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Repetition 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 29

Repetition 504 Absolutely Essential Words Lesson 29

/ˌrep.əˈtɪʃ.ən/ (noun)

the act of repeating something, retelling, reiteration, recurrence, echoing, echo, replication, duplication, parroting, repeating, repeat, reverberation

Repeating keywords in a paragraph is an important technique for achieving cohesion. Of course, careless or excessive repetition is boring—and a source of clutter. But used skillfully and selectively, as in the paragraph below, this technique can hold sentences together and focus the reader’s attention on a central idea.

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Verb: repeat

Noun: repeat

Adjective: repetitive

Adjective: repeated

Adverb: repeatedly

Adverb: repetitively


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