Collocations withword
These are words often used in combination withword.
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archaic word
The second is plaiting it into what are called sennets—an appropriately archaic word—and the third is turning them into matting.
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bandy words
First of all, it gave the accused an opportunity to bandy words with the king's ministers.
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cautionary word
This cautionary word continued to be voiced in the twentieth century.
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curse word
The word "integration", instead of being a curse word, becomes a term of blessing.
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derived word
One high-frequency word, specify, was excluded from the analysis because a syllable is dropped with the addition of -ic in the derived word specific.
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descriptive word
Yes, one can understand, and strongly sympathise with, the desire to find a brief and simple descriptive word without pejorative implications.
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encouraging words
Those were comforting and encouraging words, and we all appreciated them.
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exact word
In both studies the test was scored on an exact word criterion.
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final word
First, we do not mean to suggest that five-factor approaches are the final word on personality.
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five-letter word
There is only one five-letter word in that phrase.
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harsh word
This is a harsh word with which to describe someone whose only offense is to change his ethnic identity.
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high-frequency word
More specifically, consider the empirical observation that the exceptions tend to be high-frequency words.
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kind word
I am giving a kind word to the top scorers.
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low-frequency word
Note that this dual-route account does not deny a role for lexical phonology in the naming of low-frequency words.
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made-up word
It was pointed out that there were both real and made-up words and that deletion would sometimes produce a real word and sometimes not.
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mere word
But receivers were not very likely to admit anything when denial was clearly an effective defence strategy against the mere word of a confessed thief.
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monosyllabic word
Compared to this difference, differences between common variance percentages for monosyllabic word reading and color - picture name reading are small.
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multisyllabic word
These results indicate that the more words produced in an utterance the higher probability that a multisyllabic word was reduced.
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one-syllable word
For example, in a one-syllable word, cat, the consonant /k/ is the onset, and subsequent vowel and consonant / / is the rime.
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polysyllabic word
The polysyllabic word forgot allows 'th' despite its final syllable stress arguably because the high frequency monosyllabic word got exhibits it.
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printed word
The printed word demands literacy, and not everyone was able to read.
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rhyming word
The child must point to the picture depicting the rhyming word.
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single word
Also, most single word utterances addressed to the target-child consisted of a noun.
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soothing words
They are demanding not soothing words, but strong, practical action, now!
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
spoken word
Would it not be better to try instead to model spoken word recognition?
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taboo word
The pardon is directed to the taboo word.
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three-letter word
Why use two four-letter words when one three-letter word will do?
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two-syllable word
For example, the citation form of a two-syllable word with initial stress like tiger is a disyllabic tone.
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unfamiliar word
The total is based on 878 unfamiliar word encounters.
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unkind word
I am not saying an unkind word about the council schools.
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well-chosen words
When fearing excessive notation would obscure his compositional ideal, he opted instead for a few well-chosen words and a small disclaimer, leaving the rest to the performer, and to chance.
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word of caution
In comparing simulated to real data on bad debt, however, a word of caution is appropriate.
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word of encouragement
Let me end with one word of encouragement.
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word of praise
A special word of praise should be added for the detailed and informative liner notes.
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word recognition
Traditionally, lexical contexts and sentential contexts were thought to play very different roles in word recognition, each applying at a separate stage.
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word retrieval
A case for nondecomposition in conceptually driven word retrieval.
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