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emphatic

em.phat.ic \im-'fat-ik, em-\ \-i-k(*-)le-\ aj [Gk emphatikos, fr. 
   emphainein] 1: uttered with or marked by emphasis  2: tending to express 
   oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive actio n 3: attracting 
   special attention  4: constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in 
   English that consi st of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without 
   to and are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion, to take the place of a 
   simple verb form normally in negative or interrogative sentences, or to 
   emphasize - em.phat.i.cal.ly av