Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET) March 2023 - General Education Vocabulary

A collection of vocabulary-style flashcards based on the General Education questions for the March 2023 Licensure Examination for Teachers (LET), covering literature, history, science, and mathematics.

Thomas Paine

The author of the quote: “These are times that try men’s souls.”

Jose Garcia Villa

The Filipino poem author known for the lines: “O is she rosely loved Is she lovely rosed O is she lovely sung as sea-shells?”

Oscar Wilde

The author of the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Carl Linnaeus

The scientist known as the father of modern taxonomy.

Andres Bonifacio

The leader of the Filipino “Katipuneros” during the open rebellion signaled by the “Cry of Balintawak.”

Depravity

A vocabulary term meaning viciousness.

Aquilino Pimentel

The individual known as the “Father of the Local Government Code.”

Diego de los Rios

The last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines.

Food web

A model demonstrated to show the feeding connections between all life forms.

Marcelo H. Del Pilar

The individual who used the term “Frailocracia” to describe the hidden control and domination by Spanish religious priests over the colonial government.

Payne-Aldrich Act

A law passed by the US Congress in August 1909 that established partial free trade in the Philippines.

Nick Joaquin

A Filipino writer in English who utilized Hispanic Filipino culture and traditions in his fiction works.

Ellipsis

A data gathering method using three consecutive dots to indicate that parts of a paragraph were not quoted.

Syntax

The study of the rules regarding how words are ordered within a sentence.

Autotrophy

A metabolic process whereby organisms like plants create their own food by absorbing and processing sunlight.

Archipelagic doctrine

The territorial boundary principle adhered to by the Philippines as an insular country.

Instructional Systems Design

A methodology widely used for the development of new training programs.

Edgar Dale

The individual considered to be the “Father of Modern Media in Education.”

Abacus

The first manual data processing device, developed in China in the 12th century A.D.

Xenocentrism

A manifestation of colonial mentality where an individual believes that what is foreign is best and what is local is inferior.

Diosdado Macapagal

The Philippine President who changed the date of Independence Day celebration from July 4 to June 12.

Agueda Esteban

The Katipunan member who commuted from Cavite to Manila to purchase materials for making ammunitions.

Robert Malthus

The theorist to whom the idea that population increases by geometrical ratio while subsistence means increase by arithmetical ratio is attributed.

Francisco Dagohoy

The revolutionary leader who waged a long war against the Spanish government because it denied his brother a proper burial.

Doctrina Christiana

The first book published in the Philippines.

Liberalization

Government measures aimed at removing hindrances to the entry of foreign products, services, and capital between countries.

Asia

The largest of the seven continents comprising continuous land masses.

Constitutional monarchy

The form of government in England featuring a parliament, a prime minister, and a monarch.

Educational psychology

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

Thigmotropism

The organismal response to stimuli where leaflets close when touched, as seen in the Mimosa pudica (Makahiya).

Law of Inertia

The law of motion providing the explanation for why riders in a bus are pushed forward during a sudden stop.

Adrenaline

The hormone responsible for an individual's ability to perform extraordinary physical feats during emergencies, such as carrying a heavy object alone during a fire.

Mean absolute deviation of $60, 80, 100, 75 \text{ and } 95$

$$12.4$$

Common fraction equivalent of $0.215$

$$\frac{43}{200}$$

Secondary coil voltage

The voltage across a transformer secondary coil with $20$ turns when the primary coil has $100$ turns and $10\,V$, which equals $2\,V$.