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  2. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  3. Decisive victory - Wikipedia

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    The phrases "decisive battle" and "decisive victory" have evolved over time, as the methods and scope of wars themselves changed. More modernly, as armies, wars and theaters of operation expanded — so that the gestalt (i.e., a result which is greater than the sum total – see synergy) of the overall venture was more definitive — the phrase "lost its meaning."

  4. List of English words of Malay origin - Wikipedia

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    This is a partial list of loanwords in English language, that were borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from Malay language.Many of the words are decisively Malay or shared with other Malayic languages group, while others obviously entered Malay both from related Austronesian languages and unrelated languages of India and China.

  5. Word list Drawing up a comprehensive list of words in English is important as a reference when learning a language as it will show the equivalent words you need to learn in the other language to achieve fluency.

  6. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    A synonym is a word, morpheme, or phrase that means precisely or nearly the same as another word, morpheme, or phrase in a given language. [2] For example, in the English language , the words begin , start , commence , and initiate are all synonyms of one another: they are synonymous .

  7. Light verb - Wikipedia

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    Light verbs in Hindi–Urdu can combine with another verb, an adjective, adverb or even a borrowed English verb or noun. [8] The light verb loses its own independent meaning and instead "lends a certain shade of meaning" [ 9 ] to the main or stem verb, which "comprises the lexical core of the compound" . [ 10 ]

  8. Wikipedia : Naming conventions (Slovenian vs Slovene)/Archive 1

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    It is a perfectly regular English word that can be used as an adjective or a noun. There are many, many other examples of words like this in English: Lithuanian, Russian, Italian, Latvian, Macedonian, Malaysian, Hungarian, Hawaiian, Romanian, and so on.

  9. Garner's Modern English Usage - Wikipedia

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    The latter includes three sections titled "Grammar", "Syntax" and "Word Usage", each with several subcategories. [2] In a study that compared Garner's usage guide to Henry W. Fowler's, Robin Straaijer said that the two have many similarities.