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<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"><strong>Technical Words</strong> are ones that are specific to their subject.</span></p>
<p style="background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">For example, a scientist might ask for sodium chloride when everyone else would just ask for salt.</span><span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';"></span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Let's consider another example: An English teacher might ask what the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">theme</span> of a reading or even a movie was, while others would just ask what the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">big idea</span> of the reading or movie was.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">We can often come across technical language when we are researching something or reading an academic article. As such, technical words are often the ones with which we struggle.</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><em id="__mceDel" style="line-height: normal;"><strong><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Lucida Grande';">Watch the video below to better understand technical words.</span></strong></em></p>
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<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wTMxxYEkX20?wmode=opaque" width="420" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Video Source:</span></p>
<p style="line-height: 16.8px;"><span style="font-size: 11px;">Olio, David. "Find the Meaning of Technical Words." LearnZillion. LearnZillion, n.d. Web. 26 July 2013.</span></p>
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