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A discussion of words and tools to help build vocabulary! Browse the pages of this subreddit and you just might stumble upon an English word you’ve never heard before. The words and their definitions usually make up the title of a post, so you can get the gist of a word at a quick glance.
Being revived
1d ago
I am doing some personal research, and have come across this stastics pdf on victimization rates in the United States. I tried looking up the meaning of "victimization rates" but dear God is it confusing.
Some say it is the rate of becoming a victim, others that it is the rate of 'making others be victims'.
What does "victimization rates" actually mean?
Rate at which people suffer from a particular crime (done by someone else)
Rate at which people commit the crime
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Being revived
2d ago
I lost, and then it refused to tell me the word. I asked once more, and it replied "anathe."
Upon Googling it (maybe I should have DuckDuckGo'd it instead,) I can't determine if its an actual word or not. It might be either a proper noun or proper adjective, but the spellings are different.
This is my first post here. I love learning new words. And, I'm looking for some help with this one. Thanks all.
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Being revived
4d ago
As I said in the title, I want to know the phenomenon name. I read about it long ago about how using words to exaggerate separate a trivial things would make the word lose its value. For example how people and media use "fascism" on anything they don't like to exaggerate incidents even if there are other words that are very precise but that doesn't sound as bad as fascism.
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Being revived
1w ago
A few weeks ago I was reading an article which used a word for stories or characters that are so prolific that most people know about them even though they might not be familiar with the source material.
An example would be how most people would understand a metaphor about a Trojan horse even though they may not be familiar with Greek mythology/the Odyssey/the Aenid.
This has been driving me crazy.
Words/phrase it's not: Cultural touchstone, breakaway character, cultural/literary canon.
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Being revived
1w ago
Was idly thinking about this question during a business meeting this morning, when someone used the word "bespoke" a couple of times (to be fair, I know this word sees more common usage in the UK, but this meeting was among Americans).
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