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  2. Roget's Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The original edition had 15,000 words and each successive edition has been larger, [3] with the most recent edition (the eighth) containing 443,000 words. [6] The book is updated regularly and each edition is heralded as a gauge to contemporary terms; but each edition keeps true to the original classifications established by Roget. [2]

  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. List of cognitive biases - Wikipedia

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    Although the reality of most of these biases is confirmed by reproducible research, [2] [3] there are often controversies about how to classify these biases or how to explain them. [4] Several theoretical causes are known for some cognitive biases , which provides a classification of biases by their common generative mechanism (such as noisy ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Mansplaining - Wikipedia

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    This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 12 February 2025. Pejorative term Mansplaining (a blend word of man and the informal form splaining of the gerund explaining) is a pejorative term meaning "(for a man) to comment on or explain something, to a woman, in a condescending, overconfident, and often inaccurate or oversimplified manner". In its ...

  7. Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong - The Huffington Post

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    These biological breadcrumbs help explain why stigma begins so early. Kids as young as 3 describe their larger classmates with words like “mean,” “stupid” and “lazy.” And yet, despite weight being the number one reason children are bullied at school, America’s institutions of public health continue to pursue policies perfectly ...

  8. Remember versus know judgements - Wikipedia

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    To know is a feeling (unconscious) of familiarity. It is the sensation that the item has been seen before, but not being able to pin down the reason why. [1] Knowing simply reflects the familiarity of an item without recollection. [1] Knowing utilizes semantic memory that requires perceptually based, data-driven processing.

  9. Suffer fools gladly - Wikipedia

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    Suffer fools gladly is a phrase in contemporary use, first coined by Saint Paul in his second letter to the Church at Corinth ().The full verse of the original source of the idiom, 2 Corinthians 11:19 (), reads "For ye suffer fools gladly, seeing ye yourselves are wise."