Spin techniques may include careful timing in delivering information, selective presentation of facts, careful selection of words and phrases meant to invoke certain responses in hearers, choice of sound bites, or redefining of terms and phrases.
"'England desperately need...'. on the front, and punters can choose from a selection of words for the back.
Go to Seidl's official website and you will find a selection of words associated with his name.
BigOven's glossary is handy, but the selection of words and terms seems arbitrary and at times feels thin.
"Get spell box," he demonstrates, and is immediately obeyed – although with a selection of words to choose from, rather than anything magical.
Dyslexic students tend to have separate vocabularies for writing and speaking: even if they are highly articulate, they draw on a strictly limited selection of words when writing.
Odd Lexicon Caution: These Words Could End a Perfectly Good Scrabble Game A selection of words obscure and fanciful from "A Word a Day: A Romp Through Some of the Most Unusual and Intriguing Words in English" (John Wiley & Sons): Asyndeton (uh-SIN-di-ton), plural asyndeta, noun.
Yet as you say, there is such a glut of stuff out there, much of which seems to be terrifyingly expensive for such tiny little bottles, all of which have ridiculous names that sound more like a random selection of words than actual products, such as "High Definition Serum Foundation Capture Total".
Like Joyce, Flaubert can be drily comic, but humour is dependent on a precise selection of words, registers and double meanings, so I had to take an irony geiger count of every sentence – whose "right" translation lurked just around the corner.
The stimuli employed were a selection of words from the Busca Palabras database (Davis & Perea 2005).
