Better Words Flashcards
(127 cards)
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Meh, chaotic
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Frumpy, frazzled, dissheveled
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Ideological chaos
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Ideological cocktail
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… imagination
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theater of your imagination
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intellectual contest
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Intellectual joust
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Mental model
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Mental Landscape
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overview of information
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Mosaic of information (Mo-sa-ic)
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expressing a great quantity (snow)
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Army of snow
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Chaotic, dramatic attitude (weather)
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Stormy attitude
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It grew into a viral trend
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It mushroomed it a top trend
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I can’t understand
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I can’t digest what you are telling me
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Expression for dark sides / side effects
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Everything casts a shadow
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Starts… a process
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Jumpstarts our fear engine
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A new thought
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A burst of thought
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To like, I like
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to be fond of, I am fond of
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Searching
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scavenging
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Boring (alliteration)
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Dull and dreary
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Decide (negatively)
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Settle
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To not be enough
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To fall short of
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Explain
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Convey
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Apply / use
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Invoke a metaphor
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Improve / add on
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Furnish
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Push into
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Shoehorn it
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The goal is
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the objective is
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To build
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to construct
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Qualities
Characteristics
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Ideally ( better)
Preferably (Preferbly pronounced)
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Going through (an idea)
Stepping through
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An idea
A flare of inspiration
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An obstacle/something to get hung up on or trip over
A tripwire
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An instrument to tune a knob
A receiver of a radio
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Grab a hold of
Seize our sentences
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Destroying
Eroding
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Specific
Particular
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A common theme
Common denomenators
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Integrate
Absorb
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Maybe
Perhaps
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I feel like
I suppose... I need just more time
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Wide
vast
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Pure
Sheer
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Tons / bunch
Great many. There were great many challenges
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For sure I wasn't..
Naturally I wasn't...
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Super, extreme (negative)
Terribly
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Very
Tremendously
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Why can't we?
Can we not?
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Broadening
expanding
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To trigger
to evoke
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To compare
to juxtapose
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Deceiving
Illusionatory
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Own / owned
Proprietary
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Use / make use of
Employ
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Made up of
Comprised
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About / Cerca
Approximately
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Put together
Compose
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Some adjectives for a steak
Flavourful, tender, perfectly seasoned
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Likely
More than likely
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Noted as (noted as the default words)
Registered as
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The ability to float in water. How do we give our words more...
Buoyancy
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Let me give you
Let me provide you
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Achieve
Accomplish
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Automatically
instinctively
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Well-spoken
Articulate
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Deep
Profound
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Long time
Hours-on-end
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Appear
Surface
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Out of ideas (metaphor)
I have reached idea poverty
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recharged
replenished
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to dig up / find
excavate
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reflection
introspection
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Make use of
Command the... how to command the pause
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Great
extraordinary (extrodinary)
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Unimportant
Trivial
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To dislike
to be allergic
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To explain
convey
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Well-spoken
articulate
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addiction
compulsion
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tendency
proclivity / disposition
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to speak to quickly / without thinking
Blurt out a hasty first pass
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Excessive speed
Hasty, swifty
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Re-make
revise
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Adding on
appending on
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increases
Furthers the lack of clarity
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properly
Thoroughly
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Intentional
Deliberate
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It's important to mention
It is worth noting.
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Focus
Channel my focus
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very much undervalue
Grossly undervalue
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The importance
the significance
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important
vital
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Evaluate the impact
Gage the impact
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Change, adapt
Modify
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Overwhelming amount of information
firehose of information
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At it's strongest or highest
At it's zenith
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Areas of knowledge
Domains of knowledge
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To be given certain qualities
to be endowed with
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an low price / cheap
an inexpensive fee
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connected to (a bigger picture)
in relation to
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repeat / redo
revisit
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individual/ one
singular
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detailed, thorough
comprehensive
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practice loudly
Rehearse out loud
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to be deeply respected or admired
Revered - great orators are revered by the public
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to learn / to adopt
internalize
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being critical
playing devil's advocate
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To overuse our attention capacity - a metaphor
Max out our mental hard drives
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understanding deeply (visual language)
understand at high resolution
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dedicate / use
devote (a certain amount of mental energy)
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Take up space in ones head without being of use (metaphor)
These ideas take up mental space without paying rent
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Superficial
shallow
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The best path
The best course of action
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fall / be reduced (my mental clarity would just...)
Tank
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covering or intended to cover a large group or class of things, conditions, situations, etc
blanket - this is not a blanket solution intended to
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write down
note down
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to summarize
to recap
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To progress/ to lead
to speerhead
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To rationalize
to justify
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To be easy
convienent
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we have information... (stored away in masses)
Jam-packed in our mental brain closet
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Being in the habit of
conditioned
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Boring
plain, bland
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giving oneself (limiting oneself)
alloting oneself
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to remove from
the scrape off
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tipping point
threshold
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meant to
intended to
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being in a mental low phase
being in a mental rut
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evaluating / copiling
diagnosing
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Triple B - insensitive, intense in speaking
Blunt, bold and brash
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