The Mayor says
This certificate is earned, not issued. Pass the Patterns and Exceptions quiz and it is yours. Come and earn it.
Patterns and Exceptions Star
A demanding collection, and you carried it with precision. You can tell a paradigm, the master pattern of a field, from a phenomenon, the remarkable event we watch and record, and you did not mix them. You held the fine line between pervasive, which spreads through every part, and nuanced, which draws the subtle distinctions between them. You climbed the root scend and saw how transcend, ascend, and descend all share it, and you matched the Mayor's words to Slang's on the register floor, where abundant meets loaded up and conceal meets stash away, which most students trip over and you did not. Eight demanding words, into your collection they go. Bravo. You have earned this one.
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