Word: verb
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...beaten track.” Complex words in student writing sometimes seem out of place, said Lydia A. Fillingham, a preceptor of the Harvard Expository Writing Program. “One thing people do a lot of is use the noun form instead of a verb. Instead of using ‘spent more,’ they write ‘spending increased,’” she said. Oppenheimer, like his study’s subjects, prefers straightforward writing. “If you want to communicate your point effectively, you should do everything in your...
...Granted, no one lands in the hospital after even the most impassioned discussions of the relative merits of indicative perfect and indicative pluperfect verb tenses. But linguistic travails do complicate cultural exchanges: when we (try to) communicate there’s a real sense of rift here, like someone’s jammed the telephone line and all that’s coming out is white noise...
...Board: 1. The Administrative Board of Harvard College. It decides your fate if you screw up badly enough for anyone to take notice. 2. A verb: He was “ad-boarded” for getting really drunk and pushing his proctor out of the fifth-floor window (see Proctor...
...Hillary and Osama bin Laden on the same screen. As a presidential candidate, Hillary could count on every attack from the right that Bill gotmaybe worse, because he never had to contend with the blogosphere or the newer kind of independent operation that turned swift boat into a verb in the 2004 presidential election...
...dung-and-sawdust scented world of bull riding, the verb ride is precisely defined. It does not mean "to sit atop a bucking, spinning, hurtling, heaving beast that wants nothing more than to throw you to kingdom come." That is merely to get on the bull. To ride it you must get on and stay there-for eight seconds. Which, in layman's time, is about six seconds longer than impossible...