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Professional Development to Practice
Synonym Reasoning Error
 Evidence: The writer substitutes one term for
another in the argument, yet the terms are not
the same.
Example: The undemocratic government of
Mexico had only one political party with real
power. This dictatorship has been in control of
Mexico since 1919.