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  2. Etiquette - Wikipedia

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    Each author cautions the reader that to be a well-mannered person they must practise good manners in their public and private lives. The How Rude! comic-book series addresses and discusses adolescent perspectives and questions of etiquette, social manners, and civility.

  3. Politeness - Wikipedia

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    The T–V distinction is a common example in Western languages, while some Asian languages extend this to avoiding pronouns entirely. Some languages have complex politeness systems, such as Korean speech levels and honorific speech in Japanese. Japanese is perhaps the most widely known example of a language that encodes politeness at its core ...

  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. Etiquette in South Korea - Wikipedia

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    South Koreans are reserved and well-mannered people. South Korea is a land of strict Confucian hierarchy and etiquette is important. In respect much can be said on the differences on how to conduct oneself as a male South Korean and a female South Korean.

  6. Well-mannered - Wikipedia

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    Search for Well-mannered in Wikipedia to check for alternative titles or spellings. Start the Well-mannered article , using the Article Wizard if you wish, or add a request for it ; but please remember that Wikipedia is not a dictionary .

  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. Mannerism - Wikipedia

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    For example, some scholars have applied the label to certain early modern forms of literature (especially poetry) and music of the 16th and 17th centuries. The term is also used to refer to some late Gothic [ 6 ] painters working in northern Europe from about 1500 to 1530, especially the Antwerp Mannerists [ 7 ] —a group unrelated to the ...

  9. Glossary of British terms not widely used in the United States

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    immediately (sometimes used in the US; also right away) strong flour flour made from wheat varieties which are high in gluten. Used for making bread. (US: bread flour) [158] [failed verification] stroke to move one's hand slowly and gently over something e.g. stroke a dog. (US: pet) strop (informal) bad mood or temper stroppy, to have a strop on