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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
Vocabulary

semantics

i am still a little bit confuse about how to differentiate between devastate and ravage. if there a sentence:
The disease has devastated the area’s oak tree population.
Could i replace the position of 'devastate' to 'ravage'?
  

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"I," the personal pronoun is always capitalized. And confuse d . You don't want to replace the position, just substitute one word for the other.

  • "I," the personal pronoun is always capitalized.
  • And confuse d .
  • You don't want to replace the position, just substitute one word for the other.
  • Which you may do.
  • They're synonyms.
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"I," the personal pronoun is always capitalized. And confused.

You don't want to replace the position, just substitute one word for the other.

Which you may do. They're synonyms.

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