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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."... what we call temperature is nothing else but a measurement of the degree of molecular agitation [in a substance]."George Gamow, One, Two, Three... Infinity
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."In this book we use the word universe to denote a model of the Universe and avoid making pretentious claims to a true knowledge of the Universe."Edward R. Harrison, Cosmology
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."When we talk about formatting we are referring to the ways in which Multiplan [a spreadsheet program] allows us to specify the appearance of our information on the screen and on the printer."Erwin Schneider, Multiplan Users Guide
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Subduction zone: In interpretations of plate tectonic theory, a belt along the under-margin of a continental plate, where the colliding oceanic plate descends toward or into the mantle."Robert M. Norris and Robert W. Webb, Geology of California
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."All the perceptions of the human mind resolve themselves into two distinct kinds, which I shall call Impressions and Ideas."David Hume, Treatise on Human Nature
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."In the category of economically privileged, we shall include families with total annual incomes of $75,000 or more."Sarah Hartford and Samuel Cohen, Trends in College Admissions
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."The clich is prefabricated language; it is packaged and ready for immediate delivery."William F. Irmscher and Harryette Stover, The Holt Guide to English
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Now if we set about to find out what... [a] statement means and to determine whether to accept or reject it, we would be engaged in thinking which, for lack of a better term, we shall call critical thinking."B. Othanel Smith
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.
"Marriage is not only a divine institution, but is the only one instituted in the Garden of Eden which has come down with its continuous line of blessings to the present time."
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Conservatism is realism about mankinds limitations."George Will
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.Beard: a bettor who places bets for a friend with a bookie who has cut off the friend for not paying, for snitching to the police, or for having won too much.The Los Angeles Police Department
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Tombstone: an ugly reminder of one who has been forgotten."H. L. Mencken
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.Plugs come in many shapes and sizes, but the one-quarter-inch size is usually called a phone plug.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.No, as far as the bus company is concerned, you count as a senior citizen only after youve reached sixty-five. You wont be able to get the discount fare for three more years.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.The "HO" in "HO gauge" stands for "half-O," which refers to an older scale for model trains. HO gauge is one-half the scale of O-gauge, or one-sixty-fourth of full size.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose."Best-seller just means not written for anyone with an I.Q. of over a hundred and one."George L. Farris, author of several non-best-sellers
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.A barrister is a lawyer in Britain who actually argues the case in court.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.When we use the word "argument" in this class, well mean a set of claims, one of which is supported by the others.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.Energy-efficient house: a house that, at a minimum, has no teenagers.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.A precising definition is used to reduce vagueness.
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Classify the following definition according to its use: to reduce vagueness, to introduce or explain a new or unusual word, to evoke an attitude about something, or to accomplish some other purpose.Marriage is paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.J. B. Priestly
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.
Most of the science books in the high school library were published before 1960.
Whats a science book? This probably isnt as important as whatever inference is likely to be drawn from it. We presume that this means an awful lot of the librarys science books are seriously out-of-date.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Nobody under seventeen is permitted unless accompanied by an adult.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Obscene movies available at movie rental outlets are harmful to children who watch them.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.All of the last three years have been extremely dry.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.
Most voters in the 2008 presidential election believe that the Republican candidate better represents traditional values than does the Democratic candidate.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter."Caution: Cigarette smoking is hazardous to your health."
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Every socialist country in the world has been a violator of the fundamental human rights of individuals.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter."It is prudent to assume that all nations attempt to spy on other nations to the extent that their capacities and interests dictate."Baltimore Sun
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Of the over 100,000 aliens who married U.S. citizens last year, 40 percent did so only to bypass immigration laws.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Conservative Christians are a politically sophisticated voting bloc.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter."In no previous epoch were adversaries so continuously and totally mobilized for instant war. It is a statistical certainty that hair-trigger readiness cannot endure as a permanent condition."Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Bernard Lown, cofounder of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.
From a letter to the editor: "It appears that the administrations foreign policy is increasingly far out."
Whats being said about the administrations foreign policy? Who knows?
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Every account that Delwood has worked on has come back with computational errors in it.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.The universe and everything in it doubled in size last night.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Digital recordings may be all the rage these days, but every serious audiophile knows that a good analog disc played on a music system of high quality is better than even the best digital version.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Bomb threats on abortion clinics were called in by the clinics themselves to gain sympathy and support from the public and news media.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.Im not very photogenicno photograph anybody has ever taken of me really looks like me.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.The world and everything in it was created fifteen minutes ago, complete with fictitious memories and false records.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.
My liberal colleagues in Congress are all big spenders.
How do you identify "liberals" (or "conservatives," for that matter)? The class is too vaguely defined, as is that of "big spenders." Note: If the speaker defines "liberals" as those who vote to spend the most money, he has begged the questionhe has, possibly surreptitiously, turned it into an analytic claim.
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Evaluate the following claim, paying particular attention to problems of clarity. Note that claims may also present problems of knowability, though we dont address knowability per se in this chapter.
Professional sports? Never watch em. Theyre all fixed.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."If the lights burn dimly or not at all when you first turn them on, the battery is probably run down. Test the battery. If it is run down, you should try to find out what caused it."Crouse and Anglin, The Auto Book
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.The sink did not drain because the trap was clogged.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
"To make tea, make water not too hot. Too hot water is not for best flavor."
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
"In terms of arting, where the reference condition is not fixed or even known conceptually but rather something coming to being, what can we hope through our formative hermeneutic movement? To make the otherness of the arting process more other, more objective in a newer sense and less subjective in the older sense, so that the arting process itself speaks more purely?"Kenneth R. Beittel, Penn State University (quoted in Edwin Newman, Strictly Speaking)
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."My position on Vietnam is very simple. And I feel this way. I havent spoken on it because I havent felt there was any major contribution that I had to make at the time. I think that our concepts as a nation and that our actions have not kept pace with the changing conditions, and therefore our actions are not completely relevant today to the realities of the magnitude and the complexity of the problems that we face in this conflict."New York governor Nelson Rockefeller, when asked by a reporter about his position on the Vietnam War
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.WAR DIMS HOPE FOR PEACEheadline sent from Bangs Tapscott
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.MAN IS FATALLY SLAINheadline sent from Bangs Tapscott
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and hes pretty old. Hes thirty five years old. That will give you some idea of how old he is."Ron Fairly, San Francisco Giants broadcaster (quoted in Ross and Petras, The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said)
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.He may have trouble with the long putts, but nobody is better at dropping his shorts.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."All of you are not thinking."
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Life its own self, as Dan Jenkins said. Life its own self. Figure that one out, Norm. But what it means is, I have a lot more to learn from President Reagan."George Bush, when asked, upon first becoming president, whether his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, was advising him (quoted in Ross and Petras, The 776 Stupidest Things Ever Said)
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."I am a fuzzy bunny lover."From a student paper
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."We cant and we wont lower the quality of faculty in the California state universities, but it may be time to redefine what we mean by quality."Former California State University System Chancellor Barry Munitz
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Subdeconstructive capitalism implies that narrative is a product of the masses. In a sense, the subject is contextualised into a textual libertarianism that includes culture as a totality."
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."Alcohol is present in about 50 percent of fatal traffic accidents among teenagers."
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."The instructor will not inform a student that he or she will be charged with cheating during an examination."Statement on course syllabus
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."The enormity of whats taken place is sinking in now."George Bush, just after his election to the presidency
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.Place the box next to the refrigerator before you open it.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
"Is evolution a fact?"
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."5 times 3 plus 2"
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
"Who won?"ABC poll question, after a presidential debate
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR DEFENDS HIS WIFE, GIFT FROM KOREAN
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text.
CHILDS STOOL GREAT FOR USE IN GARDEN
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Criticize the following claim based on the material from Chapter 3 of the text."A requirement for this course is a term paper on some topic."Statement on course syllabus
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language."Thats one small step for a man, and one giant leap for mankind."Neil Armstrong, upon first setting foot on the moon
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.The one hundred most highly paid chief executives in America are paid from one million to twenty-seven million dollars a year. The men in those jobs cannot possibly be worth that kind of money.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.Another crime news item: "Authorities who were investigating the Eastgate Mall burglaries last night arrested Lewis Thompkins, a black man about twenty-five years old."
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.Crime report on television (or in the newspaper): "Police are looking for a white man about thirty years old, with brown hair and brown eyes, and about five feet ten inches tall. He has tattoos on both forearmsa picture of a snake on the right and the word mother on the left."
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.Mrs. Karla Ashcroft won the award for best student in the sciences.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.General Colin Powell was the first black army officer to have achieved the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.Congressmen George Thurlow and Shirley Chisholm first ran for public office during the same year.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.The Speaker of the House gave a pretty good speech, but he did not answer any questions afterward.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.The job of lineman is the hardest job in the telephone company. Those guys get called out in all kinds of weather.
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Identify any unnecessary and potentially offensive references to gender, race, or other features in the following passage and, as necessary, rewrite the passage in neutral language.Mike ONeill and his wife, Karen, arrived at the party at eight oclock.
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Arrange the lettered items below in order of increasingly favorable emotive meaning. Instructor and/or students may want to fuss about some of our rankings in these problems. Weve said (a) = (b) when (a) and (b) seem equally favorable to us.
The paper you turned in last week was
a. mediocre.
b. fine.
c. competent.
d. adequate.
e. quite good.
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Arrange the lettered items below in order of increasingly favorable emotive meaning. Instructor and/or students may want to fuss about some of our rankings in these problems. Weve said (a) = (b) when (a) and (b) seem equally favorable to us.
Ive known Hawthorne for twenty years, and youre right, hes
a. domineering.
b. masterful.
c. lordly.
d. overbearing.
e. dictatorial.
f. bossy.
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Arrange the lettered items below in order of increasingly favorable emotive meaning. Instructor and/or students may want to fuss about some of our rankings in these problems. Weve said (a) = (b) when (a) and (b) seem equally favorable to us.
Lytton is quite rich, but then, he is
a. frugal.
b. stingy.
c. thrifty.
d. miserly.
e. greedy.
f. a skinflint.