Juan and Melinda have been in a committed relationship for two years, but lately, Melinda has been using every disagreement with Juan to prove that she’s “right.” Juan is confused, hurt, and frustrated by Melinda’s __________________________ style of conflict management, and is questioning whether he even wants to continue to relationship with her.

The vocabulary, or collection of words and expressions used a language, is called the lexicon.

An oxygen (O2) sample with a mass of 8.0 g has a volume of 2.6 L. What will the volume be if 10 g of neon is added without a change in pressure and temperature ?

The process of transforming thoughts, feelings, and concepts into symbols and organizing them into a message is called encoding.

The invention of new words in the English language, such as texting, googling, cyberbullying, sexting, tweeting, retweeting, netiquette, webinar, emoticon, and blogging are all examples of how language ___________________________.

Diana takes a work phone call while she’s driving her car.  She tries to pay attention to the call, but she also has to focus on traffic and driving.  What kind of context is affecting Diana’s communication?

The term exigence refers to the reason a speech needs to be given.

Of the following decision-making methods used in problem-solving (average group opinion, majority rule, and unanimous decision), groups like unanimous decision the most because it takes the least amount of time.

The observation from the words that I would now insist upon is this.—“There is nothing that keeps wicked men at any one moment out of hell, but the mere pleasure of God.” This is a quotation from which of the following selections?    

An inactive area of a pixel covers 20% of a pixel.  What is the fill factor?