Category: Synonyms

Expedient, politic, advisable are comparable when they are used to imply a choice (as of course, action, or method) and to mean dictated by practical wisdom or by motives of prudence.

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Expect, hope, look, await are comparable when they mean to have something in mind as more or less certain to happen or come about.

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Expanse, amplitude, spread, stretch are comparable when they denote an area or range of considerable or conspicuous extent.

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Expand, amplify, swell, distend, inflate, dilate mean to increase or to cause to increase in size, bulk, or volume.

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Existence, being, actuality are closely related in meaning but not always interchangeable.

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Exhibition, show, exhibit, exposition, fair are comparable when meaning a public display of objects of interest.

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Exemption, immunity are comparable when meaning the act or fact of freeing or the state of being free or freed from something burdensome, disagreeable, or painful.

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Exemplify, illustrate are comparable when they mean to use in speaking or writing concrete instances or cases to make clear something which is difficult, abstract, general, or remote from experience or to serve as an instance, case, or demonstration of a point or matter under examination.

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Execrate, curse, damn, anathematize, objurgate are comparable when meaning to denounce violently and indignantly.

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Execrable, damnable, accursed, cursed mean so odious as to deserve cursing or condemning.

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Excuse, condone, pardon, forgive, remit are comparable when meaning not to exact punishment or redress for (an offense) or from (an offender).

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Exculpate, absolve, exonerate, acquit, vindicate mean to free from a charge or burden.

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