Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
A word that appears to be cognate (etymologically related) to another given word, but in fact is not.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A false friend: a word that appears to have the same meaning as another given word, but in fact does not (without regard to whether or not the two terms are cognate).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: proscribed
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History
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