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Term of Art: Privative

Posted on June 18, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Privative: Indicating lack of loss of, absence of, or negation, e.g., the prefixes ‘un-,’ ‘a-,’ ‘non-,’ the suffix ‘-less.'”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Social Engineering

Posted on June 17, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Social Engineering: Planned social change and social development; the idea that governments can shape and manage key features of society, in much the same way as the economy is managed, assuming that adequate information on spontaneous trends is available through social indicators and social trends reports. For example, the extent of women’s employment is clearly determined in part by government policy to promote or impede women’s paid work.”

Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Term of Art: Prepositive

Posted on June 8, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Prepositive: Placed before another word or words, or prefixed, e.g., ‘most foul murder.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Partitive

Posted on June 5, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Partitive: Indicating restricting, setting off, or only a part of, e.g. ‘a scrap of food,’ ‘one of your friends.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Cloze Reading

Posted on June 4, 2020 | Leave a comment

“cloze reading: A test or exercises of reading comprehension in which the student must supply words that have been purposely removed from the sample piece of writing.”

Excerpted from: Ravitch, Diane. EdSpeak: A Glossary of Education Terms, Phrases, Buzzwords, and Jargon. Alexandria, VA: ASCD, 2007.

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Term of Art: Nominative

Posted on June 3, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Nominative: Indicating the subject of a verb (or predicate after a copulative verb), or direct address, e.g., ‘She eats too much, ‘He is my uncle.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Sacred, Sacred versus Profane Distinction (in a Time of Gaslighting this Dichotomy)

Posted on June 2, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Sacred, Sacred versus Profane Distinction: For Emile Durkheim and all subsequent sociologists of religion, the recognition of the absolute nature of the distinction between these two terms was and has been fundamental to their subdiscipline, both as a social fact and as something to be explained. Durkheim’s classic statement or the distinction is that ‘Sacred things are those which the [religious] interdictions protect and isolate; profane things, those to which these interdictions are applied and which must remain at a distance from the first’ (The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, 1912). Sacred phenomena are therefore considered extraordinary and set apart from everything else.”

Excerpted from: Marshall, Gordon, ed. Oxford Dictionary of Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

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Term of Art: Interrogative

Posted on June 1, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Interrogative: Indicating a question, e.g., ‘What’s the word for that?’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Intensive

Posted on May 26, 2020 | Leave a comment

 “Intensive: Indicating appositional (or adjacent) use for emphasis, e.g. ‘I myself,’ ‘The word itself.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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Term of Art: Indicative

Posted on May 21, 2020 | Leave a comment

“Indicative: Indicating the usual form of a verb: simple assertion or interrogation, or expression in terms of what is a fact or is clearly related to reality, e.g., ‘The book is on the table.’”

Excerpted from: Grambs, David. The Random House Dictionary for Writers and Readers. New York: Random House, 1990.

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