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  2. Wikipedia : Manual of Style/Words to watch

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    The advice in this guideline is not limited to the examples provided and should not be applied rigidly. If a word can be replaced by one with less potential for misunderstanding, it should be. [ 1 ] Some words have specific technical meanings in some contexts and are acceptable in those contexts, e.g. claim in law .

  3. Wikipedia talk : Manual of Style/Words to watch/Archive 4

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    This page lists synonyms for said including those which sound judgmental about the validity of the statement (such as assert). I find that a similar common judgement is to write a person's statement as a belief rather than a statement. This can additionally cause problems with clarity, resulting in mind-reading on the editor's part and ...

  4. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Repetition uses the same word, or synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, "Which dress are you going to wear?" – "I will wear my green frock," uses the synonyms "dress" and "frock" for lexical cohesion. Collocation uses related words that typically go together or tend to repeat the same meaning. An example is the phrase "once upon a time".

  5. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    For example, in Turkish, kara and siyah both mean 'black', the former being a native Turkish word, and the latter being a borrowing from Persian. In Ottoman Turkish, there were often three synonyms: water can be su (Turkish), âb (Persian), or mâ (Arabic): "such a triad of synonyms exists in Ottoman for every meaning, without exception". As ...

  6. File:Communication Systems.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: pdf Version of english wikibook on Communication Systems This file was created with MediaWiki to LaTeX . The LaTeX source code is attached to the PDF file (see imprint).

  7. Loaded language - Wikipedia

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    Loaded language [a] is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations. This type of language is very often made vague to more effectively invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.

  8. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  9. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    It can be said then that mutual knowledge, co-text, genre, speakers, hearers create a neurolinguistic composition of context. [ 3 ] Traditionally, in sociolinguistics , social contexts were defined in terms of objective social variables, such as those of class, gender, age or race.