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WORD COURT Prosecutor Makes a Book Reviewer's "Manipulatives" Bold and Underlined
by but for March 21, 2020
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hypo-perception

The unconscious reaction to big failures which reduces the intensity at which the individual perceives and experiences life.
After not getting elected to office plus other failures he experienced, including not finding his correct mate, Isitin Jones slid into a state of hypo-perception.
by but for September 21, 2018
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Positive Articulation

Selecting words to express an idea in a positive way conscious that doing so will engender positive consequences.
The chairman of the board asked the speech writer to write the announcement using positive articulation instead of the negative articulation she,—for unexplained reasons—had used. The managers were surprised to see that she worded the announcement as she did, wondered if he was a saboteur, got her fired on-the-spot, and had a different writer write the speech.
by but for October 25, 2017
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information deprivation

Hiding or depriving individuals or groups of people of facts to keep them ignorant and powerless. Individuals and organizations do that to protect themselves, to monopolize power, or to more easily take advantage of others.
I think it's safe to say that at some point and to varying degrees everybody practices information deprivation against those they interact with in order to trick them.
by but for February 14, 2018
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Thought Mapping

Maps the sequence thoughts were thought by an individual or group and indicates which thoughts are connected to which thought, and which thought triggered which.
Thought Mapping is different than Mind Mapping.
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know more know better

Individuals who know more are able to make better decisions and live better.
"Know more know better" is a great idiom. I tell it to my students to encourage them to study. "Know more to live better" is a counterpart.
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Comma Confidence

The confidence one feels having learned where to place, and when not to place, a comma.
Tired of suffering from comma insecurity, Charles studied and achieved comma confidence.
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