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AH020387 Posted 16 years ago
Vocabulary
Patriotic
Is this a good definition of 'patriotic':
'Expressive of being a patriot'
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'Expressive of being a patriot'
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I was taught never to define a word with another form of the same word. If someone doesn't know what "patriotic" means, chances are that they don't know the word "patriot" either.
- I was taught never to define a word with another form of the same word.
- If someone doesn't know what "patriotic" means, chances are that they don't know the word "patriot" either.
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I was taught never to define a word with another form of the same word. If someone doesn't know what "patriotic" means, chances are that they don't know the word "patriot" either.
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I guess I should have been more clear in my reply. It's okay when the dictionary does it, because you can just go to the entry for the basic form of the word they use. (If the dictionary didn't use other forms of the same word in a definition, it would be many many times longer than it is.) But if someone asks you to define a word, either because they don't know what it means, or because they
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