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Hi New2grammar · noun: a close and affectionate (and often prolonged) embrace · verb: move or arrange oneself in a comfortable and cozy position (Example: "We cuddled against each other to keep warm") · verb: hold (a person or thing) close, as for affection, comfort,...

Learners often want to put an indirect object on suggest, recommend, and explain, and their near synonyms, all of which are either totally wrong or very awkward.Here are some examples of the sorts of wrong uses I'm talking about: Please suggest me what to do.Sally has explained me the rules.I...

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

The verb 'spot' means to catch sight of (perhaps for only an instant). Yes, 'see' is a good synonym. 'Find' indicates the action of 'looking for'.

Hi,I do not know the test could be that tough! Between A and B, I would select A for the reason that we often hear, "How many dependents do you have?"Here is an extract from The American Heritage Dictionary:"SYNONYMS rely, trust, depend, reckon. These verbs share the meaning to place or have...

Does your teacher want synonyms for the verb "to move" or the noun "a move" or both?

Hi Gary, Since I wrote it I guess I'd better defend it. "Dip a little bit of the liquid out of/into the bucket." I probably learned it from my mother. My American Heritage Dict. says, 6. To scoop up by plunging the hand or a container into and out of a liquid; to bail; ladle. (Bail and ladle...

Here's some more from the Am Heritage Dictionary to daunt you:SYNONYMS:dismay, appall, daunt, horrify, shake These verbs mean to deprive a person of courage or the power to act as a result of fear or anxiety. Dismay is the least specific: Plummeting stock prices dismayed speculators. Appall...

Yankee wrote:Here is my two cents:In the given context, I think relieve and reduce would be fairly similar. Relieve is also used quite regularly to mean eliminate -- which might be looked at as reduce to zero.Of course, there are further meanings for the word relieve, one of which is urinate. ...

Hi, This is from http://www.refstar.ru/data/r/id.5245_1.html In each group of synonyms there is a word with the most general meaning,which can substitute any word in the group, e.g. «piece» is the synonymicdominant in the group «slice», «lump», «morsel». The verb « to look at» isthe synonymic...