Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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quotation mark | Yes | No | No | No |
scare quote | Yes | No | No | No |
quotation mark (noun) | scare quote (noun) |
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a punctuation mark used to attribute the enclosed text to someone else | the use of quotation marks to indicate that it is not the authors preferred terminology |