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  2. The Well-Spoken Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The Well-Spoken Thesaurus by Tom Heehler (Sourcebooks 2011), is an American style guide and speaking aid. The Chicago Tribune calls The Well-Spoken Thesaurus "a celebration of the spoken word". [1] The book has also been reviewed in the Winnipeg Free Press, [2] and by bloggers at the Fayetteville Observer, [3] and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer ...

  3. Rationality - Wikipedia

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    The terms "rationality", "reason", and "reasoning" are frequently used as synonyms. But in technical contexts, their meanings are often distinguished. [7] [12] [1] Reason is usually understood as the faculty responsible for the process of reasoning. [7] [14] This process aims at improving mental states. Reasoning tries to ensure that the norms ...

  4. Medical state - Wikipedia

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    Definitions vary among hospitals, and it is even possible for a patient to be upgraded or downgraded simply by being moved from one place to another, with no change in actual physical state. Furthermore, medical science is a highly complex discipline dealing with complicated and often overlapping threats to life and well-being.

  5. Might makes right - Wikipedia

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    The related idea of "woe to the conquered" is stated by Livy, in which the similar Latin phrase "vae victis" is first recorded. [ 11 ] An early instance of the phrase in English is found in Thomas Carlyle 's 1839 essay Chartism : "Might and Right do differ frightfully from hour to hour; but give them centuries to try it in, they are found to be ...

  6. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension.

  7. Effectiveness - Wikipedia

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    Other synonyms for effectiveness include: clout, capability, success, weight, performance. [13] Antonyms for effectiveness include: uselessness, ineffectiveness. [13] Simply stated, effective means achieving an effect, and efficient means getting a task or job done it with little waste.

  8. Well-formedness - Wikipedia

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    Gradient well-formedness is a problem that arises in the analysis of data in generative linguistics, in which a linguistic entity is neither completely grammatical nor completely ungrammatical. A native speaker may judge a word, phrase or pronunciation as "not quite right" or "almost there," rather than dismissing it as completely unacceptable ...

  9. Contingent valuation - Wikipedia

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    Contingent valuation is often referred to as a stated preference model, in contrast to a price-based revealed preference model. Both models are utility-based. Both models are utility-based. Typically the survey asks how much money people would be willing to pay (or willing to accept ) to maintain the existence of (or be compensated for the loss ...