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This tag is for questions about choosing the best word FROM A GIVEN SELECTION for a particular context or meaning. The selection to choose from must appear in the question. If you do not know the word already, use single-word-requests.
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Reversal of Blacklisting
the phrase is: unblacklist.
I found it is an acceptable usage:
https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=unblacklist
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I need another way to say "will be able to be used"
How about :" The analyses can be used to update job descriptions and develop transitional work programs"?
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What is the appropriate single word for describing an over clean person?
I myself will go for Robusto's clean freak but if you do not like it there is obsessive cleaner (a person obsessed with cleaning and cleanness;).However, if think the two above have negative shades ho …
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A word to discribe un/equally weighted options
alternatives: of two things, propositions, or courses or more mutually exclusive so that if one is chosen the others must be rejected.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/alternative
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What is a antonym of 'disaster time' in a formal report?
another word beside normal time is typical time or ordinary time: customary; usual; normal.
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Antonym for "machine readable data"?
I will go for non-machinable, nonmachinable; nonmachinable data.
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Is it inflammable or flammable? [duplicate]
You sometimes see on tank trucks or petrol tankers carrying gas or oil or other liquids that catch fire quickly the word inflammable painted in bold red on them.Should not the correct word be flammabl …
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Verb to "make something succeed"
The word you are looking for is probably fine-tune; to make fine adjustments to (something) in order to obtain optimum performance (dictionary.reference.com).Thus,I fine-tuned the unit tests.
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Better word for 'my native place'?
'When i heard of stories of hardships and suffering from my grandparents I realized how fortunate I was to live in the city I now call home. When the day came to visit "my village/my native place", I …
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Synonyms for practice
These are the words I could think of to 'avoid the repetition of the word "practice"':
option
choice
alternative
preference
action
recourse
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Word to describe a person who decides what to eat amongst a group of people?
initiative:the power or opportunity to act or take charge before others do.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/initiative
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searching for a suitable synonym for " a group of people " ex. young people , old people , etc
might the word be moxie: a moxie
adolescent.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moxie
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A synonym for "different"
If "fundamentally different" seems not the optimal option for you then the word you are looking for is distinct;
distinguished as not being the same; not identical; separate (sometimes followed by fr …
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craft with -ing or not?
Coding craft is a correct phrase; it means 'the craft of coding' as you said.Hire craft is correct as well; it means skill or ability to hire.It can of course be written hiring craft also.As you know …
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Distinguish two comparable teams
One, sir, looks for such equivical names in ancient mythologies.Thus, how about the name Ares, the Greek god of war, and his Roman equivalent Mars.
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