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  2. Spreading (debate) - Wikipedia

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    As of 2018, spreading was described as still being "de rigueur" at Lincoln–Douglas debate format events. [ 3 ] Senator Ted Cruz , who was a national debating champion in his student days, described spreading as "a pernicious disease that has undermined the very essence of high school and college debate". [ 3 ]

  3. Hella - Wikipedia

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    This article is about the word. For other uses, see Hella (disambiguation). 'Hella' as used in Northern California Hella is an American English slang term originating in and often associated with San Francisco's East Bay area in Northern California, possibly specifically emerging in the 1970s African-American vernacular of Oakland. It is used as an intensifying adverb such as in "hella bad" or ...

  4. Spreadability - Wikipedia

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    Jenkins situates spreadability in a particular context. This concept is particularly contextualised in the social media era and the Web 2.0 culture. These two transformations can be considered prerequisites for the idea of spreadability to exist and for spreadable media to adopt such mechanisms to achieve spreadability.

  5. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    Better safe than sorry; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven (John Milton, in Paradise Lost) [8] Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to ...

  6. 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. The standard test for synonymy is substitution: one form can be ...

  7. Glossary of language education terms - Wikipedia

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    Words that carry meaning; usually nouns, verbs and sometimes adjectives and adverbs. Context clues Clues used when guessing word meanings; clues that provide students with meaning or comprehension based on the environment in which a word is found. Contrastive analysis Comparing two languages to predict where learning will be facilitated and ...

  8. Comparison (grammar) - Wikipedia

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    Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.

  9. Illusory superiority - Wikipedia

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    Selective recruitment is the notion that an individual selects their own strengths and the other's weaknesses when making peer comparisons, in order that they appear better on the whole. This theory was first tested by Weinstein (1980); however, this was in an experiment relating to optimistic bias, rather than the better-than-average effect ...