The English Oracle

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Capitalizing a Figure

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"Reveal" vs. "revelation" as nouns

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Noun for "person with intermediate skill"

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Noun (or alternative) of thought-provoking?

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What is "a room a company provides for eating food" called?

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Difference between "stick with" and "stick to"?

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How many syllables are in the word 'hour'?

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Idioms similar to "heard it through the grapevine"

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Feminine equivalent to mate

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Use of can't/cannot to indicate the opposite

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what is the meaning of "High D"?

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The meaning of a short excerpt of dialog from the "La-La Land" movie

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What does "steal" in this Oscar Wilde piece mean

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What's the most common way of referring to the gender of a friend?

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What is "hership"?

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Strunk and White and The Elements of Style: Removing "the fact that"

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What are initials?

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"Is" vs. "Are" when using the word "Pair" in a mathematical setting

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"In graduate programs" versus "at graduate level"

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What's the difference between glinted, glittered, glistened, gleamed, and glimmered?

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"I hate when..." vs "I hate it when..."

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"High-schooler" vs. "high schooler"

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Correct verb tense to use when referring to a law effective in the past

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Using "rather" to correct a misstatement

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fait accompli – to italicize, or not to italicize

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"One another" or "one and other"

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Is a snake's venom poisonous (or venomous)?

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Difference between "choose" and "select"

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Are there any nice synonyms for flavour?

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Alternative to "manned" when referring to an extraterrestrial spacecraft?

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Checked-out teenagers

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Are there any words I can use to disambiguate "biweekly"?

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Why are female wizards called "witches"?

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Zero conditional form

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A verb for when we actively extract information from others?

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What is a word for somebody who lies to themselves

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What is a good way to refer to stories that are meant for adults?

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What does "a bit of a tartar" mean?

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Meaning of "The second step was to break the hold of Ottoman culture on Turkey itself."

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Why is "to switch gears" used for "to change topic"?

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Humour through repeated use of a construct, with a final variation?

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What’s the right term for "expensive things that have no real use"

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Antonym of "crème de la crème"

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Etymology of the use of "Drive" to refer to a digital storage medium

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Antonym for lying?

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Difference between "pangalactic" and "transgalactic"?

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Is there a term for what 'sheveled' is to 'disheveled'?

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What is a word that means "belief in the good nature of humankind"?

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"at the age of" vs "at age"

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Gender-neutral alternative to "craftsmanship"?

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