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What do you think when these words come up: "populace", "population", "people", the "mass", the "public" [closed]

meaning word-choice synonyms connotation nuance

Alternative for "Family" when talking about a fostered child

"a great deal" vs. "considerably"

Less 'aggressive' phrasing/word for "ruthlessly remove unnecessary complexity" from requirements

word-choice expressions

Marriage ceremony

word-choice phrases idioms

Word for the act of buying a large amount of something to reduce the supply, wait for the price to go higher and sell them afterwards?

single-word-requests word-choice word-usage

How do you describe a person who loves everything natural when it comes to health and food?

word-choice single-word-requests

Can this be used instead of "and so on"?

word-choice word-usage

DIScomfort yet UNcomfortable

word-choice adjectives prefixes derivational-morphology negative-prefixes

Is 'Yours hopefully' formal or informal?

word-choice writing-style letter-writing valediction

Use of "take" in "take the Lord's name in vain" [closed]

meaning word-choice grammar

I get it vs I got it [closed]

word-choice idioms tenses speech

"The first issue of Life magazine had a photo of a what on its cover?" Is "a what" correct here?

word-choice grammar questions what

Relationship between paper and pencil markings on it

single-word-requests word-choice phrase-requests

"Popular to" someone or "popular with" someone?

word-choice prepositions american-english

To either revive or kill something

word-choice single-word-requests prefixes

Can I use the word "dandy" for a subject other than "man"?

word-choice word-usage

"a rebuke to" or "a rebuke of" - are the prepositions interchangeable?

word-choice prepositions

Word for a copy of a copy when the copier has never seen the original

single-word-requests word-choice

A word/word phrase meaning 'a tiny detail'/'a small thing"

single-word-requests word-choice