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Hi, evryone. I am trying to improve my english and I need some help. I have a few questions: 1. What is synonym for "account for X per cent"? How to say in other words this sentence: It accounts for 55 per cent. 2. This sentence is

A shooter is a synonym for shot in the context of a short alcoholic drink designed to be knocked back all at once. And "with your name on it" means something destined for you, as in the phrase "a bullet with your name on it"

Thanks for the answers both. Quells my doubts over me missing something in my natural acquisition of English. I don't really understand what you mean by " enough semantic difference". Enough for what? I guess the missing context

Hi everyone! Thus, hence, therefore and consequently are synonyms but, do they really mean the same? If I write, for example, thus in a sentence, can I ALWAYS swap it with the other link words and the sentence will remain with the same meaning??

I don't know if this will help you or not, but you have probably already noticed that in the online M-W, there are usage notes about the subtle differences between words. Yep, since I use MW on a daily basis, I noticed that. They are very

I'd like to impress my english teacher at school by presenting my essay work with an astonishing array of vocabulary. Is there any one best way I should go about doing this, so that I can learn a lot of words in a short time and have them come

Utterly untrue. There are linguistic monographs written about synonyms & plesiosyms (near synonyms like forest & woods) in Russian, Italian and many other languages, and chinese too, and japanese but I don't know how many, relatively

My meaning isn't that "finite" itself emphasizes smallness, but rather that the use of "finite" to mean 'non-zero' is in a context in which smallness is emphasized. That is, if we're talking about large

Michael Hamm 'msh210' wrote on 24 Jun 2004: The adjective 'sometime' can mean 'erstwhile' or 'occasional'. If you read it, and the meaning is not clear from context, which would you read it as? occasional Would you