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eservoir, restaurant, riesling.separate.targeted, tetanus, tragedy, truly.undoubtedly.vacuum, vegetable, villain.weirdspecious something that appears impressive but that has little substantive content (an argument,for example).spacious roomy.spokesman/spokeswoman okay but you may want to use ‘representative’ or ‘official’.spoliation. Note the spelling. Despoiling or plundering documents so they’re useless asevidence. (It’s not ‘spoilation’.)stationary not moving; stationery writing materials.storey floor level in a building; story a narrative. American storeys are different from ours. Ourground level is their first. Our first is their second, and so on.substantive essential content, of, say, an argument, which can be understood independently ofcontext, as it stands; substantial ample or considerable amount of tangible matter.suicide This noun should not be used as a verb. Use ‘commit suicide’. A person cannot ‘suicide’any more than a person can ‘homicide’ another.swat (v) flies, and swat (n) is the instrument used; swot (v) is to study hard. Somebody whostudies hard can also be known as a swot (n).synergy where two or more organisations, people work together harmoniously; mutuallybeneficial cooperation; producing greater benefits than the sum of their parts. Tends to beoverused. Check the conditions are present.T24/7 meaning anytime, all the time. Only use when quoting source.t-shirt, not ‘tee-shirt’.tautology Do not say the same thing twice in different words, a wasteful habit well developed bysome sports commentators. Some common examples are ‘repeat again’, ‘total stranger’, ‘newinnovation’, ‘different alternative’, ‘general consensus’, ‘close proximity’, ‘future prospects’,‘full potential’, ‘past history’, ‘essential prerequisite’, ‘a new record’, ‘8.30pm at night’, ‘2amin the morning’, ‘actual facts’, ‘the reason why’, ‘the reason . . . is because . . .’tea-tree (not ‘ti-tree’) even though it is not used for tea.technical terms Technical terms should be used without quotation marks or italics –‘Elevons are moveable control surfaces located on the trailing edge of an aircraft’s wings. Anelevon serves the same function as an elevator and an aileron.’This is not the case when the technical word or term is directly taken from another language,and has not been Anglicised (in which case, it is italicised – Gemeinschaft, a sociologicalUQ SJC STYLEBOOK 2012 – PAGE 58