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    tend to over-use “fancy” words and try too hard to make our writing sound smart. This extra “fluff” and weirdly placed “buzz words” may not quite make sense in the context, but “of course, they’re AP vocab words I have to use them and it is a very loose synonym so it works right?” Sometimes, the best, and most “smart-sounding” way to get your point across is to write it out straight forward and not discombobulate your main idea with extra and unnecessary phrases and words. Less is more. I am definitely

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    Here are my five words before reading chapter 7. I tried to think way back when my daughter was an infant and came up with the five words that she would say; however, not in the order that she learned the words I am sure. 5 words (adult spelling): 5 words (transcribed in phonetic symbols as produced by children) 1) Mom 1) ma-ma 2) Dad 2) da-da 3) Bottle/milk 3) ba-ba 4) Nana 4) na-na 5) Banana 5) na-na A lexicon can be considered a toddler’s personal dictionary that reflects the

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    Important; One of the many words that could mean everything. The meaning of that word means differently according to kinds of people. Tracing the origin of the word would give us an idea on how “importance” means when the word was first used, in other words, how the people in the Medieval times defined the word. It will then be compared to how the word important means nowadays to see what made the meaning change. Personal experience also contributes to how people define importance. If you are going

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    • Sight words: words that are automatically and effortlessly recognized without any conscious application of decoding or word analysis strategies. o When teaching sight words to children you should consider:  Words should appear frequently in print  Words should be in a reader’s oral vocabulary  Words cannot be pronounces using phonic generalizations • High frequency words: approximately 200 words account for about 50% of the words in nearly any reading selection, and 400 words make up about

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    Each word has a meaning. A word is a name we give things so we can call it something. The definition of a word according to the dictionary is “noun. a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing, used with others or sometimes alone to form a sentence and typically shown with a space on either side when written or printed.” To break down, or to simplify what that definition means is, a more technical meaning. This definition is saying that thing, that a english essay was made up of has

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    culture for many. However, these events do not have nearly as much of an impact on language as time does. Words in languages pickup and lose meanings as time progresses; the word “dumb” is an example of a word in the English language that has evolved since its creation in 1000 A.D. It is believed to have originated from either Old English or Common Teutonic. The first documented use of the word was in 1000 A.D. in the sentence “Hiᵹ brohton hym dumbne man” which translates to “His brother was a dumb

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    The Giver Word Analysis

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    The topic of my writing this week is words in The Giver that only the people in the community use. These words can sound like something but they really could mean the opposite of what you think. I am going to talk about what words mean and what effect they could have on the people in the community. My first word is release. In this word is sounds the same as it would to you and I. It also has the same meaning. But in some cases in our world release can be a good thing but in the community it is

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    conceptualized replication of the Howes and Solomon (1951) experiment investigating word accuracy and word frequency in short duration trials. It is hypothesized that words that appear more often in printed text (easier to access in the lexicon) will be more accurately identified rather than words that appear less commonly. A total of 83 participants in the study were presented with words taken from the Throndike-Lorge database. The words were presented for one second with a six second rest in the middle. This

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    this essay is to evaluate the effects of word frequency and superiority on word recognition when considering three models of lexical access - with these being the logogen, frequency ordered bin search (FOBS) and TRACE models. Included in this analysis empirical proof from research studies will be considered. It is vital to understand the relevance of the word frequency and superiority effects before contemplating their role in the models of lexical access. Word frequency is often associated with Balota

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    deceitful, using words such as “load’, “pieces,” and “merchandise” to refer to people is inhuman. I knew from the beginning he was referring to the Jews when using barbaric words because he informed us that the manufacturers told them “The manufacturers told us during a discussion that reducing the size of the van's rear would throw it badly off balance.” This asserts us that if the car is not loaded fully, it will eventually throw it off balance. As horrible as it sounds, I do not think the word usage have

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