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Kickoff 9
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10th Grade
03/19/2008

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beleaguer

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to besiege; beset; surround or harass

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In World War II, the Russian city of Stalingrad was _______ by the German Army for five months before it fell to the Germans.
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beleaguered
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casere was replaced by what from low german and later in middle english by the french or latin form of the name.
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keiser
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caesar was at first used for what?

 

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a title of emperors down to Hadriah and also is the root of german, kaiser and russian tsar
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in united states slang around 1900, a sheriff was who?
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Great Seizer
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the caesar salad id named not for the emperor but for this person located in this area who was a restaurant owner who is said to have served the first on around 1924.
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cesar Cardini in Tijuana mexico
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precarious

 

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unsafe, unsteady, unstable
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it was a ______ moment; we were out of town, without any money and without any gas.
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precarious
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caesarian section is said to have come from who?
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caius julius caesar
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caesar is said to have been delivered how?
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surgically
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cadere means?
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to cut
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pliny derives his cognomen from caesaries "hair". why?
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caesar was born with a full head of hair
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caesarian sectin may come directly from where?
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caesus
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beget
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to give birth to, to create
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The Wright Brothers didn't invent the airplane, but they were the ____ of the first sustained fight in the U.S.
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begetters
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july is from the anglo french _____, the french ____ and the latin ____
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julie , jule and julius
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julius caesar was born in this month meaning five
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quintilis
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what month does the roman calendar start?

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march
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amenable
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agreeable, responsible to authority, pleasant, willing to give in to the wishes of another
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jack was such a classy guy, always ______ to any reasonable solution to a problem.
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amenable

 

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german was first used how?
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in julius caesar "germani" to designate a group of tribes in northeastern gaul
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german is mayube of what origin meaning?

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celtic or gaulish orgin meaning noisy or neighbor
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roman writes also used teutoni as what?
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a german tribal name
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latin writes after about 875 comonly refer to the german language as
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teutonics
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