Contextual Variables
Quantity or power of sound in someone's voice
What is (vocal) volume?
Speech that is incomprehensibly rapid
What is too fast?
A gesture in which the head is turned left and right along the transverse plane repeatedly
What is a head shake?
Raising the volume of your speech
What is talking more loudly?
A marine bivalve mollusk with shells of equal size
What is a clam?
The amount of space between two things or people
What is distance?
Speech that is characterized by quiet and/or fast and/or otherwise garbled speech.
What is mumbling?
A question asking for information specifying something
What is "what?"
Lowering the speed of your speech
What is slowing down?
A container that keeps a drink hot or cold by means of a double wall enclosing a vacuum
What is a thermos?
The place in which you communicate
What is the (communicative) setting?
Unfocused or imprecise speech
What is vague speech?
When the listener is visibly unable to concentrate because their mind is preoccupied.
What is distracted?
Say or pronounce clearly
What is enunciate?
A structure with a smooth, sloping surface for children to move down.
What is a slide?
A system of communication used by a particular country or community
What is language?
A long, tedious speech by one person during a conversation
What is a monologue?
When the listener responds in a way that is not connected to what the speaker said
What is irrelevant?
Use language that is clearly defined or identified
What is specific?
A slow-moving tropical American mammal that hangs upside down from the branches of trees
What is a sloth?
A quantity of nutritious substance occluding the lower human face opening
What is a mouthful of food?
Supposing to be the case, without proof
What is assuming?
When the listener fails to take notice of the speaker's communicative intent
What is ignoring?
To concentrate on the communication partner's facial expressions and body language
What is pay attention (to the listener)?
One more than five instruments used for cutting cloth, paper, and other thin material
What are six scissors?