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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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Letter closing other than "Love"
off the top of my head, you could use the old "yours truly" but that is distant and formal. How about "Fondly" or "Best Wishes" and "Have a great day!"
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Is "immoral" in the act or the person?
I am grading papers and came upon the following sentence: "Candide becomes immoral..."
It bothers me -- I am of the sense that a person can become amoral, but I'm not sure what it would mean for a pe …
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A word like "engooden", for converting something from negative to positive
And I don't refer to the baseball player.
I was asked today for a word which would indicate the changing of something considered bad into something good. But this isn't about "improvement." This is a …
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"All that is gold does not glitter"
It seems to me that it means "not everything that has the value of gold is so obviously glittery to signal itself as gold."
It isn't pointing to gold as not glittering, but all metaphorically gold th …
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What is a verb for "illusion"?
What about deludes? I haven't seen it used as your sentence would have it, but its definition puts it close to your meaning.
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