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- word usage - Whats the verb of desperate? - English Language . . .
desperation and desperate are the noun and adjective that have the same semantic meaning He despairs of [whatever] =to believe he will never be able to [whatever] He is desperate to do [something] to be desperate : is trying everything by all means to do it He despairs of finding etc to despair [of plus verb] : believes he will never find
- What do you call a desperate attempt unlikely to succeed?
A million to one chance, or a one in a million chance, while not single words are common phrases used to describe making an attempt against desperate odds In fiction of course such plans always work It is such a well known plot device that it was parodied in Terry Pratchett in several books Mort
- Whats a professional synonym for would love to?
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- An idiom for making ones final last attempt effort
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- Could you please help me vs Could you help me please
when spoken in a fairly neutral tone are all simple requests for help; when spoken with strong emphasis on "please", all can sound equally desperate – David Richerby Commented Feb 27, 2014 at 23:01
- Reported speech:use of the word please in requests demands
Idiomatically, if you're not actually going to reproduce the exact words as spoken (in quote marks), there's often an implication of "desperate pleading" if you include the word please in a roundabout "summary" of what was requested
- What do you call a person who is always keen to learn new things?
No other gave examples or definition either I feel there's something wrong with this platform, as I'm forced to append thirty dots just to thank or as in this case to answer a dedicatedly tagged "single-word" question, which results in my answer, for the content of which I am responsible, being edited by someone who apparently has nothing better to do than making ridiculous, little changes
- Is it lock a deal or lock up a deal or lock in a deal?
These governments are desperate to get capital into agriculture," says von Braun, who believes the drive by giant companies to lock up land deals could benefit poor African countries whose governments negotiate wisely
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