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whitespace
parts of a document which have been left blank to draw attention to other parts of the document
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infographic
Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly.
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periphrasis
the use of separate words to express a grammatical relationship that is otherwise expressed by inflection, e.g. did go as opposed to went and more intelligent as opposed to cleverer.
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nominalization
the use of a word which is not a noun (e.g. a verb, an adjective or an adverb) as a noun, or as the head of a noun phrase, with or without morphological transformation.
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mitigated directive
more softened forms of interrogatives, such as with the use of a modal verb - 'could you please tell me...?' etc. Is that correct? So basically it's a less direct manner of probing for information?
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yod-dropping
Linguistics- When the "y" sound in words like "Tuesday" (tyoosday) is dropped to (toosday). Same with words like "stupid", "duty", and "due"
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