retroactive inhibition

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retroactive inhibition or retroactive interference
 
n
psychol Compare proactive inhibition the tendency for the retention of learned material or skills to be impaired by subsequent learning, esp by learning of a similar kind
 
retroactive interference or retroactive interference
 
n

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Retroactive inhibition is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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