Abstract words are usually clearer to listeners than are concrete words.

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False

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Directly interacting with elected officials or government regulators is the public relations activity known as community relations.

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Specific cases used to represent a larger whole to clarify or explain something are called ______.

a. illustrators b. opinions c. operations d. examples

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1. When we say that someone is Puerto Rican, we are using language to organize and classify.  2. Words can be used to classify people for good or ill: clean, ambitious, and successful, or alcoholic, addicted, and ugly.  3. Saying a wolf is "a man who aggressively pursues women" is a denotative meaning.  4. Saying a bigot is "someone who despises people who are different" is a denotative meaning.  5. Denotative meanings are ideas suggested by a word. 

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Age, physiology, and culture are factors that influence our perceptions

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