editing mneomics
Terms
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- abortion
- proper descriptors for people in the debate usually include the word \"abortion\" anti abrotion activists and abortion-rights activists. the improper ones usually do not: pro-life, pro-procoice
- accommodate
- the word, being spacious can accommodate two c\'s and two m\'s
- acknowledgment
- theres a ledge in the word but the e fell off the ledge
- addresses
- think of your abs: ave blvd and st are the only words abbreviated in full numerical addresses
- admissible
- like missile, both are incoming
- ad nauseam
- a nauseam is not a museum
- adviser
- advise her, bc most journalism majors are women
- affect, effect
- RAVEN: remember affect verb effect noun the weather affected their travel plans the weather had an effect on their trip
- ages
- picture a birthday cake, it wouldnt spell out numbers less than ten
- airtight
- too tight for a hyphen
- alcoholic
- remember its a disease point to medical recovery not moral reform
- another
- belly up to the bar: ill have another means youll have exactly the same thing
- arbitrate, mediate
- think arbitrary, implying a decision think medium, being in the middle, not deciding
- attorney general, attorneys general
- its always the noun that pluralized not the adj thats why district attorneys is correct
- baccalaureate
- mirror imagge acca
- back up, backup
- two word usages are compound verbs. one word usages are adjs or nouns
- battalion
- think bttle with two t\'s and one l
- boycott embargo
- embargo sounds like barge and cargo, as in blocked trade
- bug, tap
- like any crawling thing, a bug hides in the room
- burglary, larceny, robbery, theft
- burglary: about a place robbery: about possession or people larceny: rarely used theft: umbrella term
- capital, capitol
- the o is the rotunda
- broccoli
- many flowers (two c\'s) but on one stalk (1)
- cement, concrete
- cement being the shorter word its only the poweder that helps make the concrete
- chauffeur
- mirror like \"auffeu\"
- collide, collision
- co as in equals, both in motion
- complementary, complimentary, complement, compliment
- for the former, think complete, with the \"e\" in the right place, the def are similar. for the latter, think of a fancy affair in which someone is complimented for her outfit and gets a complimentary dinner
- cynic, skeptic
- cynic looks like cyanide- poisonous