FBLA Intro to Business Communications – Flashcards
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semicolon
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separates major sentence elements and can be used between two closely related independent clauses
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conciseness
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brevity and completeness
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doublet
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pair of similar things
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homonyms
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Aka, homophones. Words that sounds alike but have different meanings
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semantics
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the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence or text
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unabridged dictionary
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edition of a dictionary that has not been shortened
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unavoidably detained
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delayed
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jargon
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special words or expressions that are used by a particular profession or group and are difficult for others to understand
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trite phrases
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cliche
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gratuitous
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uncalled for, lacking good reason, unwarranted
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conjunction
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action of two or more events or things occurring at the same time (but, if)
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prepositional phrase
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modifying phrase consisting of a word used before nouns & pronouns
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reflexive pronoun
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used when the subject and object are in the same sentence (myself, yourself, herself, himself...)
