"For instance,using the word 'preclude' to mean 'precede.' Yeah,it sounds like 'precede,' but it means 'prevent.' And yet 'preclude' is not a particularly erudite term.

VOA: standard.2010.01.16

So it's been really great. -Yeah, gate is a great word.

真的很棒，-门这个词用得很好。

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Roger Smith,a co-founder of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, says many Turks refuse to use the word 'genocide.' "I worked with some Turkish scholars and these are people who would be considered liberals and so on - but even they really kind of shy away from using the word 'genocide.' They will talk about massacres - you lay all of these things out and they say yeah,yeah,yeah, this happened,okay - well no,I don't want to use that word.

VOA: standard.2010.03.19

Mr. TODD AMBS (Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources): We were going to be in trouble if we put together a document that was so specific that we then would go to the legislatures and say, well, here it is, yeah, it's big, significant, but you can't touch a word of it.

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