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“prize”
pries, prize
pries (PRIGHZ) (verb)
1. To use a tool as a lever or to force open something: Charles usually pries open the wooden boxes with a small crowbar.
2. Trying to find out about other people's private lives or snooping into the affairs of other people: Shelby always pries into Bill's business which upsets him.
2. Trying to find out about other people's private lives or snooping into the affairs of other people: Shelby always pries into Bill's business which upsets him.
prize (PRIGHZ) (noun)
1. Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a competition: Lenora's grandmother won an authentic wooden shoe as the prize in a spelling contest.
2. Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession: Winning the scholarship prize was worth all the hard work and practice.
2. Something worth striving for; a highly desirable possession: Winning the scholarship prize was worth all the hard work and practice.
The prize at the Carpenters Competition was the latest tool to use when a person pries the lids off paint cans.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group P; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc. +
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1. An honor or reward striven for in a competitive contest or anything offered as an inducement to do something in order to be won: A lottery is just one example of winning prizes.
2. That which is taken from another or something captured or seized by force, stratagem, or superior power: A prize is also anything worth striving for or a valuable possession.
3. Etymology: from Middle English prise, from Old French prise, "a taking, a thing seized, a prize, booty", from pris, past participle of prendre, "to take, to capture", from Latin prendere, "to take, to seize".
2. That which is taken from another or something captured or seized by force, stratagem, or superior power: A prize is also anything worth striving for or a valuable possession.
3. Etymology: from Middle English prise, from Old French prise, "a taking, a thing seized, a prize, booty", from pris, past participle of prendre, "to take, to capture", from Latin prendere, "to take, to seize".
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preti-, prais-, preci-, pric-
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“prize”
(Latin: price, reward, prize, value, worth)
(Greek: struggle, a contest, to contend for a prize; also, to lead, set in motion, drive, conduct, guide, govern; to do, to act; by extension, pain)
(Greek: struggle, a contest [in war or in sports], to contend for a prize; physical activity, rigorous self-discipline or training)
(Modern Latin: named for Glenn Theodore Seaborg (1912-1999), an American nuclear physicist and Nobel Prize winner; radioactive metal)
Word Entries containing the term:
“prize”
appraise, apprise, a prize
appraise (uh PRAYZ) (verb)
To place a value on; to judge the worth of something: The agent decided to appraise the house at $100,000 for tax purposes.
apprise (uh PRIGHZ) (verb)
To inform or to give notice to someone about something; to notify: Police should apprise an arrested person of his or her right to remain silent and to be represented by a lawyer.
a prize (uh PRIGHZ) (noun)
Something offered or won as an award for superiority or victory, as in a contest or competition: Jordan won a prize for compiling the best computer program.
After the important contest, Perry's friend wanted to apprise his coach of the fact that he won a prize.
Dave's friend was asked by the reporters to appraise the value of the prize, but he declined to do it.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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