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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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What's good wording for "souls of people who died of injustice"?
I think @smithkm is on the right path with "unjustly," but "dead" is too passive and neutral. "Slain" is more poetic, but "slaughtered" really makes the wrongness of the deaths vivid and immediate.
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Twice vs Two Times
This is a stylistic rule, not a rule of the English language. It's good writing advice, but violating it isn't "wrong" it's just less elegant.
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Word for individual who tips the balance
Kingmaker, which wikipedia currently defines as "a person or group that has great influence in a royal or political succession, without being a viable candidate."
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Is there are term for when you believe that because something hasn't happened, it won't or c...
This question is arguably better placed in the philosophy forum, but the answer is "false generalization" or "false analogy" meaning an argument that relies on superficial similarities to draw unjusti …
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When can I use "while" instead of "when"?
@Martin 's answer is generally correct, when is a specific moment (you can conceptualize it geometrically as a point), but while is a period of time (you can conceptualize it as a line). It is import …
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A single word describing no frequency
Given the additional information that the report runs only once --which is not clear from the original question --a good word would be Non-repeating.
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what is the verb used when getting rid of evil spirits
Exorcise is the formal, technical term for driving out evil spirits, deriving from exorcism, an official ritual of the Catholic church.
exorcise:
1.to seek to expel (an evil spirit) by adjurati …
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What is the word for somebody who does action/is action owner
Actor is the right term, even though we more often associate it with the theater. It's all a matter of context. For example, google offers as a secondary definition the following:
a participant i …
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What is the meaning of "public sphere" and "public space"?
I read public space as more literal, an actual physical space, available to the public, and public sphere as a metaphorical extension of the same idea, still implying that people are coming together, …
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Verb describing chainsaw making that bursting sound when you push the throttle trigger
How about roared? It connotes power more strongly than buzzed does, but is still a word in common usage.
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Difference between "original" and "genuine"
Original means "first." Genuine means "real" or "not fake."
So the Apple cable could be genuine but not original, if Apple really made it, but it isn't the actual cable the item first shipped with. …
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Word that means desired attributes
Desiderata, Latin for "desired things", and the title of a famous poem that begins "Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence..."
n .pl Desiderata (sing. De …
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Is there a word to describe a claim that cannot be disproved because the situation will neve...
How about a ludicrous counterfactual, where counterfactual is a term used in the field of logic to describe a supposition contrary to fact, as in "if pigs could fly, then I'd be rich."
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Functionality vs. Functionalities: are both correct and idiomatic?
Google defines functionality as the range of operations that can be run on a computer or other electronic system, so we would expect either "functions" or "functionality." The arguable exception woul …
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Can "either" be used with "nor"?
Neither should be used with nor, and either with or.
"You aren't either pretty nor funny" is simply incorrect.
"You aren't either pretty or funny" is arguably acceptable but "You are neither pretty …
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