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  2. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    The abbreviation e.g. stands for the Latin exempli gratiā "for example", and should be used when the example(s) given are just one or a few of many. The abbreviation i.e. stands for the Latin id est "that is", and is used to give the only example(s) or to otherwise qualify the statement just made.

  3. Criticism of schooling - Wikipedia

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    Rousseau advocated an educational method which consisted of removing the child from society—for example, to a country home—and alternately conditioning them through changes to environment and setting traps and puzzles for them to solve or overcome. [12]

  4. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  5. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - Wikipedia

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    The Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (LDOCE), first published by Longman in 1978, [1] is an advanced learner's dictionary, providing definitions using a restricted vocabulary, helping non-native English speakers understand meanings easily. It is available in four configurations:

  6. Definitions of education - Wikipedia

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    Definitions of education aim to describe the essential features of education. A great variety of definitions has been proposed. There is wide agreement that education involves, among other things, the transmission of knowledge. But there are deep disagreements about its exact nature and characteristics. Some definitions see education as a ...

  7. Contronym - Wikipedia

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    The dictionary definition of contranym at Wiktionary; The dictionary definition of Appendix:English contranyms at Wiktionary; Contronyms by language in Wiktionary; Autoantonyms page on fun-with-words.com; List of English examples at LingerAndLook.com

  8. Biden's education secretary made big changes. Here's what ...

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    Frederick Hess, director of education policy at the right-leaning American Enterprise Institute, said he welcomes the change in administration and wants to see “student loans back to the deal it ...

  9. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym; Hypernyms and hyponyms are words that refer to, respectively, a general category and a specific instance of that category. For example, vehicle is a hypernym of car, and car is a hyponym of vehicle.