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One such example comes to mind, especially for those familiar with snooker commentary (few and far between as we may be):
just about , as in "He's gone for the long red in the corner...and he's just about got it!"
In Britain this modifier means something positive; that is, the ball went in the pocket, but not cleanly. In America, just about means ...
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You can also say "therebefore."
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Pentad and quincunx could also be used. The latter more often describes a pattern with five coplanar points, such as ones found on dominoes or dice.
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Another word you could use is codicil.
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Addendum, plural addenda.
Latin gerundive meaning "what is/was to be added", plural "things that are/were to be added".
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I believe you referring to the word addendum.
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Normally this is described in text as embargoed until the time in question. ODO on embargo.
You could usefully call the time itself (analogous to deadline) the release time.
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The Oxford 3000 Word List should prove useful. Here's the link.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/oxford3000/
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After a couple of Google indirections and I hit upon this link:
http://www.bckelk.ukfsn.org/words/uk1000n.html
Do bear in mind that this is based on written and not spoken English, which have differing frequencies.
Addendum: http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/common-words-5000.htm stretches this to 5000, and appears to source its data from ...
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May I recommend wonderment:
wonderment, n.:
1 astonishment, awe, or puzzlement
2 something that produces wonder; a marvel
Note that wonderment captures both astonishment and puzzlement, a close cousin to intrigue (which M-W defines as "to arouse the interest, desire, or curiosity of (as by beguiling or baffling)").
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This may be a bit too direct, but
the state of being amazed is amazement.
the state of being intrigued is curiosity, wonder, or fascination.
The exact word which fits your purpose best will depend on the context, but in my mind amazement simply implies being surprised, shocked, or dazzled while the other words imply that as well as an intense interest to ...
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You might consider:
awe (n) 1. A mixed emotion of reverence, respect, dread, and wonder inspired by authority, genius, great beauty, sublimity, or might: We felt awe when contemplating the works of Bach. The observers were in awe of the destructive power of the new weapon.
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A little shop set up by the road side (and roofless, or with a tent-style roof, or in a cart) is known as a street vendor. They are very common in large cities. I found a good link defining this: What Is a Street Vendor?. Quoted from this source:
Street vendors are businesspeople who sell their wares in the open air
rather than in a shop or store. In ...
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The example sentences you posted are not examples of "bad arguments" as you presume. To call them "bad arguments" is to miss the point. They are not meant to be logical arguments, or even arguments at all.
Rather, they are poetical ways of poking fun at overly-optimistic cultural myths about what the the future holds. This could probably best be described ...
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Long shot (and bad question if it's what you were looking for):
"Cherchez la femme"
It's an expression, acceptable in English (Webster)that "is used when a man behaves unusually .../...and the reason for it is sought."1
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Never mind, after commenting (above), I searched, and 'pre-sequel' appears to be a commonly used term for these types of situation. Episode 4 is the pre-sequel to Episode 3 (and 2 and 1).
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“Analogous” means “comparable or similar”. For example, “most clothing worn by humans is analogous to a peacock's feathers: useless except for social signalling”.
“Analogical” means “of or pertaining to an analogy”, and is close in meaning to “metaphorical”. For example:
“Many common English sayings are analogical in nature.”
“While her statement was ...
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To delve? Allowing for the discovery of something by means of extensive groundwork on the topic?
Only other word that comes to mind, since you asked for something that starts with "ch", is checkup. Not really sure this is what you're looking for though...
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I can't nail down a word that starts with "ch" but think these other words might fit your meaning - or can be launching off points for further digging for your forgotten word:
"ferret out something" - "to discover something after careful searching"**
"excavate" - "to expose to view by or as if by digging away a covering" (of course, this would be ...
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In the Investigate synonyms one can find
Canvass
verb
[with object]
1) solicit votes from (electors or members):
* in each ward, two workers canvassed some 2,000 voters
[no object]:
he’s canvassing for the Green Party
* try to obtain (support): they’re canvassing support among shareholders
* question (someone) in order to ascertain their ...
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Both are classical non sequiturs, if you ask me, masquerading as rhetorical questions.
Non sequitur (Latin for "it does not follow"), in formal logic, is an argument in which its conclusion does not follow from its premises. In a non sequitur, the conclusion could be either true or false, but the argument is fallacious because there is a disconnection ...
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What you have there is called a comma-splice error because you are attempting to join two independent clauses together with a comma that does not have a coördinating conjunction following it instead of using a semicolon or colon.
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I have a single word for what you describe: fantasy. Or how about phantasm?
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There is no single English word to express this concept. As usual in such cases, try broadening your cast; describe why the nostalgia was false. Did the subject have no actual memory? Was he lying? Romanticizing something that doesn't deserve it? That's the way to go.
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How about pastiche?
a literary, musical, or artistic piece consisting wholly or chiefly of motifs or techniques borrowed from one or more sources.
an incongruous combination of materials, forms, motifs, etc., taken from different sources; hodgepodge.
Wikipedia:
In urban planning, a pastiche is used to refer to neighborhoods as
imitations ...
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"Idealization" can also be used for this concept. We tend to "idealize" something from our past or our history that may be just a fantasy version of that person, place, thing or time.
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Nostalgia is still the correct word, because it being related to some personal association to a historic place (even if it is false). For example, with pirates, you might see a guy with an eye-patch and a parrot and think "Oh! A pirate.". However, if someone who had never seen movies or read books with pirates with those characteristics, then they would ...
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