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A synonym is a word that means the same, or almost the same thing, as another word. This tag is for asking about pairs of words. If you're requesting a synonym, please use the ‘single-word-request’ tag.
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What are other alternative ways of saying "how are you?" in business email
I am trying to ascertain exactly the kind of person to whom you are writing.
If I did not know the addressee personally, I would keep off the subject of their health. (They may have recently been dia …
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Synonym for 'reinforce/back up idea/concept'
He looks like an Australian and his accent would seem to confirm that.
Though I'm not sure I know what an Australian "looks like", that's any different to countless other nationalities.
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Synonym for exposure/exposed (in the context of health/disease)
Why not say:
Even more troubling, since DDT IRS is sprayed directly to the inside walls of homes, is the constant human exposure to it. As well as being linked to breast cancer and diabetes, it has b …
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What's a career-threatening injury if you don't do it for a living?
I believe it is perfectly normal to talk of someone's 'amateur sporting career', or 'a career in amateur dramatics' etc.
So what would be amiss in saying that Charles' injury ended his career in Sun …
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A positive alternative to 'harp'
She expatiated for hours on the subject of working-class novelists.
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Alternative phrase for "makes sense" (used in arguments)
The idea follows the usually accepted rules of logic.
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Is there a synonym for "thesaurus"?
The first recorded use of the term to describe a book of synonyms is from 1852 when Roget's Thesaurus was published. … I have seen some suggestions of synonyms, such as wordfinder and synonymy - the latter marked as "rare". …
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Word for corrupt middlemen/landlords during the Roman era?
Could the word you are looking for be plebeian.
As this article makes clear the plebs were the ordinary citizens of Rome, as a whole.
The word got plenty of treatment in the news in the UK a year …
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Noun for an experience you went through with others
Two that spring to mind are a collective experience and a mutual experience.
All of us went through the same collective/mutual experience.
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Word that means 'requiring a high degree of trust'
The word you need is "trustworthy", but you will need to modify your sentences slightly to include that e.g. "The position of babysitter is not a trivial one - it requires trustworthiness".
Or "You n …
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Difference between flooding and inundation?
This is a classic instance of two words in English which mean almost exactly the same thing. (Another word is 'deluge'.)'Flood' is of Germanic origin, 'inundation' of Latin. (OED). The French word is …
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diurnal is to day as "..." is to morning
I think I would use matinal, which the OED holds to have the same meaning as matutinal. However the latter they designate as now chiefly literary.
The examples they provide, for matinal across three …
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What is the closest noun for "that which confirms"?
Is the answer not confirmation. It is certainly "that which confirms".
It also works with your example sentence: The confirmation was broken, and clients were unable to establish the requests were s …
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What do we call a person who is obedient to someone even though he knows that that person is...
I can think of sycophantic, servile, subservient, grovelling, toadying, fawning, ingratiating, bootlicking.
Do any of those work?
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