rewording
- noun
- /ˌriːˈwɜːrdɪŋ/
- Oh, that's the rewording of the question.
Examples
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The teacher suggested a rewording of the instructions to make them easier for the students.
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"Many of the changes were of a similar character—subtle rewordings that cast greater doubt on the conclusiveness of scientific understandings of climate change.
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In other words, we can call anything a success in the new rewording of the day.
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But it's a rewording of the original meaning freedom from suffering.
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Try this rewording of your inner world as a beginning step to accessing the assistance of your higher self and fulfilling your desires.
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Again, minor rewording of the point makes clear its relevance to satire in the classroom:
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Here's my rewording, then:
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Sometimes the editor feels that I go further than the source material actually justifies; in that case, we either negotiate a rewording or drop the assertion altogether.
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The difficult-to-understand legal language on consent forms may require rewording or, instead, a structured plan for verbal explanations—another way of engendering trust.
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I encourage people to contribute as much as they feel comfortable contributing without getting compensated for it, whether that's diagrams, graphs, rewording of paragraphs, or entirely new content.
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Synonyms
The way words are used to express an idea
A new version of a text that improves the original
How words are chosen and put together to show meaning
Changing a text to make it clearer or better
A different way of saying the same idea to make it clearer
Putting something into different words to make it clearer
Changing the words of a sentence to say it more clearly
Saying something in different words to make it clearer
Saying or writing something again in a different way to make it clearer
How Different
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rewording comes from the parts re- meaning 'again', the simple word word, and the ending -ing meaning 'action'. So, rewording is the action of putting an idea into new words to say it again more clearly.