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  2. Cohesion (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Lexical cohesion refers to the way related words are chosen to link elements of a text. There are two forms: repetition and collocation. Repetition uses the same word, or synonyms, antonyms, etc. For example, "Which dress are you going to wear?" – "I will wear my green frock," uses the synonyms "dress" and "frock" for lexical cohesion.

  3. Meanwhile, back at the ranch - Wikipedia

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    "Meanwhile, back at the ranch..." is a catch phrase [ 1 ] that appears in a variety of contexts. For example, it may be employed by narrators of American cowboy movies and TV shows to indicate a segue from one scene to another but there is often more to this than meets the eye.

  4. 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 ...

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

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    Stated is usually acceptable, especially in formal contexts (e.g., a declaration in court). Extra care is needed with more loaded terms . For example, to write that a person noted, observed, clarified, explained, exposed, found, pointed out, showed, confirmed , or revealed something can imply objectivity or truthfulness, instead of simply ...

  6. File:Istanbul Convention English.pdf - Wikipedia

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    English: Authentic English text of the Istanbul Convention, formal full name "Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence", as adopted on 11 May 2011 in Istanbul, Turkey by the Council of Europe.

  7. Literary language - Wikipedia

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    Kannada exhibits a strong diglossia, like Tamil, also characterised by three styles: a classical literary style modelled on the ancient language, a modern literary and formal style, and a modern colloquial form. These styles shade into each other, forming a diglossic continuum. The formal style is generally used in formal writing and speech.

  8. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  9. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap