When a group of friends have an "inside joke" that uses language others of their own language or speech community would not understand, they are using a(n) ______
A) idiolect
B) lexicon
C) dialect
D) abstract language
A
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Hispanics who lived in the borderland communities of southern Colorado and northern New Mexico
a. had grazed sheep on the open range in the 1870s. b. found their freight businesses replaced by the railroads by the 1880s. c. increasingly competed with Anglo settlers for grazing land. d. were squeezed out by major livestock companies. e. All of these choices.
The duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton was the result of
A. Hamilton's election as governor of New York. B. a dispute over a woman. C. a business failure between them. D. Burr's belief that Hamilton's malevolence had cost him the New York governor's race. E. Burr's attempt to capture Mexico from the Spanish.
The term "Vietnamization" refers to the policy of
A. countering antiwar propaganda with a campaign to tell the "real story" in Vietnam.
B. shifting the burden of actual combat to the South Vietnamese.
C. shifting U.S. military operations from conventional tactics to guerrilla-type combat like that of the Vietcong.
D. training U.S. troops in the "Nine Rules" for understanding Vietnamese culture.
Expressionism is best defined as
A) a style of painting that sought to capture an emotional or spiritual reality. B) an expression of fleeting moments not of reality but in memory. C) a glimpse of the soul of the subject. D) the return to capturing the exact likeness of a subject in artistic representation. E) a style of painting that sought to record the fleeting appearance of objects as they appear to the eye.