sing when they die?
13. What does indignation mean?
14. What is a pundit?
15. What is a cleft sentence?
16. What is misanthropy?
17. What does ignominy mean? (From Shelley's Frankenstein)
18. What does pecuniary mean? (From Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities)
19. Why do some authors use the word an before all words that start with an H? Is this form of writing correct?
20. My school newspaper claimed that I am. is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. Isn't Go. a complete sentence?
21. How did people make up the lb. abbreviation for pounds?
22. What are the humanities?
23. How would you use the word antecede in a sentence?
24. Who wrote, "A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still"?
25. Could you please explain the difference between affect and effect?
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