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Repellent or Repulsive?

Judy Vorfeld “Repellent” and “Repulsive” both speak to dri­ving oth­ers away, but REPULSIVE is more REPULSIVE than REPELLENT is REPELLENT. Repellent is more about dis­taste. Repulsive is more about dis­gust­ing. In good writ­ing, there are dis­tinct differences.

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Pretext vs Pretense

Judy Vorfeld Pretext & Pretense Pretext is a false rea­son given to con­ceal a truth, and comes from a word mean­ing “to weave, before, pre­tend.” Think of a pre­text as hav­ing “tex­ture, a cloth, a cover-up.” Dana told every­one she was laid off because of the econ­omy but she was really fired. She […]

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Make your para­graphs interesting

Judy Vorfeld Not only do we need to write clearly and tightly, we also need to make para­graphs inter­est­ing. When pos­si­ble, avoid all short sen­tences or all long sen­tences in a para­graph. Vary them. (I just did so in this para­graph). It’s not nec­es­sary to do this with […]

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Explicit or Implicit?

Judy Vorfeld EXPLICIT Something delib­er­ately spelled out (con­tract, doc­u­ment etc.). Something fully and clearly expressed (could be writ­ten or spo­ken). Explicit crit­i­cism means being very hon­est or can­did. IMPLICIT means some­thing not spe­cific, but either suggested/necessary to meet goal. American Heritage Dictionary says it can mean “understood […]

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Childish or Childlike?

Judy Vorfeld CHILDISH some­times sug­gests immaturity/unreasonableness. But it could also refer to the tone of voice or con­ver­sa­tion or activ­i­ties.   CHILDLIKE sug­gests innocence/mildness/freshness, like hav­ing child­like trust in someone.

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