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  2. Damning with faint praise - Wikipedia

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    1975, Paul Grice, giving an example of conversational implicature: A professor is writing a testimonial about a pupil who is a candidate for a philosophy job, and his letter reads as follows: "Dear Sir, Mr. X's command of English is excellent, and his attendance at tutorials has been regular. Yours, etc." [9]

  3. Mediocre - Wikipedia

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    Mediocre (a term defined as "having no peculiar or outstanding features") or mediocrity may refer to: Mediocre (album) , a 2008 album by Ximena Sariñana "Mediocre" (composition) , a 1955 jazz composition by Bud Powell

  4. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.

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  6. Poshlost - Wikipedia

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    Poshlost or poshlost' (Russian: по́шлость, IPA: [ˈpoʂləsʲtʲ]) is a Russian word for a particular negative human character trait or man-made thing or idea.It has been cited as an example of a so-called untranslatable word, because there is no single exact one-word English equivalent.

  7. Tom Brady thinks there's 'a lot of mediocrity in today's NFL'

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    Despite thinking the NFL today is soft, Brady admitted he used to intentionally adjust his plans so his receivers wouldn't get knocked out of the game after taking a devastating hit from a legend ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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 ...