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  2. Fragility - Wikipedia

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    Fragility may refer to: A property of a solid, related to brittleness; Fragility (glass physics), a concept to characterize viscous slow down during glass formation; Fragility, a 2016 Swedish documentary; Fragility Tour, a 1999 concert tour by Nine Inch Nails; Financial fragility, the vulnerability of a financial system to a financial crisis

  3. 21 Commonly Misspelled Words and How to Spell Them - AOL

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    If you've ever second-guessed yourself while trying to spell words like "beautiful," "receive," and "license," you're far from the only one. The post 21 Commonly Misspelled Words and How to Spell ...

  4. List of Germanic and Latinate equivalents in English

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    This list contains Germanic elements of the English language which have a close corresponding Latinate form. The correspondence is semantic—in most cases these words are not cognates, but in some cases they are doublets, i.e., ultimately derived from the same root, generally Proto-Indo-European, as in cow and beef, both ultimately from PIE *gʷōus.

  5. Antifragility - Wikipedia

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    Likewise fragility is defined as a concave sensitivity to stressors, leading to a negative sensitivity to increase in volatility. The relation between fragility, convexity, and sensitivity to disorder is mathematical, obtained by theorem, not derived from empirical data mining or some historical narrative. It is a priori.

  6. Edit your personal dictionary in AOL Desktop Gold

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    The spell check feature is very useful when composing emails. You can improve its efficiency and reduce the number of reported misspellings by maintaining your personal dictionary in Desktop Gold. The words you add in your personal dictionary will not be flagged when you click the spell check button.

  7. Word list Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.

  8. List of English homographs - Wikipedia

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    When the prefix "re-" is added to a monosyllabic word, the word gains currency both as a noun and as a verb. Most of the pairs listed below are closely related: for example, "absent" as a noun meaning "missing", and as a verb meaning "to make oneself missing". There are also many cases in which homographs are of an entirely separate origin, or ...

  9. Commonly misspelled English words - Wikipedia

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    A misspelling in English might be made by someone used to a different spelling in another language; for example, "address" is translated "adresse" in French and German. Many Spanish words are similar or identical to English words, but with an "n" inserted, or replacing an "m", leading to errors: "inmigrant" from " inmigrante ", "cementery" from ...