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Concerted cultivation is a parenting style or parenting practice marked by a parent's attempts to foster their child's talents by incorporating organized activities in their children's lives. The expression is attributed to Annette Lareau .
Annette Patricia Lareau (born December 28, 1952) is a sociologist working at the University of Pennsylvania.. She has completed extensive field work studying the daily lives of African-Americans and European-Americans.
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.
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 synonymous .
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Vice President Kamala Harris looked to keep it moving when asked about Donald Trump’s “happened to turn Black” attack in what New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman referred to as the ...
Euphemism comes from the Greek word euphemia (εὐφημία) which refers to the use of 'words of good omen'; it is a compound of eû (εὖ), meaning 'good, well', and phḗmē (φήμη), meaning 'prophetic speech; rumour, talk'. [3]
His lawyers hinted they want to quit over a "fundamental disagreement" -- or when a client "insists on presenting a claim or defense that is not warranted under existing law."