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  2. Backronym - Wikipedia

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    An example of a backronym as a mnemonic is the Apgar score, used to assess the health of newborn babies.The rating system was devised by and named after Virginia Apgar.Ten years after the initial publication, the backronym APGAR was coined in the US as a mnemonic learning aid: appearance, pulse, grimace, activity, and respiration. [6]

  3. Recall (memory) - Wikipedia

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    Before the 1960s, there was very little research that studied the workings of short-term memory and rapid memory loss. Lloyd and Margaret Peterson observed that when people are given a short list of words or letters and then are distracted and occupied with another task for few seconds, their memory for the list is greatly decreased. [6]

  4. List of returned long-overdue library books - Wikipedia

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    The two books, the latter being an early Thomas the Tank Engine book, were returned in a Royal Mail parcel. A note from "Andy" apologised for keeping the books when he moved as a child in 1972. [32] Canoe Building in Glass-Reinforced Plastic: Alan Byde Orkney Library: 15 Mar 1977 Jul 2024 47 The book was found during a house clearance. [33]

  5. 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 ...

  6. List of unpublished books - Wikipedia

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    Charles Alverson: The Word, Caleb and Lost in Austin; Allen Appel: Sea of Time (1988), unpublished novel in the published Alex Balfour Pastmaster series; L. Frank Baum: Our Married Life (1912), Johnson (1912), The Mystery of Bonita (1914) and Molly Oodle (1915).

  7. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonym list in cuneiform on a clay tablet, Neo-Assyrian period [1] 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 ...

  8. Reappropriation - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification [1] is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (i.e., change in a word's meaning).

  9. Weeding (library) - Wikipedia

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    The following list outlines some considerations for weeding resources. [2] Poor content Content is outdated or obsolete. Content is biased, racist, or sexist. Content is irrelevant to patron needs (or not being used in a school's curriculum). Content is too mature/immature for patrons (especially important for school libraries). Poor condition