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Meaning
Noun
●
In Touch:
Sensitive
mental
touch
;
special
skill
or
faculty
;
keen
perception
or
discernment
;
ready
power of
appreciating
and doing what is required by
circumstances
; the ability to
say
the right thing.
●
Propriety;
manners
(etiquette).
●
The
sense
of
touch
; feeling.
●
In Music:
The
stroke
in
beating
time.
●
In Psychology:
A
verbal
operant
which is
controlled
by a
nonverbal
stimulus
(such as an
object
,
event
, or
property
of an
object
) and is
maintained
by
nonspecific
social
reinforcement
(praise).
●
Clipping of tactic.
Verb
●
In Psychology:
To use a
tact
(a
kind of
verbal
operant).
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Rhymes
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Fact
Pact
Tact
Enact
Exact
Fract
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