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Old 03-Apr-2006, 06:12
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I am a Vietnamese student of English. My friend and I want to do a research about English synonyms. We need to know 500 common synonyms that students find difficult in using correctly. So please help us to find out some.
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I'm not exactly sure what you're after- do you want words that can easily be confused, like affect/effect, or collocations, like broad/wide?
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Old 10-Apr-2006, 06:44
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Actually, I want know some synonyms that are easily confused such as solve/deal with, can/be able to...
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0200807.html
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