LET March 2023 General Education Practice Flashcards

This set covers vocabulary, historical figures, scientific concepts, and linguistic terms from the March 2023 General Education board exam review.

Candor

The quality of being open and honest in expression; frankness.

Voracious Reader

A person who reads a vast amount of books or magazines with great enthusiasm, often from cover to cover in one sitting.

Moral

The practical lesson or principle contained in or taught by a story, such as 'honesty is the best policy'.

Baduy

A Filipino expression that connotes looking awkward or unstylish.

Negative Prefixes

Prefixes such as 'in-', 'il-', 'ir-', and 'un-' that change the base word to a negative or opposite meaning.

Have a finger in the pie

An idiomatic expression meaning to take an active part or share in something.

Apostrophe

A figure of speech where the speaker addresses an absent person, an abstract idea, or an inanimate object, such as 'O wild west wind!'

Metaphor

A figure of speech that makes a direct comparison between two unlike things without using 'like' or 'as', such as 'The second time it was a tiny snake' in 'The Brook'.

Epistolary Literature

A type of literature where the story is constructed through an exchange of letters.

Homer

The first mythical geographer recognized for his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by the hero Ulysses.

Nick Joaquin

A Filipino writer in English known for incorporating Hispanic Filipino culture and traditions into his fiction work.

Editorial Section

The part of the newspaper where the opinions of the people and the editorial staff are published.

Rubaiyat

A loosely joined series of 280 stanzas with the general theme of grasping pleasure while one can.

Self-efficacy

The belief in one's ability to succeed; individuals with a strong sense of this view challenges as tasks to be mastered and recover quickly from setbacks.

Lucio San Pedro

A famous composer from Angono and a National Artist of the Philippines.

Conditioning

Identified as the lowest form of learning.

Educational Psychology

The application of the principles and theories of human behavior to the processes of teaching and learning.

Frailocracia

The term used by Marcelo H. Del Pilar to describe the hidden control and domination by Spanish religious priests over the colonial government.

Falla

The exemption fee paid by native and Chinese male mestizos during the Hispanic era to be excused from forced labor.

Jones Law Preamble

A document containing the concrete promise of American recognition of Philippine independence as soon as a stable government could be established.

Writ of Habeas Data

The legal right invoked to protect information privacy.

Utilitarianism

The economic and ethical policy that a good action is one that helps the greatest number of people.

White collar mania

A social bias among parents and youth favoring professional office work over manual or technical occupations like masonry or mechanics.

Humanists

Followers of a social trend who advocate for the revival of the classics.

Check and Balance

A constitutional safeguard designed to prevent any one branch of government from becoming too powerful or abusive.

St. Thomas Aquinas

A philosopher who advocated for the use of reason in understanding the existence of God.

Ecological Niche

A term describing how a species, such as an ant colony, copes with everyday life and interacts with its environment.

Linnaeus

The father of modern taxonomy responsible for coining the term 'Homo sapiens' for humans.

Nucleic Acid

The molecules that contain the genetic make-up of an organism.

Capsid

The protective protein shell surrounding a virus.

Acid Rain

Wind-carried polluted air that falls to earth, poisoning fish and destroying vegetation.

Hypotonic Solution

A solution that causes a plant cell to swell when immersed.

Macromolecular

A classification for large molecules such as polysaccharides, triglycerides, polypeptides, and nucleic acids.

Surface Tension

The property that allows objects like a toothpick to sit on the surface of water.

Metalloids

Elements that possess properties of both metals and non-metals.

Manganese (III) fluoride

The correct chemical name for the compound $MnF_3$.

Pascal

A measure of pressure defined as one newton per square meter ($1\,N/m^{2}$).

Metric Carat

A unit of mass for measuring gemstones equivalent to $200\,mg$.

Geographical Isolation

A concept that explains speciation when a population is separated by physical barriers, such as a lake or a dam.

Metatesis

A morphophonemic change (pagbabagong morponemiko) involving the transposition of phonemes within a word.

Syntax

The study of the rules for how words are arranged within a sentence.

Penomenal

A type of sentence that refers to natural or environmental events (pangyayaring pangkalikasan).

Impresyonista

A literary approach, also known as reader-response theory, that emphasizes the personal taste and reaction of the reader.