"Wood" as a countable is sometimes used as a synonym for "forest." Avangi: I have heard "wood" in very old texts, but today I think modern usage is always "woods", as in the Robert Frost poem, "Stopping

I want know which diffrent between timber and wood. "Timber" may also be unharvested trees which are thought of in terms of their future use as lumber, or possibly pulp for paper. "There was a stand of timber just across the

All of them are correct. Here are some usage notes from the dictionary: Usage Note: The adjective elder is not a synonym for elderly. In comparisons between two persons, elder means "older" but not necessarily "old": My elder

1) she often acts spoiled to seduce him. What does it mean? what is the synonym of " to act spoiled". thanks alot

Wh i ch answer is the best one and why is it the best answer? Last year's holiday sale's strategy -- to be such a success that we have decided to repeat it this year. (A) proved (B) was (C) was proven (D) became Hi.

There is no exact synonym, but you could use these. To make matters worse, he made another mistake. To top it (all) off, he made another mistake. As if that were not enough, he made another mistake. Things went from bad to worse when he made

Liat. If you insist the sentence is correct, can you please educate me which one of the following definitions meets the grammatical requirement of the sentence in question? For the benefit of a slight doubt, I will invite other's opinions.

I originally posted this in the Vocabulary Section and was suggested there to do so here as well. Are to pass sentence and to hand down sentence synonyms or is there a slight difference in meaning? Thanks.

Vctory: Avangi is correct. You must learn the parts of speech to be able to use a word correctly. For example, compare is a verb, and comparatively is an adverb, and comparison is a noun. They all mean the same thing because they are different

to convey the same idea of explaining away. I don't know of any exact synonyms, but these are somewhat related. gloss over, cover up, make light of, allow for CJ