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Single word for "Young of an animal"
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It would seem vs it seems
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What is the term for the little viewing window with a sliding cover in a castle or convent?
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Grammar - for you / with you?
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What is the opposite of decoupled (computer science)
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Inversion after "than"/"as"
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What is a word for "about to burst out laughing"?
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What-all does "pun" mean, really? [closed]
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The history of “to see say” better known as “voir dire”
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Phrase to refer to community of people who come together to exchange knowledge [closed]
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Should Kelvin symbol have a preceding space?
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How to make a statement and then iterate through a list thereafter
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What's the proper American English and British English word for the wind shield used on beaches?
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Whats a word for manipulating someone into doing stuff against you to where it is exactly what you wanted?
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What do you call a device that tells a live audience what to do?
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What's the colloquial opposite of "do me a solid"?
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An idiom or a saying like "give a dog a bone" or "throw someone a crumb"
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"Do you want to...." as a paraphrase of (hedged variant of?) "Can you please do this?"
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When do you use 'in' vs 'by' when talking about payments and transactions
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Aspirants "to" the job or "for" the job?
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the next vs. the following
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Use of degree symbol for Latinate ordinal number shorthand
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What is the difference between register, subscribe, sign up and opt-in?
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What does a King wear? [closed]
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Word/phrase for free flight rides given to pilots
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Why are place names in some old books a capital letter followed by dashes, and what is this phenomenon called?
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Efforts or effort
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But what if the shoe *doesn't* fit?
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When did the word "demon" (for evil spirit) come into popular usage in the English language?
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not matched by vs. unmatched by
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Saxon Genitive or adjective
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How "much" emissions or how "many" emissions?
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Why is there a V in "Peruvian"?
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What does "mphm" mean? [closed]
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What is the word for two-part phrases where the second (or first) half drops off?
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What is the term for the part of a jingle that states the company name?
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Word for something like an addiction that you don't miss or crave when it's actually gone
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Word for instantaneous mismatch of expectation and reality
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Word or phrase for the act of defending someone who is generally despised
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A word or expression for "an enemy who acts more like a friend"? [closed]
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Is there a word for incorrect use of capital letters?
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Should "no longer" have a hyphen?
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Which is the right one: I have to prepare or I have to be prepared [closed]
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Idiom for choosing between two generally alike things that are dissimilar in their details
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Is there a term describing a fish's mouth action as it breathes? [duplicate]
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Do things that “get one’s rocks off ” always “rock one’s socks off ”?
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Difference between "I don't believe it." and "I can't believe it."
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Is being “invited to” an interview the same as being “invited for” one?
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What the expression "I drive the hearse" means? [closed]
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Original meaning of "I now pronounce you man and wife"
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'Which were a size too small.' or 'which size were too small.' Which one is correct?
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Idiom Request: being overworked, burned out, having too much work
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Does anyone know if there's a term for eyes with long, tapered inner corners?
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What's it called when someone insults you for not knowing something that you've never learnt or that's not in your field? [duplicate]
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Word for "running commentary while watching films or TV shows"?
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What is the "bolillero" called in English?
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Idiomatic word/expression for someone ‘who has no feeling for the game’ - Translation of Spanish ‘pechofrío’
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What's the exact meaning of 'skim off the top'
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Specify a week by using a date
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Why "well-behaved" instead of "well-behaving"
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