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◄ Confusing words | #1 | #2 | #3 | #4 | #5 | #6 | #7 | #8 | |
1) Search for "Scot", "Scottish", and "Scotch" in the corpus; which of the three has only been used about people?
2) What is the most common meaning of "Scotch" in the first twenty lines of hits in the corpus (sort concordance by keyword)?
3) Search for "eminent" and "imminent" in the corpus; which of the two occurs most frequently in the corpus?
4) In line six in the corpus, "imminent" comes closest in meaning to which of the follwing three?
5) Is it possible for a lawyer to be "eminent" or "imminent"?
6) Search for "invaluable" in the corpus; in line three it comes closest in meaning to which of the following?
7) Search for "invaluable*" and "valuable*"; in the corpus, which of the two has been used as a noun in the plural?
8) "Farther" and "further" can be said to be synonyms, but they have different uses. Search the corpus to find out which of the two has been used clause-initially to express the meaning "additionally"?
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