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  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  3. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.

  4. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    Overlook can mean "to make an accidental omission or error" or "to engage in close scrutiny or control". [14] Oversight can mean "accidental omission or error" or "close scrutiny or control". [15] Peruse can mean to "consider with attention and in detail" or "look over or through in a casual or cursory manner". [16] [17]

  5. Occam's razor - Wikipedia

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    If multiple models of natural law make exactly the same testable predictions, they are equivalent and there is no need for parsimony to choose a preferred one. For example, Newtonian, Hamiltonian and Lagrangian classical mechanics are equivalent. Physicists have no interest in using Occam's razor to say the other two are wrong.

  6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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    Regular verbs have identical past tense and past participle forms in -ed, but there are 100 or so irregular English verbs with different forms (see list). The verbs have, do and say also have irregular third-person present tense forms (has, does /dʌz/, says /sɛz/).

  7. Uses of English verb forms - Wikipedia

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    Verb tenses are inflectional forms which can be used to express that something occurs in the past, present, or future. [1] In English, the only tenses are past and non-past, though the term "future" is sometimes applied to periphrastic constructions involving modals such as will and go.

  8. Figure of speech - Wikipedia

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    Synonymia: use of two or more synonyms in the same clause or sentence. Tautology: redundancy due to superfluous qualification; saying the same thing twice. Tmesis: insertions of content within a compound word. Tricolon diminuens: combination of three elements, each decreasing in size.

  9. Latin tenses - Wikipedia

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    It means something like 'I will make sure' or 'assuredly'. In Plautus it is often followed by a future indicative: faxō iam sciēs (Plautus) [186] 'assuredly you will know now' But it can also be followed by a present subjunctive: faxō ut sciās (Plautus) [187] 'I will see to it that you know' The 2nd person ends in -is.

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