Key terms & definitions

A pair or set of equations that must be true for the same values of the variables.

A pair of values that satisfies both equations at the same time.

A thought or action that goes against God’s will or religious moral teaching.

The covenant between God and the Israelites at Mount Sinai, mediated by Moses, through which the people undertook to obey God’s commandments.

The policy announced in 1989 allowing Eastern European communist states to choose their own course without Soviet intervention.

The ratio of the side opposite an angle to the hypotenuse in a right-angled triangle.

Marriage without manus: the wife's legal family status remained as it had been before marriage.

A formula relating each side of any triangle to the sine of its opposite angle: $\frac{a}{\sin A}=\frac{b}{\sin B}=\frac{c}{\sin C}$.

A nickname for Francis Drake’s raid on Cadiz in April 1587, which damaged Spanish invasion preparations and humiliated Philip II.

A name meaning ‘lion’, used by many Sikh men to express shared Sikh identity rather than inherited caste status.

A record release usually featuring one main song, unlike an album containing a collection of tracks.

A covalent bond containing one shared pair of electrons.

A circuit arrangement in which all components lie on one unbranched path.

A covalent bond containing one shared pair of electrons.

A structure in which execution enters a code block or subprogram at one defined point and leaves it at one defined point.

Inheritance in which one gene is chiefly responsible for the feature being considered.

Inheritance of a characteristic controlled by one gene.

The state of not being in a couple relationship; it does not necessarily mean living alone.

An area designed to allow goods, services, people and capital to move freely between its participating countries.

One parent raising their child or children.

A component whose failure can make a whole system, or a service used by many users, unavailable.

A family consisting of two partners of the same sex and their children; also called a same-sex family.

An electoral system for multi-member constituencies in which voters rank candidates and votes can transfer between candidates until the seats are filled.

Fabric supplied as a single thickness, rather than the double thickness of double-weight fabric.

A part of a plant that receives sucrose to use or store, such as a growing shoot or root.

A material or process that removes a substance faster than it is released; early rocks acted as sinks for atmospheric oxygen.

A part of a plant that removes sugars from the phloem to use or store them, such as a growing root tip or developing fruit.

A person who sins, meaning that they act against God’s will. In this passage, ‘sinners’ also identifies people regarded by the critics as outside respectable religious society.

People regarded as disobeying God’s law or living in a morally unacceptable way. In Mark, the label also helps explain why some people were socially rejected.

Relations between China and the United States of America.