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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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Is there a verb for 'unconditionally beats or takes priority over'?
Sometimes people use trump in this sense.
Human rights are legal trump cards, you can make whatever laws you want so long as it doesn't violate one.
The relations between rock, paper, and sciss …
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'On' vs 'at' are there any principles that advise using one instead of the other when expres...
The building is located on the corner of Bank and Butler.
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The building is located at the corner of Bank and Butler.
Is there any reason why one is more appropriate than the other?
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What are the differences in meaning among 'aid', 'assist', 'help', and 'facilitate'?
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The words aid, assist, help, and facilitate are all closely related. What do you believe the differences among them might be? My best attempt to make the differences explicit follows.
My Attem …
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What does “a couple” mean to you, and what does “a few” mean to you?
These words only add value to English because they are vague; if that were not the case, English would need only the cardinals to represent quantities.
A vague term, by definition, has no discrete b …
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