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Kinn's Chapter 13
Term | Definition |
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academic degree | A title conferred by a college,university,or professional school upon completion of a program of study. |
amiable | Having qualities that make one liked and easy to deal with. |
annotatitng | Furnishing with notes that are usually critical or explanatory. |
archived | To have filed or collected records or documents. |
bond | A durable,formal paper used for documents. |
categorically | Placed in a specific division of a system of classification. |
clauses | Groups of words containing a subject and predicate and functioning as a member of a complex or compound sentence. |
collect on delivery (COD) | A method of payment used when an article or item is delivered and payment is expected before it is released. |
concise | Expressing much in brief form. |
condescending | Assuming an air of superiority. |
continuation pages | The second and following pages of a letter. |
curt | Market by rude or peremptory shortness. |
disseminate | To disperse throughout. |
domestic mail | Mail sent within the boundaries of the United States and its teritorries. |
editing | To prepare for publication or public presentation;to alter,adapt,or refine,especially to bring about conformity to a standard or to suit a particular purpose. |
flush | Directly abtting or immediatelly adjacent, as set even with an edge of a type page or column;having no indention. |
girth | A measure around a body or an item. |
grammar | The study of the classes of words, their inflections, and their functions and relations in the sentence; a study of what is preferred and what should be avoided in inflection and syntax. |
international mail | Mail that is sent outside the boundaries of the United States and its territories. |
intrinsic | Belonging to the essential nature or constitution of a thing;indwelling,inward., belonging to a thing by its very nature |
phrases | Groups of words with a specific grammatical function,such as a noun phrase or an adjective phrase. |
portofolio | A set of pictures,drawings,documents or photographs either bound in book form or loose in a folder. |
ream | A quantity of paper weighing 20 lb or consisting of, variously, 480, 500, or 516 sheets. |
recipient | The receiver of some thing or item. |
stationers | Sellers of stationery. |
substance number | A number based on the weight of a ream of paper containing 500 sheets. |
superfluous | Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary. |
template | Something that establishes or serves as a pattern. |
watermark | A marking in paper resulting from differences in thicknes usually produced by the pressure of a projecting design in the mold or on a processing roll; it is visible when the paper is held up to the light. |