Controlled Oral Word Association Test write down the words provided by the participant on a piece of paper. The whole examination usually takes 5–10 minutes. Controlled Oral Word Association Test Controlled Oral Word Association Test, abbreviated COWA or COWAT, is a verbal fluency test that measures spontaneous production of words belonging to the same category or beginning with some designated letter. The test was first called the "Verbal Associative Fluency Test", and then was changed to the "Controlled Word Association Test". The participant is usually asked to name words beginning with a letter, excluding proper nouns, for one minute and this procedure is repeated three
Four-letter word letters. Typical examples include the word "work", implying that work can be unpleasant, or the game of "golf", jokingly referred to as a four-letter word when a player's pastime becomes an exercise in frustration. "Charlotte Observer" journalist Doug Robarchek noted in 1993 how many politicians have names with four letters, "Ever notice how many U.S. politicians have names that are also four-letter words? Ford, Dole, Duke, Bush, Gore ... and how many make us think of four-letter words?" Four-letter word The phrase four-letter word refers to a set of English-language words written with four letters which are considered profane, including