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| word order | especially in its constituent word order. |
| loanblend | a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root) |
| colloquy | a conversation especially a formal one |
| pronouns | conjunctions, adpositions, particles, and many of the words vaguely called "adverbs" |
| result clause | A subordinate clause which describes the result of some event, e.g |
| past conditional | past perfect subjunctive |
| perfect participle | present participle |
| alternative interrogative | A type of interrogative sentence in which two or more alternatives are presented, e.g |
| cognate word | a word is cognate with another if both derive from the same word in an ancestral language |
| diphthongs | but they approximate close-mid vowels.) |
| metaphysics | The branch of philosophy concerned with the objective structure of the world |
| inanimate participle | Inanimate gender nominalized verb. |
| predicative particle | The particle mii. |
| root | a simple form inferred as the common basis from which related words in several languages can be derived by linguistic processes |
| virtue ethics | Ethical theories according to which what I ought to do is what the virtuous person would do; for virtue ethics, the primary question is, What kind of person ought I to be? |
| adverb - unknown | Uninflected modifier or function word of unknown adverb classification. |
| number adverb | Adverb specifying number. |
| nominalism | The theory that only individual things are real |
| imperfect | imperfect subjunctive |
| parley | a negotiation between enemies |
| grammatical adverb | Grammatical function word not falling into other categories. |
| rationalism | "Rationalism" is a collective name given to several philosophical systems marked by similar strains |
| epistemology | The branch of philosophy concerned primarily with the criteria, nature, and possibility of knowledge |
| søren kierkegaard | Held that God is beyond reason's grasp, that truth is subjective, and that salvation can be attained only through a leap of faith to Christianity. |
| discourse particle | Particle serving as a discourse marker. |
| quantifier | Indicates amount and number; such as adverbs; particles; numbers; and preverbs. |
| inherent adjective | A type of ADJECTIVE which expresses an attribute or quality of a NOUN, e.g |
| future subjunctive | historic past |
| agreement | collective noun. |
| hermeneutics | Interpretive understanding that seeks systematically to access the essence of things |
| aspectual particle | Particle with aspectual function. |
| alvin plantiga | Holds that theists may accept the belief in God as a "basic belief", one that is rational to hold without supporting evidence and that is a foundation for the entire system of the theists' beliefs. |
| indicative | imperative; subjunctive. |
| roundtable | a meeting of peers for discussion and exchange of views |
| indicative | infinitive |
| past perfect subjunctive | past subjunctive |
| prognosis | the possible outcomes of a condition or a disease and the likelihood that each one will occur. |
| secret | information known only to a special group |
| imperfect | Verb tense indicating a continuing, uncompleted, customary, or simultaneous past action. |
| ontological argument | The argument that God's existence is entailed by the definition or concept of God. |
| postmortem | discussion of an event after it has occurred |
| postdeterminer | A type of DETERMINER which occurs after PREDETERMINERS and CENTRAL DETERMINERS |
| samurai | The warrior aristocracy of Japan |
| tap | touch quickly |
| imperfective | each of which is independent of the tense of the verb |
| feminism | Movement in support of the view that men and women should have equal social value and status |
| bartering | Giving goods or services in return for other goods and services, as opposed to the exchange of money. |
| direct object noun | A sentence element that answers the question, Whom or what is the subject acting upon? and may refer to people, places, things, or ideas. |
| verb | a content word that denotes an action, occurrence, or state of existence |
| positive identification | evidence proving that you are who you say you are; evidence establishing that you are among the group of people already known to the system; recognition by the system leads to acceptance |
| morality of intent | It is not what you do that matters morally but the state of mind with which you do it |
| negative adverb | Adverb with negative meaning. |
| adjective | adverb. |
| anthropomorphism | To think of God as like a human being, only more perfect, is to anthropomorphize God |
| accent | clitic, mesoclitic, proclitic. |
| interview | a conference (usually with someone important) |
| independent relative clause | Another term for nominal relative clause. |
| sesquipedalian | a very long word (a foot and a half long) |
| john henry newman | A famous nineteenth-century religious thinker, held that God's existence is evidenced by the experience of conscience. |
| ask | direct or put; seek an answer to |
| past | A value for TENSE, which indicates that the event referred to took place in the past |
| nice properties | Four properties of AUXILIARY VERBS which distinguish them from main verbs, namely, Negation, Inversion, Code, and Emphasis. |
| latest | the most recent news or development |
| nominal relative clause | A type of relative clause that does not have a Head word |
| singular | plural. |
| past perfect | pluperfect |
| tree diagram | A visual representation of the syntactic structure of a sentence. |
| voice | active, middle. |
| objective case | The form of PRONOUNS that can appear in the highlighted position of the following example: I love John/him. |
| occupational therapist | individuals who specialize in the analysis of activity and tasks to minimize the impact of disability on activities of daily living |
| epistemology | The branch of philosophy concerned primarily with the nature and possibility of knowledge. |
| word | base, or phrase or inserted within a word or base and serving to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form |
| utilitarianism | The doctrine that the rightness of an action is identical with the happiness it produces as its consequence |
| infinitive | The infinitive form of a verb is the form which follows to, eg |
| libertarian | Someone who believes in free will; alternatively, someone who upholds the principles of liberty of thought and action |
| haggling | Negotiations between a seller and a buyer to come to an agreement upon the price of an item for sale |
| reflexive | for example, decreases its valence ('they see you' → 'you are seen'), while a causative increases its valence ('they eat' → 'you feed them') |
| future anterior/perfect | past conditional |
| epistemological detour | The attempt to utilize epistemological inquiry to arrive at metaphysical truths |
| theist | Theists believe in a personal God who concerns himself with human affairs |
| indirect object | The Indirect Object is usually the 'receiver' of an action described by a verb: John gave Mary flowers |
| a posteriori | An a posteriori truth is a truth that is arrived at by observing the world |
| syncategoreme | a syncategorematic expression; a word that cannot be used alone as a term in a logical proposition |
| false coordination | Use of a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION where no COORDINATION actually takes place, eg |
| fallacy | A mistake in reasoning |
| deliberation | (usually plural) discussion of all sides of a question |
| divine law | In the philosophy of Thomas Aquinas, God's gift to humankind, apprehended through revelation, that directs us to our supernatural goal, eternal happiness |
| -ed participle | A NONFINITE form of a VERB characterised by the -ed INFLECTION |
| circumstantial adverb | A collective term for MANNER, TIME, and PLACE ADVERBS. |
| reciprocal pronoun | The reciprocal pronouns in English are each other and one another. |
| powwow | (informal) a quick private conference |
| phrasal verb | A phrasal verb is a MULTI-WORD VERB made up of a VERB and ADVERB |
| reductio proof | Proving a proposition by showing that its nonacceptance would involve an absurdity. |
| markup language | a set of symbols and rules for their use when doing a markup of a document |
| quantitative adverb | Adverb specifying generally how much or how many. |
| tense | voice |
| subjunctive | A grammatical mood indicating uncertainty, desire, supposition, hypothetical and theoretical situations, or impersonal opinions. |
| comparative | A form of an adjective or adverb which indicates that one thing has some feature to a greater or lesser extent than the thing it is being compared to |
| nominative | objective |
| syndetic coordination | This term refers to COORDINATION that has a single COORDINATOR between the last two CONJOINS, as in John, Mary and Bill. |
| imperfect subjunctive | present |
| clause | with by, on, and to linking "the park", "my way", and "the store" to where I walked, and for linking "some bread" to why I walked. |
| raised | higher than the neutral position |
| enlightenment | The Enlightenment was a philosophical movement during the 18th century that sought to examine all doctrines and traditions using the faculty of reason. |
| polymorphism | the regular and simultaneous occurrence in a single interbreeding population of two or more alleles of a gene, where the frequency of the more rare alleles is greater than can be explained by recurrent mutation alone (typically greater than 1%) |
| ordinal numeral | A type of NUMERAL, including items like first, 1st. |
| nominal adjective | ADJECTIVES that denote a class of entities by describing one of their ATTRIBUTES are called nominal adjectives, e.g |
| capitalism | An economic system in which ownership of the means of production and distribution is maintained mostly by private individuals and corporations |
| -ly adverb | An ADVERB formed by adding ly to an adjective, eg |
| spell | an acronym for Structure, Positive (approaches and expectations), Empathy, Low arousal, and Links, the framework used in UK schools to design programs that recognize individual needs of child and adult participants |
| similative preverb | Preverb of kind or type used as prenoun. |
| singular | A value of NUMBER CONTRAST used when a single entity is being referred to |
| relative pronoun | Who, which, that and whom are relative pronouns |
| simple past | subjunctive |
| headword | a word placed at the beginning of a line or paragraph (as in a dictionary entry) |
| demonstrative adjective | An adjective that indicates or points out this, that, these, or those people, places, or things to which a speaker is referring. |
| accent | clitic, enclitic, proclitic. |
| teleological explanation | An explanation of a thing in terms of its ends, goals, purposes, or functions |
| ordinal number | A number used to indicate order in a particular series. |
| pronominal/reflexive verb | transitive verb |
| deist | Deists believe that they can rationally prove that God created the world but He has exerted no control or influence over his creation since the moment of creation |
| perfective auxiliary | The AUXILIARY have is used in combination with the -ED PARTICIPLE to denote PERFECTIVE ASPECT, eg |
| affect | not restricted to contempt, but including boredom, misery, or any negative emotion |
| logic | The study of correct inference |
| active voice | passive voice. |
| transitive animate verb | Verb with a transitive stem and an animate object. |
| relative adverb | When, where and why are a relative of ADVERBS |
| toponymy | the nomenclature of regional anatomy |
| pre-post study | a research design in which the same tests are given to participants before and after they take part in a study to see if there are any changes that could be attributed to the intervention. |
| dubitative adverb | Dubitative evidential adverb. |
| finite | A verb is finite if it carries TENSE |
| tag question | An interrogative string positioned at the end of a sentence, usually seeking confirmation, e.g |
| grammatical word | Another term for function word. |
| group discussion | a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic |
| manner adverb | A type of CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADVERB which expresses the manner in which an action is performed |
| proper noun | A proper noun refers to a particular person or place (e.g |
| social contract | An agreement among individuals forming an organized society or between the community and the ruler that defines the rights and duties of each |
| bull session | an informal discussion (usually among men) |
| mood | number |
| dogmatize | state as a dogma |
| dummy operator | Another term for the DO AUXILIARY |
| evidentialism | Evidentialism is the position that holds a claim to be valid if and only if it is supported by sufficient evidence |
| inanimate intransitive verb | Verb with an intransitive stem; an inanimate subject and no object. |
| past subjunctive | past anterior |
| computer memory unit | a unit for measuring computer memory |
| subject | Subjects can often be described as the constituent that performs the action described by the Predicate, e.g |
| indicative | subjunctive. |
| auxiliary/helping verb | compound past |
| predicative adverb | Adverb serving as a predicator. |
| hinduism | The Western word for the religious beliefs and practices of the majority of the people of India |
| accent | the unique speech patterns of a person or group |
| -ing participle | A form of VERB ending in -ing (ADJECTIVES can also have this form, under the cover term PARTICIPIAL ADJECTIVE) |
| portmanteau word | a new word formed by joining two others and combining their meanings |
| directional preverb | One of a positional class of preverbs of location and direction |
| shorten sound | make the duration of a sound shorter |
| subject | - dummy subject |
| indefinite article | The indefinite article is a(n) |
| collective bargaining | negotiation between an employer and trade union |
| past anterior | past infinitive |
| retrospective study | a study design in which cases of a condition or disease of interest are collected and analyzed after they have developed the condition or disease. |
| information | a message received and understood |
| placebo | an inactive substance that looks the same as, and is administered in the same way as, a drug in a clinical trial, usually in a double-blinded study |
| perfective aspect | PERFECTIVE ASPECT is grammatically encoded by the PERFECTIVE AUXILIARY + -ED PARTICIPLE of a VERB |
| voice communication | (language) communication by word of mouth |
| teach-in | an extended session (as on a college campus) for lectures and discussion on an important and usually controversial issue |
| copular verb | impersonal verb |
| customs | 1 |
| duty | A tax imposed on imports, exports, or manufactured goods. |
| accent | clitic, enclitic, mesoclitic. |
| agreement | This usually refers to Subject-verb agreement, and denotes the fact that a verb ending agrees with the number of the Subject (the dog barks / the dogs bark) |
| press conference | a conference at which press and tv reporters ask questions of a politician or other celebrity |
| verb - unknown | Verb of unknown classification. |
| formularize | express as a formula |
| first person | whereas inclusive "we" is a combination of first and second person. |
| cultural relativism | The theory that what is right (and wrong) is what your culture believes is right (and wrong) |
| primary verbs | The AUXILIARY VERBS be, have and do are called primary verbs when they act as MAIN VERBS |
| lexical verb | Another term for MAIN VERB. |
| conditional perfect | future anterior/perfect |
| inductive inference | In an inductive inference we form a conclusion regarding unobserved events based on the evidence provided by observed events |
| number | Uninflected number. |
| present | A value for TENSE |
| conjugate | To give different forms of a verb according to voice, mood, tense, number, and person |
| declare | To inform customs officials of any goods you’re carrying that may be taxable. |
| superlative | In the sentence The cheetah is the fastest animal, the ending -est marks the superlative form of the adjective fast |
| particle to | The PARTICLE which appears in TO-INFINITIVES: I want to leave. |
| universal pronoun | Pronoun with universal quantifier such as (g)akina. |
| preterite | simple past |
| teleconferencing | a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television |
| evaluative adverb | Preverb of evaluation of quality. |
| preverb - unknown | Preverb of unknown classification. |
| metonym | a word that denotes one thing but refers to a related thing |
| mood | 1 |
| particularizer adverb | A type of ADVERB which focuses attention on what follows, e.g |
| predicator | This is a functional term for the Head of the Predicate of a sentence |
| empiricism | The philosophy that all knowledge originates in sensory experience |
| pluperfect subjunctive | present perfect |
| tense | Tense refers to the grammatical encoding of an event or action in time |
| stem-changing verb | A verb that requires an internal change in the vowel before the -ar, -er, or -ir infinitive ending in all the singular and third-person plural forms of certain tenses. |
| conditional | A verb tense that expresses an action that should have, could have, or would have happened if the conditions were right. |
| discourse adverb | Adverb serving as a discourse marker. |
| degree adverb | Adverb specifying degree or intensity. |
| active | A value of VOICE for a VERB, the other value being PASSIVE. |
| revelation | Also called "revealed religion", revelation is supposed to be contrasted with natural religion |
| good word | good news |
| argument by analogy | As in an argument for the existence of God the idea that the world is analogous to a human contrivance and therefore, just as the human contrivance has a creator, the world must also have a creator. |
| total skeptic | One who maintains nothing can be known or, alternatively, suspends judgment in all matters |
| demonstration | A demonstration is a deductive argument |
| nominative | possessive. |
| horse trading | negotiation accompanied by mutual concessions and shrewd bargaining |
| emphasis | One of the NICE PROPERTIES of AUXILIARY VERBS, eg I do like carrots, I can speak French.. |
| negative preverb | Preverb of negative meaning. |
| intonation | as in "In English, this may be done ...", or as in "That dog, I can't hunt (with) him no more" |
| passive | In a passive sentence, the PASSIVE AUXILIARY be is combined with the -ed participle of a verb, e.g |
| ethics | Ethics is the branch of philosophy that studies how people should act |
| evidential adverb | Adverb specifying speaker's attitude toward reliability; or the nature of evidence for a report. |
| tense/mode preverb | One of a positional class of adverbs of tense and mode |
| accent | stress. |
| mood | conditional |
| prevalence | the proportion of people with a particular condition or disease within a given population at a given time. |
| dual | singular, plural. |
| imperative | A verb mood that indicates a command or request. |
| show | give expression to |
| asyndetic coordination | Asyndetic coordination involves two or more CONJOINS which are not linked by a COORDINATING CONJUNCTION |
| universal quantifier | a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts that the proposition is true for all members of a class of things |
| number | person |
| formulaic expression | A type of MINOR WORD CLASS expressing greetings, farewells, and apologies, eg |
| interjection | An interjection is an exclamation (MINOR WORD CLASS), e.g |
| subordinating preverb | Preverb serving as subordinator. |
| market | 1 |
| argument by analogy | An argument by analogy seeks to draw a conclusion by claiming that the phenomenon under question is analogous to another, better known, phenomenon |
| lexical word | Lexical word is another term for CONTENT or OPEN-CLASS word. |
| theoretical posits | Entities whose existence we hypothesize to explain our sensory experience |
| manner adverb | Adverb specifying a way or manner. |
| thought experiment | Imagining a situation in order to extract a lesson of philosophical importance |
| linguistic unit | one of the natural units into which linguistic messages can be analyzed |
| animate intransitive verb | Verb with an intransitive stem; an animate subject and no object. |
| subordinate | This term is the converse of superordinate |
| cardinal number | Any number used in counting or showing how many. |
| functional analysis | A functional analysis is one which looks at the grammatical functions of constituents, such as SUBJECT, DIRECT OBJECT, etc. |
| coordinating conjunction | A type of CONJUNCTION which connects elements of equal status |
| voice | active, passive. |
| clause | sentence. |
| tacit consent | An implied rather than explicitly consent, as, for example, when you consent to the laws of your state by continuing to live in it |
| representationalism | The doctrine that true beliefs are accurate representations of the state of affairs they are about |
| ghost word | a word form that has entered the language through the perpetuation of an error |
| st. thomas aquinas | The author of the Five Ways of Proving God's Existence. |
| hard palate | hard part of the roof of the mouth |
| diminutive | 1 |
| tone | the emotion that is conveyed through the sound of speech (e.g |
| accent | pitch, stress. |
| quantitative preverb | Preverb indicating specific number. |
| particle - unknown | One of a minor class of uninflected words; of unknown classification. |
| empirical theism | Empirical theism is the position that religious belief can be rationally grounded in experience |
| deictic word | a word specifying identity or spatial or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or hearer in the context in which the communication occurs |
| voice | Voice refers to the ACTIVE/PASSIVE distinction |
| mass noun | A noun denoting an undifferentiated substance, e.g |
| vowel | Any of the letters a, e, i, o, and u |
| epistemology | Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with knowledge |
| mediation | a negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party |
| natural attributes | All of God's attributes other than moral attributes are his natural attributes |
| temporal adverb | Adverb specifying time or duration. |
| nonfinite verb | A Nonfinite verb does not carry tense agreement |
| consultation | a conference between two or more people to consider a particular question |
| synonym | word |
| intransitive verb | An intransitive verb is one which does not take any Complements, e.g |
| plural | A form of the NOUN indicated by the -s INFLECTION, denoting more than one entity |
| direct object | indirect object. |
| historical/literary/narrative tense | historic past |
| affect | hesitation, questions, commands, etc |
| probabilistic argument | In a probabilistic argument the premises only guarantee that the conclusion is likely to be true, not that the conclusion is definitely true; even if all of the premises of the argument are true, the conclusion could still turn out to be false |
| nihilism | The rejection of values and beliefs |
| language | dialect. |
| locational adverb | Adverb specifying location. |
| head word | (grammar) the word in a grammatical constituent that plays the same grammatical role as the whole constituent |
| imperfect subjunctive | pluperfect subjunctive |
| order | (often plural) a command given by a superior (e.g., a military or law enforcement officer) that must be obeyed |
| a priori | An a priori truth is one that can be arrived at without any observations of the world |
| pretrial conference | (law) a conference held before the trial begins to bring the parties together to outline discovery proceedings and to define the issues to be tried; more useful in civil than in criminal cases |
| interjection particle | Particles of emotional; directional; or conversational function which may also stand alone as utterances. |
| aesthetics | The philosophical study of art and of value judgments about art and of beauty in general |
| aspect | perfective, verb. |
| prefix | Personal prefix. |
| historic past | past anterior |
| redact | formulate in a particular style or language |
| determiner | one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases |
| referent | something that refers; a term that refers to another term |
| deictic particle | Particle with deictic function. |
| julian of norwich | An English anchoress and mystic, argued that we are in God and God is in us |
| objective | possessive. |
| noun | A noun is a word which can inflect for number and which usually names people, places or things. |
| principle of sufficient reason | The principle that there is a sufficient reason why things are exactly as they are and are not otherwise. |
| synonym | two words that can be interchanged in a context are said to be synonymous relative to that context |
| person | tense |
| impersonal verb | intransitive verb |
| term | a word or expression used for some particular thing |
| cosmogony | Cosmogony is the branch of science that seeks to understand the origins of the universe. |
| infinitive | The unconjugated form of a verb — dormir (to sleep), for example. |
| nominative | objective; possessive |
| transitive inanimate verb | Verb with a transitive stem; and an inanimate object; and a characteristic set of inflections. |
| compound tense | auxiliary/helping verb |
| immanuel kant | Criticized the ontological, cosmological, and teleological proofs of God and thought God's existence cannot be proved, yet he believed that God's existence must be assumed by the rational, moral individual. |
| existential quantifier | a logical quantifier of a proposition that asserts the existence of at least one thing for which the proposition is true |
| friedrich nietzsche | Believed that the masses are ruled by a slave morality inculcated by religion, science, and philosophy |
| noun phrase | an attributive adjective marked with the particle a. |
| hedonism | The pursuit of pleasure |
| phenomenological reduction | A method of putting aside the ordinary attitude toward the world and its objects in order to see the objects of pure consciousness through intuition |
| transitive verb | A transitive verb is a verb that takes one or more Complements. |
| intention to treat analysis | a way of analyzing data from a randomized controlled trials in which the results for individuals are analyzed according to which group they were assigned whether or not they remained in the study or whether they received the treatment they were assigned |
| place adverb | A type of CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADVERB that refers to the direction in which an action is taking place, put the book there. |
| compound past | conditional perfect |
| dummy subject | - real subject |
| case | genitive. |
| polysyndetic coordination | COORDINATION in which all CONJOINS are linked by COORDINATING CONJUNCTIONS, John and Mary and Bill. |
| past infinitive | past perfect |
| number contrast | The difference between SINGULAR and PLURAL forms of NOUNS. |
| necessary being | A being whose nonexistence is impossible. |
| non-inherent adjective | A type of ADJECTIVE that does not denote an ATTRIBUTE of a NOUN, e.g |
| accent | enclitic, mesoclitic, proclitic. |
| serotonin | a neurotransmitter implicated in the behavioural-physiological processes of sleep, pain and sensory perception, motor function, appetite, learning and memory. |
| statement | a message that is stated or declared; a communication (oral or written) setting forth particulars or facts etc |
| realism | The theory that the real world is independent of the mind; the theory that universals exist outside the mind |
| manner preverb | Preverb of manner or degree. |
| case | ergative. |
| simple tense | conditional |
| prop it | A special use of the PERSONAL PRONOUN it, also called DUMMY IT, in expressions like: it is raining and hold it! |
| consequentialism | Ethical theories that evaluate actions by their consequences |
| moral attributes | God's moral attributes are the attributes that God has insofar as he is a moral agent |
| future | future subjunctive |
| superlative | A form of an adjective or adverb which indicates that one thing has some feature to a greater degree than anything it is being compared to |
| act-utilitarianism | A form of utilitarianism (subscribed to by Bentham) in which the rightness of an act is determined by its effect on the general happiness |
| objects | complements, or adverbial modifiers. |
| non-pulmonic | when the air comes from a source other than the lungs |
| past anterior | imperfect subjunctive |
| diplomatic negotiations | negotiation between nations |
| william james | Held that it is rationally justifiable to yield to your hope that a God exists. |
| perfective aspect | which isn't a tense at all. |
| particle | A MINOR WORD CLASS consisting of the PARTICLE to (e.g |
| charade | a word acted out in an episode of the game of charades |
| superordinate | The converse of SUBORDINATE |
| emphatic particle | Particle marking emphasis. |
| ventilation | free and open discussion of (or debate on) some question of public interest |
| lexical preverb | Manner; quality; and quantity preverbs |
| subordinate clause | A part of a sentence containing a subject and verb that can’t stand on its own but describes something in the larger sentence. |
| teleological | A teleological explanation attempts to account for states, events, or things by appealing to a notion of purpose or goal. |
| randomized controlled trial | a study design in which enrollment into a study is done by random allocation, that is, the patient has no greater likelihood or receiving the treatment or placebo (or the comparison treatment) than could be expected by chance alone |
| nonce word | a word with a special meaning used for a special occasion |
| strategic arms limitation talks | negotiations between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics opened in 1969 in Helsinki designed to limit both countries' stock of nuclear weapons |
| representative realism | The theory that we perceive objects indirectly by means of representations (ideas, perceptions) of them |
| present | preterite |
| pluperfect | pluperfect subjunctive |
| time adverb | A type of CIRCUMSTANTIAL ADVERB that specifies the time an action takes place, for example, I will leave soon. |
| update | news that updates your information |
| determinism | The doctrine that a person could not have acted otherwise than as she or he did act |