### word | adjective:

Attributive adjective
* are a pain in the neck.
* take adjective endings.

Descriptive adjective
* describe the noun they modify.
* is an adjective

### word | adjective | positive:

False positive
* Some false positives are attributable to substances such as asthma or allergy medications.
* are a function of instrument validity and the base rate of a phenomenon
  - about one in a million
  - more common in younger women than older women
  - results that show coronary heart disease where none really exists
  - undesirable test outcomes as such individuals are missclassified
* can lead to people undergoing unnecessary procedures
  - result with excessive uptake of tracer in benign thyroid disease
  - stigmatize, heighten anxiety, and waste resources on children
* do occur especially in heavily vaccinated cats.
* occur due to identification of mutations of no known significance
  - more frequently among minorities than among whites
* occur when mammograms are read as abnormal, but no cancer is actually present
  - test results are read as abnormal, but no cancer is actually present
  - with strongly alkaline urine
* result when a test falsely or incorrectly reports a positive result.

Positive change
* can produce positive results at any age.
* is the work of both visionary individuals and committed groups.
* occurs when leadership and ideas come together.

Positive punishment
* is the 'addition' of an stimulus that decreases the chances of future responses.
+ Applied behavior analysis, Definitions and concepts, Punishment, Positive punishment
  * Positive punishment is the 'addition' of an stimulus that decreases the chances of future responses. This stimulus that is added is something aversive. The addition of something that a person does not like will make them less likely to repeat the problem behavior.

Possessive adjective
* agree with the nouns they modify.
* are possessive pronouns placed before nouns they modify.
* serve as adjective modifiers since they tell whose.

Average word
+ Flesch Reading Ease, How it works: Linguistics :: Written communication
  * Average sentence is 15 to 20 words long. Average word has two syllables.
  * Average sentence is 37 words long. Average word has more than two syllables.

Chinese word
* Most Chinese words consist of two or more characters.
* are either pictographs, ideographs, or phonectic characters
  - monosyllabic

Cognate
* are words in different languages but they are derived from the original word
  - two different languages that show evidence of a common origin
* are words that are related through the same origin
  - have approximately the same spelling and meaning in two different languages
  - sound similar in both languages

Common word
* Many common words have a number of usages and meanings.
* Most common words have a large number of possible meanings.
* have special meanings in the social sciences.

Content word
* are words that have independent and concrete concepts.
+ Linguistic reduction, null, Categories: Linguistics
  * Function words are words that signify grammatical relations. They are different from content words. Content words tend to carry more information. They are often stressed. Function words are often unstressed. They may be reduced, blended, linked or deleted.

Copula
* are a type of rock art associated with ceremonial events.
* includes syllables
  - verbs

Descriptor
* are generally words or phrases that describe a topic
  - individual words or multi-word phrases that have been hyphenated
  - secondary indexing terms that further identify the contents reported in an article
* provide a way of comparing and contrasting molecules in a combinatorial library.
* refer to concepts and subject areas, rather than specific entities.

Different word
* can mean different things in different languages.
* have different orders of letters.