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habit-, hab-, -hibit; habili-, habil-
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enable, unable
enable (e NAY buhl) (verb)
To make easy, possible, or practical: This device will enable the students, or furnish them with the means, to calculate the right answer very quickly.
unable (un AY buhl) (adjective)
Incapable or helpless: Despite her best intentions, she was unable to answer the questions in time.
The teacher said that she was unable to give the student a higher mark on his test. She didn't want to enable him to participate in the team without having earned the appropriate test scores.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group E; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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“enable”
enable (verb), enables; enabled; enabling
To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity to make it possible to do something: Wearing hearing aids gives Virginia sufficient ability to, or enables her to hear better than before.
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