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institute, enact, or establish; "make laws"
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consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professio…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.the ideal in terms of which something can be judged; "they live by the standards of their community"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.reasoning from the general to the particular (or from cause to effect)
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.open (a place) to members of all races and ethnic groups; "This school is completely desegregated"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.shape or form to required dimensions
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; "an empirical basis for an ethical theory"; "empirical laws"; "empirical d…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of; "I will have the family jewels appraised by a professio…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.act of ascertaining or fixing the value or worth of
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge; "when the test was stolen the professor had to make a new set of questi…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.consider in detail and subject to an analysis in order to discover essential features or meaning; "analyze a sonnet by Shakespeare"; "…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication; "explicit instructions"; "she made her wishes e…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.a relation between people; (‘relationship’ is often used where ‘relation’ would serve, as in ‘the relationship between inflation and u…
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.make sense of; assign a meaning to; "What message do you see in this letter?"; "How do you interpret his behavior?"
Used in the same subject area: Academic vocabulary, Analysis and evaluation.an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his…
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To charge with a crime; to accuse; to institute a private criminal prosecution against for some heinous crime; as, to appeal a person…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.To present and institute in a benefice, when the person presenting is both the patron and the ordinary; -- followed by to.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.a system of jurisprudence based on judicial precedents rather than statutory laws; "common law originated in the unwritten laws of Eng…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.To cause to stand; to establish; to enact.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.Having power to enact, establish, or create; instituting; determining.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.A compilation of statutes or decisions analytically arranged. The term is applied in a general sense to the Pandects of Justinian (see…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.Not to obey; to neglect or refuse to obey (a superior or his commands, the laws, etc.); to transgress the commands of (one in authorit…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.of Enact
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.of Enact
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.Having power to enact or establish as a law.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.To set up or establish; to found; to form; to institute.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: institute, enact, establish, laws.
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