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• acute - a condition that comes on • bang for the buck - a term that means to
suddenly get the most for your money
• comorbid - two or more conditions that • due diligence - putting effort into
occur at the same time research before making a business
decision
• iatrogenic - something that didn’t go as
planned • drill down - to look at a problem in detail
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❖ Slanting “is the writing of a passage so that it
leans toward one point of view.” Words with
either positive or negative connotations may
be used as slanting. Another example of
slanting is purposefully leaving out information
of a different perspective on a similar issue.
Example:
(Perez, R.E. (2014). Exit essay: Save the Filipino language. Retrieved from
http://rjaperez.tumblr.com/post/95149266012/exit-essay-save-the-filipino-language )
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