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1. Everybody
2. Everyone
3. Every one |
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1 & 2. Are synonyms and should be used when every person, considered indefinitely, is meant
3. The two word form is used when each one of a group of persons or things is meant to be considered individually; usually followed by a prepositional phrase introduced by "of" |
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1. Everywhere
2. Everyplace
3. Every place |
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1. The preferred word to mean "in all places" for any but very informal writing
2. The two word term is a noun preceded by an adjective and together meaning "in each and every place" |
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1. To praise or raise in honor
2. To rejoice |
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1. Exceedingly
2. Excessively |
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1. Means extremely
He was exceedingly happy to see his mother.
2. Inordinately in the sense of "too much"
Their prices were excessively high. |
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1 Exceptionable
2. Exceptional |
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1. That which can e removed from consideration or open to ojection
Exceptionable from admission...
2. That which is uncommon
Jeff's exceptional ability to dribble a basketball... |
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1. Still in existence
Our organization was still in extant...
2. The degree to which something extends
The extent of the fire damage... |
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Both words, when used as nouns, mean a passage elected or quoted from a book, play, or speech.
Both words can also be verbs.
1. Has the broader sense of the essential contituents of a substance
2. Has only the literary meaning |
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1. Glad or willing
The would fain to stay in Athens...
2. To pretend
Julian feigned gladness... |
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Both are comparative adjectives but;
1. Refers to physical distance
She can run farther than I...
2. Refers to time or degree
Her thesis needs further study |
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Both adjectives are used to classify gender;
1. Biological and designates the sex that produces ova and bears young
2. Refers to those qualities which are attributed to women |
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1. Applies to the things that can be counted and is used only before a plural noun
2. Applies to singular mass quantities (fewer dollars/les money) |
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1. Refers to finance or monetary transactions of a government
2. Means of nature or material, of the body or according to the laws or nature |
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1. To thresh as grain is threshed with an old-fashioned wooden stick, and more generally, to beat, thrash, or strick with a threshing motion
2. Means to strip off the skin and figuratively means to strip one of goods or money or to strip one of good feeling by severe criticism |
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1. Flammable
2. Inflammable
3. Nonflammable |
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1 & 2. To ignite easily and burn rapidly
3. Or non-combustible |
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1. To show off or parade oneself ostentatiously
2. Meaning to show contempt |
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1. Means to stumble or move awkwardly, either physically or figuratively
2. To break down, to fail completely or to become disabled |
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1. Any binary compound of flourine and another element
2. The highly reactive, gaseous, poisonous element itself |
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1. A verb meaning to refrain from or to desist from some action, means to be patient in adversity
2. A noun for ancestor, a forefather or foremother |
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1. Means persuasive or effective and may or may not include the actual use of physical force
2. Usually used to describe situations in which physical force is used to effect an outcome |
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Both are verbs.
1. To go before; and rarely is used in the present tense but very common in the present particple and past participle
2. To give up or go without |
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1. A noun and refers to the introductory note in a book or other printed work
2. As an adjective, deals with the front part of something or can mean pushy or rude; as an adverb it refers to moving frontward |
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1. In a stiff and formal manner
2. Means previously |
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1. Fortituous
2. Fortunate |
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1. Implies accidenal or unplanned; can be either good or bad
2. Occuring by good luck |
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1. Two rows of people facing one another and armed with clubs or other weapons with which they strick an individual who is made to run between them
2. A glove, usually with a flared cuff; worn by knights of old but now is used by some workers doing manual labor |
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1. A measurement according to some standard or system
2. To appraise or judge |
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1. Can be a noun or verb referring to a taunt or a sneer
2. Means either to shirt direction or to agree |
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1. Refers to gold or something that resembles gold; or a noun referring to a young sow before she is bred
2. Some deliquency of failure in respect to one's duty or being responsible for wrong doing or crime |
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1. Meaning literally better than average
2. In good health; more commonly an adverb or adjective |
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1. An animal
2. Revolutionary or unorthodox soldier whose purpose is usually to bring down the ruling powers |
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1. Should not be used in place of have!
2. Always use, basically |
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1. A person who eats heartily, even glottonously
2. A fastidious eater or someone greatly interested in cuisine; or an adjective meaning fine cuisine |
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1. Applied to persons, places, or things to reflect the beauty of form, movement, or proportion
2. Applied to humans to show compassion or elegance |
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1. Grisly
2. Gristly
3. Grizzly |
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1. Horrifying or repugnant
2. The gristle in meat and means tough or unchewable
3. Refers to color and means generally flicked with gray |
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1. Means the percipitation that becomes ice pellets up to golf ball size; as a verb it means to salute or greet enthusiastically, or simply to get someone's attention; or you can "hail from" describing a person's origins
2. An adjective meaning healthy and vigorous, as a verb to force or compel |
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1. Half-mast
2. Half-staff |
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1. Flags are flown at half-mast only on ships and at naval stations
2. Everywhere else they are flown at half-staff |
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1. Refers to suicide or the capital punishment so popular in the American Old West
2. Refers to all other uses |
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1. Happen
2. Occur
3. Take place |
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1 & 2. Mean to come to pass by chance or by accident
2. Preferred when causality is intended
2. When an action is prearranged |
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1. Rugged, stalwart, courageous, and able to survive adverse circumstances
2. Vigorous or having warmth of feeling |
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1. Harebrained
2. Harelipped |
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1. Flighty or giddy, with no more sense than a rabbit or hare
2. The congenital fissure in the upperlip |
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