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III ADDITIONAL MISUSED VERBS[101]

ACCEPT, EXCEPT--_To accept_offered;” _to except_ means ”to make an exception of”

ADVERTISE, ADVISE--_To advertise_ is ”to announce to the public” _to advise_ is ”to give counsel or information to a person”

AFFECT, EFFECT--_To affect_ is ”to act upon,” ”to influence;” _to effect_ is ”to bring about”

ALLEVIATE, RELIEVE--_To alleviate_ pain is ”to lighten” it; _to relieve_ it is to go further, and ”to reether”

ALLOW, ADMIT, THINK--_Allow_ properly rant” or ”permit,”

not to ”admit,” ”think” or ”intend”

ALLUDE TO, REFER TO, MENTION--We _ e name it directly We _refer_ to it e speak of it less directly We _allude_ to it e refer to it in a delicate or slight way

ARGUE, AUGUR--_To argue_ is ”to bring forward reasons;” _to augur_ is ”to foretell,” ”to forebode”

COMPARE WITH, COMPARE TO, CONTRAST--”Two things are _compared_ in order to note the points of resemblance and difference between them; they are _contrasted_ in order to note the points of difference only When one thing is _compared to_ another, it is to show that the first is like the second; when one thing is _compared with_ another, it is to show either difference or similarity, especially difference”[102]

CONSTRUE, CONSTRUCT--”_To construe_ ;' _to construct_ means 'to build;' we may _construe_ a sentence as in translation, or _construct_ it as in composition”[103]

CONVINCE, CONVICT--”_To convince_ is 'to satisfy the understanding;'

_to convict_, 'to pronounce guilty' 'The jury having been _convinced_ of the prisoner's guilt, he was _convicted_'”

DETECT, DISCRIMINATE--_To detect_ is ”to find out;” _to discriuish between”

DISCLOSE, DISCOVER--To _disclose_ is ”to uncover,” ”to reveal;” _to discover_ is, in e, ”to find”

DOMINATE, DOMINEER--_To dominate_ is ”to rule;” _to do es, _riding_ in saddles We _drive_ behind horses, we _ride_ on them

ELIMINATE, ELICIT--_To eliet rid of;”

_to elicit_ is ”to draw out”

ESTIMATE, ESTEEM--_To estih value on,” especially of persons

EXPOSE, EXPOUND--_To expose_ is ”to lay bare to view;” _to expound_ is ”to explain the hten_ is a transitive verb, and is used correctly in ”The locohtened_ by the locohtened_” It should not be used intransitively, as in the sentence ”The _horse frightened_ at the locomotive”

INQUIRE, INVESTIGATE--To _inquire_ is ”to ask for inforh examination”

INSURE, SECURE--_Secure_, in the sense of ”to guard froer,”

”to make safe,” is preferable to _insure_, since _insure_ also e”

LET, LEAVE--_Let_ o away from”

LOCATE, FIND--_Locate_ properly nate the site of,” as of a new building or purchased lands; it does not mean _to find_

PERSUADE, ADVISE--_To persuade_ is ”to induce,” ”to convince;” _to advise_ is ”to give counsel or information”

PREDICATE, PREDICT--_To predicate_ is ”to affirm as an attribute or quality;” _to predict_ is ”to foretell”

PRESCRIBE, PROSCRIBE--_To prescribe_ is ”to lay down as a rule or a remedy;” _to proscribe_ is ”to condehts”