Linguistics 226-234A
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| release from bondage; free; liberate | emancipate
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| handcuff | manacle
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| 1) authorization to act; 2) command; order; injunction | mandate
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| 1) operate with hands; handle or manage skillfully; maneuver 2) manage unethically to serve a fradulent purpose; falsify; rig | manipulate
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| small, helpful book capable of being carried in the hand; handbook | manual (n)
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| relating to, or done with, the hands | manual (adj)
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| document written by hand, or typewritten | manuscript
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| attach; adda as a supplement | append
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| matter added to the end of a book or document | appendix
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| threatening to occur soon; imminent | impending
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| hanging ornament | pendant
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| waiting to be settled; not yet decided | pending (adj)
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| until | pending (prep)
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| 1) hang by attaching to something; 2) stop temporarily; hold up; make inoperative for a while | suspend
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| condition of being left 'hanging' or in doubt; mental uncertainty; anxiety; apprehension | suspense
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| put out of office; dethrone | depose
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| put on as a burden; duty, tax, etc,; inflict | impose
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| put off; defer; delay | postpone
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| put on top of or over; attach as an addition | superimpose
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| change the relative order of; interchange | transpose
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| enroll into military service by compulsion; draft | conscript
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| something inscribed (written) on a monument, coin, etc. | inscription
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| 1) Order; dictate; direct; 2) order as remedy | prescribe
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| condemn as harmful or illegal; prohibit; forbid | proscribe
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| person who writes; author; journalist | scribe
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| 1) written text of a play, speech, etc. 2)handwriting, pensmanship | script
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| one who writes his or her name at the end of a document, thereby indcating approval; one who regularly receives a magazine, newspaper, etc. | subscriber
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| 1) make similar or like; 2) take in and incorporate as one's own; absorb | assimilate (v)
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| opposite of similar, unlike, different | dissimilar
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| likeness; resemblance | similarity
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| comparison of two different things introduced by like or as | simile
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| give the appearance of; feign; imitate | simulate
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| existing or happening at the same time; contemporary; concurrent | simultaneous
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| lay waste; ravage; devastate | desolate (v)
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| left alone; deserted; forlorn; abandoned; forsaken | desolate (adj)
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| one and only; single; lone | sole
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| speech made to oneself when alone | soliloquy
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| opposite of accompanied; being or living alone; without companions | solitary
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| condition of being alone; loneliness; seclusion | solitude
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| musical composition (or anything) performed by a single person | solo
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