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    Words? What is the meaning of words? Through someone’s aspect, it could be considered as the most efficient communicating tool of human being. On the other hand, some people may treat it as an irreplaceable expression of their emotion. Objectively speaking, “words” could definitely be concluded in both ways above, but in my opinion, using words is a privilege and honor. I use words to gain knowledge and words give me all kinds of possibilities of understanding new stuff when I intend to enhance

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    Spoken Words. They can do anything. They can bring comfort to an old friend. They can sing happy birthday to a little boy whose balloons are slowly sinking. Words have power. Words are power. Words can change someone's mindset. It can alter one's belief. A simple choice of word can make all the difference. You can have the most beautiful thing to say, but say it with the wrong words, in the wrong tone (pshh) within a split second it's gone. Watch your words. See, words are one of the most powerful

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    Words: so innocent and powerless. As they are, standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil; they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Why is it that the power of words can be the most influential impact in building our own reality? The effects of well-chosen words have the power to inform, influence, educate and entertain others. Their powers are expressed effectively and emotionally in stories, poems, and essays. Words are what we use to express our self, our thoughts

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    Word Experiment Essay

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    Word Experiment The experiment started by making up between 1-6 word lists. To make the experiment easy to understand ill use 2 word lists. On one of the word lists I put a list of random words which are in different categories muddled up. For example: Rabbit and horse are both animals and shoes and trousers are both types of clothing. Now then you muddle those words up. You need about

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    meanings of words, everyone has their own definition. Certain words make people form their own definitions that are usually based on personal experiences, beliefs, or culture. A word can have a meaning for one culture, and in another culture the word can have an entirely different perspective. According to Mestres-Missé, Münte, and Rodriguez-Fornells, who research has been with learning new words with second languages, “Children’s first vocabularies are formed mostly of concrete words, as they are

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    In everyday conversation, there are words that people use quite frequently and words that are used infrequently, which has been described as Word Frequency (WF). For example, the word cow has a higher frequency, because it utilized more often in everyday conversation, novels, magazine, newspaper, and academia than the word tungsten, which is less used (Davies, 2012). Andrews (1989) argued that based on this concept of WF, NS has an effect only with words that have a low WF. Explained further, the

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    Many words in the English language don’t mean what they say. For instance, disinterested does not mean that you are not interested in something. It rater states best that someone is not influenced by personal feelings or concerns. In the novel “ The Giver”, the most common words that fit into this topic are love, stirrings, and release. The word love in Jonas’s society has a very negative effect on people. To start it off, this bland word was very overused. Before is was called insignificant,

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    What Makes A Word?

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    We all have a certain meaning when it comes to different words that we know. These meaning can be something totally different to a different race because not everything means the same to every single person. Once we figure out what our definition or meaning to a word is, we can take the time to learn more about how another person of a different cultural may view that word. Even if you are not in a different culture, what you perceive a word to meaning can depend on how you think. In my opinion, it

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    My Favorite Words

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    favorite words was not an easy task. Prior to this admissions essay, I had never considered what words I consider my favorite. Initially, I thought I could find inspiration by flipping through the pages of a dictionary, but I soon realized the error of this. I should not pick words I find eye-catching, or overly-philosophical. Rather, I need to pick words that have a special place in my heart. After this epiphany, the words came quickly, so allow me to share them with you. The first word I chose was

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    The Giver Word Analysis

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    There are three words that are used for tools for social control in The Giver. These three words are used in their community that promote or conceal the words that we have now in the community. These three words are assignment, comfort object, and newchild. An assignment is chosen for you, and you can’t go without an assignment in Jonas’s community. A comfort object is given to all newchildren in their community, but taken away when they mature. Also a newchild is what we would address as a newborn

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