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childish
immature; infantile: Screaming and stamping your feet is childish.
Not to be confused with:
childlike – like or befitting a child; innocent: His childlike bashfulness is charming.
affect
to pretend; influence: It will affect the outcome.
Not to be confused with:
effect – a result; an influence: His protest had no effect. [The words affect and effect are among the
most frequently confused words. Affect means to bring about a change, to move emotionally, or to infe
ct, as a disease. Its core meaning is to evoke a usually strong mental or emotional response from. Effe
ct means consequence, outcome, upshot. Its core meaning is something brought about by a cause.]
specially
specifically: The dress was specially designed for the occasion.
Not to be confused with:
especially – chiefly, particularly: Winter is especially hard on older people.
Prescription
A prescribed medicine or other treatment: Have you used up all of your prescription?
Not to be confused with:
Receipt
-A written acknowledgment that a specified article, sum of money, or shipment of merchandise has be
en received.
principle
essential quality; law; moral rule: true to her principles; doctrine: the principle of the matter
Not to be confused with:
principal – main; foremost; the person in charge: the school principal; a capital sum (of money)
lonely
a. Dejected by the awareness of being alone. See Synonyms at alone.
b. Producing such dejection: the loneliest night of the week.
2. Without others of a similar kind; lone; solitary: "a lonely band of lawyers up against the might of th
e American legal establishment" (Nick Kotz).
3. Unfrequented by people; desolate: a lonely crossroads.
Not to be confused with:
'alone'
If you are alone, you are not with any other people.
I wanted to be alone.
Barbara spent most of her time alone in the flat.
Memory
1. The mental faculty of retaining and recalling past experience.
2. The act or an instance of remembering; recollection: spent the afternoon lost in memory.
3. All that a person can remember: It hasn't happened in my memory.
4. Something that is remembered: pleasant childhood memories.
5. The fact of being remembered; remembrance: dedicated to their parents' memory.
6. The period of time covered by the remembrance or recollection of a person or group of persons: wit
hin the memory of humankind.
Not to be confused with:
Souvenir:
A token of remembrance; a memento.
lie
rest in a horizontal position; recline
Not to be confused with:
lay – set down; place; past tense of lie
lei – a garland of flowers worn around the neck
raise
lift, build, or erect: The whole community helped them raise the house.
Not to be confused with:
Rise
1. To assume a standing position after lying, sitting, or kneeling.
2. To get out of bed: rose at dawn.
3. To move from a lower to a higher position; ascend: Hot air rises.
4. To increase in size, volume, or level: The river rises every spring.
5. To increase in number, amount, or value: Prices are rising.
6. To increase in intensity, force, or speed: The wind has risen.
7. To increase in pitch or volume: The sound of their voices rose and fell.
8. To ascend above the horizon: The moon rose an hour after sunset.
9. To extend upward; be prominent: The tower rose above the hill.
10. To slant or slope upward: Denali rises to nearly 6,200 meters.
11. To come into existence; originate: bitterness that rose from hard experience.
12. To be erected: New buildings are rising in the city.
13. To appear at the surface of the water or the earth; emerge.
14. To puff up or become larger; swell up: The bread dough should rise to double its original size.
15. To become stiff and erect: The hair rose on the cat's neck.
16. To attain a higher status: an officer who rose through the ranks.
17. To become apparent to the mind or senses: Old fears rose to haunt me.
18. To uplift oneself to meet a demand or challenge: She rose to the occasion and won the election.
19. To return to life: rose from the dead.
20. To rebel: "the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government" (Abraham Lincoln).
21. To close a session of an official assembly; adjourn.
practice
1. To do something repeatedly in order to acquire or polish a skill: With any musical instrument, you n
eed to practice to get better.
2. To work at a profession: How long has that lawyer been practicing?
3. To do or perform something habitually or repeatedly: Why not practice in the same manner that yo
u preach?
Not to be confused with: In British English, practice is a noun and practise is a verb.
practise
(ˈpræktɪs) or
practice
vb
1. to do or cause to do repeatedly in order to gain skill
2. (tr) to do (something) habitually or frequently: they practise ritual murder.
3. to observe or pursue (something, such as a religion): to practise Christianity.
4. (Professions) to work at (a profession, job, etc): he practises medicine.
5. (foll by: on or upon) to take advantage of (someone, someone's credulity, etc)
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prac·tise
(prăk′tĭs)
v. Chiefly British
Variant of practice.
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practise
(ˈpræktɪs) or
practice
vb
1. to do or cause to do repeatedly in order to gain skill
2. (tr) to do (something) habitually or frequently: they practise ritual murder.
3. to observe or pursue (something, such as a religion): to practise Christianity.
4. (Professions) to work at (a profession, job, etc): he practises medicine.
5. (foll by: on or upon) to take advantage of (someone, someone's credulity, etc)
[C15: see practice]
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prac•tise
(ˈpræk tɪs)
v.t., v.i. -tised, -tis•ing.
Brit. practice.
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practice
– practise
In British English, practice is a noun and practise is a verb.
1. used as an uncountable noun
Practice involves doing something regularly in order to improve your ability at it.
Your skiing will get better with practice.
He has to do a lot of music practice.
2. used as a countable noun
A practice is something that is done regularly, for example as a custom.
Our usual practice is to keep a written record of all meetings.
The ancient practice of yoga is still popular today.
3. used as a verb
If you practise something, you do it or take part in it regularly.
I had been practising the piece for months.
His family practised traditional Judaism.
In American English, the spelling 'practise' is not normally used. The verb and noun are both spelled p
ractice.
I practiced throwing and catching the ball every day.
loose
not tight or bound: loose clothing
Not to be confused with:
lose – to experience loss: lose your keys; lose money
worthless
1. Lacking worth; of no use or value.
2. Low; despicable: that worthless friend of his.
Not to be confused with:
Priceless
1. Of inestimable worth; invaluable.
2. Highly amusing, absurd, or odd: a priceless remark.
imply
signify or mean; to suggest: Her words imply a lack of caring.
Not to be confused with:
infer – deduce, reason, guess; draw a conclusion: They inferred her dislike from her cold reply.
hard
(härd)
adj. hard·er, hard·est
1.
a. Resistant to pressure; not readily penetrated; firm or solid: a hard material.
b. Well protected from an attack, as by aerial bombardment: bunkers and other hard targets.
2.
a. Requiring great effort or endurance: a hard assignment.
b. Performed with or marked by great diligence or energy: a project that required years of hard work.
c. Difficult to resolve, accomplish, or finish: That was a hard question.
d. Difficult to understand or impart: Physics was the hardest of my courses. Thermodynamics is a h
ard course to teach.
3. Proceeding or performing with force, vigor, or persistence; assiduous: a hard worker.
4.
a. Intense in force or degree: a hard blow.
b. Inclement or severe: a long, hard winter.
5.
a. Stern, strict, or demanding: a hard taskmaster.
b. Lacking compassion or sympathy; callous: became hard after years in prison.
6.
a. Difficult to endure; causing hardship or suffering: a hard life.
b. Oppressive or unjust in nature or effect: restrictions that were hard on welfare applicants.
c. Harsh or severe in effect or intention: I said some hard things that I regret.
d. Marked by stubborn refusal to compromise or yield; uncompromising: drives a hard bargain.
e. Bitter or resentful: hard feelings caused by the insult.
f. Showing disapproval, bitterness, or resentment: gave me a hard look.
7.
a. Causing damage or premature wear: Snow and ice are hard on a car's finish.
b. Bad; adverse: hard luck.
8.
a. Real and unassailable: hard evidence.
b. Definite; firm: a hard commitment.
c. Free from illusion or sentimentality; practical or realistic: We need to take a hard look at the situati
on.
d. Using or based on data that are readily quantified or verified: the hard sciences.
9.
a. Marked by sharp delineation or contrast: a hard line separating the two lists.
b. Lacking in shade; undiminished: the hard light of the midday sun.
Not to be confused with:
hardly
adv.
1. To almost no degree; barely at all; almost not: I could hardly hear the speaker.
2. Probably or surely not: He is hardly the kind of guy you would want to date. It's hardly a secret t
hat they are engaged.
3. With great difficulty or effort: I could hardly get up the stairs.
4. With severity; harshly: "The winter months would deal hardly with many of these poor folk" (Willia
m Black).
check
(chĕk)
n.
1.
a. The act or an instance of inspecting or testing something, as for accuracy or quality: gave the pape
r a final check.
b. A standard for inspecting or evaluating; a test: The condition of the wiring can serve as a check fo
r the level of the seller's home maintenance.
v. checked, check·ing, checks
v.tr.
1.
a. To inspect so as to determine accuracy, quality, or other condition; test: checked the brakes for we
ar; checked the paper for misspellings.
b. To verify by consulting a source or authority: checked her facts before speaking; check a spelling i
n the dictionary.
c. To put a check mark on or next to: checked off each item on the list.
Not to be confused with:
control
(kənˈtrəʊl)
vb (tr) , -trols, -trolling or -trolled
1. to command, direct, or rule: to control a country.
2. to check, limit, curb, or regulate; restrain: to control one's emotions; to control a fire.
3. to regulate or operate (a machine)
4. to verify (a scientific experiment) by conducting a parallel experiment in which the variable being inv
estigated is held constant or is compared with a standard
5. (Accounting & Book-keeping)
a. to regulate (financial affairs)
b. to examine and verify (financial accounts)
6. (Law) to restrict or regulate the authorized supply of (certain substances, such as drugs)