# Exact-wording definitions drill — Gemini Notebook prompt

> Law, medicine, accounting — subjects where a paraphrased definition loses marks. Extracts every term your sources define, quotes the definition verbatim with its page, then drills you and diffs your answer against the source wording word by word.


_Markdown version of https://gemini-notebook-hub.online/prompts/study/verbatim-definitions-drill — for AI and LLM crawlers. Content is identical to the web page._

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## The prompt

```
In this subject, definitions must be reproduced precisely — paraphrase costs marks.

Step 1 — Extract every formally defined term from my sources. For each: the term, the definition QUOTED VERBATIM (no paraphrase, no tidying), and the source with page reference. If two sources define the same term differently, show both and flag the difference.

Step 2 — Tell me which 10 are most likely to be asked, judged by how much the sources build on them.

Step 3 — Drill me: give me a term, wait for my definition, then show the exact source wording next to what I wrote and point out every meaningful difference — a dropped condition, a softened "must" to "should", a missing exception. Cosmetic word-order differences don't count; changed meaning does.

Keep score across the session and finish with the list of terms I still get wrong.
```

## How to use it

1. Open your notebook at notebooklm.google.com.
2. Replace the [bracketed] parts with your specifics.
3. Paste the prompt into the chat box and send it.

Square brackets mark the parts you replace with your own topic or question.

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