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The Winning Words of Candidates
November 2, 2012 Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been posturing and pontificating for what feels like forever; not even superstorm Sandy could slow them much. Their speeches are wildly applauded (by supporters, at least), closely analyzed and as… Continue reading
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Brushing up on Big Words
Jan. 11, 2008 My brother-in-law, a bright political science professor, recently admitted that whilst expatiating in class, he was about to articulate a complex word, but at the last minute decided to use a simpler one. The word was dichotomy. He w… Continue reading
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Tagged acquisition, definition, language, shrinking, sound bite, vocabulary, words
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