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  2. English modal auxiliary verbs - Wikipedia

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    The English modal auxiliary verbs are a subset of the English auxiliary verbs used mostly to express modality, properties such as possibility and obligation. [a] They can most easily be distinguished from other verbs by their defectiveness (they do not have participles or plain forms [b]) and by their lack of the ending ‑(e)s for the third-person singular.

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language, the words begin, start, commence, and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are ...

  5. Active listening - Wikipedia

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    [4] [5] It may also be referred to as reflective listening. [3] Active listening encloses the communication attribute characterized by paying attention to a speaker for better comprehension, both in word and emotion. It is the opposite of passive listening, where a listener may be distracted or note critical points to develop a response.

  6. Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch - Wikipedia

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    Quotation marks, when not marking an actual quotation, [d] may be interpreted as "scare quotes", indicating that the writer is distancing themself from the otherwise common interpretation of the quoted expression. The use of emphasis may turn an innocuous word into a loaded expression, so such occurrences should also be considered carefully.

  7. Mononym - Wikipedia

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    During the early Middle Ages, mononymity slowly declined, with northern and eastern Europe keeping the tradition longer than the south.The Dutch Renaissance scholar and theologian Erasmus is a late example of mononymity; though sometimes referred to as "Desiderius Erasmus" or "Erasmus of Rotterdam", he was christened only as "Erasmus", after the martyr Erasmus of Formiae.

  8. Duolingo (DUOL) Q4 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

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    We may even be able to give some of it for free. And in general, we'll be testing whatever is best for the long term, not just LTV but the long-term health of our app.

  9. Social intelligence - Wikipedia

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    [citation needed] Some autistic children are extremely intelligent because they have well-developed skills of observing and memorizing information, however they have low social intelligence. For a long time, the field [ specify ] was dominated by behaviorism , that is, the theory that one could understand animals, including humans, just by ...